The 65,000 owners of land proposed for London’s Heathrow Airport expansion are asking architects to help fortify the “Airplot” to defend it from police and bulldozers should the Government try to take it by force.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Seeking to preserve the site where humans first set foot on the moon, a California state panel on Friday registered a collection of 106 objects left by the Apollo 11 mission as an historical resource.
A California preservation panel votes to put Tranquility Base on a register of historical resources, even though it’s 221,000 miles away.
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First the Old Man, now the Big Wind. New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory said Tuesday.
Liftoff of space shuttle Endeavour for the STS-130 mission to the International Space Station has been been given the go-ahead, and launch is scheduled for Feb. 7 at 4:39 a.m. EST. Universe Today will be at the launch to provide on-site coverage of…
Image Caption: LRO image of Tycho crater. The proposed Constellation site is to the North of the crater’s central peak. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University
McGraw-Hill’s CEO has answered the burning question in technology for the past several months–what exactly does Apple have up its sleeve? During an interview Tuesday afternoon on CNBC, Harold McGraw confirmed on-air that Apple will introduce its …
New Hampshire’s Mount Washington has lost its distinction as the site of the strongest wind gust ever recorded on Earth.
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Archeologists have discovered a huge Mayan sculptured head in Guatemala that suggests a little-known site in the jungle-covered Peten region may once have been a significant city.
MoD site associated with chemical and biological warfare research begins mission to save bushes from extinction threatIt is associated with top secret programmes designed to keep Britain at the forefront of chemical and biological warfare.But scientists at the Ministry of Defence’s Porton Down site are currently engaged in a less classified mission – to save [...]