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The best travel photos of 2011
Here are the best photos across the five continents, divided into four categories: 'Journey portrait', 'Outdoor scene', 'Feelings' and 'Excitement'. Photo on National Ge…
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Impressive weather in Africa
The black continent is known as a hot and harsh land, but besides this popular climate, Africa also has many other types of weather that are not recorded by the mechanic…
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Black poison Mamba black
This is the longest venomous snake in the African continent, with a specific length ranging from 2m to 3m and up to 4.3–4.5m.
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Video: 6,400km undersea fiber network connecting the two continents
Microsoft, Facebook and Spanish telecommunications group Telxius completed an undersea fiber optic network with speeds of up to 160 terabits per second.
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Video: Japanese history in a fun style
In the 9-minute video below, we will be reviewing the history of Japan in a fun way.
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5 female scientists won the 2011 L'Oréal-UNESCO award
The L'Oréal-UNESCO Prize in 2011 honors female chemists from 5 continents, thanks to outstanding contributions in scientific research.
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Impressive figures on Earth Hour 2009
Earth Hour this year attracted the participation of 3,929 cities in 88 countries on all continents.
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India 'race' to Antarctica
At a conference on the Antarctic Treaty that took place in New Delhi earlier this month, India announced plans to establish a third research station in Antarctica and re…
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China built the third scientific research station in Antarctica
China (China) has decided to build its third Antarctic research station and rebuild two existing research stations to improve its scientific research capabilities on the…
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Earth - a year through photos
Within a year, the snow fell south and then narrowed to the north. The whole continent froze and then thawed. In spring, the green carpet of plants spread out in many wa…
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Japan plans to build a new research station in Antarctica
Japan is contemplating a plan to build a new research station in Antarctica, to serve research on the ice continent and to monitor the Earth's climate change phenomenon.
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Chinese research station in Antarctica
Zhongshan is one of four Chinese research stations in Antarctica, built for scientific research purposes on the ice continent.
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China built two more research stations in Antarctica
China is completing its fourth research station and plans to establish a fifth research station in Antarctica, to expand its presence on the ice continent.
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Russia returned to the Polar Wind station
One of the missions on the Russian continent's ice continent is to restart the station 'Russkaia' (Russia).
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China inaugurated a new research station in Antarctica
On February 10, China inaugurated a meteorological research station called Thai Son on the ice shelf of the Antarctic continent.