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The world's largest explosion before the atomic bomb
With the power equivalent to 3,000 tons of TNT and causing waves of more than 15m, the explosion in Canada's Halifax port is considered the largest man-made explosion in…
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Strangely, killer whales make a living for handicapped children
The unmatched killer whale off the coast of Port Elizabeth, South Africa will probably not be able to survive without family members hunting and feeding it.
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Lost in the land of Cumbria
In the summer, all beings flourish, full of life. The birds in Cumbria, England also raced to express their impressions ...
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Video: Catch the biggest cod in the world
After an unsuccessful fishing day in the Norwegian Sea, Michael Eisele from Germany, returning to the port with his friends, suddenly caught fish.
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Video: Ballet dance of the flock of birds at sunset
At sunset, Marseille, France, thousands of starling birds
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Install radioactive control gate in Noi Bai
The Nuclear Radiation Safety Department will install a radioactive control gate at the arrival terminal of Noi Bai International Airport, Hanoi, in February.
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The 2011 event looks from the universe
Join the BBC to look back at some of the most prominent events this year from an external perspective.
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Russia built the first floating nuclear power plant
Russia's Arkhangelsk governor Nikolai Kiselyov said yesterday that the world's first floating nuclear power plant will go into operation in 2011 at a port in the Arctic…
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Video: Burj Khalifa tower is the world's highest usurpation tower
Once completed, The Tower next to Port Creek, Dubai, will break the record of the tallest building in the world of Burj Khalifa.
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China built the world's longest sea tunnel
The tunnel construction project under Bohai Bay connecting Dalian port city in Liaoning province and Yantai city in Shandong province was launched in 1994.
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Singapore built the second liquefied gas port
Singapore is conducting a research project to build the second natural gas liquefied gas (LNG) port with a capacity of 9 million tons annually.
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Asia's largest coal-fired power plant is coming soon
Shenhua Group, China will build Asia's largest coal-fired power plant in the city of Beihai in the next five years, to reduce the power shortage in the dry season.
Medicine - Health
Working at night breaks down the brain biological clock
Everyone knows that night work has a negative impact on health and the port day is full of evidences that show it.
Medicine - Health
The culprit caused the Bari port disaster
In the search for anticancer drugs, many famous anticancer drugs began the cause of human salvation not from miraculous effects but from death and disasters. Mustard gas…
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Detecting hazardous waste from Italy to Vietnam
Shortly after the police and tax authorities in the port of Taranto, southern Italy, seized 124 tons of toxic waste prepared to be brought to Vietnam ...