Norman MacLeod of the Natural History Museum in London and

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Building up of ice sheets in the far north might be due to strong currents in the South Atlantic

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Highly accurate measurements about a star s features can be made by using its gravity

Naming of elements which are discovered in accelerators is a controversial subject. The heaviest 19 elements are not found in nature and are created by physicists in their laboratories. The

S R Manalis and his colleagues at the Stanford University, in the US, have reported the fabrication of a new type of cantilever which uses optical deflection and is extremely sensitive. A movable