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230 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprint Found In North Spain
Posted by lavanya bharathy / May 03, 2016

  HIGHLIGHTS It\'s the best preserved dinosaur print seen so far in Iberian Peninsula The print was discovered by a person out walking in Olesa de Montserrat The print is of an Isochirotherium, an ancestor of dinosaurs & crocodiles MADRID: Spain says a footprint of a dinosaur that roamed the area 230 million years ago has been found in northeastern Catalonia, and says it\'s the best preserved dinosaur print seen so far in the Iberian Penins...

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Worlds Largest Telescope May Be Set Up in Ladakh
Posted by lavanya bharathy / May 03, 2016

  Hawaii\'s loss may turn out to be Ladakh\'s gain. After protests in Hawaii in the US against the proposed Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) project, the largest to be built, alternative sites are being explored which includes Hanle in Ladakh. The project, aimed at exploring the universe, was to come up at Mauna Kea in Hawaii. But protests by the locals and indigenous population has stalled the project. ...

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Astronaut Runs Marathon in Space - but Slower Than on Earth
Posted by lavanya bharathy / April 25, 2016

  British astronaut Tim Peake became the first man to complete a marathon in space on Sunday, running the classic 26.2 mile distance while strapped to a treadmill aboard the International Space Station. As part of the London Marathon, Britain\'s biggest mass participation race, the 44-year-old spaceman saw London\'s roads under his feet in real time on an iPad as, 250 miles below him, more than 37,000 runners simultaneously pounded the streets. Peake covered the distance in three hours 35 minutes 21 seconds, which was a world away from the time recorded by the real race w...

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Jupiter-Sized Planet Found in Triple-Star System
Posted by lavanya bharathy / April 06, 2016

Scientists have discovered a rare triple-star system with a gas giant planet similar in size to Jupiter. Researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in US found that a binary system once thought ...

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HISTORY OF HINDUISM
Posted by JamesTyler JamesTyler / September 11, 2015

The gods of the Aryans: from 1500 BC   The first traceable roots of Hinduism lie with the invading Aryans, who move into the northwest of the Indian subcontinent from about 1500 BC (see the history of India for recent archaeological arguments against the concept of an Aryan invasion). The Aryans\' priestly caste, the Brahmans, are responsible for the sacrificial rites (the most solemn, among this nomadic people, being the sacrifice of a horse). The ritual hymns which they chant, passed down orally for many centuries, are gathered in the Rigveda, the earliest of all religious texts.    The hymns of the Rigveda reveal that the...