Rare honour for Indian geologist
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A 565-million-year-old fossil found in the 1960s in Canada is named after the Indian geologist who discovered it.
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It's a silly old expression, but Professor Eric Leonard says it's true: The best geologist is the one who's seen the most rocks.
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By Ron Seely, The Wisconsin State Journal  Jun. 1--Clark Johnson will be spending the next several years of his career as a UW-Madison geologist doing something he never really dreamed of doing -- looking for extraterrestrial life.
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A species of monkey previously unknown to science has been discovered in the remote northeastern region of India, according to the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
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By ASHOK SHARMA NEW DELHI - An Indian zoologist said Monday he has found a new species of limbless lizard in a forested area in the country's east.
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New Delhi, Dec. 9: The Swedish government's kind gesture of replacing the stolen Nobel prize medal awarded to Rabindranath Tagore in 1913 has not come without a price tag.
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By Sara Newman  Wangari Maathai, 66, the first woman in east and central Africa to earn a doctorate degree, received the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize for developing the Green Belt Movement.
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Zhu Guangya, an 80-year-old leading nuclear scientist in china has been awarded for his immense contribution in the field of science in a very special way.
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Two Johns Hopkins University scientists have been selected to receive the nation's highest scientific honor.
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PORONG, Indonesia -- For nine months, a gaping hole in the ground has spit out a torrent of hot, black mud, swallowing thousands of houses outside Indonesia's second-largest city and attracting amazed geologists from around the world.
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Celebrity activist Bianca Jagger, along with two Indian religious scholars, an Argentinian scientist and a Russian human rights group, won the 2004 Right Livelihood Awards, known as the âalternative Nobels.
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A striking multi-colored bird has   been discovered in India's remote northeast, making it the   first ornithological find in the country in more than half a   century, experts said on Tuesday.
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University of New Mexico researcher Barbara Cohen now knows for certain that the rock she found while trolling the barren Antarctica landscape is special.
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One of India's greatest directors will be honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award on February 2.
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OSLO -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai defended being chosen as the first environmentalist to win the award, saying yesterday that it would help others understand the importance of protecting the world's resources.
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An archaeologist whose research topics have ranged from Neanderthal hunters in France to the ill-fated Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada is the winner of a top research award typically reserved for more narrowly defined sciences.
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For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail dedicated to ice-age floods. At last, their efforts may pay off.