Crystals 'helped Viking sailors'
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A study suggests Vikings used a crystal to help them plot their way across the seas even in cloudy or foggy weather.
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A breakthrough in the way scientists make crystals could lead to a replacement for silicon in electronic devices.
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The Coast Guard is planning a base to deal with ships that are plying the Arcticâs increasingly ice-free waters.
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Archaeologists say they have unearthed jewels dating back 5,000 years, possible proof of Europe's earliest civilisation.
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British archaeologists said on Tuesday they had excavated an "extremely important" burial site of six Viking men and women, complete with swords, spears, jewelry, fire-making materials and riding gear.
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Archaeologists have excavated what is being hailed as an extremely important Viking burial ground in northeast England, those involved in the excavation said.
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REYKJAVIK, Jun 20 (IPS) - Icelanders more than anyone else find most of the  energy they need beneath their feet.
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How do corals monitor the moonâs phases and know when to start mingling? Scientists report theyâve found the answer.
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HMS Vengeance returns to Faslane submarine base on the river Clyde. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.Comment
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The Cutty Sark, the historic 19th-century clipper that braved rough seas to bring tea to Britain, has been saved from a slow death of rotting and rusting thanks to a public grant, according to newspaper reports.
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Researchers have found and raised fragments believed to be from a Soviet steamship that sank more than 70 years ago off the Arctic region of Chukotka, a Russian news agency reported Thursday.
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By Sharon Begley  In ancient Greece, portraits of sailors who survived shipwrecks were displayed in a temple on Samothrace as a testament to the power of Neptune.
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The British navy helped a US deep-sea explorer firm remove treasures it discovered at the site of a shipwreck that Madrid suspects was found in Spanish waters, Spanish media reported on Friday.
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A team of scientists says it has found evidence in three wrist bones that an extinct group of people were members of a distinct species.
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The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded grants toward the preservation of two historic British ships, the Mary Rose and the Cutty Sark, Agence France-Presse reported. The fund awarded Â£10 million ($19.7 million) for extensive restoration to the Cutty Sark, a tea clipper shown above in a computer image, after it was gutted by fire last May. And Â£21 million ($41.4 million) went to the Mary Rose, King Henry VIIIâs flagship, which sank in 1545 and was raised in 1982. The money is to pay for a museum in the dockyards at Portsmouth, England, that will house the Mary Rose and the artifacts found with it.
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The BBC's Timewatch programme sets out to cross the North Sea with a reconstructed Viking ship.
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Gostar Klingelhofer of Johannes Gutenberg University reported that NASA&#39;s Mars rover Spirit found a rock that had sizable amounts of an iron-containing mineral associated with water.