Chilean scientists crack lost lake mystery
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Went down the plughole, as suspected Chilean scientists have confirmed suspicions that the missing lake which went awol in the Magallanes region of Patagonia simply drained away though a crack, Reuters reports.â¦
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Combing detective work with old-fashion digging, archaeologists in North Carolina may have unearthed evidence that Spanish soldiers roamed the Appalachian Mountains during the 16th century.
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A sudden influx of freshwater from North America's ancient Lake Agassiz to the North Atlantic 8,200 years ago triggered a precipitous cooling of the region, scientists believe. Now they are trying to predict if and when a similar scenario might happen again.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico _ There's a new extraterrestrial suspect in the mysterious, highly debated disappearance of the woolly mammoth some 12,900 years ago. A team of two dozen scientists say the culprit was likely a comet that exploded in the atmosphere above North America.
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Tiny single-celled organisms, many of them previously unknown to science, have been found at the deepest point in the world's oceans, almost 11km down.
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Ames Research Center -- A dedicated team of scientists is spending the next four weeks in northern Chile's Atacama Desert. They are studying the scarce life that exists there and, in the process, helping NASA learn more about how primitive life forms could exist on Mars...
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For Jay Austin, who has made a career of studying the Great Lakes, the warming climate around Lake Superior is no mystery. But he was surprised to find the waters of the lake itself warming even more rapidly.
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A Finnish research team has made a remarkable archaeological find linked to a prehistoric culture which predates the Incas.
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ST. JOHN'S, N.L. (CP) - Scientists in Canada and abroad are puzzled by photographs that appear to show a skeleton jutting out of an iceberg that recently drifted past Newfoundland's east coast.
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Explorers have discovered a century-old shipwrecked ore carrier that sank mysteriously during a Lake Superior storm less than two months after it was launched.
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Ancient bison DNA may help explain a longstanding mystery of North American wildlife: why mammoths, North American lions, short-faced bears and many other large mammals disappeared about 10,000 years ago.
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Two monster cosmic clouds could hold the solution to the mystery of the missing matter -- immense amounts of celestial stuff that somehow has eluded detection.
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QUINTERO, Chile  - Scuba divers off Chile's  Pacific Coast found sections of railway track on the ocean  floor on Wednesday believed to have been used to sink the  bodies of people killed under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship.
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An American researcher on the trail of the lost city of Atlantis has discovered evidence of man-made structures submerged in the sea between Cyprus and Syria, a member of his team said Saturday.
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Experts in Chile say the disappearance of a lake in the south of the country was caused by climate change.
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Scientists have deciphered the process one species of bacteria uses to "resurrect" its genetic material after being blasted by radiation or parched by lack of water.
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Four large lakes found at the start of a rapidly moving ice stream offer the first direct link between the under-ice bodies of water and the rate at which ice flows into the ocean.