No place for ET to hide: Plans unveiled for most powerful telescope in human history - 3,000 radio dishes spread across South Africa, Australia and New Zealand
Scanning the sky 10,000 times faster and with 50 times the sensitivity of any other telescope, it will be able to detect weak signals that could indicate the presence of extraterrestrial life. full story 
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discovery.com (2 months and 14 days ago)
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is officially introduced today in Chile, and PopSci is high in the Andes with the details. SANTIAGO, Chile -- Wearing a rainbow skirt, silver face paint and a pair of metallic radio dishes on her head, Constanza Biagini was an exhibit unto herself. She stood in a dim back room of a crowded Chilean subway station, a living...
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New Zealand v England: History man Peter Fulton heaps pain on captain calamity Cook as England face humiliation in...
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dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 3 days ago)
PopSci Visits The World's Largest Radio Telescope
ALMA is finally being unwrapped, and your telescope correspondent is going to Chile to see it. A new radio telescope that can hear the faintest heartbeats in the universe--colder and farther back in time than anything to come before it--is about to be officially switched on in the Chilean Andes. The Atacama Large-Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array, or ALMA, is the grandest...
popsci.com (2 months and 20 days ago)
Burger King opens in South Africa _ with no bacon
JOHANNESBURG - The company that gave America the Bacon Sundae opened with a big splash in South Africa - but no bacon. Burger King South Africa CEO Jaye Sinclair says people lined up for hours at the weekend launch in the coastal resort of Cape Town. But a few customers called Talk Radio 702 Monday to complain there were no bacon dishes and ask why the company was catering...
bostonherald.com (12 days ago)
Huge Wine Festival Takes Over Small Town
With a population of just 46,000 Hattiesburg, Mississippi is not the type of place you might expect to find a major wine festival featuring a huge array of world class vintners. Nonetheless, this is exactly what will be on tap in Hattiesburg this Friday, when the Purple Parrot Café’s Ninth Annual Wine Festival rolls into town - along with winemakers from California, the...
forbes.com (1 month and 15 days ago)
England suffer narrow defeat to Australia in Women's Cricket World Cup - video highlights
England came within two runs of beating Australia on Friday, an agonising loss which means they now need to beat South Africa and New Zealand to qualify for the final
guardian.co.uk (3 months and 16 days ago)
Rampant England crush South Africa
• South Africa 77; England 81-3• England win by seven wicketsAnya Shrubsole fired England to the crushing win against South Africa necessary to preserve their hopes of reaching the World Cup final, although it remains a very long shot.Shrubsole, the bustling Somerset seamer who had taken seven wickets in England's previous two games, ripped through South Africa with five for...
guardian.co.uk (3 months and 14 days ago)
South Africa is an 'angry nation' on the brink of 'something very dangerous', warns Nelson Mandela's wife
Human rights activist Graca Machel, said South Africa is on the brink of 'something very dangerous' which it may not be able to stop unless it deals with its history.
dailymail.co.uk (2 months and 19 days ago)
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