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Lynches River County Park Opens Environmental Discovery Center Lynches River County Park Environmental Discovery Center (EDC) opened Friday Feb. 22, 2008 with praise from the Effingham community, South Carolina business leaders and elected officials. EDC Committe... more » ScienceSouth project gains further support from State and AT&T Florence, SC — ScienceSouth While ScienceSouth was celebrating its 100,000th participant, Sen. Hugh Leatherman, R-Florence, and Pamela Lackey, president of AT&T South Carolina, recognized Sc... more » ScienceSouth celebrates milestone; 100,000th program participant! Florence, SC — ScienceSouth achieved a major milestone as the organization dedicated to inspiring, educating and entertaining students through science and technology reached its 100,000th partic... more »

Lidar could help sailors in competition A team of researchers at the Ocean University of China has developed and tested a mobile lidar (light detection and ranging) station that can accurately measure wind speed and direction over large are... more » Tagging peregrine falcons in Toronto In the morning of 10 July 2008 an operation to tag three peregrine falcon chicks happened in Toronto.  The event is particularly special because this is the first known peregrine falcon nest at a... more » Saturn, Mars, Regulus, Moon alignment On 5 July 2008 Saturn, Mars, Regulus and a crescent Moon aligned in a straight line in the western twilight sky after sunset.  Mars is the orange dot in between Saturn, the highest of the three d... more » May 2008 quake in China a rare event A new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little seismic activity, and that simila... more » Canadian satellite to find near-Earth asteroids Canada is building the world's first space telescope designed to detect and track asteroids as well as satellites. Called NEOSSat (Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite), this spacecraft will provi... more »      See Entire Archive »