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PCM 2011 Diary – Stage 16: A Gap to Watch For We are past the second rest day and into the final week of Le Tour de France 2011 heading towards the fearsome climbs of the Alps, ready to decide who wins the various jerseys and preparing to see who is able to take the final win. The stage to Gap is an interesting one because it finishes on the downhill, with th... 19 July 2011 18:21 GMT Vegetation Land-Cover Map Created for the US Experts at the US Geological Survey (USGS) have just released the most detailed and up-to-date map of the vegetation cover in the United States. Given the encroachment of human activities in previously-pristine natural habitats, it stands to reason that conservations experts will require a new tool to assess where in... 15 June 2010 10:18 GMT The Largest Space Gap Ever Found! This took everybody by surprise: the largest space gap, about a billion light years across and around 6-10bn light years from Earth. This vacuum does not only lack the matter which stars, planets and other space bodies are made up of, but also the so-called "dark matter" too."Not only has no one ever found a void thi... 30 August 2007 05:41 GMT