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BBC News – Sun unleashes X-Class solar flare
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BBC News : Apple, Pascal and Enigma: 350 years of technology on sale
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BBC News : ‘Dirty’ stars hint at Sun’s future
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BBC News : The great dinosaur stampede that never was?
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BBC News : Three die after catching new C. diff strain in Scotland
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Euler’s identity – Wikipedia
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BBC News : Antimatter results emerge at LHC – but puzzle abides
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Earth is the Most Exotic Place In The Universe
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BBC News : Tulip tree’s genome is ‘molecular fossil’
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BBC News : Dark matter experiment CDMS sees three tentative clues
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Problems with the Standard Model of Particle Physics – Morgan Freeman – YouTube
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BBC News : Phages may be key in bacteria battle
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Egyptian mummies yield genetic secrets : Nature News & Comment
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H7N9 avian influenza and novel coronavirus: Is there a pandemic potential? – The Global Dispatch
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BBC News : Team reconstructs human ancestor
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BBC News – Sun unleashes X-Class solar flare
The Sun has unleashed its most powerful eruption of 2013 so far.The solar flare – a sudden release of radiation – peaked at 1705 BST on Monday, and was associated…
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Euler’s identity – Wikipedia
The identity is a special case of Euler’s formula from complex analysis, which states that for any real number x: where the values of the trigonometric functions sine and cosine…
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BBC News : Antimatter results emerge at LHC – but puzzle abides
The quest to understand why our Universe is made of matter rather than antimatter has received a boost at the Large Hadron Collider.The LHCb experiment has for the first time…
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Earth is the Most Exotic Place In The Universe
Back at the time of the Big Bang, when the universe sprang into existence, only the simplest elements – hydrogen, helium and trace amounts of lithium – were cooked…
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BBC News : Tulip tree’s genome is ‘molecular fossil’
The “extraordinary level of conservation” of genetic data in the tulip tree remains largely unchanged since the dinosaurs, a study suggests. The species’ genomic change is about 2,000 times slower…
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BBC News : Dark matter experiment CDMS sees three tentative clues
Researchers have revealed the first potential hints of the elusive material called dark matter at an underground laboratory in the US. Though it is believed to make up a quarter…
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Problems with the Standard Model of Particle Physics – Morgan Freeman – YouTube
Problems with the Standard Model of Particle Physics – Morgan Freeman – YouTube.
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BBC News : Phages may be key in bacteria battle
They might look like sinister aliens, but these bacteria-munching viruses could be the next weapon in the fight against infectious diseases. At the Eliava Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia, patients are…
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Egyptian mummies yield genetic secrets : Nature News & Comment
The ancient Egyptians could soon be getting their genomes sequenced as a matter of routine. That’s the view, at least, of the first researchers to use next-generation techniques to analyse…
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H7N9 avian influenza and novel coronavirus: Is there a pandemic potential? – The Global Dispatch
With the recent emergence of two viruses not seen in human infections before, experts and the general public wonder, how serious could these infectious diseases be? Since April 2012, the…
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BBC News : Team reconstructs human ancestor
Posted on April 13, 2013 | No CommentsThe most complete view yet of a possible human ancestor uncovered in South Africa has revealed an intriguing mix of human and ape traits.The two-million-year-old remains of several partial skeletons... -
Museum of London – Pompeii of the north
Posted on April 11, 2013 | No CommentsWhen MOLA archaeologists were appointed to excavate Bloomberg Place, a three acre site in the heart of the Roman City of London and home to the Temple of Mithras, it... -
If we will see farther, it will be by standing on the Higgs. – The Hindu
Posted on April 9, 2013 | No CommentsIn 2015, particle physicists around the world will warm up for some “new physics” on the supercollider menu. After all, the Standard Model buffet hasn’t been sufficient to explain many... -
Scientists trace genetic cause of leukaemia back in womb – PanARMENIAN.Net
Posted on April 9, 2013 | No CommentsScientists say they have traced the root genetic cause of leukaemia back to early life in the womb, according to BBC News. The Institute of Cancer Research experts analyzed the... -
BBC Nature – Ice Age bowhead whales survival surprises scientists
Posted on April 9, 2013 | No CommentsAncient DNA shows that bowhead whales bucked the trend to survive the last Ice Age, say scientists.The demise of cold-adapted land mammals such as mammoths has been linked to rising... -
BBC News – Environmental change triggers rapid evolution
Posted on April 9, 2013 | No CommentsChanges to their surroundings can trigger “rapid evolution” in species as they adopt traits to help them survive in the new conditions, a study shows.Studying soil mites in a laboratory,... -
Science Search Engine & Directory | SciSeek
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BBC News : Red meat chemical ‘damages heart’, say US scientists
Posted on April 8, 2013 | No CommentsA chemical found in red meat helps explain why eating too much steak, mince and bacon is bad for the heart, say US scientists. A study in the journal Nature... -
Physicists hunt for five mysterious particles deep underground – Science
Posted on April 8, 2013 | No CommentsWhile the world’s largest atom smasher was busy finding the Higgs boson — the particle thought to explain why other particles have mass — physicists have been quietly building giant... -
BBC News – Early genetic markers of Alzheimer’s risk identified
Posted on April 6, 2013 | No CommentsGenetic markers that could help highlight who is at risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease have been identified by US scientists. The research in Neuron identifies mutations that affect the build-up... -
BBC News – Ban pesticides linked to bee deaths, say MPs
Posted on April 5, 2013 | No CommentsThe UK government should suspend the use of a number of pesticides linked to the deaths of bees, a committee of MPs has said.Members of the Commons Environmental Audit Committee... -
BBC News – Exhaled breath is unique fingerprint
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsCompounds present in exhaled breath can act as a “fingerprint” for individuals, scientists say. These “metabolites” represent the waste products of the body’s chemistry – but their uniqueness had never... -
BBC News – WHO confirms five deaths from China bird flu
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe World Health Organization says there have now been five deaths in China from a new bird flu virus. There have been 11 laboratory-confirmed cases of the H7N9 virus, a... -
Genetic time bomb will mean a world without males – Hindustan Times
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsThe poorly designed Y chromosome, which makes men is degrading rapidly and will disappear, even if humans are still around, an evolutionary geneticist has claimed. Jenny Graves from Canberra University’s... -
Dark Matter Possibly Found by $2 Billion Space Station Experiment | AMS | Space.com
Posted on April 4, 2013 | No CommentsA massive particle detector mounted on the International Space Station may have detected elusive dark matter at last, scientists announced today (April 3). The detector, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS),...
