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CERN restarts Big Bang collider for biggest test yet - Yahoo! NewsScientists are restarting a giant sub-atomic particle collider built to reproduce "Big Bang" conditions, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said on Friday. After a year's delay, they hope to have beams circulating by early Saturday in the huge tunnels under the French-Swiss ...
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Three of a kind: Revealing language’s universal essenceOn the surface, English, Japanese, and Kinande, a member of the Bantu family of languages spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have little in common. It is not just that the vocabularies of these three languages are vastly different; many of their rules of grammar diverge too. Consider ...
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Harnessing waste heat to produce electricityThat heat emanating from your computer as you sit reading this article amounts to nothing more than wasted energy. And your computer is not alone. More than half of the energy consumed worldwide is wasted, most of it in the form of excess heat. But new research at the Massachusetts Institute of ...
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Call John Hammond...The Hatching Dinosaur Christmas OrnamentSideshow Collectibles has produced a Christmas ornament that would certainly hang from John Hammond's highest Christmas tree branch. The Dinosauria line from Sideshow Collectibles has added this 3.5 inch ornament of a tiny brachiosaurus hatchling as it just emerges from its egg. Being a huge fan ...
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Scientists find frog legs trade may facilitate spread of pathogensMost countries throughout the world participate in the $40-million-per-year culinary trade of frog legs in some way, with 75 percent of frog legs consumed in France, Belgium and the United States. Scientists at the Smithsonian Institution and colleagues have found that this trade is a potential ...
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Doubts raised on nuclear industry viabilityThe investment in nuclear power has been growing around the world over the last few years, being viewed as a means for countries to control their energy security, avoid the price fluctuations of other energy sources, and reduce their carbon dioxide emissions, but concerns are now being raised. A...
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Finding more in 'most': Scientific study of an everyday wordWilliam Shakespeare, who knew a thing or two about words, advised that "An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told." But the exact meaning of plain language isn't always easy to find. Even simple words like "most" and "least" can vary greatly in definition and interpretation, and are ...
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Unknowlingly consuming endangered tunaWhile most of us would never willingly consume a highly endangered species, doing so might be as easy as plucking sushi from a bento box. New genetic detective work from the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History shows that bluefin tuna is routinely ...
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Dating sites use DNA to find your perfect matchIf you’re looking for love online you can forget listing your hobbies and favorite books. Dating sites can now find your perfect match based on DNA. Numerous studies have revealed that chemistry, in particular body odor, plays a big part in the art of attraction, but such physical chemistry is ...
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