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Italy collector finds Galileo's lost tooth, fingers - Yahoo! NewsAn art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday. The body parts, along with another finger and a vertebrae, were cut from Galileo's corpse by scientists ...
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Essay - Doomsday Isn’t Coming, NASA Says; At Least Not in 2012 - NYTimes.comScientists give many reasons not to worry about predictions based on the Mayan calendar that the world will end in three years. ################ There are hundreds of books devoted to 2012, and millions of Web sites, depending on what combination of “2012” and “doomsday” you type into Google. Al...
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India prof tips fastest prime number detection algorithmAgrawal told EE Times India that his deterministic polynomial time algorithm detects prime numbers. "It is faster than other existing solutions and is foolproof." With this he solves a nearly 200-year old problem which has been vexing the mathematics community. "It is a great honour for me to ...
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Mad scientists blame time travelers for collider failure | DVICEIt was weird enough that scientists said a bird dropping a piece of bread on an electrical substation managed to shut down power to the Large Hadron Collider. Now two respected physicists are blaming that incident on a time-traveling bird, sabotaging the collider's mission of finding the Higgs ...
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World Community Grid - View Thread - Discovering Dengue Drugs – Together (Phase 1) CompletionSome concrete benefits for human beings coming straight away from cloud computing.shal added 7 weeks ago
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TED: Ideas worth spreadingOne of my favorite talks: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.htmlshal added 2 months ago
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1100 Incredible Lectures from the World’s Top Scientists | Best Colleges OnlineFantastic! Great post. Thanks!JDP added 4 months ago
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1Time to acknowledge science's debt to Islam? - science-in-society - 25 February 2009 - New ScientistAmazing (NOT) - when significant religious control of life and the state holds sway, rationality and science suffer. After all, religious control often relies on dogma, and the less change (or challenge) that is allowed to that, the deeper and longer the control can be. So obviously anything ...JDP added 8 months ago
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