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BRICS nations meet for summit, may talk about their own bank
USA TODAY
By Sajjad Hussain, AFP/Getty Images New Delhi muncipal council (NDMC) workers decorate a signboard with flowers to welcome BRICS countries leaders March 28, 2012. By Sajjad Hussain, AFP/Getty Images New Delhi muncipal council (NDMC) workers decorate a ...
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Today in History for March 28
Daily Herald
AP Daily Herald | Posted: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 12:00 am | Loading…Today is Wednesday, March 28, the 88th day of 2012. There are 278 days left in the year. On March 28, 1942, during World War II, British naval forces staged a successful raid on ...
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Today On The Trail: March 28, 2012
TPM
A new poll of Republican voters from Franklin and Marshall College shows Romney down just 2 points, 30% to 28%. Biden speaks in Iowa: Vice President will speak about the economy and innovation while attacking Mitt Romney's record on manufacturing in ...
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Backblaze Leads the Way in Supporting World Backup Day
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) March 28, 2012 Backblaze today announced it is leading the charge in supporting World Backup Day on March 31st as the Presenting Sponsor of this seminal backup event. As an online backup service provider, Backblaze offers ...
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First Edition: March 28, 2012
Kaiser Health News
Today's headlines recap yesterday's Supreme Court action related to the constitutionality of the individual mandate and set the scene for day 3 of the oral arguments, which will tackle issues of severalbility and questions about the health law's ...
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Vatican today — March 28, 2012
The Catholic Spirit
At 9.30 am today, the Holy Father travelled to the Shrine of “Nuestra Senora de la Caridad del Cobre,” patron of Cuba, where he was greeted by the archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, and by the shrine's rector. The Holy Father paused in prayer before the ...
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PA Lottery: March 30 Mega Millions® Jackpot Grows to World-Record $500 Million
Sacramento Bee
By Pennsylvania Lottery MIDDLETOWN, Pa., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Crushing the previous record of $390 million, the Mega Millions® jackpot for the March 30 drawing has grown to world-record size: a $500 million annuity or $359.4 ...
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Kuehne & Nagel Fined With Panalpina for EU Freight Cartels
BusinessWeek
By Aoife White on March 28, 2012 Kuehne & Nagel International AG (KNIN) and Panalpina World Transport Holding Ltd. (PWTN) were among companies fined 169 million euros ($225.6 million) by European Union regulators for price fixing of freight-forwarding ...
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Captain Morgan Sets Sail to Conquer Mobile Social Gaming World With Release of ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NORWALK, Conn., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Today, the makers of Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum released Captain's Conquest, a groundbreaking mobile social game that rewards players for real-life exploration, adventure and social ...
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Dolly Drive Supports 'World Backup Day 2012' on March 31
MarketWatch (press release)
MIAMI, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Dolly Drive, a provider of all-in-one subscription software and online storage services designed for Mac, announced today a special offer in honor of World Backup Day 2012: a 33 percent discount to Mac ...
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Egypt's liberals walk out, leaving Islamists to write a constitution
Christian Science Monitor
Of the 100-member assembly elected this weekend to craft Egypt's new constitution, about a fifth resigned before the group met today to begin writing. By Kristen Chick, Correspondent /March 28, 2012 Parliamentarian Amr Hamzawy speaks at a news...
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Christian Science Monitor
Must-Reads from Around the World: March 28, 2012
TIME (blog)
By TIME.com | March 28, 2012 | + News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch listens to remarks while participating in the Wall St. Journal CEO Council on "Rebuilding Global Prosperity" in Washington in this November 16, 2009, file photo.
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TIME (blog)
Holland America Line & Seabourn Named to 2012 World's Most Ethical Companies List
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Holland America Line and Seabourn have both been recognized as one of 2012 World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Institute, the leading business ethics think-tank. This is the first year that ...
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FuzeBox Introduces the World's First Mobile Video Conferencing Solution ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Now available, Fuze HD for iPad fully leverages the new iPad's retina display and 4G connectivity for multi-party video conferencing San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 28, 2012 FuzeBox, the leading real-time visual collaboration provider, today announced ...
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Olympic security review after France attacks
Boston.com
By Paisley Dodds AP / March 28, 2012 LONDON—Britain has planned for a dizzying array of security nightmares surrounding the Olympics, including a coordinated attack like the London transit bombings, a dirty bomb or a cyberattack.
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Daily Brief: March 28, 2012
Baltimore Sun
Britain's Lifeguards Household Cavalry prepare for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, Hungarians celebrate Easter with “watering of the girls,” and more in today's daily brief. Members of the Lifeguards Household Cavalry prepare for the Major General's ...
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Baltimore Sun
Resources Connection, Inc. Reports Third Quarter Results for Fiscal 2012
MarketWatch (press release)
Resources will hold a conference call for interested analysts and investors at 5:00 pm, ET today, March 28, 2012. This conference call will be available for listening via a webcast on the Company's website: http://www.resourcesglobal.com .
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The Note's Must-Reads for Wednesday, March 28, 2012
ABC News (blog)
The Note's Must-Reads are a round-up of today's political headlines and stories from ABC News and the top US newspapers. Posted Monday through Friday right here at www.abcnews.com ABC News' Greg Holyk: “Record Number See Romney Negatively; ...
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Japan Urges Cooperation, Dialogue With China on Rare Earths
BusinessWeek
By Jae Hur and Ichiro Suzuki on March 28, 2012 Japan, the world's biggest importer of rare earths, wants international cooperation for alternatives, conservation, diversification and recycling and to continue dialogue with China to secure stable global ...
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Marvel's The Avengers to Close 2012 Tribeca Film Festival on April 28
MarketWatch (press release)
... Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Tom Hiddleston, with Stellan Skarsgard and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury NEW YORK, March 28, 2012/PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by American Express, announced today that ...
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EE Times and EDN Announce the 2012 UBM Electronics ACE Award Winners
MarketWatch (press release)
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- UBM Electronics, the daily source of essential business and technical information for the electronics industry's decision makers, today announced the winners of the 2012 UBM Electronics ACE ...
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Twin says Polish leader's death likely no accident
Boston.com
(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) By Vanessa Gera Associated Press / March 28, 2012 WARSAW, Poland—The twin brother of the Polish president who died in a 2010 plane crash in Russia claimed Wednesday that the accident is looking increasingly like an ...
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Boston.com
Supreme Court Wraps Up Oral Arguments on Health Law
Washington Post
28, 2012 - March 28 (Bloomberg) -- The US Supreme Court today concluded oral arguments over the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's health-care law. In the final session, justices focused on Congress's power to expand the Medicaid insurance ...
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March 2012 U. S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook
Sacramento Bee
By Freddie Mac MCLEAN, Va., March 28, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Freddie Mac (OTC: FMCC) released today its US Economic and Housing Market Outlook for March showing signs the housing market is awakening from its depression-like condition of the past few ...
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Cars.com News Briefs: March 28, 2012
Chicago Tribune
Here's what we have our eye on today: The National Transportation Safety Board defended a proposal last December to ban drivers making calls on cell phones, even those with a hands-free function, The Detroit News reports.
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War News Updates: World News Briefs -- March 28, 2012
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War News Updates. A News Aggregator That Covers The World's Major Wars And Conflicts. Military, Political, And Intelligence News Are Also Covered. Occasionally We Will Have Our Own Opinions Or Observations To Make.
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Today's Photo: March 28, 2012 @ HanCinema :: The Korean Movie ...
Today's Photo: March 282012 http://www.hancinema.net/today-s-photo-march-28-2012--40526.html http://www.hancinema.net/photos/photo229978.jpg Today's Photo: March 28,2012 "Rain" performs at a concert marking the second anniversary of ... soldier Lee Dong-geon to be discharged on the 28th... 2012/03/27 - Park Yoo-hwan to Micky Yoochun "I Miss You"... 2012/03/27 - Cha Ye-ryeon shingles and complications... Older : 'Superstar K' returns with fourth season. Older news ...
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News of the world: March 28, 2012. « Whipped Cream Difficulties
By stainles
News of the worldMarch 282012. I previously noted the indictments of 11 people associated with Yassine Enterprises, owners of a string of downtown clubs. Today's Statesman covers a hearing yesterday in the case, and…better start ...
Whipped Cream Difficulties
Cars.com News Briefs: March 28, 2012 - KickingTires
By Kelsey Mays
Cars.com News Briefs: March 282012 ... The December recommendation wouldn't ban calls made through telematics systems such as GM's OnStar, but it would ban calls made via Bluetooth — a widespread feature in cars today. ...Detroit- based Commonwealth, a joint venture between ad agencies in San Francisco and New York, will supplant 70 agencies across the world and "find ways to have a more clear, concise and consistent message globally," GM marketing chief Joel ...
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Today On The Trail: March 28, 2012 | TPM2012
By Pema Levy
Here are ten things you need to know today. ... TPM2012. Today On The Trail:March 282012Today On The Trail: March 282012 ... Pema Levy March 28,2012, 8:52 AM ... Pema Levy is a News Writer at TPM covering the 2012 election.
TPM News
Today in Afghanistan: War News for Wednesday, March 28, 2012
By whisker
War News for Wednesday, March 282012. NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Monday, March 27th. Reported security incidents #1: Afghan interior ministry ...
Today in Afghanistan
Morning News Digest: March 28, 2012 | Politicker NJ
By mrebovich
Morning News Digest: March 282012. By Missy ... "We are in the process of a major fundraising push this week, including a fundraiser on Thursday in Englewood, and want to secure every dollar possible before the March 31st deadline." ( Pizarro ... In November 2006, I was installed as the president and chairman of the 26-member NJ Urban Mayors' Association and still serve in that capacity today. .... Christie said he wants Springsteen to book an added date on his current world tour.
First Edition: March 28, 2012 - Kaiser Health News
Mar 282012Today's headlines recap yesterday's Supreme Court action related to the constitutionality of the individual mandate and set the scene for day 3 of the oral arguments, which will tackle issues of severalbility and questions about ...
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UVA Today News Blog » UVA Today Radio Show | March 28, 2012
By kasher
Check out the new episode of the UVA Today Radio Show, a weekly five minute segment on WTJU radio. Look for new editions of the show every Wednesday at 11:55 a.m. and every Friday at 3:55 p.m. on WTJU. Afterward, all of the segments ...
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Workplace Webcast - March 28, 2012 : News : miNBCnews.com
Rising gas prices is our top story on today's workplace webcast. Janet Van De... Wednesday, March 282012. Latest local news, weather and high school sports for Flint and the Tri-cities ... Sign up to receive news alerts and deals:News ...
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Today In Pictures: March 28, 2012 | Photos - ABC News
Today's Top Photos From Around the Globe. ... of Chinese President Hu Jintao, outside the Oberoi Hotel where Hu staying, in New Delhi, India, March 28, 2012.
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War News Updates: World News Briefs -- March 28, 2012
A News Aggregator That Covers The World's Major Wars And Conflicts. Military, Political, And Intelligence News Are Also ... World News Briefs --March 28, 2012 ...
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10 things you need to know today: March 28, 2012 - Yahoo! News
News: Violence continues despite Syria's peace plan, the Supreme Court mulls health-care reform without an individual mandate, and more in our ... 10 things you need to know today: March 28, 2012 .... Tiny puppy could beworld's smallest ...
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The World Today in Pictures- March 28, 2012 : Evansville Photo ...
Current news for Evansville, IN and its surrounding communities brought to you by Evansville Courier & Press. ... The World Today in Pictures- March 28, 2012 ...
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Today in History for Wednesday, March 28, 2012 » Top News ...
Top News. Search ... Today in History for Wednesday, March 28, 2012 ... On March 28, 1942, during World War II, British naval forces staged a successful raid on ...
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Midday Market News - March 28, 2012 | ValueWalk
Every afternoon ValueWalk provides an update on global market levels, economic news, and hedge fund news today Monday March 28th 2012.
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Today in History: March 28 | Richmond Times-Dispatch
March 28, 1942 British naval forces raided the Nazi-occupied French port of St. Nazaire, ... Published: March 28, 2012 Updated: March 28, 2012 - 1:15 AM ...
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Today in Afghanistan: War News for Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Successor to Today in Iraq ... War News for Wednesday, March 28, 2012. NATO is ... Force aircraft made a precautionary landing in southern Afghanistantoday.
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Today's TWoP News: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - The Telefile ...
Today's TWoP News: Wednesday, March 28, 2012. by Hillary GoldsmithMarch 28, 2012 4:04 PM. Today's TWoP News: .... World Series of Pop Culture ...
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Today at noon - March 28, 2012 | www.whiotv.com
Today at noon - March 28, 2012. ... Wednesday, March 28, 2012 | 11:19 a.m.... For news, political and entertainment galleries, check out the Top 20 here, ...
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DISCOVERIES News, Mar 28, 2012

Discoveries
Physicists mix two lasers to create light at many frequencies
Nanowerk LLC
"This is a very remarkable phenomenon. I have never seen anything like this before," said Mark Sherwin, whose research group made the groundbreaking discovery. Sherwin is a professor of physics at UCSB and a co-author of the paper.
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Neutrons uncover new density waves in fermion liquids
Science Codex
The team believe their discovery, published in Nature, will interest researchers looking at electronic systems, since high temperature superconductivity could result from this type of density fluctuations. Fermi liquids are composed of strongly ...
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Research council sacrifices basic research on the altar of commerce
The Guardian (blog)
Serendipity is the norm not the exception in great discovery and sacrificing basic science on the altar of commerce is killing the goose that lays the golden egg. So we are all agreed, then? Er, actually, no. Britain's Engineering and Physical Sciences ...
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The Guardian (blog)
13 Awesome Moments In Science History (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post
Science has been at the heart of twentieth-century history - from Einstein's newphysics to the Manhattan Project, from eugenics to the Human Genome Project, or from the wonders of penicillin to the promises of biotechnology. Science's claim to access ...
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WisBusiness: Collaboration helps make medical imaging a big business for Wisconsin
Wisbusiness.com
Tom Grist, chairman of the radiology department at the UW Medical School, ran through a long list of discoveries that had turned into either medical imaging equipment made by GE Healthcare or resulted in new companies, such as Madison's TomoTherapy.
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Space exploration and the culture of innovation: an interview with Neil ...
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
This began 110 years ago with the discovery of X-rays. So you look at X-rays and you look at nuclear magnetic resonance, which is the physical principle behind the magnetic resonance image. And you look at the physical principles behind ultrasounds and ...
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
DZERO Confirms New Chi_b(3P) State
Science 2.0
I am an experimental particle physicist working with the CMS experiment at CERN and the CDF experiment at Fermilab. In my spare time I play chess... While most High-Energy Physicists nowadays are kept busy with the idle search for non-existent new ...
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Details of Hot Quark Soup, New Liquid Neutrino Detector, and Ultra-Bright ...
lightsources.org (press release)
Scientists from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory and physicists closely following research there will present talks addressing these questions at the April 2012 meeting of the American PhysicalSociety, ...
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Happy Birthday Titan!
Space Daily
"Huygens would be pleased," says Ralph Lorenz, a planetary scientist and Titan authority from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md. "He held the view that the universe was full of other planets and that many might ...
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'The Idea Factory': Innovation at Bell Labs
Kansas City Star
Even the labs' most storied achievements - the invention of the transistor and the discovery of the background radiation left over from the big bang, were tethered to its mandate to help improve AT&T's nationwide communications network of cable and ...
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Intelligent Design community demand ID Spoofs to be put in the Science and ...
The Spoof (satire)
"We will be bringing the full weight of the law down on the Spoof to force them to ridicule evolution alongside ridiculing Quantum Physics and homoeopathy." Mark Lowton, editor of the Spoof, was laid back about the DiscoveryInstitutes's accusations.
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Will Happer on global warming
Examiner.com
Will Happer, Professor of Physics at Princeton University and noted climate change skeptic, noted nature's lack of cooperation with the notion of a warming earth. Happer noted—and not for the first time—that the catastrophes predicted by IPCC ...
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NASA Selects 3 UCF Projects For Flight Opportunities Program
Space Ref (press release)
UCF Associate Professor of Physics Joshua Colwell submitted three proposals to NASA, which selected all three. Two experiments will fly on a suborbital rocket and one will fly on parabolic airplane flight, which provide brief periods of weightlessness.
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Jesuit philosopher to discuss creation of the universe at St. Thomas
Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
... explore the close connection between reason and faith as revealed by new discoveries in astrophysics and philosophy,” according to a released statement from St. Thomas. “In his talk, Spitzer will discuss developments in physics and mathematics that ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog)
Epigenetics: Marked for success
Nature.com
Despite his qualms, Goldsmith took the helm and, nearly three years later, epigenetics has become a hot topic in oncology drug discovery. In January, biotechnology giant Genentech in South San Francisco, California, added its own vote of confidence to ...
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Regional supercomputing centre set to revolutionise research
PressZoom (press release)
The significant contribution High Performance Computing (HPC) makes to the national growth agenda - through supporting new discoveries and driving innovation – has been recognised by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
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Harvard Researchers Discover Hypervelocity Planets
Harvard Crimson
By Kevin T. Wittenberg Although there was a brief scare last year when researchers thought that neutrinos had broken the speed of light, the laws ofphysics haven't thrown our conceptions of speed many curveballs in the past year. Until a few days ago, ...
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GOP candidates treat us to some amazing lessons
Carroll Daily Times Herald
Ye gods, that's what we need for the 21st century: young people who don't know anything their parents didn't know and are innocent of chemistry,physics, trigonometry, and biology. Still, it's been a fascinating and educational campaign.
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Why everything wants more power
Daily Caller
To take a truly global view of energy we must look past politics to physics — yes, physics. Widening our lens to include not only human activity but also the natural world, we make a startling discovery: everything around us is doing exactly what we ...
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Moving day for experiment examining whether neutrinos are their own antiparticles
Symmetry magazine
Majorana's ultimate goal is to detect a rare form of radioactive decay called “neutrinoless double-beta decay,” a discovery would help determine whether neutrinos are their own anti-particles. That discovery, in turn, could help scientists understand ...
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Oil Production in the 21st Century and Peak Oil
OilPrice.com
In this regard, the physical limitations on producing ever-increasing quantities of oil are highlighted, as well as the possibility of the peak of production occurring this decade. The economics of oil supply and demand are also briefly discussed, ...
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Captain Robert Scott centenary: The Manchester University alumni behind the ...
Mancunian Matters
... responsible for making Manchester University a centre for the study of physics, has also been highlighted for his role in the mission. Scott consulted Schuster when arranging his scientific plan of both the Discovery and Terra Nova missions.
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Mancunian Matters
From Russia With Love: The Strange Tale of Clara Rockmore and Léon Theremin
Huffington Post
In 1920 the young physicist, Lev Sergeyevich Termen (later to be known as Léon Theremin), demonstrated his invention to his amazed professor and fellow students. Trying to remember the notes on the cello from Camille Saint-Saëns' Le Cygne, ...
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WC Miller builds the best hovercraft in the province
Red River Valley Echo
The annual Discovery Program competition is organized by Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, and this year, a total of 21 teams from across the province competed in the semi-finals. “We were up against some huge city schools with a budget of $3000 ...
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MCA Delves Into Time, Nude Gallery Tours
Wall Street Journal (blog)
I hope people don't recognize every name, because it should be a discoveryprocess. For example, Katie Paterson, the Scottish artist, is 29. She's living now in Berlin. Her work is extraordinary. She's clearly going to be a person to watch over the ...
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