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38 min ago | NowPublic

Galileo's Two Fingers and a Tooth Found in Ancient Case

Galileo Galilei's two fingers and a tooth have been found in an ancient wooden case by a collector who spotted the discarded case at an auction .

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Related Topix: Science, Science / Technology, Inventions

7 hrs ago | The Dallas Morning News

Bigger view of the Big Bang

If there were a Guinness record for making telescope mirrors, Dean Ketelsen probably would win it.

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Related Topix: University of Arizona, California Institute of Technology, Science

12 hrs ago | AndhraNews

Worlds most energy-efficient supercomputer recognized

Worlds most energy-efficient supercomputer recognized The high-performance computer QPACE has been recognized as the most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, Science, Computer Science, IBM

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Universe Today

Fermi Finds Gamma-Ray Microquasar

Fermi's Large Area Telescope has detected bursts of gamma-rays in the binary system Cygnus X-3, which astronomers say are coming from a microquasar.

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Related Topix: Science

AndhraNews

Universe peppered with blue fuzzies, discover astronomers

ANI ANI Universe peppered with blue fuzzies, discover astronomers Australian astronomers have discovered that the universe is peppered with tiny blue dwarf galaxies known as blue fuzzies.

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Related Topix: Science

Daily Mail

Fossils of Martian bugs found on meteorite that landed on Earth 13,000 years ago

The fossilised remains of Martian bugs have been discovered on a meteorite that crashed into the Antarctic 13,000 years ago.

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Related Topix: Science

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Eureke Man cover

Back in my college days, I took an introductory class in 20th-century quantum physics and its modern-day philosophical implications, sometimes deridingly referred to as "Physics for Poets." In order to make the materials marginally more approachable, the professor would draw liberally from the Klingons of "Star Trek" fame to make his points.

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Related Topix: Physics, Science, UMass Dartmouth, Newton, MA, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Inventions, Science / Technology

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Science Daily

Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks

Dr Alun Salt, an astronomy technician from the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science at the University of Leicester, found that out of all the temples he surveyed in Sicily, all but three faced the rising sun.

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Related Topix: Science

Universe Today

Astronomers Dig Up Relic of the Milky Way's Central Bulge

Like archaeologists who dig through the layers of dirt to unearth crucial pieces of the history of mankind, astronomers have been gazing through the thick layers of interstellar dust obscuring the central bulge of the Milky Way and have unveiled an extraordinary cosmic relic.

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Related Topix: Science, Archaeology, Anthropology

Independent Online

Meteor lights up Joburg sky

This is CCTV footage of the meteor spotted in Gauteng on November 21, 2009, after 11pm, according to Eyewitness News.

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Related Topix: Science

The Star

News Flashes - November 24, 2009

Planetarium seeks meteor footage The Johannesburg Planetarium has requested footage captured by members of the public of a meteor that sped over Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Botswana on Saturday.

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Related Topix: Science, South Africa, Explosion

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Freerepublic.com

Live Discussion Thread: The final episode of "V"...

Join us for a lively chat during the show. "V" returns in Spring 2010, after the Winter Olympics.

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Related Topix: Science Fiction TV, V, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Science, UFO and Alien

Science Daily

FIrst Black Holes From Starlike Cocoons?

The formation process involved two stages, said Mitchell Begelman, a professor and the chair of CU-Boulder's astrophysical and planetary sciences department.

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Related Topix: University of Colorado Boulder, Science

Science Daily

Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown Dwarf

Brown dwarfs are misfits because they fall somewhere between planets and stars in terms of their temperature and mass.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Science, Nuclear Energy

AndhraNews

Now, web users can play cosmic slot machine to study colliding galaxies

ANI ANI ANI Now, web users can play cosmic slot machine to study colliding galaxies A new website will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a cosmic slot machine and compare images of colliding galaxies with millions of simulated images of galactic pile-ups. Washington, November 24 : A new website will give everyone the ...

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Related Topix: Science

Science, Industry and Business

EIT waves and coronal magnetic field diagnosis

Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University in Nanjing, China - Solar coronal seismology based on magnetic field-line stretching model of "EIT waves" is proposed, which is demonstrated to be potentially able to probe the mysterious magnetic field in the solar corona.

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Related Topix: Science, World News, China

Mon Nov 23, 2009

WLFI-TV West Lafayette

Vatican hosts conference on alien life

The Vatican recently held a "study week" of over 30 astronomers, biologists, geologists and religious leaders to discuss the question of the existence of extraterrestrials.

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Related Topix: UFO and Alien, Science, Pope Benedict XVI, Offbeat

Examiner.com

Vatican, England and France pressure the US for UFO Disclosure.

A carefully nuanced program intended to exert pressure on the unelected government of the United States to disclose the presence of non-human entities and technology operating in Earth's biosphere took another step forward at the conclusion of a 5 day Study Week on Astrobiology by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican last week.

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Related Topix: UFO and Alien, Science, University of Arizona

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Space telescope will create a 'road map' of the universe's dark side

Not everything in the universe twinkles brightly, and astronomers expect that NASA's next space telescope may find some of these dark cosmic bodies, including nearby asteroids and stars so dim that they've never been observed by humans.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Science, NASA, US Military, Vandenberg Air Force Base, US Air Force

Sun Nov 22, 2009

Ain't It Cool News

Capone says the animated comedy PLANET 51 is lost in space

With so many strides having been made in the last couple years in the field of animation , it feel a little bizarre to come face to face with a film that barely seems to be trying to break new ground.

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Related Topix: Planet 51, Science / Technology, Space, Science

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