Science
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[:eu]Buried lasers will sense Earth’s spin and quakes doing the twist[:]
[:eu]The aluminum hatches are the only clue to what lies beneath. Buried amid the corn and wheat fields of Fürstenfeldbruck, a sleepy monastery village 20 kilometers from Munich, Germany, is […]
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[:eu]Physicists detect whiff of new particle at the Large Hadron Collider[:]
[:eu]For decades, particle physicists have yearned for physics beyond their tried-and-true standard model. Now, they are finding signs of something unexpected at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s biggest […]
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[:eu]Unique Canadian ice core collection suffers catastrophic meltdown[:]
[:eu]A precious collection of ice cores from the Canadian Arctic has suffered a catastrophic meltdown. A freezer failure at a cold storage facility in Edmonton run by the University of […]
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[:eu]Weird sterile neutrinos may not exist, suggest new data from nuclear reactors[:]
[:eu]For decades, physicists have known that particles called neutrinos, which have almost no mass and barely interact with other matter, come in three types—electron, muon, and tau. And for just […]
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[:eu]Is dark energy an illusion?[:]
[:eu]For the past 20 years, physicists have known that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, as if some bizarre “dark energy” is blowing up space like a balloon. In […]
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[:eu]Are gravitational waves kicking this black hole out of its galaxy?[:]
[:eu]Astronomers have just spied a black hole with a mass one billion times the Sun’s hurtling toward our galaxy. But scientists aren’t worried about it making contact: It’s some 8 […]
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[:eu]World’s lakes are much shallower than thought, mathematical analysis suggests[:]
[:eu]If lakes are shallower, they would release more methane into the atmosphere than previously estimated.[:]
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[:eu]It wasn’t just Greece: Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas[:]
[:eu]Tlaxcallan is one of several premodern societies around the world that archaeologists believe were organized collectively, where rulers shared power and commoners had a say in the government that presided […]
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[:eu]Toddler play may give clues to sexual orientation[:]
[:eu]The objects and people children play with as early as toddlerhood may provide clues to their eventual sexual orientation, reveals the largest study of its kind. The investigation, which tracked […]