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| Hidden clue |
| The string theory solves a puzzle ? faster-than-expected expansion of the cosmos. G.S. Mudur reports |
| Physicist Mohammad Sami
has joined a league of matchmakers trying to wed the hardest mathematics ever
invented with one of the most baffling features of the Universe. The stakes are
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| Alternatives? Ally |
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| Other side of the story |
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If you happened upon nj.com in the last month, you might have noticed a clucking penguin waddling across the computer screen, stumbling over text as it promoted a local utility company. ... | Read..
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| QED: Disappearing past
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The last passenger pigeon, Martha, died in 1911 in a Cincinnati zoo. Six billion of them once existed, darkening the sky for days when they flew over. There are six billion of us now. We don?t expect to be extinct soon. Nevertheless, pockets of us die
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History and fate of the planet
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EARTH: AN INTIMATE
HISTORY
Richard Fortey
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Of all the debates surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in recent decades, the most persistent and perplexing one involves a very early cancer called DCIS, or ductal carcinoma in situ. This cancer is noninvasive, confined to the m ... | 
