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| Dead
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| An experiment with atoms proves this cartoon
isn’t a joke. Dennis Overbye reports |
| Einstein said there would be days like this. This fall scientists announced that they had put a half dozen beryllium atoms into a “cat state.” No, they were not sprawled along a sunny windowsill. To a physicist, a “cat state” is the condition of being in two diametrically opposed... |
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| Climate transition |
| Earth scientists with the longest frames of reference, particularly those whose specialities begin with the prefix, ‘palaeo’, often seem to
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| Lice ruined Napoleon’s army |
| The 1812 invasion of Russia by Napoleon’s Grand Army ranks as one of the worst military fiascos of all times. Of half a million soldiers sent to
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| Competition is the key |
The first notebook computers to dip below $1,000 were slow, not very stylish and not widely embraced by consumers. That was more than five years ago ? a lifetime in the digital era. ... | Read..
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| QED: Stem cell isn’t dead
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The great biologist J.B.S. Haldane, in a memorable poem written shortly before his death, saw a parallel in his own experiences: “So now I am like two-faced Janus/The only god who sees his anus”. Cancer’s a Funny Thing begins: “I w
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Do vaccines cause autism?
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Evidence of
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David Kirby
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Dawn will be 35 when her first child is born in April. Based on her age alone, she has 1 chance in 270 that her fetus has Down syndrome, a genetic defect caused by an extra chromosome that results in mental retardation and other problems. ... | 
