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Carbon dating
Carbon dating does not give right age
Sturt Manning and colleagues have found variations in the radiocarbon cycle at certain periods of time, affecting frequently cited standards used in a
R. Ramachandran
Infectious diseases
Beware of dogs
“The majority of pandemics have been associated with pigs as an intermediate host between avian viruses and human hosts. In this study, we identified
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Medicine
Lizards and a cure for malaria
Prasinohaema, as they are called, are green-blooded skinks, a type of lizard. The muscles, bones and tongues of these lizards appear bright lime-green
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Space
Signs of life on Mars
The new findings, which include “tough” organic molecules in three-billion-year-old sedimentary rocks near the surface and seasonal variations in the
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Supercomputers
Race to the top in supercomputing
Summit is eight times more powerful than Titan, the current most powerful computer in the U.S., which is also housed at the ORNL. The U.S. will build
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Laser Research
Cold atomic calculations
Among the experimental payloads that NASA sent to the International Space Station (ISS) on May 21 is an ice chest-sized apparatus called Cold Atom Lab
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Astronomy
Stars formed much earlier than previously thought
A team of international astronomers, led by groups at the University College London (UCL) and Osaka Sangyo University, Japan, has found that stars in
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