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Crystallography tells us how atoms are arranged in solids and is essential for our understanding of the material world. This timeline is an adaptation of Nature Milestones in Crystallography, a... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Astronaut Hank Hartsfield, who commanded space shuttle Discovery's first flight, died on July 17, 2014. He was 80. Hartsfield logged a total of 483 hours in space, circling the Earth 321 times on three space shuttle missions.
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A top antiviral-therapy researcher, Joep Lange, was among the more than 100 researchers and advocates killed en route to the 20th International AIDS Conference in Australia -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 struck planet Jupiter in July 1994.
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That's One Super Moon This past week we were all treated to the first of three "super moons" of 2014. A super moon happens when the moon is at its perigree, or the point in its orbit at which it's closest to the Earth. It also appears la...
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On the second day of their historic mission to land on the moon for the first time, the Apollo 11 crew of Neil Armstrong (commander), Mike Collins (command module pilot) and Buzz Aldrin (lunar module pilot) received a small gift from Mis...
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Different types of weather drive Republicans and Democrats to search for climate change information -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Dreams may play a role in memory incorporation and influence our long-term moods, physiology and creativity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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(This isn't actually Bertrand Might, though the child did require repeated hospitalizations.) Philippe Put via Flickr CC2.0 When young Bertrand Might was born, his parents at first thought nothing was amiss. But then they began to worry,...
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The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has gotten its best look yet at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, with which it will rendezvous early next month. And the results are surprising, researchers said.
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The rise and fall of the Beach Boys leader shows how crucial the brain's executive function is to creativity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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To quote the great Austin Powers, when provided floss to escape being lowered into a tank of ill-tempered sea bass: “OK, I get it. I have bad teeth.” Sure, it’s easy to stereotype the British for shunning American advan...
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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online New photos of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P/C-G) obtained by ESA’s Rosetta Probe reveal the comet has an extremely irregular shape and is likely a contact binary, meaning that it ...
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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online An international team of researchers has successfully completed the chromosome-based draft of the bread wheat genome, giving them the first-ever genetic blueprint of the crop grown...
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Mount Wilson Observatory is a Los Angeles-area facility with several telescopes open to astronomers and the public.
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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online An investigation of Vesta , a massive asteroid that orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter, has revealed that the planet-like body has a thicker crust than previously thought, which ca...
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At a hearing on the future of federal research investment, a science magazine editor and three noted scientists asked the U.S. Senate to support basic research -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Researchers at MIT have developed a robot that enhances the grasping motion of the human hand.
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A new approach to measuring biodiversity has uncovered some biologically important but currently unprotected areas in Western Australia, while confirming the significance of the world heritage listed Wet Tropics rainforests in the countr...
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Genetic studies have given us detailed information about the evolutionary relationships embodied in the Tree of Life, while newly digitized museum collections contain a wealth of information about species distribution. To date, however, ...
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Researchers at Queen's University have made a significant breakthrough that may benefit patients with bowel cancer.Dr Sandra van Schaeybroeck and her team have discovered how two genes cause bowel cancer cells to become resistant to trea...
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Volcanic hazards aren't limited to eruptions. Debris avalanche landslides can also cause a great deal of damage and loss of life. Stratovolcanoes, with their steep, conical shapes made up of lava and unconsolidated mixed materials, can r...
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A research team led by Scott Gardner of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have identified four new species of Ctenomys, a genus of gopher-like mammals found throughout much of South America. The burrowing rodents are commonly called tuc...
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Researchers from UC Davis School of Medicine and Shriners Hospitals for Children -- Northern California have identified a group of cells in the brain that they say plays an important role in the abnormal neuron development in Down syndrome.
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Scientists at The Australian National University have uncovered the secret to twisting light at will.
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Spanish scientists have demonstrated through an experiment on obese rats that the consumption of probiotics during thirty days helps diminish the accumulation of fat in the liver. This new finding, published today by the journal PLOS ONE...
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Researchers at the University of Granada have designed new software that provides real time data on traffic. It is a device that provides information on traffic flow between cities. Drivers can use this information to choose the fastest ...
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Several human neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's disease, are linked to an accumulation of abnormal and aggregated proteins in cells. Cellular 'garbage' can be removed from cells by sweeping t...
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Researchers from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, reported in a study published in Springer's open access journal Protein & Cell a novel mechanism for EV71 entry mediated by its receptor SCARB2. These findings ma...
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Dietary elimination is a successful method of treatment for adults with eosinophilic esophagitis, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterolo...
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The mystery behind the movements of flocking starlings could be explained by the areas of light and dark created as they fly, new research suggests.
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In a breakthrough study, Lars Jansen and his team from Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência were able to measure the amount of protein molecules in living human cells required to form an important structure of the chromosome, the centromere. ...
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Although countries with high levels of economic development generally have more personal automobile travel than less-affluent nations, income is not the only factor that determines a nation's demand for cars, according to a new study.
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Why can't neodymium be more like tin? Well it can, if you ionize it enough. Why strip atoms of a dozen or more electrons? To make them more amenable for use in atomic clocks and quantum computers.
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Three groups of rats modeled with a myocardial infarction were treated with smooth muscle cell injections into the MI-damaged area of the heart. One group received unmodified autologous SMCs; another received unmodified allogenic SMCs; t...
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Yale Cancer Center researchers used a new molecular analysis tool to detect the level of an important target for immunotherapy in early-stage breast cancers. The diagnostic test, using RNAScope, measures the amount of PD-L1 mRNA in cance...
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The first tropical cyclone of the season has formed in the Central Pacific Ocean as NASA's Terra satellite passed overhead. Tropical Storm Wali formed southeast of the Big Island of Hawaii, and now that it's nearing, a Flash Flood Watch ...
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Imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite captured a wide-eyed Typhoon Rammasun as it was making landfall in northern Hainan Island, China early on July 18. A rainfall analysis using another NASA satellite showed the flooding potential of the s...
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As energy-efficient LED lighting becomes more common along roads, scientists are looking for ways to ensure the safety of drivers by assessing the eyestrain associated with glare from the new lights. In a paper published in the journal O...
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From the physics labs at Yale University to the bottom of a played-out gold mine in South Dakota, a new generation of dark matter experiments is ready to commence.The US Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science F...
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Learning the role of immune-system cells in healthy digestive tracts and how they interact with neighboring nerve cells may lead to new treatments for irritable bowel syndrome.
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The 1500 mile Appalachian mountain chain runs along a nearly straight line from Alabama to Newfoundland -- except for a curious bend in Pennsylvania and New York State. Researchers from the College of New Jersey and the University of Roc...
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The tiny plastic particles polluting our seas are not only orally ingested by marine creatures, but also enter their systems through their gills, according to a new study led by the University of Exeter.
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A new study suggests that a common genetic variation in the COMT gene may modify the cardiovascular benefit of aspirin, and in some people, may confer slight harm.
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ARC CoE for Environmental Decisions ( CEED ) Protecting the forest homes of orangutans is the most cost-effective way of boosting the great apes’ chances of survival in the long-run, international scientists have found. New research at t...
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University of Alaska Fairbanks New University of Alaska Fairbanks research indicates that arctic thermokarst lakes stabilize climate change by storing more greenhouse gases than they emit into the atmosphere. Countering a widely-held vie...
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HIV-positive adults in high income countries face a substantially reduced risk of death from AIDS-related causes, cardiovascular disease, and liver disease compared with a decade ago, according to a large international study. Although de...
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An ordered draft sequence of the 17-gigabase hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome has been produced by sequencing isolated chromosome arms. We have annotated 124,201 gene loci distributed nearly evenly across the homeologous ...
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Allohexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) provides approximately 20% of calories consumed by humans. Lack of genome sequence for the three homeologous and highly similar bread wheat genomes (A, B, and D) has impeded expression ana...
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The demand for ship identification and tracking data acquired by satellites is growing rapidly.
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A fresh look at controversial efforts to nourish salmon and store carbon.
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The European Commission has responded to criticism of its billion-euro Human Brain Project, declaring confidence that objections will be satisfied.
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Dr. Joep Lange, a pioneer from the early years of the AIDS crisis, played a key role in making H.I.V. treatments available in the developing world.
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Misrepresentations of cardiopulmonary resuscitation on television may lead patients to have unrealistic expectations of what the procedure entails and the likelihood of success.
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Seismologists based their projections on a lower likelihood of slow shaking from an earthquake occurring near New York City, which typically causes more damage to taller structures.
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Around 100 passengers on the Malaysia Airlines plane were thought to have been heading to a major international Aids conference in Australia.
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Sir David Attenborough has urged the public to look for butterflies as part of the Big Butterfly Count
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Maybe we can learn from fish — they don't call a group of them a school for nothing. Researchers found that when 2 fish swim together, they make better decisions than when 2 fish are swimming alone.
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Scientists have developed a highly advanced bird song decoder, which can automatically identify the call of a vast variety of birds.
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The mishaps mean federal scientists need to "take a hard look" at all federal research on deadly pathogens and make sure, in each case, that the benefits justify risks, says Dr. Tom Frieden.
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Conservationists call on the public to help survey the state of Britain's countryside by counting butterflies.
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POWRANNA Australia (Reuters) - Thousands of Black Angus bulls snort steam gently into the frigid early morning air at Tasmania's largest cattle feedlot as they jostle for space at a long grain trough.
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A vasectomy may increase the risk for the most lethal forms of prostate cancer, a new study reports.
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While many have howled about complying with a proposed rule slashing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, Minnesota has been reining in its utilities’ carbon pollution for decades.
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Duke Energy has completed the removal of large pockets of coal ash from the Dan River following a large spill at a North Carolina power plant, federal environmental officials said Thursday.
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Mr. Ordway spent two years in the 1960s as an adviser to the director Stanley Kubrick, whom he met through his friend, the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke.
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(Reuters) - Gentiva Health Services Inc rejected Kindred Healthcare Inc's offer to buy a stake in the home healthcare services provider in favor of a $634.2 million buyout offer from an unnamed party.
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The young medic who discovered the deadly Ebola bug
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The man making art from the bones of ocean giants
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A repeal of laws requiring big companies to pay for carbon emissions will complicate plans to knit together markets for trading emission allowances.
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Americans throw out a lot of food. And a lot of meat. That means our waste has a bigger impact on the global food supply than vegetarian discards. Why? Blame it on hidden calories.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As far as agricultural genome research goes, this may be the best thing since sliced bread - wheat bread, that is.
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The United Arab Emirates, or UAE, announced Wednesday that it will launch a new program soon to send the first ever Arab mission to space in 2021. According to the energy-rich Middle Eastern country, which is also home to the world’s tal...
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This article originally appeared on Climate Central. For the past few weeks, dry and warm weather have fueled large forest fires across Canada’s remote Northwest Territories. The extent of those fires is well above average for the year t...
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Scientists may finally have an answer for why members of a family in a remote region of Turkey use both their hands and feet to walk . The world first learned of the clan eight years ago following the popularity of the 2006 BBC documenta...
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Two papers published Thursday say the procedure, known as Crispr, can have wide benefits. But other experts worry about unintended consequences.
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By some assessments, the human population will require twice as much food in 2050 as we do now. Some have estimated that an area the size of South Africa or Canada would need to be planted to produce enough food to meet these needs. But ...
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The traditional Japanese art of folding paper is now adding grace and ease to the deployment of fragile solar panels, seismometers and other vital instruments in outer space.
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Today there is widespread agreement that Mars is our human space exploration "horizon goal." There seems to be less agreement on how safe future human space transportation should be. It is less an argument among those who have responsibi...
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Next time you’re in a bad mood, resist the urge to try and cheer yourself up by checking Facebook. It likely won’t work, according to a recent study. Two behavioral researchers have confirmed what anyone who has ever Facebook-stalked som...
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A group of MIT scientists announces the development of supplementary fingers controlled by sensors attached to the human hand.
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Richard Tomkins BLOOMFIELD, Conn., July 17 (UPI) -- Kaman Corporation has received a new order from the U.S. Air Force for bomb fuzes.
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Brooks Hays PARIS, July 17 (UPI) -- ESA probe Rosetta has captured images of Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, discovering that the comet is actually two comets in one -- conjoined twins.
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A scientific paradox that has baffled biologists for nearly 40 years may have been solved – at least in part– by a study that could explain why bigger animals do not suffer higher rates of cancer than smaller animals.
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This new technology is a toast to America, you guys. Our country will do anything to win at everything, and nobody could argue that we've won at selfies. Selfie at a funeral? Check . Selfie in space? Done, son . Even our plane crash surv...
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Those looking to cut back on boozing could worm up to the implications of this study. Scientists at the University of Texas in Austin have mutated a group of worms so that they are unable to get drunk, no matter how much alcohol they con...
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When looking for a meal, prehistoric people in Africa munched on the tuberous roots of weeds such as the purple nutsedge, according to a new study of hardened plaque on samples of ancient teeth. Researchers examined the dental buildup of...
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CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - (This story corrects attribution in 3rd paragraph)
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The storms that lashed Northland last week are a taste of the weather Kiwis can expect more often, says the co-author of an international study of climate change.The State of the Climate in 2013 report, released overnight by the...
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FARNBOROUGH England (Reuters) - Once the preserve of science fiction, a one-man flying machine is now a viable, cost-effective option for the police and military, according to UK manufacturer Parajet International.
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"A wise man rules his passions; a fool obeys them." --Publius Syrus Given the rapid pace of technological change, one has to wonder whether or not our brains (and bodies) have been able to keep up with all the new stimulation that is ava...
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British astronaut Tim Peake has picked "Principia" to be the name of his mission into space next year.
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Brooks Hays SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, July 17 (UPI) -- Scientists recently paid tribute to Bronx-born Jennifer Lopez by naming a newly discovered water mite after her.
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BERLIN (AP) — A space probe aiming to become the first to land on a comet has taken images that appear to show its target could actually be two separate lumps of rock and ice, scientists said Thursday.
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Brooks Hays LIVERMORE, Calif., July 17 (UPI) -- Scientists wanted to understand the conditions deep inside giant, carbon-rich planets. To find out, they blasted a diamond with the world's biggest laser.
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A variety of indicators tracked by federal scientists reflect the continued warming of the climate system.
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This week the world marks the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the most audacious and globally significant accomplishment in human history. Sadly, after the Apollo program concluded in 1972, humans were stuck in low Earth...
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A new published study from the ATLAS Collaboration reports the first evidence of a process that can be used to test the mechanism by which the recently discovered Higgs particle imparts mass to other fundamental particles. Scientists run...
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Europe's mission to land on a comet was always going to be difficult, but the pictures released this week of the giant ice ball illustrate just how daunting the task will be.
