Archive for the December 30, 2017
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You're on the web, you're in the cloud. But don't neglect good old-fashioned paper. That's the advice from internet pioneer Vint Cerf, who is afraid that all our digital memories could be lost as technology
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The oldest and most distant black hole ever observed - a celestial brute 800 million times more massive than the sun - is providing scientists some surprises about the nature of the universe when, on
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Nearly half of humans believe in alien life and want to make contact, a survey in 24 countries has found, in what researchers said helps to explain the lasting popularity of the "Star Wars" franchise
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A solar system with as many planets as our own has been discovered with the help of NASA's Kepler space telescope and artificial intelligence, the US space agency said last Thursday. "Our solar system now
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As the poster child for the growing ranks of computer-generated currencies, bitcoin's recent stratospheric price rises have propelled it from the chat forum-hosted depths of nerddom into the global consciousness. As it rose from under
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As we get ready to welcome the New Year, it is time to plan for a new set of trends. We bring you the most targeted trends from sheer clothing to sparkly shoes. Follow these
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Maqbool Ahmed's temporary departure from a normal state of mind takes him to the world of paintings he has been creating for the last several decades. This momentary lapse in mental state resulted in a
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About three in every 100 people injured by rubber bullets died as a result, according to a review of recorded casualties published Tuesday, calling for alternative crowd control measures. A team of US-based researchers looked
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Older adults who take a daily constitutional may want to avoid traffic-jammed city streets and head to a park instead because polluted air diminishes the benefits of exercise, a UK study suggests. Researchers in London
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The world's first-ever detection of two faraway neutron stars colliding, causing a massive blast that rippled through the fabric of space and time, was judged the scientific breakthrough of 2017, the journal Science said this
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