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    Code crackers wanted
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    Quanta
    Summary
    Cracking codes and breaking into safes were some of Richard Feynman's favourite pastimes while he was a researcher working on …
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    Toilet humour
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    Quanta
    Summary
    When you are some 200 miles from home, or indeed Earth, the last thing that you want is to have …
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    Saucer surveillance
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    Quanta
    Summary
    If someone says the word alien, then perhaps your first thought is of little green men arriving on Earth in …
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    The LHC's a stage
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    Quanta
    Summary
    The ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN was photographed last month in preparation for filming of …
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    Dying star spotted
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    Frontiers
    Summary
    On 9 January this year, Alicia Soderberg of Princeton University in the US happened to be monitoring X-ray images from …
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    Climate models prevail
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    Frontiers
    Summary
    Research performed in the US implies that, contrary to past findings, the upper troposphere is warming after all.
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    Combination technique shows the strain
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    Frontiers
    Summary
    Generally you do not want to put engineering materials under too much strain.
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    Shrimp vision polarized
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    Frontiers
    Summary
    As inventions go, polarized sunglasses are pretty useful. They filter light of a certain linear polarization to darken bright skies …
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    Nanotubes grow bone
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    Frontiers
    Summary
    Broken bones often heal by themselves but, particularly in the case of bone loss via trauma or disease, the human …
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    ITER launch faces two-year delay
    Author
    1. Daniel Clery
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    The €5 bn ITER fusion project will be delayed by at least two years and cost much more than originally …
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    The International Space Station receives its largest science module
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    The main part of the Japanese Kibo science module was sent up to the International Space Station (ISS) on the …
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    Particle physicists told to confront new challenges…
    Author
    1. Peter Gwynne
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    High-energy physics in the US could face a change of focus following a major report into the future of the …
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    …as the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory lays off staff
    Author
    1. Peter Gwynne
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    The severe cuts in the US government's support for science that occurred late last year continue to reverberate through the …
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    Italy makes a return to the nuclear fold
    Author
    1. Edwin Cartlidge
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    Some 21 years after its people voted in a referendum to end nuclear energy production, Italy looks set to return …
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    DAFNE upgrade leads the way to B-meson superfactory
    Author
    1. Jon Cartwright
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    For the best part of a decade the Italian particle accelerator DAFNE has churned out copious φ-mesons to help researchers …
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    Germany gets largest ever MRI scanner
    Author
    1. Ned Stafford
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    A 57-tonne cylindrical magnet has arrived at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany, where physicists are putting together the world's …
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    New facility can recreate Sun's corona
    Author
    1. Ned Stafford
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    Physicists at the GSI lab in Darmstadt, Germany, have successfully tested a new €18m laser that, for the first time, …
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    Gamma-ray observatory takes off
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is now in orbit 560 km above Earth as it attempts to study …
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    UK set to seal fate of projects
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    The UK's Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) is set to release final details of its “programmatic review” early this …
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    Canadian institute gets cash boost
    Published
    July 2008
    Article Type
    News and Analysis
    Summary
    Mike Lazaridis, founder and chief executive of Research in Motion – makers of the Blackberry wireless handheld devices – has …
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