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Signs of Trouble at Leaking North Sea Gas Rig Month Before
By Oleg Vukmanovic and Karolin Schaps LONDON (Reuters) - Signs of trouble aboard a North Sea drilling platform where a natural gas leak has triggered fears of a massive explosion began in a plugged well a month ago, operator Total said on Friday.
Read More »Japan to Lift Entry Ban on Some Fukushima Cities
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Read More »Who’s Responsible for Meeting the Cyber Threat?
Recently an old colleague, Dr Andrew Rogoyski, came to lecture to our MSc students on how government deals with cyber security. Dr Rogoyski has studied the interactions between government and industry and his talk led to a key question for which there was a surprising range of views
Read More »Italian physicist behind ‘faster-than-light’ test resigns
An Italian physicist at the head of a team that made a cautious but hugely controversial claim that neutrinos may travel faster than the speed of light resigned on Friday following calls for his dismissal.
Read More »The Cool City Challenge: Getting a Low-Carbon Lifestyle to Catch On
Most people are aware that reducing carbon emissions could help the planet. But convincing a particular individual to change his or her behavior in ways that emit less carbon not to mention the behavior of an entire city can be a monumental challenge.
Read More »No Matter How Huge, Mega Millions Jackpot Will Always Be a Bad Bet
Yesterday my father-in-law asked me to buy him $100 in lottery tickets.
Read More »Neuroscientists Can Stumble When They Make Conclusions from Examining Single Patients
Trepinated skull of Phineas Gage Our current understanding of how the brain works often borrows from observations of the anomalous patient.
Read More »Struggling Young Readers Like Kindles
Kindles, Nooks and other E-readers catch flack for threatening the future of printed books. But reading itself may get a boost from the devices
Read More »Compressed-Air Car Winds Way To Market
Air-powered cars have been on the cusp of reality for more than a century. Sure, compressed air is a clean fuel, but it's not efficient enough to power a car engine that will take you very far or very fast. [More]
Read More »Feeling fat? Maybe Facebook is to blame
By Leslie MeredithTechNewsDaily "Do I look fat?" The answer is a resounding yes if you're on Facebook. But it's not your friends telling you, it's yourself
Read More »Microbial Mules: Scientists Experiment With Engineering Bacteria to Transport Nanoparticles and Drugs
Tiny robots that swim through our blood vessels attacking viruses and malignant cells have not quite crossed the line that separates science fiction from science--but there might be a way to jump-start their development.
Read More »Van Gogh’s Sunflowers Were Genetic Mutants
A typical sunflower with a dark center and a mane of large yellow 'petals' (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) The word “sunflower” brings to mind a mane of vibrant yellow petals encircling a dark whorl of seeds.
Read More »Fermions exhibit collective behavior in unexpected situations
Some people like company.
Read More »One billion stars (and a huge amount of data)
To say a picture is worth a thousand words would be selling this one rather short.
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