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What do the results of the Higgs boson , the "God particle," mean for science ? Join researchers from the Perimeter Institute, Canada's premier center for theoretical physics, for an interactive, live webcast as they discuss the latest findings from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the biggest, most ambitious scientific experiment in human history.

Christie's auction house will sell off the glimmering collection of the late Elizabeth Taylor beginning December 13 in New York. It's expected to fetch well over $30 million. From eBay to auction houses, one thing's for sure: A celebrity can raise the value on just about anything

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In spite of the mind-expanding perks of city life , urban living is known to increase the chances of developing mental disorders such as schizophrenia . [More]

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At the core of our Milky Way galaxy lies a black hole. Like all black holes, its gravitational pull is so strong that it swallows anything that ventures too close--even light.

In 2010 there were 34.3 births among every thousand girls between the ages of 15 and 19.

MARIETTA, Ga. It's Monday night at the Battle & Brew, a gamer hangout in this Atlanta suburb. The crowd is slumping in chairs, ears entombed in headphones, eyes locked on flat-screen monitors and minds lost in tonight s game of choice: "The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim." To help stay alert all night, each man has an open can of "gamer fuel" inches from his keyboard

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[the following is a modified repost from Myrmecos , 2010] Image by US Army Africa, used under a Creative Commons CC-BY 2.0 license [More]

By Philip Ball of Nature magazine Charles Darwin was not a plagiarist, say two researchers who aim to refute the idea that Darwin revised his own theory of evolution to fit in with one proposed by fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. The accusation has received little support from serious historians of Darwin's life and work, who say that Darwin and Wallace came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection independently at more or less the same time

All around America there is frustration about a lack of innovation.

I hope you won’t object to a post not specifically on point about energy or transmission or connectivity. But I think it gets directly at how we understand those topics, so I think it’s worth mentioning.