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"A couple of years I was involved with something called the Twitter Photo Challenge. Every week there'd be a new topic, and the participants had to produce a photo for that topic during the following seven days," said photographer Jo Christian Oterhals.
Read More »Photo Issue 2011: Design Of The Dead
"A couple of years I was involved with something called the Twitter Photo Challenge. Every week there'd be a new topic, and the participants had to produce a photo for that topic during the following seven days," said photographer Jo Christian Oterhals.
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Thursday, November 24 More than 3 million spectators will line city streets for the parade. | Illustration By Jing Wei Balloons may be just a bunch of hot air, but it takes more than that to keep them afloat when they're giant size
Read More »‘Superdeep’ Diamonds Hint at Depth of Carbon Cycle
Diamonds from deep underground now reveal that the activities of life can have effects far beneath Earth's surface, researchers find. All life on Earth is based on carbon
Read More »How to discover a new element
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is not the same as it used to be, the element finding business. We have discovered and named all the elements from hydrogen (element 1) up to element 112 (copernicium)[1], and last week IUPAC (International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry - it does to elements what the International Astronomical Union did to Pluto), the world governing body for chemistry, has announced the confirmation of a couple more.
Read More »Under pressure: Germanium
Although its name may make many people think of flowers, the element germanium is part of a frequently studied group of elements, called IVa, which could have applications for next-generation computer architecture as well as implications for fundamental condensed matter physics.
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