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Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials, working in partnership with academics in Harvard University, California Institute of Technology and Max-Planck-Institut f
Read More »Denver Zoo Embraces Dung Power
Vying to become the 'greenest' zoo in the world, the Denver Zoo has installed a new energy system run entirely on animal dung and garbage. The system uses a process called gasification to turn waste into energy
Read More »IWC Launches Flagship Store in NYC
Boxing and the life of Muhammad Ali were prominent notes as IWC launched its impressive New York flagship boutique April 26.
Read More »Traces of Elusive Species Sought in Bloodsucking Leech DNA
By Ewen Callaway of Nature magazine Bloodsucking leeches are offering the best hope of finding one of the world's rarest animals. [More]
Read More »Climate Change Poses Disaster Risk for Most of the Planet
Climate change is bringing more droughts, heat waves and powerful rainstorms, shifts that will require governments to change how they cope with natural disasters to protect human lives and the world economy, a new U.N. report says.
Read More »Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomputers. This is the same subatomic particle decay explored in a 1964 Nobel Prize-winning experiment performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), which revealed the first experimental evidence of charge-parity (CP) violation a lack of symmetry between particles and their corresponding antiparticles that may hold the answer to the question "Why are we made of matter and not antimatter?"
Read More »‘Titanic’ Director James Cameron Heads into the Ocean Abyss
By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine The director who once jokingly proclaimed himself the "king of the world" is about to become the master of the depths. [More]
Read More »‘Titanic’ Director James Cameron Heads into the Ocean Abyss
By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine The director who once jokingly proclaimed himself the "king of the world" is about to become the master of the depths.
Read More »‘Titanic’ Director James Cameron Heads into the Ocean Abyss
By Mark Schrope of Nature magazine The director who once jokingly proclaimed himself the "king of the world" is about to become the master of the depths. [More]
Read More »Scientists reveal inner workings of magnets, a finding that could lead to faster computers
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using the worlds fastest light source -- specialized X-ray lasers -- scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have revealed the secret inner life of magnets, a finding that could lead to faster and smarter computers.
Read More »World’s tallest man Sultan Kosen stops growing
Sultan Kosen of Turkey, the world's tallest man, stands at 8 feet 3 inches
Read More »Secrets to the 10 most popular cruise ports
According to CruiseCompete.com's annual report, nine of the 10 most popular cruise ports in the world are in the Caribbean (or close enough to count).
Read More »On Its 50th Anniversary, the Ferrari GTO Is Feted at Concours d’Elegance
Fifty years ago, Ferrari introduced what was to become one of the world’s most valuable collectible cars, the Ferrari 250 GTO. The 3-liter V-12 engine suffered only two losses in its three-year racing career and celebrated a win in its class for every championship race it entered in 1962 and ...
Read More »Is world’s shortest man this 22-inch-tall Nepalese 72-year-old?
Guinness World Records says Filipino Junrey Balawing is the world's shortest man, at 23.5 inches tall - meet 22-inch-tall Chandra Bahadur Dangi from Nepal
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