Quantum Diaries: Doomed Universe?

Quantum Diaries:

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Doomed Universe?

Gian Giudice is a rather smiling and relaxed person for someone who has just shown the Universe might be doomed. This rather shaking discovery did not induce any lack of sleep to this CERN theorist whom I met yesterday. He and his colleagues showed in their latest calculations that if the Standard Model holds beyond all what we have seen so far, the Higgs field will change its value and all matter as we know it will simply cease to exist. ''



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Dialogos of Eide: Question: Are Blackholes Connected by Dark Matter?

Dialogos of Eide: Question: Are Blackholes Connected by Dark Matter?:

http://www.eskesthai.com/2013/02/question-are-blackholes-connected-by.html



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The Gravity Room: De devulgationi eloquentia

The Gravity Room: De devulgationi eloquentia:

http://blackholes.ist.utl.pt/gravitao/?page=aprende



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[1205.5182] A mathematical model of tumor self-seeding reveals secondary metastatic deposits as drivers of primary tumor growth

[1205.5182] A mathematical model of tumor self-seeding reveals secondary metastatic deposits as drivers of primary tumor growth:

Now, this is truly bio-med-MATH. Indeed.

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Camilo Lourenço, a História e a utilidade económica - Expresso.pt

Camilo Lourenço, a História e a utilidade económica - Expresso.pt:



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Sum Over Histories: O Higgs gera a massa de tudo?

Sum Over Histories: O Higgs gera a massa de tudo?:



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Sum Over Histories: Inversão Temporal Detectada Diretamente

Sum Over Histories: Inversão Temporal Detectada Diretamente:

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Sum Over Histories: Cadê a Susy?

Sum Over Histories: Cadê a Susy?:



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Sum Over Histories: Novo Site de Cordas

Sum Over Histories: Novo Site de Cordas:



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Gallery - Physics crunch: Seven experiments to change it all - Image 1 - New Scientist

Gallery - Physics crunch: Seven experiments to change it all - Image 1 - New Scientist:



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Gallery - Physics crunch: Seven experiments to change it all - Image 1 - New Scientist

Gallery - Physics crunch: Seven experiments to change it all - Image 1 - New Scientist:



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Gallery - Physics crunch: Seven experiments to change it all - Image 1 - New Scientist

Gallery - Physics crunch: Seven experiments to change it all - Image 1 - New Scientist:



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BBC News - LHC's D-meson study wraps up antimatter 'flip' story

BBC News - LHC's D-meson study wraps up antimatter 'flip' story:



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Physics - Higgs-like Particle in a Mirror

Physics - Higgs-like Particle in a Mirror:



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Physics - Free-Falling Interferometry

Physics - Free-Falling Interferometry:



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Being unreasonable: the value of pure science | symmetry magazine

Being unreasonable: the value of pure science | symmetry magazine:



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Linear collider plans move forward | symmetry magazine

Linear collider plans move forward | symmetry magazine:



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Higgs-like particle | symmetry magazine

Higgs-like particle | symmetry magazine:



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Skyfall. Quantum.

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New Results from Searches for New Physics at CMS - CERN Document Server

New Results from Searches for New Physics at CMS - CERN Document Server:

http://cds.cern.ch/record/1519211

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Get Mars. Here.

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On CTCs and Werner...

Curves in spacetime violate Heisenberg's uncertainty principle

Curious, from a bookshop in London

Foyles makes a move to fight back against the online onslaught http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/foyles-makes-a-move-to-fight-back-againstthe-online-onslaught-8511783.html

Visualization of Einstein's special relativity

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Ray Cusick: The man who left a generation of children cowering behind the sofa from the Daleks - Features - TV & Radio - The Independent

Ray Cusick: The man who left a generation of children cowering behind the sofa from the Daleks - Features - TV & Radio - The Independent:



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Scenes From A Multiverse - The Problem Of Evil

Scenes From A Multiverse - The Problem Of Evil:



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eufisica: How Big is the Universe?

eufisica: How Big is the Universe?:



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go on, go on, go on...

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Summer greatness....

ESA Science (@esascience) tweetou às 9:47 AM on ter, Fev 26, 2013: Apply now for student summer astrophysics research program by Leiden Obs. & ESA's ESTEC in NL http://t.co/FXn8odGRPw Deadline 15 Mar (https://twitter.com/esascience/status/306339807846604800) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

Rodinia.....

Physics World (@PhysicsWorld) tweetou às 10:02 AM on ter, Fev 26, 2013: From the BBC - Fragments of the ancient supercontinent Rodinia, found buried under Indian Ocean http://t.co/1zAoR2LdFD (https://twitter.com/PhysicsWorld/status/306343388519727104) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

Ah...so that is where it came....

Russia meteor's origin tracked down http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21579422

C(haos)ofee......

Colombia coffee growers go on strike http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-21582631

Why loosing Spinoza's family ie ancestors was actually a "luso"-catastrophe.......

In Holland, university is a reward for hard work - why do British students think so differently? http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/in-holland-university-is-a-reward-for-hard-work--why-do-british-students-think-so-differently-8510200.html

Great ceiling, dude!

Inside the world’s most spectacular polling station: The Sistine Chapel prepares for election of new pope http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/inside-the-worlds-most-spectacular-polling-station-the-sistine-chapel-prepares-for-election-of-new-pope-8510623.html

‘Athina’ shows universities the way to the marketplace - University World News

‘Athina’ shows universities the way to the marketplace - University World News:

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Better through education - Reform of the SU system - Ministry of Education (Ministry of Research, Innovation and Higher Education)

Better through education - Reform of the SU system - Ministry of Education (Ministry of Research, Innovation and Higher Education): "Better through education - Reform of the SU system"

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University funding changes set to cost more than they save - News - Student - The Independent

University funding changes set to cost more than they save - News - Student - The Independent:

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Over-60s are told: go back to university and retrain - Telegraph

Over-60s are told: go back to university and retrain - Telegraph:



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$1 billion plan to unleash research and innovation drivers - University World News

$1 billion plan to unleash research and innovation drivers - University World News:

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Folha de S.Paulo - Educação - Faculdades brasileiras abrem curso a distância no exterior - 24/02/2013

Folha de S.Paulo - Educação - Faculdades brasileiras abrem curso a distância no exterior - 24/02/2013:



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El informe de los “sabios”: propuestas sobre el Sistema Universitario | Más que universidad - Gestión y finanzas universitarias

El informe de los “sabios”: propuestas sobre el Sistema Universitario | Más que universidad - Gestión y finanzas universitarias:

http://finanzasuniversitarias.edunomia.es/2013/02/21/el-informe-de-los-sabios-propuestas-sobre-el-sistema-universitario/?goback=%2Egde_1851332_member_216421339

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Ciência Viva - Acções de Divulgação

Ciência Viva - Acções de Divulgação:



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Alternative posters...

Moving images: The art of alternative posters is now showing everywhere http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/moving-images-the-art-of-alternative-posters-is-now-showing-everywhere-8504068.html

the Archimedes Palimpsest

the Archimedes Palimpsest:



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Chefe Tiger piza à pescador - Expresso.pt

Chefe Tiger piza à pescador - Expresso.pt:



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Via o ''CRUP'' do lado lá também!!!

http://www.mecd.gob.es/dms/mecd/ministerio-mecd/servicios-al-ciudadano/participacion-publica/sistemauniversitario/propuestas-reforma.pdf



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New Dimension: Nebulas Are Even More Amazing in 3-D | Wired Science | Wired.com

New Dimension: Nebulas Are Even More Amazing in 3-D | Wired Science | Wired.com:



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I remember to have seen at Cern...

:-):-):-) a writing on an external wall that said "...don't drink and drive, intead smoke it and fly..."

Quantum Physics (@QuantumPhysics9) tweetou às 6:29 AM on sáb, Fev 23, 2013: John Schwarz, Father Of String Theory, To Headline Medical Marijuana ... - Huffington Post http://t.co/0VKZRLbpYL (https://twitter.com/QuantumPhysics9/status/305202587181907968) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

More Carthage. For some polytechs. And...

Distance Education (@onlinecourse) tweetou às 7:10 AM on sáb, Fev 23, 2013: Online Fashion Merchandising Degrees & Fashion Merchandising Programs - http://t.co/okKhrM847g (https://twitter.com/onlinecourse/status/305212909850607616) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

Carthage...

Distance Education (@onlinecourse) tweetou às 10:10 AM on sáb, Fev 23, 2013: Health Information Technology Online Certification & Online Degree Programs - http://t.co/zrS3PE2rP6 (https://twitter.com/onlinecourse/status/305258213513785344) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

Storm. Big. Far away. Titan.

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A 15th century art mistery... ? Who did it?

Great Works: La Bella Principessa (Late 15th century), unknown artist http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/great-works-la-bella-principessa-late-15th-century-unknown-artist-8505169.html

Exhibition of the Week: Lichtenstein: A Retrospective, Tate Modern, London SE1 http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/exhibition-of-the-week-lichtenstein-a-retrospective-tate-modern-london-se1-8505173.html

How the Large Hadron Collider Bends Physics

How the Large Hadron Collider Bends Physics:



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Mantas e Cobertores Serralã - Produtos

Mantas e Cobertores Serralã - Produtos:



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Physics - Higgs-like Particle in a Mirror

Physics - Higgs-like Particle in a Mirror:



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Top 10 – Hot Chocolate - Máxima

Top 10 – Hot Chocolate - Máxima:



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Disease moves like ripples on a pond | plus.maths.org

Disease moves like ripples on a pond | plus.maths.org:



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5 Things To Consider Before Teaching An Online Course - Edudemic

5 Things To Consider Before Teaching An Online Course - Edudemic:



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Adaptability to Online Learning: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas

Adaptability to Online Learning: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas: "Adaptability to Online Learning: Differences Across Types of Students and Academic Subject Areas"



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Blog - physicsworld.com: It's all a bit of Coulomb(ee)...

Blog - physicsworld.com:



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The Big Bang - 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy (1/12)

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Seen any meteors lately? Map shows 4,300 years of impacts

Eryn Brown (@LATerynbrown) tweetou às 6:16 AM on qui, Fev 21, 2013: Seen any meteors lately? Map shows 4,300 years of impacts http://t.co/wtEqmbvxt7 via @latimes (https://twitter.com/LATerynbrown/status/304474546398982144) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

The Euclid project: A quest to understand the missing 96% of the universe

TIME.com (@TIME) tweetou às 5:40 AM on qui, Fev 21, 2013: The Euclid project: A quest to understand the missing 96% of the universe | http://t.co/D1rgSMNeFJ (https://twitter.com/TIME/status/304465550208290817) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

Guess who's in it? Got it!! Yours truly...

Artemis Racing AC72 Update 7

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Online Bachelor and Masters Degrees in Aviation Management, Technology and Science...............................

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... Back in BC, long time ago, they all felt quite safe in Carthage. They had elephants, a desert, the sea to protect them... . But then... Zama. 

The Stickiness of Reputation

Higher Education (@GdnHigherEd) tweetou às 8:28 AM on qui, Fev 21, 2013: The Stickiness of University Reputation http://t.co/j7ysCOSgdU via @wordpressdotcom #highered #edu (https://twitter.com/GdnHigherEd/status/304507975203180544) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

Astrophysicists, astrophysics fans and science journos: first Planck cosmology announcements March 21

Richard Easther (@REasther) tweetou às 8:30 AM on qui, Fev 21, 2013: Astrophysicists, astrophysics fans and science journos: first #Planck cosmology announcements March 21 http://t.co/8hCPTHTRCk (https://twitter.com/REasther/status/304508365948715008) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

full of stars...

SPACE.com (@SPACEdotcom) tweetou às 9:01 AM on qui, Fev 21, 2013: Star Cluster NGC 6520 and Dark Cloud Barnard 86 Space Wallpaper http://t.co/eLpFW2Y0o6 (https://twitter.com/SPACEdotcom/status/304516127579582465) Adquira o aplicativo oficial do Twitter em https://twitter.com/download

First Three-Year Large Hadron Collider Running Period Reaches Conclusion | ZeitNews

First Three-Year Large Hadron Collider Running Period Reaches Conclusion | ZeitNews:



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Only in the UK? What about, say, Finland...?

English pupils 'two years behind' Asian peers in maths http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/english-pupils-two-years--behind-asian-peers-in-maths-8505821.html

Getting Your Teaching Certification Online

Getting Your Teaching Certification Online:

Ie, Rome & roads to Rome.... Some to take care. Or else... 

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Protons on ions bring new physics to LHCb - CERN Bulletin

Protons on ions bring new physics to LHCb - CERN Bulletin:



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Ps. Why I was right and JS not quite, when we met and 'argue' @ the AR\CViva 'happening'...

ESO - eso1309pt - Varrendo o pó de uma lagosta cósmica

ESO - eso1309pt - Varrendo o pó de uma lagosta cósmica:



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(Obrigado envio link - Dra Graça Castelo Branco GCI-UBI)

Higgs may spell doom, unless supersymmetry saves us

Short Sharp Science: Higgs may spell doom, unless supersymmetry saves us


http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2013/02/higgs-may-spell-doom-unless-a.html




'' Is the Higgs boson a herald of the apocalypse? That's the suggestion behind a theory, developed more than 30 years ago, that is back in the headlines this week. According to physicists, the mass of the Higgs-like particle announced last summer supports the notion that our universe is teetering on the edge of stability, like a pencil balanced on its point.

"It may be that the universe we live in is inherently unstable," Joseph Lykken, of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, said on Monday at a meeting of theAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science. "At some point, billions of years from now, it's all going to be wiped out."

Physicists have been wringing their hands about this scenario since 1982, when theorists Michael Turner and Frank Wilczek published a paper about it in Nature, NBC News points out. The pair showed that the vacuum of space can be in different energy states, and it will be most stable at its lowest energy. Trouble arises if we're not there yet, and we're inhabiting a temporarily stable state that should ultimately collapse.

"The universe wants to be in a different state, so eventually to realise that, a little bubble of what you might think of as an alternate universe will appear somewhere, and it will spread out and destroy us," Lykken said at AAAS.

Enter the Higgs boson, the particle form of the field that gives mass to several fundamental particles. The Higgs field permeates the vacuum of space, which means the mass of the boson and the stability of the vacuum are closely intertwined. Theory predicted that if the Higgs boson is heavier than about 129 gigaelectronvolts (GeV), the universe should be on safe footing.

But in July 2012 physicists at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, announced that a particle closely matching the Higgs had been found by experiments in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The much celebrated particle has a mass of about 126 GeV - light enough to raise fears of instability.

There is still hope for the universe as we know it. Some theorists pointed out that the relationship between the Higgs mass and the vacuum of space depends on the mass of a particle called the top quark. If the top quark's mass is different than we think it is, stability might reign.

There are also anomalies with the Higgs measurement, like the fact that it decays into photons more often than predicted. That hints we may yet find particles from the theory of supersymmetry, which says each ordinary particle has heavier "superpartners". If the Higgs has such a relative, it might save us from destruction. But some of these predicted particles, particularly the superpartners of the top quark, can push the universe back into instability.

The worries may remain unconfirmed for a while. The LHC is shutting down for a two-year break so engineers can prepare the machine to shoot higher-energy particle beams, which are needed to probe for superpartners. ''

Exploring points of view from Tycho Brahe's castle

CultureLab: Exploring points of view from Tycho Brahe's castle


http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/02/uraniborg-mac-montreal.html

Dark matter???

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http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23194

BBC News - Cosmos may be 'inherently unstable'

BBC News - Cosmos may be 'inherently unstable':



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FQXi Community: Quantum Biology: Making Waves in the Natural World

FQXi Community:

http://fqxi.org/community/articles/display/178

Quantum Biology: Making Waves in the Natural World

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BBC News - Don't jump! Kangaroo on a ledge above Melbourne

BBC News - Don't jump! Kangaroo on a ledge above Melbourne:

Isn't there a Pink Floyd song with the lyrics ''you gotta be crazy.....'' ?

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A grave situação no Ensino Superior Público

A grave situação no Ensino Superior Público

http://www.fenprof.pt/?aba=37&mid=132&cat=103&doc=7156

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Course on Physics at the LHC

Course on Physics at the LHC:

http://www.idpasc.lip.pt/LIP/events/2013_lhc_physics/



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Global Ice Viewer

Global Ice Viewer:

cf. http://climate.nasa.gov/interactives/global_ice_viewer



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Physics - Bouncing in a Spacetime Ripple

Physics - Bouncing in a Spacetime Ripple:



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PLUMBING THE DEPTHS | More Intelligent Life

PLUMBING THE DEPTHS | More Intelligent Life:



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Cancer researchers and astronomers team up to beat cancer | University of Cambridge

Cancer researchers and astronomers team up to beat cancer | University of Cambridge:



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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Agenda

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian - Agenda:

http://www.gulbenkian.pt/object160article_id4101langId1.html



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Do You Need a Degree to Start Your Own Business?

Do You Need a Degree to Start Your Own Business?:

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New Scientist TV: One-Minute Physics: Are unknowns part of the universe?

Is nepotism holding Italy back? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21507168

Beatles help India traffic campaign http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-21502047

BBC News - Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to release first results

BBC News - Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer to release first results:



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Snowflake Macro Photos Captured Using a Canon PowerShot Compact Camera

Snowflake Macro Photos Captured Using a Canon PowerShot Compact Camera:



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