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Fidel Castro announces retirement
Cuba's ailing leader Fidel Castro has announced he will not return to the presidency, in a letter published by official Communist Party paper, Granma. "I neither will aspire to, nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief," he wrote in the letter...... |
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Electrons on film!
Scientists have filmed an electron in motion for the first time, using a new technique that will allow researchers to study the tiny particle's movements directly. http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080225/...IcqjAGPbKU.KAvp.9S1UEtbAF |
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Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/irelandbritainhealthoffbeat |
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Silly journalists! "An attosecond is 10-18 seconds long"
Only off by.... well, one of those funny ^ symbols.... |
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Guess it's the superscript and absent ability of print in scientific notation of that journal (and this forum).
----------------------------------------Attosecond Science NRC scientists helped develop a revolutionary laser-based technique to observe atomic motion at the shortest time interval ever – an attosecond (10-18 seconds). An athlete winning a race by an attosecond would be ahead by less than the width of an atom. The laser technique uses attosecond pulses of light as atomic-level camera flashes to create freeze action images of nuclear and electron processes. Similar to a stroboscope, one flash records an electron at one position, and the next flash records the electron at a slightly different position. But now we know how to picture this 
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Scientists excited about smashing protons
March 01 2008 at 03:27PM Geneva - A 100-tonne wheel, the last piece of an ambitious experiment that scientists hope will help unlock the secrets of the universe, was successfully lowered into an underground cavern on Friday. It is the final major element in the ATLAS particle detector, the largest of four detectors being hooked up to the world's most powerful particle accelerator which the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) hopes to start up around the middle of 2008........... |
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Google gives free voice mail to San Francisco's homeless:
http://machinist.salon.com/blog/2008/02/28/google_homeless/print.html Folks can sign up for the numbers at shelters across the city. The numbers will be local and personal -- i.e., each person will get a unique 415-area code number that will never expire. The number will ring a voice-mail box that will play a personalized greeting; homeless people can check their messages by dialing in from any phone. |
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Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is out.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/ie/ie8/default.mspx |
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'You're one in 200 million'
Manhasset - When they get older, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn may blanch at the notion that they wore nail polish to their first news conference, but right now it is the only way their parents know how to tell the boys apart. The identical triplets were born at North Shore University Hospital on Long Island, New Yorkon Wednesday, an event so rare that an obstetrician estimated it might happen just once in 200 million births. The triplets' mother, Allison Penn, was impregnated with just one embryo through in-vitro fertilisation, said Dr Victor Klein, a specialist in multiple births and high-risk pregnancies who delivered the boys. That embryo split in half, and then the one half split again, he said.......  . |
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