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Dubai ruler had ex-wife's phone hacked

Posted by arman0 on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @02:58PM
from the bbc.com dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-58814978

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The astronomy world is quarreling over whether 'Oumuamua was an alien craft

Posted by arman0 on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @03:44PM
from the salon.com dept.

https://www.salon.com/2021/09/15/oumuamua-debate-snowball-spacecraft-alien/

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1,200-Year-Old Telephone, Invention of the Ancient Chimu Civilization

Posted by arman0 on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:10AM
from the bringside.me dept.

https://www.bringside.me/2021/07/1200-year-old-telephone-amazing.html

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Re:Discovery of Lost ‘Golden’ City in Luxor, Egypt on Sunday April 11, 2021 @01:59AM (#26767802)

The serpentine (Crinkle crankle) wall that can be seen in pictures seems quite out of place in a city from 3000 years ago.

Israel leads vaccine race with 12% given jab

Posted by arman0 on Saturday January 02, 2021 @01:09PM
from the bbc.com dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-55514243

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New field theory formulation and a space-time adjustment [pdf]

Posted by arman0 on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @09:00PM
from the mae.ncsu.edu dept.

https://www.mae.ncsu.edu/eischen/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2020/12/PhysicsEssaysSilverbergEischen2020.pdf

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Viral Video Tricks [video]

Posted by arman0 on Friday September 04, 2020 @08:02PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfpjlxgJMMc

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Building a Lego-Powered Submarine

Posted by arman0 on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @09:10PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdfUSNzc0Xk

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Ask HN: Manhattan Project for Coronavirus

Posted by arman0 on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @09:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

What does HN think about asking the US Federal Government to start a Manhattan Project for Coronavirus? It seems like a project that we should be able to put our best and brightest on to find a drug cure, vaccine or, at least, better testing. Given the Coronavirus economic impact on the world, it seems like a no-brainier to spend whatever $$ it takes over the next 6-12 months on such a project.

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Pressure grows to re-open factories in China

Posted by arman0 on Sunday February 09, 2020 @07:31PM
from the bbc.com dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51353501

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A statistical solution to the non-hierarchical 3-body problem

Posted by arman0 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:18AM
from the nature.com dept.

https://nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1833-8

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Israeli pancreatic cancer treatment could extend lives of 3/4 of patients

Posted by arman0 on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:25PM
from the jpost.com dept.

https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/New-Israeli-pancreatic-cancer-treatment-could-extend-most-patients-lives-611085

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First all-electric seaplane takes flight in B.C.

Posted by arman0 on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @01:53PM
from the cbc.ca dept.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/electric-seaplane-float-plane-test-flight-harbour-air-1.5390816

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The flat earth conspiracy is spreading around the globe

Posted by arman0 on Sunday November 17, 2019 @10:15AM
from the cnn.com dept.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/16/us/flat-earth-conference-conspiracy-theories-scli-intl/index.html

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Experimental test of local observer independence

Posted by arman0 on Thursday November 14, 2019 @02:53PM
from the advances.sciencemag.org dept.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw9832

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Re:Nasa Set to Demonstrate X-Ray Communications in Space on Saturday May 25, 2019 @05:09PM (#20011447)

yes -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_antenna

What Einstein meant by ‘God does not play dice’

Posted by arman0 on Monday November 26, 2018 @03:02PM
from the aeon.co dept.

https://aeon.co/ideas/what-einstein-meant-by-god-does-not-play-dice

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How the Finance Gurus Get Risk All Wrong (2005)

Posted by arman0 on Saturday October 13, 2018 @12:38PM
from the archive.fortune.com dept.

http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/07/11/8265256/index.htm

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Infectious Theory of Alzheimer's Disease Draws Fresh Interest

Posted by arman0 on Sunday September 09, 2018 @10:26AM
from the npr.org dept.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/09/09/645629133/infectious-theory-of-alzheimers-disease-draws-fresh-interest?ft=nprml&f=1001

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The MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab may have found hints of a new particle

Posted by arman0 on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @11:54PM
from the bbc.com dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44370751

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The origins of pgen, Python's parser generator

Posted by arman0 on Monday May 14, 2018 @11:12PM
from the python-history.blogspot.com dept.

http://python-history.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-origins-of-pgen.html

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'Sea Nomads' Are First Known Humans Genetically Adapted to Diving

Posted by arman0 on Saturday April 21, 2018 @04:02PM
from the news.nationalgeographic.com dept.

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/04/bajau-sea-nomads-free-diving-spleen-science/

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Force Overtime? Or Go for the Win?

Posted by arman0 on Sunday February 04, 2018 @12:39PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/opinion/sunday/football-two-point-conversion.html

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Unearthing a masterpiece

Posted by arman0 on Sunday November 12, 2017 @08:38PM
from the magazine.uc.edu dept.

http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/unearthingamasterpiece.html

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Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not

Posted by arman0 on Monday July 03, 2017 @09:24AM
from the eh.net dept.

http://eh.net/book_reviews/rulers-religion-and-riches-why-the-west-got-rich-and-the-middle-east-did-not/

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String Theory Meets Loop Quantum Gravity

Posted by arman0 on Sunday June 25, 2017 @06:13PM
from the quantamagazine.org dept.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/string-theory-meets-loop-quantum-gravity-20160112/

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Vizio's $2B sale to LeEco called off

Posted by arman0 on Monday April 10, 2017 @08:37PM
from the latimes.com dept.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-vizio-leeco-20170410-story.html

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Tesla’s new patent explains how its energy storage stations can go up to 1 GWh

Posted by arman0 on Friday April 07, 2017 @07:03PM
from the electrek.co dept.

https://electrek.co/2017/03/31/tesla-paten-powerpack-energy-storage-station/

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A Multibillion-Dollar U.S. Spy Agency Few Know Exists

Posted by arman0 on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:12PM
from the foreignpolicy.com dept.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/03/20/the-multibillion-dollar-u-s-spy-agency-you-havent-heard-of-trump/

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Triboluminescence (2008)

Posted by arman0 on Sunday January 01, 2017 @09:07AM
from the nature.com dept.

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/012345/full/news.2008.1185.html

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