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  ALMA Telescope Pinpoints Early Galaxies at Record Speed

  April 17, 2013 — Astronomers have used the new ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) telescope to pinpoint the locations of over 100 of the most fertile star-forming galaxies in the early ... > full story
• Today's Healthcare
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  Ricebag to Treat Soft Tissue Injuries

  April 17, 2013 — Researchers investigated the effects of rice, barley and mung beans in heated bags for treating soft tissue injuries. Rice displayed superior quality in maintaining heat and can act as a substitute ... > full story
• Alcoholism
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  Light Drinking in Pregnancy Not Linked to Development Problems in Childhood, Study Suggests

  April 16, 2013 — Light drinking during pregnancy is not linked to adverse behavioural or cognitive outcomes in childhood, suggests a new study. This study collated data from the Millennium Cohort Study, a national ... > full story
• Optics
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  Researchers Create Novel Optical Fibers

  April 16, 2013 — Researchers have found a novel way to propagate multiple beams of light in a single strand of optical fiber. The discovery could increase the amount of information fiber optic cables can ... > full story
• Black Holes
  Cosmic Rays
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  Strange New Bursts of Gamma Rays Point to a New Way to Destroy a Star

  April 16, 2013 — Scientists have pinpointed a new type of exceptionally powerful and long-lived cosmic explosion, prompting a theory that they arise in the violent death throes of a supergiant ... > full story

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  • Dying Supergiant Stars Implicated in Hours-Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
• New Species
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  Catch Me If You Can: Two New Species of Moth from the Russian Far East

  April 16, 2013 — Showing a range of peculiar habits and difficult to be discovered and collected, Ypsolophid moths present an exciting catch for scientists. Russian entomologists have discovered and described two ... > full story
• Spintronics
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  Neighbors Move Electrons Jointly: Ultrafast Collective Electron Transfer After Excitation of Single Electron

  April 16, 2013 — Applying femtosecond x-ray methods, researchers have observed an extremely fast, collective electron transfer of ~100 molecular ions after excitation of a single electron in a crystal of transition ... > full story
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

  April 15, 2013 — An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design ... > full story
• Quantum Physics
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  Photons Run out of Loopholes: Quantum World Really Is in Conflict With Our Everyday Experience

  April 15, 2013 — Physicists have carried out an experiment with photons in which they have closed an important loophole. The researchers have thus provided the most complete experimental proof that the quantum world ... > full story

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  • 'Spooky Action at a Distance' in the Quantum World Shortly Before Final Proof
• Skin Care
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  Laser Liposuction Melts Fat, Results in Tighter Skin

  April 15, 2013 — A new, minimally invasive treatment that uses lasers to melt fat could replace the "tummy tuck," suggests research on more than 2,000 ... > full story

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