Volcanic superplume key to ancient rock mystery

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A superplume, or massive episode of volcanic eruptions that related to extensive melting of the Earth's mantle, could explain the puzzling reappearance of major iron formations long after the rise in atmospheric oxygen about 2.4 billion years ago, which should have prevented iron forming, accordi

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Global reef shark numbers plummet 90 percent

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Many shark populations have plummeted in the past three decades as a result of excessive harvesting?for their fins, as an incidental catch of fisheries targeting other species, and in recreational fisheries. This is particularly true for oceanic species.

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April 27, 1791: Samuel F.B. Morse, 'American
Leonardo,' Born

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From Wired Top Stories: Samuel Finley Breese Morse, inventor of the practical electromagnetic telegraph, is born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Read the whole article

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Google Glasses Make Their First TV Appearance on
Charlie Rose

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 27 April 2012 08:33:50 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

From Gizmodo: Much hoopla has been made over Google's Project Glass, and on Wednesday's Charlie Rose, we finally got a glimpse of the specs in action when Google Fellow and Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun wore them throughout his interview and put them to work. Read the whole art

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The Virus That Really Will Kill Your PC July 9

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From Discovery News - Top Stories: Don't get kicked off the Web; do this simple check to see if your computer is infected with DNSChanger malware. Read the whole article

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UK Company To Build Sun Satellite

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From BBC News - Science & Environment: British industry will lead the production of Solar Orbiter, a spacecraft that will travel closer to the Sun than any satellite to date. Read the whole article

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Three astronauts land on Earth from ISS in
Russian capsule

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Houston TX (SPX) Apr 27, 2012
Three astronauts on Friday landed safely in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after a stay of almost six months aboard the International Space Station. Live NASA TV footage showed Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA astronaut Dan Burbank touched down at 1145 GMT under a clear blue sky after deploying a massive parachute that helped their capsule glide safely through the lower reaches of orbit.

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Classically scientific

It’s a well known fact, mostly well known to chemists, that the composer Alexander Borodin was also a chemist. When not playing his part as one of the Hand of Five, Borodin did some not insubstantial work on aldehydes. He did his post-doc in Heidelberg with Emil Erlenmeyer (of eponymous flask fame and more) working [...]

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Another Way of Looking at Interstellar Probes

By Michael Michaud The following post is a distinct change of pace for Centauri Dreams, a work of fiction that gets at questions at the heart of SETI. We?ve considered many ideas about interstellar probes that humans may one day launch toward nearby[...]

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oh quantum causality, we hardly knew ye

Here’s what sounds like a rather typical experiment with quantum mechanics. A pair of devices we’ll call Alice and Bob, or A and B in cryptographic parlance, measure entangled photons which we know can be entangled at least 10,000 times[...]

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