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Google quietly introduced a new feature to its popular search engine, allowing you to find more relevant results. The new function included in the Advanced Search tab enables you to choose a certain date for the websites indexed by Google from 4 options: anytime, past 3 months, past 6 months and past year. Although t... |
20 June 2007
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A group of researchers came up with a new, and in the same time old, method of searching for gravitational waves, using a mathematical model that hadn't be used for some time, in the hope of studying and accurately identifying an exotic kind of these gravitational waves.The gravitational wave is a fluctuation i... |
19 June 2007
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The Big Bang is a cosmological model in which the universe has been expanding for around 13.7 billion years, starting from a tremendously dense and hot state, thought to be the best model for the origin and evolution of the universe. But what happened before the Big Bang? A logical thinking would produce the obvious... |
5 June 2007
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Virtual tours offer tourists a recreated view of famous historical sites that are either inaccessible or have been damaged or destroyed over time. In some cases, this is the only way to travel in time and walk around mankind's greatest construction achievements.Technology from computer games, animation and arti... |
28 May 2007
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Have you ever heard of magnets making noise? It's called the Barkhausen effect and it's a name given to the noise in the magnetic output of a ferromagnet when the magnetizing force applied to it is changed.It's easy for scientists to measure the minute thermal fluctuations in the magnetization of ferr... |
24 May 2007
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A theoretical physicist is stating that a second dimension of time could help physicists better explain the laws of nature. Now, the dimension of time has an important role in describing matter, gravity and other forces of nature, but something doesn't fit.Einstein's theory of general relativity and the eq... |
16 May 2007
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Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto had been nominated some time ago to appear in Time's top 100 most influential people of 2006 list. 1UP tracked the line of events closely, only to discover that Nintendo's designer did actually make the list. He is currently on the 92nd position and Time's Johnathan ... |
4 May 2007
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Stephen William Hawking, the brilliant theoretical physicist, is about to experience weightlessness for a first period of 25 seconds today, although not in actual space, but in a simulated "free-fall" of a plane. The 65-year-old Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge is known for his contributions t... |
26 April 2007
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Have you ever wondered how do you know exactly what time it is?I know, you looked at your watch, but when you first bought it? From the news or the Internet, right? And where do they get it from?NIST-F1 is a cesium fountain atomic clock that serves as the United States' primary time and frequency standard and i... |
5 April 2007
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Famous biologist J. B. S. Haldane once said that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we CAN suppose. To deal with the queerness factor, humans use time. And, you know what Albert Einstein said: "Everything is relative!". Including time. Care to disagree? If you do disagree, please remem... |
24 March 2007
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Would you like to have the chance of taking advantage of all the missed opportunities of your youth?Only a time travel could fix it. It looks like fiction, but some scientists imagine this possibility."There are a handful of scenarios that theorists have suggested for how one might travel to the past," said Brian Gre... |
9 March 2007
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