Fifty years after their first attempt to drill through the Earth's crust to the mantle, say that they very well could do so again. For the first time.
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X-Ray stripes have been found inside the Tycho Supernova, showing where the magnetic fields are, in not so many words, "right jacked."
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The Oxford English Dictionary has added a few new "words" to the list of official words... yep.
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Remember the arcade? ...no? It used to be a place where you would hang out and play games for a quarter a pop. This video will likely appeal to you older gamers out there.
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Because a quote from "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" was used in forming the synthetic DNA of a bacteria, said bacteria is now accused of being in violation of copyright.
Read More »Artifacts May Show That Man May Have Been Here Well Before the Clovis
Artifacts found in Texas may reveal that humans were in North America two-thousand years before the Clovis people came over from Asia.
Read More »Record Companies Sue LimeWire For All the Money in the World (and then some)
One of the numbers that thirteen recording companies have come up with in their lawsuit against LimeWire is so massive that there is, quite literally, not enough money on Earth to cover it.
Read More »Galaxy’s Coldest Star is as Hot as a Cup of Coffee
Scientists have found a brown dwarf star that they believe is only 207 degrees warm. If that's not cool enough, another star they're investigating is believed to be cooler than the human body.
Read More »USAF: Building Supercomputers — One PS3 at a Time
The United States Air Force has been working on a PS3 supercomputer for many years, with the number of PS3s being used increasing from eight to 1,716.
Read More »Female Baboons May Be Subject to Domestic Violence
Believe it or not, certain species of baboons may subject each other to a primitive form of domestic violence.
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