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Physicists Recreate 'End Of Time' in Lab - Technology Review
One of the most exciting areas of science is the emerging field of spacetime analogues. This is the discipline in which physicists play around with systems that have a formal mathematical link with general relativity. For example, changes in the way electrons move in graphene as it is cooled are identical to the changes that may have occurred in the universe soon after the big bang.Claims that autism is caused by vaccines containing thimerosal have been floored by increasing rates of autism in kids not exposed to the chemical Impossible explosion: The Buncefield blast explained FEATURE: 08:00 05 April 2012 Could trees and bushes have been to blame for the force of one of Europe's biggest peacetime explosions? Violent experiments may now have solved this enigma All today's stories on newscientist.com, including: bacteria that play dead, US army orders drug review, robosquirrel vs rattlesnake, and more
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Short Sharp Science: Mapping the most complex object in the known universe
(Image: MPI for Medical Research) It's paint-by-numbers for neuroscientists. At the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, researchers have devised a faster way of computing the neural connections that make up the brain.
The Case for Parallel Universes: Scientific American
Image: Chad Hagen Editor's note: In the August issue of Scientific American, cosmologist George Ellis describes why he's skeptical about the concept of parallel universes. Here, multiverse proponents Alexander Vilenkin and Max Tegmark offer counterpoints, explaining why the multiverse would account for so many features of our universe—and how it might be tested.
Last September I had an article in Scientific American about what it would mean for time to end—how the world might cease to unfold in a unidirectional sequence of cause and effect. Some processes, for example, could cause time to morph into just another dimension of space . Last week experimenters announced that they have simulated such a temporal calamity in the laboratory.
Observations: Physicists Simulate the End of Time in a Maryland Lab
The 59-year-old at the controls suffered 70 per cent burns in the incident after the light aircraft came down between two semi-detached houses in Salford, Greater Manchester, shortly after take-off. Damage ... plane crash landed on houses One of the men had to be cut from wreckage and the pair were airlifted from the scene in Eccles. A resident of one of the houses was helped out of his property, but was unhurt.
Plane crashes into houses | The Sun |News
And stunned Naomi, who thought she was still at school, revealed she had the fright of her life when she looked in the mirror and saw a mature woman with wrinkles staring back. Naomi thought she was about to sit her GCSE exams in 1992. In fact, she was living in 2008 — with NO recall of the intervening years. She said:
Amnesia mum Naomi Jacobs, 32, wakes up as schoolgirl, 15 | The Sun |News
A British teenager has been mauled to death and four others injured by a polar bear that came into the youths' tent as they camped on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic circle. Horatio Chapple, who was 17, died on Friday morning after the bear attacked on the Von Postbreen glacier on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. The bear was shot dead by one of the leaders of the party of 13, who were with a group of 80 taking part in a five-week Arctic expedition run by the BSES Expeditions , a youth development charity based at the Royal Geographical Society in London.
Polar bear kills young British adventurer in Norway | World news | guardian.co.uk
Polar bear victim was strong, fearless and kind, say relatives | World news | guardian.co.uk
The grieving family of a British teenager who was mauled to death by a polar bear on a remote Norwegian island in the Arctic circle have said he was "strong, fearless and kind". Horatio Chapple, 17, died on Friday morning after the bear attacked a party on an adventure holiday on the Von Postbreen glacier, on the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago. Relatives of the Eton schoolboy said he had been "so excited about his plans to be a doctor" and praised his "amazing sense of humour and ability to laugh at himself". His family said: "He was on the cusp of adulthood and had a clear vision of where his life was going." Police are investigating the circumstances of the attack , in which four other people were injured fighting off the bear. They were Patrick Flinders, 16, Scott Smith, 17, and the expedition guides Andrew Ruck, 27, and Michael Reid, 29, who reportedly shot the animal dead.Expedition leader Michael Reid. His family were told by British Embassy officials that he shot the polar bear that killed Horatio Chapple. Photograph: PA The father of the adventure group leader who shot a polar bear that had killed a schoolboy and also savaged him and three other Britons in Svalbard on Friday says he has been moved by the tributes paid to his son.
Father's pride in son who shot attacking polar bear | World news | The Observer
Polar bear attack survivors to return to UK | World news | guardian.co.uk
Survivors of the polar bear attack have been treated at the Tromso hospital. Photograph: Rex Features Two members of an expedition injured in a polar bear attack in which a 17-year-old was killed will return to the UK on Sunday, the organisers of the trip have said. Scott Bennell-Smith and Patrick Flinders will be flown back to Britain under the care of a specialist medical evacuation team, BSES Expeditions confirmed. The organisation, formerly British Schools Exploring Society, asked for the pair's privacy to be respected.Angry ... landlord Peter Brown A woman in her 80s was pelted with stones by a group of thugs, it was claimed. The door of a church toilet was smashed and a field was covered in human waste.
Essex village is living in fear after FOUR THOUSAND gypsies turned up for a festival | The Sun |News
Shocking pig abuse at abattoir | The Sun |News
The sickening abuse of the animals at a UK abattoir includes punching them and burning them on the face with cigarettes. They also suffer because of incompetent use of stun equipment, they are hit in the face with bats and dragged to their deaths by their ears. But no one will be prosecuted over the incidents because the footage was obtained by campaigners who trespassed to get it, it was reported today. Calls for Government intervention have failed to result in court action against the Brentwood firm - even though the Food Standards Agency said it had revoked the licence of one slaughterman seen in the footage and was increasing monitoring of the plant. Elmkirk's solicitor, Jamie Foster, still insisted the firm would not accept "all or any" of the scenes had been shot on his client's property, despite adding that the footage had been gained unlawfully.Flags flew at half-mast across the country as Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg told a memorial service in the capital: “Today it is one week since Norway was hit by evil. We have to live with July 22, but together we will make it.” A few miles away, Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere joined hands with mourners as hundreds turned out for the first of the funerals.
First funeral after Oslo massacre | The Sun |News
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