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Analysis of Agatha Christie’s later works by a computer scientist and a literary scholar at the University of Toronto has suggested that the author, then in her eighties might have been suffering from the effects of dementia, likely Alzheimer’s disease, at the time of writing....
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While there are a few off-pump techniques in existence, coronary bypass surgery generally involves the stopping of a patient’s heart. Now, a surgical robot developed by Waseda University in Japan has the potential to eliminate that need. The robot is able to calculate and compensate for the movement of...
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Many people are not aware that the International Space Station (ISS) is visible from Earth. It is, in fact it can be seen without a telescope under the right conditions: it has to be in light and you have to be in darkness; which makes just before sunrise and...
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Two twins with criminal records were freed after DNA evidence linked them to the scene of a multi-million euro jewelry robbery. The problem was that German law requires criminals to be found guilty individually; the DNA of the twins matched too closely to clearly identify which of them was...
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Backyard physicist Peter Terren has combined his love of electricity with a passion for photography to capture some incredible still images of electricity in motion....
