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If You Shoot a Bomb, Will It Explode? - What happens when a bullet hits dynamite. - On Wednesday, air marshals in Miami shot and killed a man who was pretending to carry a bomb off a plane. According to an official account, the marshals ordered the man to get on the ground and then opened fire when he reached into his backpack. A government spokesman says the marshals acted properly and that

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How To Demolish an Atomic Bomb - Could a missile strike on Iran cause an accidental nuclear detonation? - President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu both alluded to military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities at last week’s AIPAC meeting, and many commentators worry that war is becoming a more realistic possibility. With all that enriched uranium lying around, is

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A History of Bracketology - Who invented the tournament bracket? - On Sunday, the NCAA unveiled the brackets for this year’s 68-team men’s basketball tournament. An estimated 45 percent of Americans fill out the brackets with their predictions of the results each year, and Barack Obama has referred to the practice as “a national pastime.” When were tournament brackets invented? In the

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Superbugs!  “Untreatable gonorrhea” joins the ranks of infectious bogeymen. A recent paper in the New England Journal of Medicine called “The Emerging Threat of Untreatable Gonococcal Infection” suggests that gonorrhea is set to join the superbugs, the elite circle of nightmarish infections (MRSA, XDR-tuberculosis, NDM-1) that some fear will sweep civilization off its pins. The new breed

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Death to Word - It’s time to give up on Microsoft’s word processor. - Nearly two decades and several text-handling paradigms ago, I was an editorial assistant at a weekly newspaper, where a few freelancers still submitted their work on typewritten pages. Stories would come in over the fax machine. If the printout was clear enough, and if our giant flatbed scanner was in the mood, someone

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The Best Reason Yet for Facebook To Stop Filtering Messages - When Anna Lamb-Creasy’s son Rickie went missing in January of this year, she called hospitals and jails to see if he had turned up. One place she didn’t immediately search for answers? Facebook. Weeks later, according to reports, Lamb-Creasy and her daughter discovered enigmatic Facebook messages from a user named Misty Hancock.

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Chemicals in plastics linked to early onset menopause - Man-made chemicals found in a variety of everyday products – from food containers to clothes – may be causing early menopause in women, say scientists.A study of almost 26,000 – the largest of its kind – found those with high levels of PFCs (perfluorocarbons) were more likely to have gone through the change of life prematurely.Dr Sarah Knox

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Google Gives You a Shot at Glass—For $1,500 - There are certain phrases brought about by technology that would’ve sounded absurd any more than 15 years ago. Unfriend and retweet come to mind, as does the verb Google. If this new ad is any indication, we can add the command OK, Glass to that list.On Wednesday morning, Google released a visual joy ride to show the world what it’s like to

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Six Ways to Tell If You're Staying in a Murder Hotel - This January, a 21-year-old Canadian tourist named Elisa Lam disappeared while visiting Los Angeles. Lam was last seen at the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, where she had been staying. Tuesday, her body was found at the bottom of one of the hotel’s rooftop water tanks, thus solving two separate mysteries at once: “What happened to

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Japan aquarium shows mysterious clear-blood fish - The deep oceans have yielded many mysteries that have puzzled people for centuries, from the giant squid to huge jellyfish that look like UFOs. To that list add a fish with totally transparent blood. The Ocellated Ice Fish lives in the freezing waters of the Antarctic Ocean, where it manages to keep its body doing all the things that other

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Science Fiction or Fact : Is Time Travel Possible? - In this weekly series, Life's Little Mysteries rates the plausibility of popular science fiction concepts. In the first "Back to the Future" movie, all it took to travel through time was 1.21 gigawatts and a flux capacitor (packed into a DeLorean sports car for style points). Despite centuries of dreams and decades of bona fide research,

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Marilyn Monroe: Stunning exhibition of rare photos and artefacts marks 50 year anniversary of iconic star's death - Fifty years have passed since her death, but the image of Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe is as enduring as ever. Her short but stellar life - she died in 1962 at the age of 36 - saw her make 29 films, pose for countless photographers and even sing on stage for the U.S. President.

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     Teenage girl with attitude. - Photo by Dan Brownsword/Gallery Stock I Was a Mean Girl - When I read about bullying today, I realize: Hmm, I did that.  - When bullies grow up, who do they become? The Revenge of the Nerds theory is that they peak in high school, or even middle school, and then surrender power to the more socially awkward but smarter kids

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The end is coming. Repent! Death Watch: Microsoft to kill Windows XP in two years - That's the message from Microsoft as it reminded consumers that its support for Windows XP SP3 and Office 2003 will end on April 8, 2014. According to Microsoft marketing director Stella Chernyak that means the software giant will nix security updates, non-security hot-fixes and technical support

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Heart repair breakthroughs replace surgeon's knife — Have a heart problem? If it's fixable, there's a good chance it can be done without surgery, using tiny tools and devices that are pushed through tubes into blood vessels. Heart care is in the midst of a transformation. Many problems that once required sawing through the breastbone and opening up the chest for open heart surgery now can be

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Napoleon and Josephine's Engagement Ring Sells for $949,000 - The engagement ring the young Napoleon "must have broken his wallet" to buy for his fiancee Josephine shattered expectations today at the Osenat auction house in France when it sold for close to $1 million, Osenat's expert Jean-Christophe Chataignier said. The winning bidder, who wanted to stay completely anonymous, paid $949,000,

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A soda per day may raise heart-attack risk - It's no secret that the empty calories in soda and other sugary drinks can contribute to weight gain and obesity. But a new study suggests these beverages also may harm your heart, even if they don't cause you to gain weight. The study, which followed nearly 43,000 men for an average of 22 years, found that those who habitually drank one

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Did Shroud of Turin inspire spread of Christianity? - A hoax or a miracle? The Shroud of Turin has inspired this question for centuries. Now, an art historian says this piece of cloth, said to bear the imprint of the crucified body of Jesus Christ, may be something in between. According to Thomas de Wesselow, formerly of Cambridge University, the controversial shroud is no medieval forgery,

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10-Month-Old British Twins Swim Into YouTube Fame - At just 10 months old, William and Ellie Trykush are already making a huge splash. The British twins, from Cirencester, a town in East Gloucestershire, have become worldwide sensations thanks to YouTube clips showing the young pair swimming the full length of a 25-meter pool before they can even walk, or crawl. "It's the first time

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Horse whisper therapy for Gwynedd teens - Youngsters with behavioural problems in Gwynedd are to be taught to "horse whisper" in a bid to improve their confidence and self-esteem. A new project is starting next month at a farm near Porthmadog. Children will be encouraged to communicate and bond with the horses and learn how their behaviour affects the animals.   The

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Mysterious Geologic Structure Seen from Space - A huge, copper-toned formation in West Africa dominates a mesmerizing photo taken by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.   This story was provided by OurAmazingPlanet, sister site to SPACE.com. Follow OurAmazingPlanet for the latest in Earth science and exploration news on Twitter @OAPlanet and on Facebook. Dutch

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3 online date sites agree to screen for predators — Three online dating giants agreed to screen for sex offenders and take other safety steps after a woman was assaulted on a date, the California attorney general's office announced Tuesday. Match.com, eHarmony and Spark Networks signed a joint statement of business principles intended to provide an example for the industry and help guard

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Vampire Bat Bites Help Shield Peruvians from Rabies - Rabies has been thought of as virtually 100-percent fatal unless treated immediately, but new research shows that a small number of isolated Peruvians have natural immunity from the animal-transmitted disease.Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that one in 15 people living in the remote Amazonian region in Peru

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Spying on your teens via Facebook? Most parents are - How much do you trust your children online? According to computer security company AVG, most parents go by the Ronald Reagan adage of "trust, but verify": Approximately 61% of U.S. parents secretly spy on their children via Facebook.The study of 4,400 parents shows that mothers and fathers in the U.S. are becoming increasingly aware of their

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Depression looms as global crisis - The World Health Organization predicts that within 20 years more people will be affected by depression than any other health problem.According to the WHO, depression will be the biggest health burden on society both economically and sociologically.Yet, it says most developing countries spend less than 2% of their national budgets on mental healthcare.Rates of

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