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NASA Begins Sixth Year of Airborne Antarctic Ice…

[caption id="attachment_765" align="aligncenter" width="673"] NASA’s DC-8 research aircraft will be flying scientists and instruments over Antarctica to study changes in the continent’s ice sheet, glaciers and sea ice. Image Credit: NASA[/caption] NASA News-- NASA is carrying…

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Hawking radiation mimicked in the lab

Sound waves used to imitate light particles predicted to escape black holes. [caption id="attachment_744" align="alignright" width="630"] Victor De Schwanberg/SPL[/caption] Nature News-- Scientists have come closer than ever before to creating a laboratory-scale imitation of a…

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Physicists sounds warning to “nail beauty fanatics”

Bristol, UK (IOP)-- The daily trimming of fingernails and toenails to make them more aesthetically pleasing could be detrimental and potentially lead to serious nail conditions. This is according to researchers at the University of Nottingham who have…