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Mathematical Model Predicts Box Office From Social Media Activity
Japanese scientists have devised a mathematical formula that can predict the box office performance of a movie based on...
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Triple-Bonded Boron Opens New Chemical World
In a vacuum-sealed flask on a lab bench in Germany sits an emerald-green crystal that will cause some jaws...
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NASA Launches Black Hole-Hunting Telescope
NASA’s hunting season has just begun, as the U.S. space agency launched its Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) spacecraft...
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Electrons Become Both Heavy and Speedy
A Princeton University-led team of scientists has shown how electrons moving in certain solids can behave as though they...
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Nanoparticles Have Serious Impact on Health
New groundbreaking research by scientists at Trinity College Dublin has found that exposure to nanoparticles can have a serious...
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CERN Scientists Excruciatingly Close to Discovering Higgs Boson
Physicists investigating the make-up of the universe are closing in on the Higgs boson, an elusive particle thought to...
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New Holey Material Soaks Up CO2
UK researchers have developed a porous material that can preferentially soak up CO2 from the atmosphere. NOTT-202 is a...
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Battery-Powered Buses Enter the Mainstream
Better lithium ion batteries have led to an explosion in availability of plug-in passenger cars. And now, thanks to...
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Physicists Discover Mechanisms of Wrinkle and Crumple Formation
Smooth wrinkles and sharply crumpled regions are familiar motifs in biological and synthetic sheets, such as plant leaves and...
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Climate ‘Time Machine’ Tests Future CO2 Levels
A climate time machine has been erected in Australia. The contraption, comprised of several nine-story-tall frames with pipes that...