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	Higgs Boson Scientists Awarded The Nobel Prize In Physics
	François Englert of Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgien, and Peter W. Higgs of the University of Edinburgh, UK — were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics this year for the Higgs boson theory. They proposed the theory in 1964, which says ...
	Jellyfish May Be Super Simple, But They Are Also So Damn Efficient
	Jellyfish kind of just float. In massive blooms. But there's actually some science to how they travel. This image shows the pressure generated during the power stroke of a moon jellyfish, and it reveals that it creates a ring shaped vortex of spinn...
	Disney's Paper Generators Will Generate Power With Touch Or Rubbing (Video)
	Disney's latest technology allows you to generate energy by rubbing or touching a piece of paper. That is incredible. The new technology uses paper generators made of electrets, which are materials that hold a semi permanent electrical charge. The ...
	Scientists Use Fitness Tracking Technology To Effectively Diagnose Alzheimer's
	Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia in the elderly. We have no cure for it, and therapies that slow them down still require early diagnosis to be effective.But that's not to say we're not progressing slowly. A team of german rese...
	Steve Ballmer Sends Final Shareholder Letter Saying Microsoft's Best Days Are Still Ahead
	Steve Ballmer has sent his final letter to shareholders. In the annual letter, released mid-afternoon Monday, Ballmer updated shareholders on Microsoft's transition to being a devices and services company and explained the motivations behind its reo...
	Sprite Might Be A Great Hangover Cure, According To Science
	Suffering from a hangover? You'll want to drink some Sprite. Researchers at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, China, looked into hangovers and found that Sprite may just be the solution for it. Alcohol's effect on the body is well known but now w...
	Einstein May Have Had A Better Brain Than Most Of Us
	Immediately after he died in 1955, Albert Einstein's brain was removed from his head, dissected and photographed for study by pathologist Thomas Harvey. He kept parts of the brain stored in jars in his basement for decades. And while he may not have...
	These 3D Chimpanzee Skulls Are Actually Microscopic Bacteria Traps
	That's one spooky looking skull. Created by a research team at the University of Texas, these "microscopic houses" are designed for trapping nasty bacteria that makes you sick. The researchers describe them as more like "tiny zoos for the study of i...
	Nielsen Will Use Twitter To Help Its Ratings Be Less Wrong
	Nielsen ratings are about to go through a change. The measuring of how many people watch a show and its ads is perhaps the most important deciding factor on whether a show is successful and whether it stays on air. It's also, as this article shows, ...
	MIT's Next Robots Will Have Super Good Eyesight
	MIT is working on improving the way robots see. Grad student Jared Glover and his team have refined existing algorithms to give robots very good eyesight. The algorithm is based on a statistical construct known as the Bingham distribution, and it al...

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