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(ABC News) Indian scientists say coffee protects mice from radiation and could work the same way in humans. Researchers at India’s Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) discovered mice injected with caffeine survived high doses...
(New Scientist) A widespread resurrection, orgies on a biblical scale, and births and deaths numbering in the billions will all soon be on display in the eastern US as a uniquely enormous population of...
(New Scientist) An electronic money transaction has been carried out in at a bank in Austria using entangled photons to create an unbreakable communications code. Although of commercial quantum cryptography products already exist, none...
(New Scientist) Classic audio recordings preserved on a warped and damaged records could yet be rescued for future generations using an optical analysis technique originally developed to keep track of subatomic particles. Many rare...
(New Scientist) A crystal the size of our Moon has been revealed hidden at the centre of a dying star, after an analysis of pulsations in the star’s brightness. The measurement confirms indirect evidence...
