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Best of 2008 Scientific Discovery

The most significant discovery of 2008 might have been more of a non-discovery, if you will. Most people have probably heard all the talk ignited over the operations of CERN, or the European Organization for Nuclear Research. CERN has been…
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Telescoping Tot

There may be parents of tots who’d fancy the possibility of having telescopic ones so that they can fold them and put them away in their shopping bags when they’re too nerve-wracking in front of the supermarket till, for example;…
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Apollo 11 Memories

The first manned mission to land on the moon had an Australian connection. The 64-metre Parkes Radiothermal Telescope, still the largest steerable dish in Australia, had only been in existence for eight years when Apollo 11 was launched. It was…
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