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A Sun-like star with orbiting planets, dating back to the dawn of
A Sun-like star with orbiting planets, dating back to the dawn of the galaxy, has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. At 11.2 bil...

Happy birthday Samuel Ting! He was born in 1936 in Ann Arbor,
Happy birthday Samuel Ting! He was born in 1936 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his parents met as graduate students. After living in China and Taiwan, ...

Eduardo Martín-Martínez of the University of Waterloo and his
Eduardo Martín-Martínez of the University of Waterloo and his collaborators have a novel proposal for transmitting information over cosmic distances...

If a light beam has a corkscrew-shaped wavefront, rather than the
If a light beam has a corkscrew-shaped wavefront, rather than the usual series of flat planes, it carries orbital angular momentum, the property we us...

Its the birthday of Francis Bacon, who was born in 1561 in London.
Its the birthday of Francis Bacon, who was born in 1561 in London. Bacon attended Cambridge University (at the age of 12!), where his exposure to the ...

Two experiments scheduled later this year -- one at the Large
Two experiments scheduled later this year -- one at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, the other under a mountain in Italy -- will seek to dete...