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Sci-fi writer, Arthur C Clarke dies at 90...
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Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and one of the fathers of tabletop role-playing games, died on Tuesday at the age of 69.
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Ephesus in Turkey was a major city of the Roman world, and this is where thousands of bones and around 67 sets of individual Gladiator remains have been found. Professor Karl Grossschmidt and Professor Fabian Kanz have spent the last five years cataloguing and analysing every bone. Nothing has been found in the world at all like it before, and it answers quite a lot of questions about the life of a Gladiator.
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When Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie invented Lie groups in the 19th century, he couldn't have known, that modern day mathematicians would be scratching their heads and solving them two centuries later.
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There are only thirteen northern white rhinos left in the world!
These magnificant creatures are on the verge of extinction, and if something isn't done to save them, they will go the way of the Dodo and many other species.
But Thomas Hildebrandt and his team, from the Berlin Institute of Zoo and Wildlife Research, are determined to try and save them, including elephants and komodo dragons, by breeding via artificial reproduction.
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Sony has announced that the European version of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console will not play as many old games as the American and Japanese models.
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The first time teraflop performance was achieved was 11 years ago on the ASCI Red Supercomputer built by Intel for the Sandia National Laboratory...
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Until now, in the UK, if you wanted to switch internet broadband providers, it was a very tough, if not almost impossible situation...
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t was always thought, the giant carnivorous terror bird, Titanis walleri, became extinct as little as 10,000 years ago, but now a study suggests it was about two million years, meaning they never came face to face with Humans
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Archaeologists have unearthed, what is believed to be the largest Neolithic village ever found in Britain near Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain. So far, they have excavated eight houses, but say there could be around one hundred houses. The houses are about 5m (16ft) square, and a vast amount of pottery, flint and animal bones have been discovered there. The latest find had exactly the same layout as Neolithic houses at Skara Brae in Orkney.
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On the 16th of January the US arms manufacturer Northrop Grumman opened the first production plant for high-energy military laser systems in Redondo Beach, California. The plant will be specialized in the production of laser based defense systems and high precision weaponry.
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South Korean company Samsung developed with state fundings SGR-A1, the "Intelligent Surveillance & Security Guard Robot". The project entered an active testing phase when 3 units were deployed at the border to North Korea. The robot is armed with a rifle or light machine gun, can recognize targets 2km away in daylight or 1km away in darkness, and is mounted to the ground.
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The Free Lance-Star newspaper is reporting that the Navy Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia has successfully demonstrated an 8-megajoule electromagnetic rail gun. A 32-megajoule version is due to be tested in June. A 64-megajoule version is anticipated to extend the range of naval gunfire (currently about 15 nautical miles for a 5-inch naval gun) to more than 200 nautical miles by 2020. The projectiles are small, but go so fast that have enough kinetic punch to replace a Tomahawk missile at a fraction of the cost. In the final version, they will apex at 95 miles altitude, well into space.
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