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“What can they possibly be doing down there that's worth anything?”

LEAD, S.D. -- As a third-generation miner, Duane Ennis used to measure the product of his labor each day in gold-bearing ore torn from the rock caverns deep in the Homestake Mine. via Detroit Free Press

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“The Department for International Development spends 1.5 billion of taxpayers' money on aid every year but there is precious little to show for it. The people who will make Africa rich are the brightest people because they will generate wealth.”

ONE of the world's leading scientists has travelled to South Africa to lead the search for an African Einstein. via News.com.au

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“It's only a pilot project to demonstrate extraction of Helium from Natural Gas. Today we have demonstrated the difficult part of the whole business, replicating of which cannot be more difficult in future”

Kuthalam : India on Sunday joined the ranks of select group of countries having the expertise to extract helium from natural gas with the ONGC setting up a pilot plant for the purpose here. via The Hindu

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“The state of maths and science education is a terrible problem”

By Blanca Mendez Renowned South African scientist Professor Neil Turok has garnered a top research management job in Canada. via Independent Online

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“So we showed that such a gate is possible and demonstrated the first necessary steps in that direction.”

Computers based on the powerful properties of quantum mechanics have the potential to revolutionize information technology and security, but for decades they have remained more theoretical than practical, and ... via PhysOrg Weblog

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“At the same time that's happening, there's increased tensions between science and society”

Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. via Athens Banner-Herald

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“Physics wonder boy to test Einstein's theories”

May 09, 2008, 3:15 PM by Marni Soupcoff NIMA ARKANI HAMED Google loves swimsuit models and sex symbols, but occasionally it gives a particle physicist his day in the sun, too. via National Post

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“This process has never been mapped properly, mainly because the technology was not available to do so”

Paul Planken of Delft University of Technology, in conjunction with two South Korean and one German research groups, have succeeded in mapping this process in depth. via Science Daily

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“These are isotopes that are not easy to produce. That's the frontier we're working on”

Designer labels have a lot of cachet -- a principle that's equally true in fashion and physics. via EurekAlert!

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“There's nothing in the archives, there's no science that indicates or tells us of any stone being sold commercially available to the public for installation that has higher than the four picocures per liter EPA standard”

At the request of 11 News, Rice University physics professor Bill Llope conducted tests on granite countertops It's a popular upgrade for new homes, but could your granite countertop actually be a hazard to ... via KHOU-TV Houston

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