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  Google is out testing new old features
...es, but our team had it always in nearly 100 different queries, as, for example vacation, politics, science, service, however and so on. One could actually 'note' the 'click here' query. Here is a picture of a logged in search for the query 'vacation': And here is a picture of the same query, though in the signed-out state: When we press the 'Note this' button, we see that Google has 'Duly noted' the query fo...
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  Oldest Planet Discovered Suggests: Earth May Survive an Apocalypse
...An international astronomers team has come up with new clues to solve the mystery about our solar system's future as it orbits a dying sun. The team of 23 researchers used telescopes around the globe, having spent seven years in Naples studying the pulses of the V391 Pegasi star. Their collaboration has led to the discovery of a new planet, Peg V392b, the oldest planet so far discovered in the universe. The astron...
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  Methane Spotted on a Distant Planet
...e our Solar System. The planet called HD 189733b that is 63 light years way was spotted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) with a help of US-European Hubble telescope that gives a spectroscopic picture of the planet's atmosphere. It allows uncovering the signature of chemicals found in its atmosphere. Astronomers claim that there was a certain signature of methane, a chemical that is important to create condi...
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  Scientists Create World's Fastest SuperComputer
...er, being three times faster than other supercomputers in the world. The RoadRunner was developed by the engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US, and IBM Corp. from 13,000 of computer chips. RoadRunner is the world's first petaflop computer, meaning that it can perform 1,000 trillion operations per second. The daily performance of the computer can be compared to the calculations made by 6 b...
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  Our Brain Enjoys More When Music is Played Live by a Musician rather than a Computer
...According to the study performed by the University of Sussex, music can calm much better if it is played by real musicians rather than computers. Neuroscientists analyzed the reaction of the brain to the piano sonatas, which were played by a musician and a computer. They discovered that, though computerized music did get some response from the brain – mainly to unpredicted changes of the chords – the effect was not as str...
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  Japanese Scientists Developed Flash Able to Function for Hundreds of Years
...Japanese scientists claim they have developed world's first flash memory with a potential lifetime of hundreds of years. Working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and the University of Tokyo, scientists mentioned that the new chips are able to work at lower voltages than the usual ones. It is worth mentioning that Flash memorychips are included in such products as Apple's iPhone, mi...
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