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From NYT > Science:

Three European scientists who discovered viruses that cause cervical cancer and AIDS share this year's Nobel Prize in medicine. A German virologist, Harald zur Hausen, will receive half the award for his discovery of H.P.V., the human papilloma virus, according to the announcement made on Monday by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, which selects the medical winners of the prize. The discovery led to development of a vaccine against cervical cancer, the second most common cancer among women.

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From Wired: Top Stories:

If you really wanted to go green with your hybrid, you'd be plugging into the power grid. Furthering your fossil fuel independence is possible by converting your Prius to a plug-in. Whether you have the cash to pay someone to do it or are doing it yourself, there are several conversion packages available and we have a list. Wired.com

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From Slashdot:

Science News reports on a paper to be published in Physical Review Letters in which an international team of researchers describes their computer simulation of the most violent collision imaginable: two black holes colliding head-on at nearly light-speed. Even in this extreme scenario, Roger Penrose's weak cosmic censorship hypothesis seems to hold — the resulting black hole (after the gravitational waves have died down) retains its event horizon.

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From Neatorama:

So with all the recent news about the Large Hadron Collider, many of you may have this nagging question: what, exactly, would happen if you stick your head in the particle accelerator? Well, actually, we know the answer to that because someone did stick his head into a particle accelerator. Here's the story of Anatoli Bugorski...

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From Scientific American:

Atoms are now such a commonplace idea that it is hard to remember how radical they used to seem. When scientists first hypothesized atoms centuries ago, they despaired of ever observing anything so small, and many questioned whether the concept of atoms could even be called scientific. Gradually, however, evidence for atoms accumulated and reached a tipping point with Albert Einstein's 1905 analysis of Brownian motion, the random jittering of dust grains in a fluid.

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