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AstraZeneca buys Canadian cancer treatment firm for close to £2bn
PA Media: Money via Yahoo Finance· 3 months agoDrugs giant AstraZeneca has agreed to buy a Canadian company which has a promising new drug designed...
Depleted uranium shells for Ukraine are dense, armor-piercing ammunition
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe Department of Defense says that these depleted uranium shells "had been compromised" and needed...
Solar 'superflares' millions of times stronger than anything today may have sparked life on Earth
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA simulation of an enormous solar flare and coronal mass ejection (CME) blasting out of the sun....
Why Geiger Counters Make That Iconic Clicking Noise While Measuring Radiation
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoScientists invented the Geiger counter, which measures radioactivity, while working on experiments...
Juicing power from the abyss: How black hole batteries could be the energy of the (distant) future
Salon via Yahoo News· 6 months agoBlack hole Getty Images/Petrovich9 Black holes, despite their name, are far from being an empty...
1st mission to 'touch' the sun discovers a mysterious source of solar wind
Live Science via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn artist's illustration of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun. A NASA spacecraft...
Particle radioactivity linked to pollution-associated heart attack and stroke death
NewMediaWire via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoResearch Highlights: Particle radioactivity, a characteristic of air pollution that reflects the...
Surprise! Icy 'rain' from Saturn's rings is heating the gas giant's atmosphere
Space via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThis composite image shows the Saturn Lyman-alpha bulge, an emission from hydrogen which is a...
Does antimatter fall down or up? We now have a definitive answer.
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe hardest part of the ALPHA experiment was not making antimatter fall, but creating and containing...
Fluor to Design Commercial Laser Fusion Power Plant
POWER Magazine via Yahoo Finance· 3 months agoLongview Fusion Energy, a firm leveraging the recent fusion breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), has secured a contract with...