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Labelling celestial objects has a complicated past. John Cleese is coming to Australia today. In fact, he's coming to the whole world. However, on the night of the full moon, November 2, he'll be closer to hell. Fortunately, asteroid 9618 Johncleese, discovered in 1993, doesn't ever cross Earth's...
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Aboriginal languages may be much older than people think, argues a linguistic anthropologist who says they originated as far back as the end of the last ice age around 13,000 years ago. This challenges existing thinking, which suggests Aboriginal languages developed from a proto-language that s...
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Beowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th and the early 11th century, set in Denmark and Sweden. Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf has been the subject of...
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Scientists have created the tiniest-ever alphabet soup by designing and producing billions of microscale fluorescent particles in the shapes of the 26 letters, all in one font and suspended in a liquid.
The UCLA researchers said they can pick up the letters with lasers and reposition and reorie...
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First multilingual dictionary based on universal words Researchers at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrids School of Computing have developed an original system for building multilingual dictionaries based on multiple term equivalences from what are known as universal words. System reli...
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