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The library system of the University of California may call upon the schools' faculty to boycott journals originating from the Nature Publishing Group if they can't come to an agreement on licensing costs for journal access.

Asteroids happen to be particularly rich in platinum group metals

a motive for space travel beyond "the pursuit of knowledge"

So to those despairing about the recent cutting of space budgets across the world, invest your savings in asteroid mining

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a group of physicists, led by physics Nobel laureate Georges Charpak, has developed a new detector that could measure one of the more testable earthquake precursors – the suggestion that radon gas is released from fault zones prior to earth slipping.

the first negative index metamaterial to operate at visible frequencies

By engineering a metamaterial with such properties, we are opening the door to such unusual -- but potentially useful -- phenomena as superlensing (high-resolution imaging past the diffraction limit), invisibility cloaking, and the synthesis of materials index-matched to air, for potential enhancement of light collection in solar cells