University Of Edinburgh News
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Robert G. Edwards, the British physiologist whose work on in-vitro fertilization led to the first test-tube baby, has died, the University of Cambridge said. He was 87.
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It’s an existential question in France: When is fracking not fracking?
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One of the best moments of Tony Hayward’s 28-year career with oil giant BP Plc came before dawn on Christmas 1982.
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An Antarctic area previously thought stable may be at risk as ocean currents undermine a floating frozen shelf and threaten to push part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into retreat, according to papers in Nature journals.
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As Germany emerged from the rubble of World War II, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer said nothing was more important than uniting with former enemy France to ensure peace and deter the Soviet Union.
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U.K. researchers hunting for life in a lake under 3 kilometers (2 miles) of Antarctic ice called off their mission after drilling delays led to a fuel shortage.
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Peter Higgs, the physicist whose paper in 1964 sparked the search for the theoretical particle named after him, said he didn’t expect it to be found in his lifetime.
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The London interbank offered rate, the benchmark for $360 trillion of securities, may not survive allegations of being corrupted unless it’s based on transactions among banks rather than guesswork about the cost of money.
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The nations of Europe, home to Galileo and Newton, are poised to reclaim the lead in physics from the U.S., as scientists around the world flock to Geneva in search of the so-called God particle.
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A flute concerto by baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi, missing since the middle of the 18th century, has been discovered in a Scottish aristocrat’s papers by a researcher, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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