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    How One Girl's "CRAZY" Trick Broke ENIGMA and Sank 5 Warships in 1 Night.

    Mavis Batey, who died aged 92, was often described as one of the top female codebreakers at Bletchley Park but, while she was always too modest to make the point herself, this diminished her role. She was one of the leading codebreakers of either sex, breaking the Enigma ciphers that led to the...
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    Has birds’ mysterious ‘compass’ organ been found at last?

    Multiple lines of evidence suggest that pigeons sense magnetic fields by detecting electric currents in their inner ears. Pigeons can sense Earth’s magnetic field by detecting tiny electrical currents in their inner ears, researchers suggest. Such an inner compass could help to explain how...
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    Hydralazine - 70 year old mystery how it works - finally solved

    How one of the oldest drugs for high blood pressure and a standard treatment for preeclampsia works at molecular level was unknown till now. It's not a surprise or uncommon as about 10% - 20% of drugs have unknown mechanism of action. This finding not only unravelled how it works but also they...
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    Why Don’t Jet Engines Melt?

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    Let's Talk About Fat.

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    Alhambra palace - Granada - Spain

    Please refer to my old post https://elakiri.com/threads/the-ancient-city-that-mastered-water.2188173/ Alhambra is the main attraction in Granada. These photos were taken last week. Photos in no way can justify the beauty of the intricate designs on the walls & ceilings (it's 3D on ceilings not...
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    Lisbon _ Monument to the Discoveries.

    Padrão dos Descobrimentos. Standing tall on the banks of the Tagus River, the Monument to the Discoveries (Padrão dos Descobrimentos) in Lisbon is an iconic symbol of Portugal's rich maritime history and exploration legacy. This magnificent monument pays tribute to the Age of Discovery, the...
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    Hola Barcelona...

    Landed in Barcelona three days ago. Flew in from SIN to BCN - SQ. More than 15 hrs of flying with a brief one hour layover in Milan. This time of the year, very nice weather. Visited Sagrada Familia, Park Guell & Montserrat. Also did the other city sight seeing too. Staying very close to Pl...
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    Alarm: Hair Loss Drug Linked to Suicide

    A popular hair-loss drug may have dangerous mental health effects long dismissed by authorities. Scientists now demand urgent regulatory reform. A new review by a public health researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem uncovers that finasteride, a widely used medication for hair loss...
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    China’s oyster-inspired ‘bone glue’ bonds fractures in minutes.

    New bio-glue mimics oysters, fixing shattered bones in 3 minutes without major surgery. A team of Chinese researchers has successfully created a new kind of medical adhesive called “Bone-02.” Inspired by oysters, the new glue is designed to repair broken bones quickly without the need for metal...
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    Nobel Peace Prize 2025

    Maria Corina Machado Prize motivation: “for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy” Maria Corina Machado has led the struggle for democracy in the face of...
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    Nobel Prize in Literature 2025.

    László Krasznahorkai The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” László Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European...
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    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025.

    Susumu Kitagawa Kyoto University, Japan Richard Robson University of Melbourne, Australia Omar M. Yaghi University of California, Berkeley, USA “for the development of metal-organic frameworks” The Nobel Prize laureates in chemistry 2025 have created molecular constructions with large spaces...
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    Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

    John Clarke University of California, Berkeley, USA Michel H. Devoret Yale University, New Haven, CT and University of California, Santa Barbara, USA John M. Martinis University of California, Santa Barbara, USA “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy...
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    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025.

    Mary Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 for their fundamental discoveries relating to peripheral immune tolerance. The laureates identified the immune system’s security guards, regulatory T cells, which prevent immune cells from...
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    HPV Deep Seek - Detects Head and Neck Cancer up to 10 Years Before Symptoms

    Human papillomavirus (HPV) causes an estimated 70 percent of head and neck cancers in the U.S., making it the most common cancer caused by the virus. Yet unlike cervical cancers caused by HPV, there is no screening test for HPV-associated head and neck cancers. In a new federally funded study...
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    The DEADLY Paradox That Bankrupted Top Mathematicians.

    Nicolaus Bernoulli, nephew of Jacob Bernoulli (1655-1705), wrote the St. Petersburg Paradox in 1713. After it was published, a Swiss mathematician named Gabrial Cramer sent him a solution, which Bernoulli did not think was adequate, so he sent it to his cousin, Daniel Bernoullli (1700-1782), a...

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