Topic: Science and Technology
Eva Braun no "dumb blonde", says new biography
Reuters Life! Online Report
BERLIN (Reuters Life!) - Adolf Hitler's companion Eva Braun has been treated as an inconsequential figure in the Third Reich by historians but the author of a new biography said on Friday she was anything but "a dumb blonde". Heike Goertemaker said Braun, who was 17 when she met the ...
Somali rebels join forces in cyberspace: U.N. report
Reuters US Online Report World News
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Armed rebel groups in Somalia are using the Internet for fundraising and recruitment, and they achieve better results through the Web than they do on the ground, a United Nations report said. The report by the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia also highlighted how the rebels use ...
Will a fresh look at pain overcome drug barriers?
Reuters US Online Report Health News
LONDON (Reuters) - Barriers to understanding pain are starting to fall and scientists and drug firms say a fresh approach is producing potential new drugs to hit where it hurts. Millions of people across the world suffer chronic pain -- such as nerve, joint or muscle pain that lasts weeks, months or ...
Atom smasher cranks up to record energy levels: CERN
AFP Global Edition
The world's most powerful atom smasher has been brought up to a record energy level, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said Friday, in readiness for collisions that could generate new discoveries in particle physics. "At just after 5.20 this morning, two 3.5 TeV proton beams successfully ...
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