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Purdue Panel: Fusion Researcher Broke Ethics Rules

INDIANAPOLIS – A Purdue University panel has found two instances of misconduct by a researcher who claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments. Rusi Taleyarkhan made headlines in 2002 when he published a paper in the journal Science claiming that he had produced nuclear fusion by making tiny bubbles …

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Bacteria-Contaminated Milk from Massachusetts Dairy is Blamed for 3 Deaths, Miscarriage

BOSTON – At Whittier Farms dairy, the fifth-generation owners brag of the quality of their Holstein cows and still deliver milk right to your door, in glass bottles. Customers like the products because they are a hormone-free taste of old New England. But health officials now say three elderly men …

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Booze-Fueled Fight Forces South Pole Evacuation

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole in December 1911. Ninety-six years later, another achievement was reached — the South Pole’s first bar fight. Without releasing names, the National Science Foundation, which runs the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, confirmed that two men had to be evacuated from the base …

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