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During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.

Many science fiction authors try to incorporate scientific principles into their work, but Ian Tregillis, who is a contributing author of the Wild Cards book series when he's not working as a ...

An Eastern Cape government official is set to appear in court for allegedly misappropriating R150 000 from his department through a fuel fraud scheme. The 39-year-old, an office manager at the Eastern ...

But the scores are spot on. This cartoon is the Australian Open's free-to-watch version of the live action taking place at Melbourne Park. How has this come about? The Australian Open's official ...

They then flanked Jeff and used Invisible Woman’s Force Physics ability to push him off the map, securing a decisive kill and giving Jeff a taste of his own medicine.

“I mean, it’s not really new anymore and it sure as hell isn’t happy, but you too, I guess.” ...

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