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Two Scientists Win Nobel in Physics for Atom-Thin Material

STOCKHOLM (Oct. 5) -- Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for "groundbreaking experiments" with an atom-thin material expected to play a large role in electronics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited Geim and Novoselov, who are both linked to...

Scholar Claims to Have Unlocked 'The Plato Code'

LONDON (June 30) -- A scholar unlocks a code buried within ancient Greek texts to discover secret messages left by a long-dead philosopher. This isn't the plot of the next Dan Brown novel, but the result of an English academic's five-year-long study of Plato. Jay Kennedy of the University of Manchester claims that Plato...