May 19, 2012

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LA detectives re-open Natalie Wood death inquiry

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Homicide detectives have re-opened their investigation of Natalie Wood’s death nearly 30 years after the actress drowned in the waters off Southern California in one of Hollywood’s most enduring mysteries.

Mystery Radiation Detected ‘Across Europe’

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Officials are searching for the source of low level radiation detected in the atmosphere across Europe over the past several days, nuclear officials said today.

World’s most powerful laser could ‘tear apart the vacuum of space’

Scientists have plans to build a laser so powerful it could boil the fabric of space and, in doing so, possibly reveal extra-dimensions.

Scientists have plans to build a laser so powerful it could boil the fabric of space and, in doing so, possibly reveal extra-dimensions.

USC Scientist Cracks Mysterious Copiale Cipher

The cryptogram reveals the rituals and political leanings of an 18th-century secret society in Germany. (Credit: Courtesy University of Southern California and Uppsala University)

Now, more than three centuries after it was devised, the 75,000-character Copiale Cipher finally has been broken.

‘Lost’ Da Vinci Portrait, and its Origins, Stir Controversy

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A leading art historian has long believed that this drawing of a young woman is a lost masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, and he has finally unearthed what he says is conclusive proof about this painting, which in 1998 sold for £11,400 at Christies.

Researchers find Aztec temple platform in Mexico

Archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, left, stands over a newly discovered platform .

Archaeologists found a round Aztec ceremonial platform studded with stone carvings of serpent heads at Mexico City’s Templo Mayor ruin.