News tagged with world record
Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else
If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Guinness World Record: DESY's X-ray laser FLASH shoots fastest movie
It's official: The world's fastest movie was shot by DESY's X-ray laser FLASH in Hamburg, Germany.
Jan 25, 2012 |
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CMS in 2011: A mountain of particle collision data
Datasets are the currency of physics. As data accumulate, measurement uncertainty ranges shrink, increasing the potential for discoveries and making non-observations more stringent, with more far-reaching ...
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Robotic boats to travel across Pacific Ocean
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, November 17, four unmanned Wave Gliders left the coast of San Francisco and began a 300-day journey across the Pacific Ocean. The vehicles, which are self-propelled and remotely ...
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Creation of the largest human-designed protein boosts protein engineering efforts
(PhysOrg.com) -- If Guinness World Records had a category for the largest human-designed protein, then a team of Vanderbilt chemists would have just claimed it.
Nov 15, 2011 |
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Philippine town claims world's largest croc title
A small Philippine town on Wednesday laid claim to having the world's largest captive crocodile after an Australian expert measured the saltwater beast at more than six metres.
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Man with world's largest feet finds fame
The first thing that people notice about Brahim Takioullah is not his feet -- which he hopes will make him famous -- but his enormous height. He stands more than eight foot (246 cm) tall.
Oct 08, 2011 |
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It's true! Scientists HAVE written the world's smallest periodic table
(PhysOrg.com) -- The 2012 Guinness World Records has been published and confirms that scientists at The University of Nottingham hold the record for writing the world’s smallest periodic table. ...
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Australian adventurers in South Pole quest
Two Australian adventurers who made history by kayaking unassisted to New Zealand set off on Monday hoping to bag a new record by walking from the Antarctic coast to the South Pole and back.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Toyota three-wheeler does 80.3 mph on compressed air
(PhysOrg.com) -- Toyota Industries intends to apply for a Guiness World record for the fastest car driven by a compressed-air engine, after its Ku:Rin, as the vehicle is called, reached 129.2km/h (80.3 mph)on ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 24, 2011 |
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Monster crocodile gets own park in Philippines
A monster crocodile which is reputedly the world's largest is the star attraction at its own nature park which opened in the Philippines this weekend, weeks after the beast's capture.
Sep 18, 2011 |
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Aussie croc named biggest in captivity
An Australian crocodile called Cassius Clay was on Thursday declared the biggest in captivity by Guinness World Records, although his reign may be brief after reports of a rival giant emerged.
Sep 15, 2011 |
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Team AMD FX sets Guiness record
(PhysOrg.com) -- AMD has set the world record of fastest CPU with a speed frequency of 8.429 GHz, winning the company a place in the Guiness World Records. AMD’s yet-to-ship Bulldozer-based FX chips drew ...
Sep 14, 2011 |
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New world record for Danish nano researchers
Researchers at the Nano-Science Center at the University of Copenhagen have recently moved a big step closer to understanding chemical processes. Their world record comes from tracking the biggest contraction in an inorganic ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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In US, world's oldest person celebrates 115th birthday
Bess Cooper celebrated her 115th birthday as the world's oldest person in Monroe, Georgia, Friday, though there was no Elvis impersonator at the party like there was last year, reported local media.
Aug 27, 2011 |
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