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Hormones, incentive, experience "make best traders"
Published on Wednesday, 25 November 2009 01:37 from Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists say a perfect combination of testosterone, experience and a hunger for a share of profits can produce financial traders who consistently outperform the market -- even during a crisis.
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Darwin debate rages on 150 years after "Origin"
Published on Tuesday, 24 November 2009 15:50 from Reuters
PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - Even 150 years after it first appeared in print, Charles Darwin's "On The Origin of Species" still fuels clashes between scientists convinced of its truth and critics who reject its view of life without a creator.
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Big Bang machine achieves first particle collisions
Published on Tuesday, 24 November 2009 09:03 from Reuters
ZURICH (Reuters) -- Scientists have smashed together proton beams for the first time in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the French-Swiss border in an initial step toward discovering how the universe came into existence, they said on Monday.
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"Big Bang" machine set to yield surprises
Published on Monday, 23 November 2009 16:48 from Reuters
GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists could begin garnering information on the origins of the universe in the coming months as the world's biggest particle collider starts moving to full power next year, a project leader said Monday.
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Soviet Union's non-Communist astronaut dies age 83
Published on Sunday, 22 November 2009 18:35 from Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Soviet Union's only non-Communist astronaut, Konstantin Feoktistov, has died at the age of 83, Russia's space agency said on Sunday.
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Dark ocean depths home to exotic, unknown life
Published on Sunday, 22 November 2009 18:20 from Reuters
OSLO (Reuters) - The permanent darkness of the ocean depths is home to a far greater range of animals, from luminous jellyfish to tubeworms that live off oil seeping from the seabed, than previously thought, scientists said on Sunday.
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