Diamond reveals hidden writings
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A light source 10 billion times brighter than the Sun could soon be helping scientists to read ancient manuscripts.
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By Noah BiermanProfessor Stephen Haggerty retrieves a 730-carat black diamond -- the size of an apple -- from his desk. It's nearly impossible to cut, potentially billions of years old and, he believes, a product of outer space.
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Company reps keep the flaw secret Facebook users who type sensitive information into a site feature known as Notes may be interested in knowing that it is currently experiencing a bug that allows documents designated as private to be read anyway.â¦
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Coincidence or foresight? A mysteriously prescient note about a wrestlerâs wifeâs death highlights the predictive possibilities of the internet.
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New technologies can find faces or products without text tags by creating 3-D models and digital signatures. By Elizabeth Svoboda.
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Also: Mysterious stone slab bears ancient writing. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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WHAT WAS FOUND: A microscopic diamond embedded in kimberlite, the molten rock in which diamonds are found, in Montana.
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Previously unseen drawings of Claude Monet, including one found on the back of another work, provide insight into the artist, a British curator said.
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A stone slab bears 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars, say archaeologists.
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HOLLIS, N.H. - A house painter accused of taking a $7,000 diamond engagement ring from the condo he was working at apparently swallowed the evidence during a break from questioning at the police station - and it was caught on tape, police said Tuesday.
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The bright green rocks jutting through the prairie soil were hard to miss, but Tom Charlton still couldn't believe his eyes. It was kimberlite, the molten rock in which diamonds are found, and preliminary tests had yielded a microscopic diamond.
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Ancient writings from the Dead Sea scrolls are to be read for the first time by British scientists using powerful x-rays.
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Search technology for images may lead to a way to search handwritten manuscripts.
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Instructions on how to build a nuclear reactor are revealed from sealed envelopes that have lain hidden for almost 70 years.
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Documents containing highly confidential information is found near Exeter Airport.
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Diamonds -- online -- can be an investor's best friend.
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ST. LOUIS - Proving that diamonds indeed are forever, a widower got a gem of a keepsake made from his late wife's ashes this month: a 0.35-carat, round yellow diamond.