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...host of illegal drugs, from marijuana to ecstasy to cocaine. But not for long. On Tuesday, Aug. 25, the U.K. government announced it is set to ban these so-called legal highs by the end of the year. The ban on designer drugs such as stimulant BZP, narcotic alternative gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) and cannabis imitator Spice is being described as a precautionary measure, with the aim of getting the substances off the shelves before they've gained much notoriety - and before thorough studies have been done on how much harm they do to users...
...building state-of-the-art lasers from spare parts to tinker with quarks and "high-Z hydrogen-like ions," preferring the rigor of experiments that either worked or didn't to abstract theoretical physics. At Bell Labs, he spent phone-monopoly money playing with electron spectrometers, gamma rays, polymers and other gee-whiz stuff few of us can understand; he once accidentally discovered an important pulse-propagation effect. But even his most obscure technical work had practical applications; his Nobel-winning breakthrough - supercooling atoms into "optical molasses" - inspired improvements in GPS data and oil exploration. "He's a real-world...
This particular gamma-ray burst’s redshift of 8.2 corresponds to such a large distance that it indicates the presence of stars a mere 630 million years after the Big Bang—when the universe was just 5 percent of its current...
...very excited about it,” Grindlay said. “We didn’t doubt gamma-ray bursts could be at such an early time in the universe, but this confirms...
...autonomous space-based telescope Swift, which detected the gamma-ray burst, was launched in 2004 in order to help scientists further the understand of these objects...