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Ukraine-Russia Peace Is as Elusive as Ever. But in 2022 They Were Talking.

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A draft Ukraine-Russia treaty from April 2022, published here in full for the first time.

With Russia and Ukraine locked in their third year of all-out war, there is no clear path to military victory for either side. Nor are there immediate prospects for a ceasefire and an eventual peace plan, with both sides sticking to irreconcilable positions.

Yet the issues that would need to be tackled in any future peace settlement are evident, and in fact were at the

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Physicists get a first glimpse of the elusive isotope nitrogen-9

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Researchers may have just spotted the elusive, ephemeral nucleus of nitrogen-9 for the first time.

With seven protons and two neutrons, the lopsided atomic nucleus of nitrogen-9 pushes the limits of what can even be considered a nucleus at all. Yet signs of its existence seem to be lurking in years-old data from experiments seeking out a different unusual nucleus, researchers report in the Oct. 27 Physical Review Letters.

If follow-up studies can confirm the detection, nitrogen-9 will be

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Hunt for Nessie begins! Hundreds of volunteers join the biggest search for elusive Loch Ness Monster in 50 years – days after holidaymaker ‘spotted’ the famed beast during family boat trip

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Hundreds of volunteers have joined the biggest search for the elusive Loch Ness Monster in 50 years this weekend.

Despite no appearance from Nessie herself yet – unexplained sounds have been logged near the beast’s ‘favourite’ Scottish haunt. 

The Loch Ness Centre and the Loch Ness Exploration, an independent research team, will scour the waters for the beast using drones with infra-red cameras and underwater detectors.

Volunteers will help to record any natural and unusual sights on Loch Ness from

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Elusive WHITE black bear – known as a ‘spirit bear’ – seen frolicking on Michigan trail camera

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 A ‘one-in-a-million’ black bear with white fur was spotted traversing the Michigan wilderness earlier this month, in a sighting that wildlife officials have since hailed as one of the rarest in recent history.

The 100-pound bear – which looks like something straight out of a fairy tale  – was spotted in the western Upper Peninsula, a region of The Great Lake State where bears are in abundance.

With that said, the bear’s appearance was just about the only common thing

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„Elusive“ stellt den Physiker vor, der das Higgs-Boson vorhergesagt hat

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Schwer fassbar
Frank Schließen
Grundlegende Bücher, 30 $

Die Geschichte des Higgs-Bosons hat viel mehr zu bieten als nur einen Mann namens Higgs.

Trotz der Anziehungskraft der Erzählung vom „einsamen Genie“ ist es selten, dass eine Entdeckung ausschließlich der Arbeit eines einzigen Wissenschaftlers zugeschrieben werden kann. Anfangs, Schwer fassbareine Biographie von Peter Higgs, geschrieben vom Physiker und Autor Frank Close, scheint in diese irreführende Erzählung einzuspielen: Das Buch trägt den Untertitel „Wie Peter Higgs das Mysterium der Masse löste“.

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Hugh McElhenny, Halfback aus der Elusive Hall of Fame, ist mit 93 Jahren tot

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Hugh McElhenny, ein Hall of Fame-Halfback, der als King bekannt war für seine aufregenden, sprunghaften Fähigkeiten in der Fußballwelt der 1950er Jahre, zuerst mit der University of Washington und dann mit den San Francisco 49ers, starb am 17. Juni bei ihm Zuhause in Henderson, Nev. Er war 93.

Seine Tochter Karen Lynn McElhenny bestätigte den Tod am Donnerstag, nannte aber keine Ursache. Auch die Pro Football Hall of Fame gab am Donnerstag den Tod bekannt.

McElhenny war eine schillernde Figur

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Rezension: „Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass“, von Frank Close

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ELUSIVE: Wie Peter Higgs das Mysterium der Masse löste, von Frank Schließen

Anfang Oktober 2013 bereitete das Nobelpreiskomitee die Bekanntgabe des Gewinners seines Preises in Physik vor. Der Spitzenkandidat – wie so ziemlich jeder wusste – war ein 84-jähriger schottischer Wissenschaftler namens Peter Higgs, der sich nicht annähernd so fröhlich fühlte, wie man vielleicht denken würde. Ja, er wollte den Preis gewinnen, ja, er wollte für seine bahnbrechenden Erkenntnisse darüber, wie subatomare Teilchen unser Universum aufbauen, anerkannt werden. Er wollte

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Australian radio telescope narrows in on the elusive signal of the universe’s first stars

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In the arid desert of Western Australia, near Perth, astronomers are on the hunt for evidence of the universe’s first-ever stars.

To do this, they are seeking out the signal of the neutral hydrogen that pervaded the early universe some 13 billion years ago, before the so-called ‘cosmic dawn’. 

Physicists expect this signal to decrease and eventually disappear as the first stars, galaxies and quasars formed and gradually ionised the hydrogen around them.

However, picking up this signal is like

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