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Deep-ocean vents are a source of oil and gas

sumsung submitted, created time 11 months 6 days (www.nature.com)

Undersea thermal vents can yield unexpected bounty: natural gas and the building blocks of oil products. In a new analysis of Lost City, a hydrothermal field in the mid-Atlantic, researchers have found that these organic molecules are being created through inorganic processes, rather than the more typical decomposition of once-living material.

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How Understanding these 50 Medical Symptoms Can Keep You Healthier

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We all experience aches, pains and ailments at some time or another. Many times we dismiss them as a sign of growing older. However, there are some symptoms that should not be ignored. So, before you swallow another antacid for that heartburn you think you have, or apply antibiotic ointment to a rash that may have popped up, read through this list of 50 common medical symptoms. If you have any of the symptoms listed, don’t just live with them – visit your doctor!

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Turning light into matter

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It sounds like a conjuring trick. You shine a light into a gas, and the light gets swallowed. Then you pump the gas into another container, say the magic words, and the light comes out again.

But this trick, demonstrated by physicist Lene Vestergaard Hau and her co-workers at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, doesn't use magic. Instead, the researchers have harnessed the strangeness of quantum mechanics to conduct their vanishing act

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