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Wayne Newton hints latest Vegas show may be last

Wayne Newton is telling fans "Danke schoen" after 50 years in Las Vegas and hinting that his latest run could be his last. But the singer synonymous with Sin City says he's leaving himself an opening in case he wants to perform after April.

Wayne Newton back for limited run on Vegas Strip

Singer Wayne Newton plans to come back to the Las Vegas Strip to celebrate a 50-year career.

Newton's Docs Say OK to 'Dancing' Tour

Wayne Newton, recently sidelined with a recurring heart infection, will be able to go on the road with ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" tour. "He's going to participate," said Lori Jonas, Newton's spokeswoman. "We're not sure to what extent."

Heart Infection Sidelines Wayne Newton

Wayne Newton had been sidelined with a recurring heart infection. The Las Vegas icon and "Danke Schoen" crooner has cardiomyopathy, a viral infection of the heart muscle, said Deanna Pettit, a spokeswoman for Harrah's Entertainment Inc., on Friday. Pettit said Newton has been previously treated for the virus.

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Splitting Time from Space—New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein's Spacetime
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A new "theory of everything" appears every three weeks, so I usually don't get very excited. This one, though.... It "smells" better than most...

Dark Flow Revealed
Source: Popular Science -

As if the universe weren't strange enough, scientists have recently discovered that entire galaxy clusters—the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of thousands of galaxies—are moving toward the same area.

LHC - Working From the Future to Thwart the Present
Source: The New York Times

...the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future.

Invisible Hand Ruling Dark Matter
Source: PhysOrg.com

"The pattern that the data reveal is extremely odd. It's like finding a zoo of animals of all ages and sizes miraculously having identical, say, weight in their backbones or something.

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | The 'first true scientist'
Source: BBC News

By Professor Jim Al-Khalili University of Surrey Isaac Newton is, as most will agree, the greatest physicist of all time.

Feds: Trolley Driver May Have Ignored Faulty Signal -- NTSB Report Complete on 2008 Fatal Boston Trolley Crash
Source: thebostonchannel.com

Federal investigators say a trolley operator killed when her train rammed another apparently ignored a faulty red stop signal. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board said they are not sure how long the signal in suburban Newton was stuck in the stop position.

Nearby Star (Betelgeuse) May Be Getting Ready to Explode
Source: FOXNews.com

The nearby, well-known and very bright star may soon explode in a supernova, according to data released by U.C. Berkeley researchers Tuesday. More Articles

A recitation of the history of human thought. It is fortunately collective and secular!

Islamic Scholars have asked me ''Iqbal, Newton had an Islamic influence in his education. I forgot his name, do you know whom I am speaking about?''

Study plunges standard theory of cosmology into crisis
Source: EurekAlert!

"Maybe Newton was indeed wrong", declares Professor Dr. Pavel Kroupa of Bonn University´s Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (AIfA).

Star Crust 10 Billion Times Stronger than Steel
Source: newsinfo.iu.edu

Research by a theoretical physicist at Indiana University shows that the crusts of neutron stars are 10 billion times stronger than steel or any other of the earth's strongest metal alloys. More Articles

Get Ready Humanity, Because Space Is a Freak Show
Source: gizmodo.com.au

Like some kind of massive cosmic toilet bowl, the multitude of galaxies that populate the known Universe are swirling inexplicably toward a tiny 20-degree plane of deep space. More Articles

19 Years Ago...April 24, 1990: Hubble Becomes Big Eye Above Sky
Source: Wired News

Hubble was not the first space telescope but it is by far the most sophisticated, providing earthlings with unprecedented detail and spectacular views of their universe.

Physicists See The Cosmos In A Coffee Cup
Source: Science Daily

A Duke University professor and his graduate student have discovered a universal principle that unites the curious interplay of light and shadow on the surface of your morning coffee with the way gravity magnifies and distorts light from distant galaxies. More Articles

Super-sized Supernova Explosion Observed Start to Finish Including Black Hole Ending
Source: Science Daily

In the first observation if its kind, scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and San Diego State University were able to watch what happens when a star the size of 50 suns explodes.

Space-Time "Ripples" Created by Merging Black Holes
Source: National Geographic

Two newfound black holes on the verge of crashing into each other could be creating "ripples" in the fabric of space-time, astronomers suggest. More Articles

Fermilab Director: Unexplained Noise may show that the Universe is a Hologram
Source: newscientist.com

For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation.

Zombie Star Spins Like Crazy
Source: space.com

The very old star has a dead heart, having exhausted all the fuel that runs thermonuclear fusion. But the star itself goes on spinning about its axis once every 2.6 seconds and generating intense magnetic fields. More Articles

Astronomers Discover Unexpected Radio Signal - 6 Times Louder Than Expected
Source: rfglobalnet.com

A mysterious screen of extra-loud radio noise permeates the cosmos, preventing astronomers from observing heat from the first stars. The balloon-borne ARCADE instrument discovered this cosmic static on its July 2006 flight. The noise is six times louder than expected.

Milky Way, Now 50% MORE MASSIVE my brothas and sistas!
Source: The New York Times

The higher speed of the Sun means the galaxy must have more mass — about 50 percent more — so as to generate a stronger gravitational pull to keep hold of the Sun, as well as all its other stars. That expands the Milky Way to roughly the heft of Andromeda. More Articles

How Science is Like Democracy
Source: exchangemagazine.com

Physicist Lee Smolin talks about how the scientific community works: as he puts it, "we fight and argue as hard as we can," but everyone accepts that the next generation of scientists will decide who's right. And, he says, that's how democracy works, too. More Articles

The Universe is Twice as Bright
Source: sciencealert.com.au

"The survey also enabled us to determine that our universe contains some 20 per cent more mass in stars than we had previously realised," Dr Graham adds.

Burrowing Black Holes Devoured First Stars From Within
Source: newscientist.com

SWARMS of tiny black holes forged in the big bang may have killed off the universe's first stars by devouring them from within.

Dark Energy Stunts Galaxies' Growth
Source: The New York Times

The same mystery force that is speeding up the expansion of the universe is also stunting the growth of the objects inside it, astronomers said on Tuesday.

New Technique Allows Researchers to Measure Dark Energy
Source: The Washington Post

New research shows that the mysterious force known as dark energy is still as mysterious and as dark as ever, but scientists are at least becoming more certain that they're not simply imagining it.

Of White Whales and Dark Energies
Source: htmltimes.com

Despite one's uncomfortable feelings about it, the galaxies will continue to fly away from each other at an ever-increasing speed, and they will seemingly do so forever, until the universe turns cold and empty— a cosmic desert.

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