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The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv this week: A Short History of Hindu Astronomy & Ephemeris Time Asymmetries in Extensive air Showers: A Novel Method to Identify UHECR species The Digital Restoration of Da Vinci’s Sketches Physics of the Shannon Limits Astronomy, Topography and Dynastic History in the Age of the Pyramids

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The best of the rest from the physics arXiv this week: Striped Superconductors: How the Cuprates Intertwine Spin, Charge and Superconducting Orders Measuring Accurately Liquid and Tissue Surface Tension with a Compression Plate Tensiometer Structure and Evolution of the Foreign Exchange Networks The Minimal Temperature of Quantum Refrigerators Comparing Bird and Human Soaring Strategies The…

The best of the rest from the physics arXiv this week: Natural Selection Maximizes Fisher Information Carbon Nanotubes in Biology and Medicine: in vitro and in vivo Detection, Imaging and Drug Delivery Ultracold Molecules: New Probes on the Variation of Fundamental Constants Can Quantum Mechanics be an Emergent Phenomenon? Using Kolmogorov Complexity for Understanding Some…

The best of the rest from the physics arXiv this week: Naked-Eye Optical Flash from GRB 080319B Neural Networks as Dynamical Systems Predator-Prey Model for Stock Market Fluctuations Reverse Doppler Effect of Sound Particle-Unparticle Duality in Super-Relativity

The best of the rest from the physics arXiv this week: The Chemical Diversity of Comets A Mathematical Proof of The Existence of Trends in Financial Time Series The WMAP Cold Spot Why Do Dolphins Form Mixed-Species Associations in the Azores? New Kinds of Quantum Statistics

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