The Hardest to find thing in the Universe?

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What is rarer than a shooting star?

Rarer than a diamond?

Rarer than any metal, any mineral, so rare that if you scan the entire earth, all six million billion billion kilos or 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds of our planet, you would find only one ounce of it?

What is so rare it has never been seen directly, because if you could get enough of it together, it would self-vaporize from its own radioactive heat?

New Book Suggests Return from the Dead

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Dr. Sam Parnia, a critical care doctor and the director of resuscitation research at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, has written a new book discussing ways in which people can be resuscitated after they previously would have been considered clinically dead.

Parnia’s book, “Erasing Death: The Science That is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death,” was recently featured on the Today show.

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Spain Scientists Attempt to Debunk “Parallel Realities”

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This infinite repetition idea can be found in early philosophy, ancient mythology, and today’s sci-fi literature. But can it be derived from physical theories about the universe, and does it have a place in science?

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-01-dont-infinite-scientists.html#jCp