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Best of Last Week – Rethinking black holes, trusting of scientists by Americans and a new 3D cloaking device

Earth's water is older than the sun
An illustration of water in our Solar System through time from before the Sun's birth through the creation of the planets. Credit: Bill Saxton, NSF/AUI/NRAO

(Âé¶¹ÒùÔº) —What a week for physics—a team of researchers has found evidence that suggests that the —they claim it came from interstellar space even before the formation of our sun. Closer to home and over at Sandia National Laboratory, . The process still doesn't achieve the break-even point, but it does demonstrate the validity of their approach.

In unsettling news, researchers at Princeton University have found that —in part, because they are not seen as friendly or warm enough—there also appears to be some concern about the funding process.

In the applied sciences, a team of researchers —they say their technique increases solar performance by more than 10 percent. Meanwhile, at the University of Rochester, a team of researchers announced that they'd developed —it's the first to achieve continuous 3D cloaking, the team claims.

In news from biology, a research team has found new —fossil find shows living things existed as far back as 600 million years ago. Also at MIT's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, , which is very good news, because cancer of the pancreas is one of the most deadly. And in completely unrelated news, a team of geologists found that —perhaps there is a way to predict quakes after all.

And finally, in one last bit of alarming news, if you've had a nagging suspicion that you might have Alzheimer's, —apparently, we notice when it's more than just normal age related memory lapses.

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