The box-like eight-floor structure had dark brown bricks as facing tiles on the outside walls, a style that became popular in Shanghai in the 1930s.

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It seemed to break down into an excess of photons, such that it might potentially reveal something unexpected about dark matter and the structure of space-time.

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The result is a simple, elongated structure expensively clad in dark red porphyry overlooking protected farmland on the outskirts of Basle.

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The issue becomes just the latest in a long list of issues the SEC is examining regarding the current U.S. market structure, right up there with high frequency trading, dark pools, flash trading, market access, and trade tracking and reporting.

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Using four different probes of dark energy, Annis says the idea is that dark energy should reveal itself, in part, by just how it affects the growth of structure in the cosmos.

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What makes aircraft fatigue such an dark art is that, unlike standard tests done in a laboratory, an aircraft's structure has to endure a complex, mostly random, set of static as well as cyclical stresses when in service.

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