But for one-off searches, Facebook is your weird-number-mystery-solving friend, unless users decide to seek out that second privacy setting.

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After the recipe for disaster that was a steep hill and a 30 mile per hour bike, data was the key ingredient for mystery-solving.

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As well as solving the mystery of the right-handed molecule, this result could also have useful therapeutic consequences.

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"We have taken a big step towards solving a century-old mystery, " said James Cronin of the University of Chicago, who, in 1991, conceived the observatory together with Prof Watson.

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The e-mail asked for his help in solving the mystery of C.

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Professors Darvill and Wainwright say that finding out more about the history of the bluestones could be key to solving the mystery of why the 4, 500-year-old landmark was erected.

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