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muse@nature.com: Nature's X-files

Not all the correspondence to a top science journal contains top science. Some of it is very odd indeed.
Some institutions attract outlandish claims. Curators at London's Science Museum are used to meeting visitors clutching perpetual-motion machines — claims often undermined by the batteries attached to the device.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on February 23, 2007 05:40 PM |

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