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Einstein letter fetches record amount at auction ?Private buyer with a passion for theoretical physics? bids £170,000 Eccentric pulsar could be part of a threesome Mysterious binary system defies explanation Shrimp see a polarized world Biophysics experiment reveals how shrimp could find food and mates using circularly polarized light Ozone could clean up biological-warfare agents Acidifying water increases the lifetime of ozone so that it can be used for hours Quantized conductance seen in graphene Graphene nanodevices move a step closer Neil Turok chosen to lead Perimeter Institute Cambridge cosmologist says his switch to the Canadian centre is the "opportunity of a lifetime" Nobel laureates petition Bush over funding shortfall Twenty top physicists call for over $500m in 'emergency' cash to plug poor 2008 US science budget Polar vortex replicated in a bucket Researchers make triangular, square and other polygonal vortices appear in swirling water Weiler to remain NASA science chief Interim chief accepts permanent position and plans to continue hard-nosed approach to project overruns Atom laser makes its first measurement The ability to modify an atom-laser beam should open up avenues in quantum information