Look, I know there are going to be a few defensive headphone-wearers out there who claim that they never crank the volume, and only listen to soft Ray LaMontagne or humpback whales, and can hear the traffic all around them.

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When the sun is in this state, it also sends less energy out in the soft X-ray and extreme ultraviolet parts of its spectrum.

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If the equivalent of an earthquake were to occur on one (and they are known to occur on pulsars), it would be powerful enough to erupt with a blast of gamma rays thereby solving puzzle number three, the soft gamma-ray repeaters.

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The technique can provide excellent, detailed images of the body's soft tissue and is an alternative to using X-ray techniques such as computed tomography (CT).

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This soft sell is also present in the new X-Ray feature for movies, which allows you to hit pause and automatically see IMDB profiles for actors in the flick, finding out what else they've appeared in.

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