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This week, search engine giant Google announced a new search engine for the scientific community that will help them make search millions of datasets present online. The service which is called Dataset Search, it trawls the millions of open data repositories on the web for desired datasets. It looks on publisher sites, digital libraries, and on author’s personal web pages, among other places. But it relies on dataset publishers to correctly label their datasets with the appropriate information, or metadata tags, as their otherwise known. The information gotten will aid scientists, data journalists and geeks find the data required for their work and their stories — or simply to satisfy their intellectual curiosity. The new search engine will work like Google Scholar, the company’s popular search engine for academic studies and reports. Natasha Noy, Research Scientist, Google AI, said in a blog post . “Dataset Search lets you find datasets wherever they’re h...

Stephen Hawking, British theoretical physicist has passed away at 76 Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died, according to a family spokesman. He was 76. Considered by many to be the world"s greatest living scientist, Hawking was also a cosmologist, astronomer, mathematician and author of numerous books including the landmark "A Brief History of Time," which has sold more than 10 million copies.   With fellow physicist Roger Penrose, Hawking merged Einstein"s theory of relativity with quantum theory to suggest that space and time would begin with the Big Bang and end in black holes. Hawking also discovered that black holes were not completely black but emit radiation and would likely eventually evaporate and disappear.   "A star just went out in the cosmos," Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist,  wrote...