It might not be Half Life 3 (or Half Life 2 Episode 3, as it were).
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It has a 30-year half life, and has been associated with higher muscle cancer risk.
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As for whether or not Half Life 3 could be a launch title for the Steam Box, Newell was mum.
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Gearbox Software made its name making Half Life spin-off games, and are entirely confident with what makes a good FPS experience.
Because of the short half life of radioactive iodine (8 days), in a month or so the water should be fine again.
And I think we would find, if we measured it, that the half life of a technology company is shorter than that.
Valve had helped to foster a vibrant game-playing community, creating influential titles such as Half Life, Team Fortress 2 and DOTA 2, it said.
The main problem here lies on scientists have placed 50% remaining rule on each half life and that half life is meant to be a very long years.
While elevated iodine has been most widely reported, its 8-day half life is very short, and iodine tablets offer good protection from the primary long-term health risk: thyroid cancer.
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But if Valve wants to launch Steam Box with an initially exclusive title to draw users to the platform, the Half Life games are the biggest guns in their closet.
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And the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is considering whether to nominate Nairobi Half Life for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category -- the first time a Kenyan movie has been considered.
In addition the chief executive of Valve - the creator of the influential science fiction games Half Life and Portal, as well as the Steam community and marketplace - was honoured with an Academy Fellowship, Bafta's highest accolade.
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From a molecular perspective, Lucentis was designed to stay in the eye and have a short half-life (two hours), while Avastin was designed to enter the circulatory system and to stick around to fight off cancer (a half-life of 20 days).
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She spent half her life in Haiti and the other half in the United States.
Its half-life the time taken for half the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay is 109 minutes, compared with two minutes for oxygen-15, ten minutes for nitrogen-13 and 20 minutes for carbon-11.
The half-life of a public corporation today is about 30 years: ten half-lives out 300 years hence we may expect only one in a million to survive.
Dioxin, which is fat soluble, has a "half-life" of seven years in the body: It takes that long to break down half the quantity of the compound.
Let me just assure you that first of all I have spent half of my adult life in the public sector in government in the United States and politics and the other half of my adult life in academe in the United States as a professor.
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But cesium-134, which has a half-life of only two years, clearly came from the meltdowns, the researchers say.
The still-not-publisher of Half-Life 3 is of course no stranger to furious speculation about its intentions.
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"I've been working half my life or more at this (comedy) thing, " Maron says.
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Those hot stocks turned out to have a half-life not much longer than iodine-131's.
Once read they will self-destruct in your brain faster than the half-life of radioactive cobalt.
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She was a twenty-nine-year-old electrical engineer who had spent half her life in England.
He hadn't even turned 25 himself, but he'd been a star for more than half his life.
Working in the computer industry, my work is focused on technology that has the half-life of sushi.
If they launch the system alongside Half-Life 3 and some other first-party gems, this could make huge waves.
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Like other Valve titles recently released to Steam for Linux, Half-Life 2 is merely a beta for now.
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