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			<title><![CDATA[Do Brain Trainer Games and Software Work?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:18:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The market for brain-training software continues to grow, but evidence of the programs&apos; ability to boost memory or intelligence in a broadly applicable way (rather than simply making people better at the task they are practicing) remains scarce. New studies offer a tantalizing suggestion that certain programs may work--but the bulk of the research is murky.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ariane Launches the Biggest Space Satellite]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:38:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Ariane has recently launched the world&apos;s biggest commercial telecommunication satellite build for TerreStar Networks. The TerreStar-1 platform weighed seven tones at launch at it will provide voice, messaging and data connection to the North American market. The heaviest commercial satellites in the past have weighed over six tones.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[World's First Ethernet Cable]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:28:07 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Behind an ordinary door in a nondescript room hosting several printers and copiers at PARC is the world&apos;s first Ethernet cable. In 1973, Bob Metcalfe sent an internal memo to his colleagues at Xerox proposing a local system of interacting workstations, files, and printers. The devices would all be linked by one coaxial cable, he said, and would run within a local area network.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Study Dismisses Protein's Role in Heart Disease]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:18:04 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A blood protein that only a short time ago was thought by some to be more important than cholesterol in heart disease now appears to be little more than a bystander. The substance, C-reactive protein, or CRP, a marker of inflammation in the body, is unquestionably associated with heart disease: the more CRP in a person&apos;s blood, the greater the likelihood of heart disease.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Triple-Engined Car Could Smash Land-Speed Record]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:08:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[When the supersonic car Bloodhound SSC streaks across the desert sometime in 2011 in its bid to break the land speed record, it will be powered by no fewer than three different types of engine. A rocket will boost the car to around 1200 kilometres per hour, (Mach 1) while a Eurofighter jet engine will provide more controllable thrust to coax it up to 1600 km/h (1000 miles per hour). Finally, the car is equipped with a V12 petrol engine to pump the fuel and provide electrical and hydraulic power to the jet and rocket.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why Microbes are Smarter Than You Thought]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:38:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The vast majority of species on Earth are single-celled. Most of these languish in obscurity - many have never even been named - but some of the relatively few species that have been studied exhibit remarkable abilities. Many of these are physical: some micro-organisms are amazingly strong; others can hibernate for hundreds of thousands of years or thrive in environments so extreme that they would kill off most other life forms in a flash.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Toyota Demonstrates Brain Control of Wheelchair]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:38:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[An anonymous reader tips us that researchers at Toyota have developed a brain-machine interface system that allows for control of a wheelchair using thought. The system processes brain thought patterns (such as the thought of moving one&apos;s left foot) and can turn them into left, right, and forward movements of the wheelchair with a delay as short as one-eighth of a second.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[MIT's EurekaFest Showcases High School Students' Problem-solving Prototypes]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:28:02 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[EurekaFest is a yearly event held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that showcases the prototype inventions of high school students from around the country. The inventions consist of various gadgets and devices aimed at helping solve real-world problems.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Uranium found on the Moon]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:18:02 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Scientists using data from the recently-Moon-smacked Kaguya spacecraft have found evidence of radioactive elements on the lunar surface, including, for the first time, uranium! That&apos;s pretty cool. It&apos;s a little unexpected to me, too. One of the key aspects of the Moon is that it&apos;s not as dense as the Earth - in fact, it&apos;s just a bit more than half the Earth&apos;s density - so you don&apos;t expect it to have a lot of denser materials.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A What-man?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:08:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[When the Sony Walkman was launched, 30 years ago this week, it started a revolution in portable music. But how does it compare with its digital successors? The Magazine invited 13-year-old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman for a week.]]></description>
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