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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:28:58 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman''s MQ-4C Triton Long-Range Drone Completes First Flight]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:28:58 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman&apos;&apos;s MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft is one step closer to serving the Navy in reconnaissance and surveillance missions, having just completed its first flight. The drone spent 80 minutes in the air, reaching an altitude of 20,000 feet. That&apos;&apos;s child&apos;&apos;s play compared to the aircraft&apos;&apos;s full potential: according to the Navy, it can soar at up to 60,000 feet and stay airborne for as long as 30 hours, due in no small part to its 130-foot wingspan. By 2015, the Triton will undergo operational testing and evaluation, and the Navy hopes to add additional aircraft to its existing fleet (currently just two strong).]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[IBM''s Watson Conquers Jeopardy, Cancer and Now Customer Service]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 10:38:58 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[IBM thinks that they can revolutionize customer service using their Watson supercomputer. Famous for beating two of the world&apos;&apos;s top Jeopardy! players in 2011, and then going to medical school for oncology and utilization management, Watson is now being tasked with reducing the irritation associated with calling customer service departments.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[US Navy''s X-47B Becomes First Unmanned Jet to Launch from a Carrier]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:59:07 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Off the coast of Virginia, on the deck of the USS George H. W. Bush, the US Navy made history by successfully launching the first unmanned aircraft.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dogs: From Fearsome Predator to Man''s Best Friend]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:59:06 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Scientists are zeroing in on some of the genes that were crucial to the rewiring of canine brains in the transition from wolves to domesticated dogs.????]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New Hampshire Town Suing "Robin Hood" Group for Filling Strangers'' Parking Meters]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 11:49:05 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A lawsuit in New Hampshire, a state where they take their slogan - Live Free or Die - seriously, is setting the city of Keene against a group of citizens fighting &quot;the violent monopoly&quot; by putting money in the about-to-expire parking meters of strangers. The action is known as &quot;Robin Hooding in Keene,&quot; and there are various ways in which practitioners do it. The specific activity that the city has a problem with is when the Robin Hooders follow the city&apos;&apos;s parking enforcement officers and, in the city&apos;&apos;s words, taunt, interfere, harass and intimidate them. Keene officials say the situation is causing its parking officials to think about quitting. A spokesman for the Robin Hooders argues that videoing and talking to the enforcement officers isn&apos;&apos;t harassment. The city isn&apos;&apos;t suing to get them to stop, but it is suing to establish a 50-foot safety zone around the parking meter officers in order to prevent the interactions. There are six members of the group who are named in the suit. There are videos of Robin Hooding on YouTube which show what kinds of forms it takes. Let us know if you think it helps or hinders the city&apos;&apos;s case in the poll below.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin''s Phonetic Alphabet]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 07:59:21 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin, along with advocating for the turkey at the US national symbol, writing an almanac, experimenting with electricity, inventing bifocals, and helping to found the United States, also proposed a new, simplified alphabet. Franklin came up with it in 1768, and Noah Webster published it in 1789. He dropped some letters, came up with new ones for common phonemes, and assigned only one sound for each letter. ?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Astronaut''s Bowie Cover Farewell]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:18:38 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Canadian commander Chris Hadfield has shared with the world his cover version of David Bowie&apos;&apos;s Space Oddity, which he recorded on the International Space Station.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[12-Cylinder ''LS12'' Will Blow Your Mind, Doors Off]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 17:58:44 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[So there you are on May 1 minding your own business on the internet when a forum user called &quot;V12Baker&quot; uploads a picture of the engine block above. But you&apos;&apos;re on the LS1 forum, a site devoted to the legendary V8s made by General Motors, and that&apos;&apos;s a V12. V12Baker explains that he sliced two LS1 engines and used the pieces to not only make an LS12, but also a V4 with the leftovers. That is probably when, like user &quot;3.8redbird,&quot; you write &quot;April Fools day is April 1st not May 1st.&quot; But the engine is real, built by a guy named Ray and his partners in a shop in Seattle, WA. Ray said they wanted to make a V12 engine for a plane, and after experimenting with Buick 215 engine blocks they got around to the LS. With a stock stroke and a 4.4-inch sleeve, the result is a 545 cubic inch motor (8.9 liters) that fires like a V16 short of four cylinders. Their first two LS12 builds went into a 3/4-scale P51 Mustang, and a Chevrolet Tahoe two years ago. The Tahoe engine, only the second build, was said to get around 525 horsepower. They now have the parts to make five more LS12s and are refining their technique, working on simpler solutions for the crankshafts - they machined the first crankshafts from a solid piece of steel, but that&apos;&apos;s crazy expensive. One of the engines is already slated to receive a massive Littlefield supercharger and &quot;might find its way into a long-nosed 240Z.&quot; That Z, mind you, will also be getting its own chassis since the decades-old original item couldn&apos;&apos;t begin to handle the power. Check out EngineLabs.com for more on the build, and a brief walkaround of the engine in the video below. For the long story, the link to LS1 forums is where the story begins - and where you&apos;&apos;ll discover that the V4 is apparently the perfect size for a Harley-Davidson.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Plants ''Talk'' Through Fungus Network]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 17:58:43 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Researchers show that plants can communicate the need to protect themselves from attack by aphids by making use of an underground network of fungi.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NASA Releases Amazing Image of Giant "Solar Whip"]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 17:58:43 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[As our sun heads to its 11 year solar maximum, NASA has captured, during a solar flare, this amazing picture of a giant &quot;solar whip&quot; last week. A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what&apos;&apos;s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA&apos;&apos;s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT, just as an M5.7 class solar flare from the same region was subsiding. The images include light from the 131-, 171- and 304-angstrom wavelengths.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[What Photoshop''s Move to the Cloud Actually Means for You]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 09:38:48 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Adobe Photoshop, along with all other Creative Suite applications, just made a move to the cloud. Adobe decided to discontinue software you can actually buy so they can force you to rent the applications for a monthly fee. This change comes with a number of problems but also some advantages. Here&apos;&apos;s what the change means to you.?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Historical Increase In Corn Yield -- It''s In The Roots]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 11:09:04 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Madison, WI, March 16, 2009 -- One of the most significant developments in agricultural growth in modern times has been the continuous and substantial increase in corn yield over the past 80 years in the U.S. Corn Belt. This extraordinary yield advance has been associated with both breeding of improved hybrids and the ability to grow them at increased density. In a new study, published in the January-February issue of Crop Science, researchers have investigated the importance of the effects of leaves and roots on this dramatic increase in yield in the U.S. Corn Belt, and have found that the root structure may be the key to understanding how these crops have grown so efficient. One associated change in the traits of these corn crops has been a more erect leaf angle, which is known to create greater efficiency in converting incident light to biomass. Over the years, detailed studies have shown that the increase in total biomass accumulated through sustained photosynthesis is one of the key factors explaining the yield increase.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Is Fukushima''s Fallout Affecting Marine Life?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 13:49:02 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Fukushima nuclear disaster delivered an unprecedented amount of radioactivity into the sea over a relatively brief time. How did that pulse of cesium and other radioisotopes make its way through the marine food chain? Scott Fowler, who helped pioneer marine radioecology for more than 30 years at the International Atomic Energy Agency&apos;&apos;s Marine Environment Laboratories, offered a primer on the subject at the Fukushima and the Ocean Conference in Tokyo in November 2012.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Atoms Star in World''s Smallest Movie]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 09:49:11 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[IBM scientists use a few dozen atoms as stars in their film A Boy and his Atom, which has garnered the title of world&apos;&apos;s smallest movie.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Here''s What Google''s Self-Driving Car Can?See]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:38:21 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Google&apos;&apos;s self-driving cars could be on the street sooner than you think. After successful early tests, Google engineers have hinted that the cars are about five years away from being ready for the masses.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA["BX442" --The First Spiral Galaxy in the Universe?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:18:33 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[It seems that, so far, it is: In July of 2012, astronomers observed a spiral galaxy in the early universe, billions of years before many other spiral galaxies formed while using the Hubble Space Telescope. They were taking pictures of about 300 very distant galaxies in the early universe to study their properties. This distant spiral galaxy they discovered ?existed roughly three billion years after the Big Bang, and light from this part of the universe has been traveling to Earth for about 10.7 billion years.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Google''s Eric Schmidt Zeroes in on New Digital Age]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:28:47 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The co-author of &quot;The New Digital Age&quot; talks with CBS News about ancient technology (IBM PCs, floppy disks) and more contemporary concerns, from copyrights to cyberwarfare.?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[World''s Fastest Sailboat Attempts Transpacific Speed Record]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:28:46 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Hidden away in a California workshop, a team of French sailors is prepping for a shot at a world speed record for sailboats.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[MacBook Pro Declared ''Best Performing'' Windows Laptop]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:18:46 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A PC services company placed Apple computers in the No.1 and No. 6 slots as the best performing Windows laptops.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA["ET Calling" --NASA Launches Three ''Smartphone'' Satellites]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:08:48 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Three &quot;PhoneSats&quot; rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.&apos;&apos;s Antares rocket from NASA&apos;&apos;s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia. The goal of NASA&apos;&apos;s PhoneSat mission is to determine whether a consumer-grade smartphone - such as the Nexus One phones running Android- can be used as the main flight avionics of a capable, yet very inexpensive, satellite. The small, low-cost, powerful satellites are designed for for atmospheric or Earth science, communications, or other space-born applications, and will open up space to commercial, academic and citizen-space users.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New York''s First Passive House Would Have No Problem Hiding From the Predator]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:38:41 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Earlier today we talked about the Living Building Challenge, a certification system that rates the sustainability of a building over the course of a year. Here&apos;&apos;s a follow-up about 23 Park Place, a Park Slope townhouse that&apos;&apos;s probably the most energy efficient home in the city, thanks to its Passive House certification.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bacteria ''Can Produce Diesel Fuel'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:18:43 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A strain of bacteria is created that can produce a synthetic fuel almost identical to conventional diesel, a study suggests.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tetris Video Game ''Fixes Lazy Eye'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:08:42 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Canadian doctors say they have found an inventive way to treat lazy eye - playing the video game Tetris.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Who''s to Blame When a Driverless Car Goes Astray?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 17:48:47 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Detroit will be host this June to a Driverless Car Summit. Over two days, you will allegedly learn everything there is to know.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Britain''s Morgan Traces Its Family And Model Heritage]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 08:28:42 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[There are various points of entry to an exploration of England&apos;&apos;s Morgan Motor Company, and ancestry research company Genes Reunited takes the method of family history. Morgan has been run by three generations of the family, starting with Harry F. S. Morgan - that&apos;&apos;s him sitting on the three-wheeler he invented in 1909. In this brief but highly informative video, the company&apos;&apos;s archivist and museum curator, Martyn Webb, takes us on a trip through 104 years of Morgan stewardship.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[What''s Next For 3-D Printing? Car Bodies]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:38:53 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Three-D printing is stepping out of the basements of hobbyists and onto the factory floor. And the changes it will usher in will make the plastics revolution seem like a blip in the timeline of manufacturing technologies. To take just one example of something that isn&apos;&apos;t so practical even today, consider how you would add rigidity to specific sections of an object-say, a car fender. Here&apos;&apos;s what Wired magazine had to say about it, in an article about the Urbee, a car whose fender and the rest of the car body is almost entirely manufactured with advanced 3-D printing techniques: &quot;When applied to the right spots, this makes for a fender that&apos;&apos;s as resilient as the one on your Prius, but much lighter. That translates to less weight to push, and a lighter car means more miles per gallon.&quot;]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Construction of World''s Largest Optical Telescope Approved]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:08:45 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[If you love eye-popping images of space, here&apos;&apos;s welcome news: the Hawaiian Board of Land and Natural Resources has backed building what&apos;&apos;s to be the world&apos;&apos;s largest, most powerful optical telescope above the clouds atop the volcano Mauna Kea. The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) will have a primary mirror of 492 segments measuring some 100 feet across, giving it the power to image objects 13 billion light years away, near the beginning of the universe.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The PC Market Hasn''t Been This Bad Since IBM Released Its First PC]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:57:45 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[When Microsoft released Windows 8 last fall, a lot of people thought it could be the PC&apos;&apos;s savior, a hip-looking new thing that made those clunky IBM-compatibles cool again. In fact, it&apos;&apos;s quite the opposite. New research from IDC shows that PC sales just dropped by the greatest margin ever ?&quot; or at least in the past two decades that the firm&apos;&apos;s been keeping records. In the first quarter of 2013, the number of PCs sold dropped by 13.9 percent, the fourth consecutive quarterly decline. ...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Cities Turn Sewage Into ''Black Gold'' For Local Farms]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:57:44 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[On a normal day, Kansas City, Mo., processes more than 70 million gallons of raw sewage. This sewage used to be a nuisance, but Kansas City, and a lot of municipalities around the country, are now turning it into a resource for city farmers hard up for fertilizer. After the sewage has been processed at a treatment plant, it&apos;&apos;s piped out to Birmingham Farm on the north side of the Missouri River. Tim Walters is the chief agronomist for Kansas City who runs Birmingham. He&apos;&apos;s got the 1,350-acre farm plumbed with pipes to disperse the smelly stuff.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NASA''s Asteroid Capture Mission: Photos]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:57:44 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Heineken''s "Smart" Beer Bottles Create a Synchronized Light Show]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 07:47:43 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Heineken is introducing a new twist on the ordinary beer bottle with the Heineken Ignite, which uses LEDs and wireless sensors to light up when two bottles are clinked together and flashes in time with music...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[See Ya, Segway! We''ve Got a Suitcase Electric Scooter Now]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:57:43 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A designer with sports car design street cred creates a sleek, easy-to-pack electric scooter for commuters. Segway scooters are still kind of cool, but they have the disadvantage of being big. It&apos;&apos;s a bit difficult to just pack one up, take it on your morning public transportation commute, and then saddle up to ride it to the office. Israeli designer Amir Zaid is thinking smaller than Segway when it comes to his all-electric MUV-e scooter. It&apos;&apos;s small enough to fold up into a suitcase-sized bundle.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Hands-on With Freefly''s Shockingly Awesome $15,000 Movi Camera Gimbal]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:27:43 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the hottest gadgets at NAB isn&apos;&apos;t quite what you&apos;&apos;d expect. Freefly, the company behind a series of professional-grade cinema hexacopters, is demoing its new Movi three-axis stabilized camera gimbal. We heard some rumblings about such a device last week, but the $15,000 price tag is quite a turnoff -- until you see it in action.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Researchers Wrangle Microscopic Particles With Sonic Lasso]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:48:29 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[When you think about it, scientists and cowboys have a lot in common. Both are frontiersmen of a sort, both wear clothes that make them easy to identify and now they both count lassos among their essential tools. Researchers at the University of Bristol and the University of Dundee have wrangled small particles and cells by using a sonic (or ultrasonic) vortex. The whirl of sound waves allowed the teams to catch, move and orient microscopic particles, all without actually contacting them physically, which makes the solution ideal for handling delicate material. Professor Bruce Drinkwater from Bristol even suggested it could one day be used to assemble human tissue (custom assembled livers, anyone?). The sonic lasso is quite a bit more complex and less portable than its rope-based cousin, involving a circular device with 16 sources of acoustic waves. If you&apos;&apos;re looking for more technical details you&apos;&apos;ll find a link to the recently published paper titled, Dexterous manipulation of microparticles using Bessel-function acoustic pressure fields at the source.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Micron''s 320GB/sec Hybrid Memory Cube Comes to Market in 2013, Threatens to Finally Kill DDR SDRAM]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:48:28 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium, which consists of such silicon luminaries as Micron, Samsung, and IBM (but not Intel), has finally finished hammering out the Hybrid Memory Cube 1.0 standard. The HMC is a complete paradigm shift away from conventional DDR1/2/3 SDRAM sticks (DIMMs), offering up to 15 times the performance of DDR3, while using 70% less energy. Just to whet your appetite, HMC 1.0 has a max bandwidth of 320GB/sec to a nearby CPU or GPU - PC3-24000 DDR3 SDRAM, on the other hand, maxes out at just 24GB/sec.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Turning Tires into Gas for Energy and New, Valuable Materials]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:38:27 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Tire recycling represents an untapped opportunity, that may prove a success if processing costs do not become prohibitive.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Math Problems Are a Problem for Job-seekers, Employers Say]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:38:26 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Before job-seekers fill out an application for work making foam products for the aerospace industry at General Plastics Manufacturing Co. in Tacoma, Wash., they have to take a math test. Eighteen questions, 30 minutes, and using a calculator is OK.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[April Fools'' Gadgets: You''ll Wish Some of These Were Real]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:07:46 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[From a Play-Doh 3D printer to speakers for hamsters, tech companies pull out the tall tales in honor of April Fools&apos;&apos; 2013.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NASA and Lockheed Martin Finish MAVEN Probe, Hope to Study Mars'' Upper Skies]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:18:23 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Us humans are surprisingly familiar with Mars&apos;&apos; surface, yet we haven&apos;&apos;t studied its higher altitudes -- an odd discrepancy when the sky plays as much of a role as the soil in determining the planet&apos;&apos;s climate. We&apos;&apos;ll get a better balance in our research now that NASA and Lockheed Martin have finished constructing the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution probe, or MAVEN. The robot craft will learn how quickly the Martian atmosphere is escaping into space and give us a better idea of how the planet&apos;&apos;s arid landscape came to be. Lockheed Martin still needs to conduct space simulation tests and ship MAVEN to the Kennedy Space Center, but the ship should launch in November and deliver results roughly a year later; that&apos;&apos;s a quick turnaround for a probe that could answer riddles spanning millions of years.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why GM''s 2.0-Liter Diesel is Cleaner in America''s Cruze Than it is in Europe]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:08:22 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The 2014 Chevrolet Cruze will have three different engine options soon, including the new 2.0-liter diesel powerplant that is debuting here at the Chicago Auto Show. The other powertrain choices include the made-in-Toledo 1.4 turbo gas engine used in the Eco and upper trim models and the 1.8-liter gas engine (made in Toluca, Mexico; it is also built elsewhere for other vehicles). The diesel is made in Kaiserslautern, Germany. In short, this is an example of GM&apos;&apos;s global network, and the oil-burner is a long-term player in the game: the basic architecture of this engine has been sold since 1985. GM sold over a half-million diesel-powered cars around the world in the last year, including 33,000 Cruze diesels. In Europe, 40-percent of Cruze sales are diesel. The engine is currently used in a number of General Motors vehicles in Europe, including Zafira, Astra and Insignia models from Opel. Well, almost. Mike Siegrist, chief engineer behind the US engine, tells AutoblogGreen that Chevrolet engineers in the US worked with GM&apos;&apos;s team in Torino, Italy to adapt the powerplant for GM&apos;&apos;s first US diesel passenger car since the 1986 Chevette. To do this, the team tinkered with four main aspects: emissions, diagnostics, environmental conditions (that is, how hot or cold it is outside) and altitude. Siegrist notes the US has higher paved roads - Mount Evans in Colorado, for example - than Europe does, and it also has stricter emissions regulations, all of which necessitated the changes. Thus, the US Cruze TD has a new intake manifold and throttle body system and an increased capacity exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler that offers better NOx control, Siegrist said. A common rail piezo injection system running at 1,600 bar (the European engine runs at 2,000 bar) offers &quot;really, really good fuel control,&quot; Siegrist says. To start in colder conditions, the US diesel engine has ceramic glow plugs while the Europeans get metal glow plugs. There is also an engine oil heater that can be plugged in if you&apos;&apos;re trying to start the Cruze in frostbite conditions.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Lenses Could ''Cure Colour-Blindness'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:08:21 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Scientists say they have invented spectacle lenses that cure red-green colour blindness, which affects some women and one in every 10 men.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Robotic Snakes & Worms Get Under Your Skin]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:38:02 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The majority of robots modeled after snakes and worms are designed for rescue and medical operations.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Killing Silicon: Inside IBM''s Carbon Nanotube Computer Chip Lab]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:08:04 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[At IBM&apos;&apos;s Watson Research Center in upstate New York, some of the world&apos;&apos;s best physicists, chemists, and nanoengineers are trying to create the first high-density, self-assembling carbon nanotube computer chip process.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nokia Begins Work on Graphene, World''s Strongest Material]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:48:06 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The mobile-phone maker receives a $1.35 billion grant to work on development of the 2D wonder-material that is stronger, lighter, and thinner than anything else on earth.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nvidia - Here''s How We Built Our Shield Game Player]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:08:04 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Still a prototype, the Android-based portable gaming device heralds a shift for Nvidia from purely processors to consumer hardware.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Assembling Living Tissue with 3D Maglev Tech: A biohacker''s Dream Come True]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:07:49 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The handmaiden of scientific discovery is a new tool. Good researchers build their own instruments and nowadays the best among them often seek to commercialize their successes for others to expand upon. Nothing says look at what my instrument can do better in the the age of commercial science than a new discovery. Engineers at Nano3D Biosciences recently showcased a new technology in which they magnetically levitate four kinds of cells and assemble them into realistic lung tissue. Not only do they not mind if you use their techniques for yourself, they have made a Mad Scientist kit available free of charge to any serious user, and offered hard cash incentives for the most innovative use of their product. Entry into the brave new world of biohacking just got a whole lot easier. Artifical organs-on-a-chip have replicated many of the essential functions of the different organ systems of the body, including lungs. Typically these successes have been difficult to scale up to sizes where a human might benefit from them. Most organs involve metabolic exchange and conditioning across 2D surfaces which are in turn organized into a higher order geometry that further optimizes their function. Attempts to create all-natural replacement organs through 3D printing technologies have been encouraging for simple bladders or valves, but the fractal organization of more complex vascularized tissues has been more difficult to reproduce. Mainly this is because the simultaneous expression of unique adhesion elements on the different component cells can not yet be coordinately controlled. Also the organizing influence of oxygen and nutrient gradients are not present in the absence of capillary beds. The result is that the cells typically coalesce to simpler forms lacking the structural and functional richness of the prototypical parent organ.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Adrienne Arsenault: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at BlackBerry''s Strategy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:57:51 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[CBC&apos;&apos;s Adrienne Arsenault takes an unprecedented look inside the high-tech Waterloo, Ont., complex where earnest young programmers hope their work on the BlackBerry 10 smartphone will spawn a comeback.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Iran ''Sends Monkey Into Space'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 08:58:05 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Iran&apos;&apos;s defence ministry announces that it has successfully launched a monkey into space.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Artiphon''s ''Instrument 1'' iPhone Powered Multi-Instrument]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:18:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Music, MIDI and mobile? Seen that before, right? Well, yeah, but sometimes something comes along that surprises everyone. Artiphon&apos;&apos;s Instrument 1 is one such thing. And after all, there&apos;&apos;s more than one way to crack a nut. Artiphon&apos;&apos;s method involves creating a high-quality muli-instrument device that uses an iPhone or iPod touch as its brain. So, this is no plastic (bear with us) &quot;appcessory.&quot; The Instrument 1 is made out of special quality African hardwood, and centers around an intentionally ambiguous design. There is a pair of high-quality custom speakers that give impressive 30W onboard sound. There is, of course, a line out and MIDI in / out too. The prototype we saw today doesn&apos;&apos;t have a built-in battery, but final production models will, making this a truly portable, complete solution. Dr Mike Butera, the firm&apos;&apos;s founder, was keen to explain to us that this is intended not to replicate one specific device (though it does a great job of guitar, violin, banjo and more), but rather to enable musicians to be able to work in a way they want to. The Instrument 1 works with any core MIDI enabled app, but there are plans to release a companion app for more detailed / custom mappings in the future. We got a private tour of the device, to tip-toe past the break for more.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Intel''s Yolo Low-Cost Smartphone Debuts]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:28:06 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Intel&apos;&apos;s low-cost smartphone will be sold for the first time in Kenya, the chipmaker announced today.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[''Big Bang Theory'' Star Creates TV Show About Real Prodigies]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:27:44 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[It&apos;&apos;s looking like the TV show &quot;The Big Bang Theory&quot; may become a reality series, of sorts. Jim Parsons, one of the show&apos;&apos;s geek protagonists, is working on creating a television series that profiles real-life young geniuses, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series will be based on a YouTube show by the THNKR channel called &quot;Prodigies.&quot; &quot;I knew within a few minutes of viewing my first episode of &apos;&apos;Prodigies&apos;&apos; that I wanted to be a part of the team bringing the digital series to a wider audience via television. Spending time with these geniuses, these children; soaring and struggling with their gifts and their talents is inspiring and entertaining in a way that great television is,&quot; Parsons said in a statement, according to The Hollywood Reporter. &quot;&apos;&apos;Prodigies&apos;&apos; reveals something about the human spirit with such joy and insight, which is why it achieved such a passionate following on the Internet.&quot;]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[25 Bizarre Aircraft That Don''t Look Like They Should Fly]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:47:12 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Aerospace engineers have come up with some revolutionary forward-thinking amazing straight-up insane designs. Sometimes these dreams never make it off the drawing board, but sometimes-some wonderful times-they become real. And when these alien bodies lift off into the firmament, it&apos;&apos;s like watching a spaceship transporting the human race directly into the future. Check these amazing planes out.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[3D Printer to Carve Out World''s First Full-Size Building]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:17:34 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A Dutch architect sets to work creating a two-story &quot;Landscape House&quot; built entirely from a 3D printer.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[How Is Microsoft''s Surface Tablet Doing?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:57:54 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Surface tablet has been on the market for nearly three months, and analysts say it has not done well. Brent Thill, an analyst at UBS Investment Research, estimates that Microsoft sold just one million Surface tablets in the fourth quarter - half his original estimate of two million. Some other analysts estimate that sales were even lower.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Audi Shows Off ''Piloted Driving'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:48:10 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Audi&apos;&apos;s booth was visually the most arresting we&apos;&apos;ve seen this year because it was both packed to overflowing with people and beautiful shiny things and because the floor, ceiling and walls were really brightly lit. In one wing Audi had set up a car cockpit in front of a few massive displays to simulate toodling down Las Vegas Boulevard in a self-driving car equipped with its Piloted Driving system.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Flu Widespread, Leading a Range of Winter''s Ills]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:28:07 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The United States is in the grip of an early start to the annual flu season with an unusually aggressive virus, a new type of norovirus, and the worst outbreak of whooping cough in decades.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Autodesk and the Cloud, Part 1: Customers ''Absolutely'' Will Have a Choice]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 14:28:07 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[At Autodesk University 2012, CEO Carl Bass says desktop tools are not going away - for now - and users should move to online apps only if it makes good business sense.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Does Drinking Alcohol Really Keep You Warm When It''s Cold Out?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:58:27 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Here&apos;&apos;s something tailgaters, ice skaters, skiers and other cold weather fans might want to keep in mind: Drinking boozy beverages will make you feel warmer, but it doesn&apos;&apos;t actually keep you warm or prevent hypothermia. Instead, drinking alcohol lowers the core temperature of your body. According to Dr. William Haynes, director of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Iowa, &quot;Consumption of alcohol undoes many of the human body&apos;&apos;s healthy reflexes, one of which is keeping the core body temperature warm in cold weather.&quot; It doesn&apos;&apos;t even take that much for this effect to kick in-just one alcoholic drink will start the process that results in a lowered core body temperature. How does alcohol do this, and why does drinking alcohol make you feel warmer, even though you actually are getting colder?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Day With NYC''s Pothole Crew]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:58:26 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The Daily Pothole is a blog tracking the number of potholes filled each day in New York City. It&apos;&apos;s published by NYC DOT workers who call themselves the &quot;pothole gang&quot;: this is the core group who track the potholes on a mega-spreadsheet and dispatch workers to fix them. And there&apos;&apos;s a lot to be done; on January 7 alone the site reported that 1,325 potholes were repaired. Last year, more than 200,000 potholes were repaired. This is a busy, tough job. Here&apos;&apos;s a short film following six members of a pothole crew for a quick look into how it works.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Most physicians do not meet Medicare quality reporting requirements]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:48:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[On 8 January 1851, using a device known as Foucault&apos;&apos;s pendulum, Frenchman L?on Foucault demonstrated that the Earth rotates on its axis. He discovered that if a long pendulum with a heavy weight was set swinging, the plane in which it was swinging would appear to rotate.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Microgrid Powers Haiti''s Homes]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:28:06 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Earthspark International has worked with community partners to build a microgrid, utilizing pre-pay services to deliver electricity to rural Haiti.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Why the Kilogram is Iverweight]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:08:09 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Just like the rest of us, the kilogram has put on a bit of weight - and a little dose of sunshine may be the way to get it back down to size.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[All-Robot Band Plays Motorhead''s ''Ace of Spades'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:28:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Gonna be hard for CES to top this.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Not a Blimp, Not a Plane: The Gigantic Aeroscraft Is Ready, and It''s Awesome]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 09:08:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[This is a new type of rigid aircraft. It&apos;&apos;s not a blimp, and it&apos;&apos;s not an airplane, but this thing has the potential to alter the way we understand travel and completely change military transportation. You can see a video of its first move here.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Pathway for Protons: Efficient Delivery to Material''s Center Turns Oxygen Cleanly Into Water]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:17:52 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[(Phys.org)?&quot;Pushing protons around may sound like a small task, but it is a big part of energy independence for the United States. Moving four relatively large protons to where they are needed is easier if you build a path, as is being done by scientists at the Center for Molecular Electrocatalysis. The research team has built two iron-based compounds that help protons move from the exterior to where they are needed. Once delivered, the protons bond with molecular oxygen, O2, and create water. In previous compounds, the protons often don&apos;&apos;t arrive in time or go to the wrong place, which leads to forming the unwanted byproduct hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The new compounds direct the protons in ways that help separate the two oxygen atoms in O2, and thereby drives the reaction to completion.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Don''t Try This at Home: Researchers Use tDCS to Release Your Brain''s Strongest Opioid Painkillers]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:07:54 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A team of international researchers headed up by the University of Michigan has used noninvasive transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to release endogenous opioids - the human body&apos;&apos;s most powerful, euphoria-inducing painkillers that are very similar to opiates such as morphine. This approach is significant because releasing these opioids is as simple as strapping a couple of damp sponges to your scalp and attaching a 9-volt battery. tDCS is a new application of neuroscience that is frankly a little bit scary. Basically, by applying a very small current to your scalp (2 milliamps), you can alter the behavior of neurons in your brain. When we&apos;&apos;ve written about tDCS before, it has been used to alter the speed at which your neurons fire, and to alter their neuroplasticity - in other words, tDCS can make you react faster, and learn things faster. This is proven, and has already been used by DARPA to speed up the training of military snipers.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[History''s Weirdest Fad Diets]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:27:44 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Was this parasite-based diet history&apos;&apos;s weirdest eating fad?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Adafruit''s Circuit Playground Show to Teach Kids About Electronics with Cute Components]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:58:05 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Adafruit already welcomes newcomers to do-it-yourself device culture, but it still assumes a certain amount of comfort with coding and soldering. The shop now wants to accommodate the most basic of beginners by starting a children&apos;&apos;s web series that teaches electronics. Circuit Playground will provide activities, songs and stories that put a friendly face on engineering, in some ways very directly: many of the shows will involve big-eyed characters (and, naturally, corresponding toys) like Cappy the Capacitor. Although the series doesn&apos;&apos;t start until March, it could be vital to a generation of kids growing up immersed in technology -- and ultimately create a larger customer base for Adafruit in the process.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NASA''s NEXT Ion Drive Breaks World Record, Will Eventually Power Interplanetary Missions]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:58:04 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Proving yet again that Star Trek was scarily prescient, NASA has announced that its NEXT ion drive - NASA&apos;&apos;s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster - has operated continually for over 43,000 hours (five years). This is an important development, as ion thrusters are pegged as one of the best ways to power long-term deep-space missions to other planets and solar systems. With a proven life time of at least five years, NEXT engines just made a very big step towards powering NASA&apos;&apos;s next-gen spacecraft. Ion thrusters work, as the name suggests, by firing ions (charged atoms or molecules) out of a nozzle at high speed (pictured above). In the case of NEXT, operation is fairly simple. Xenon (a noble gas) is squirted into a chamber. An electron gun (think cathode ray tube TV) fires electrons at the xenon atoms, creating a plasma of negative and positive ions. The positive ions diffuse to the back of the chamber, where high-charged accelerator grids grabs the ions and propel them out of the engine, creating thrust. The energy to power the electron gun can either come from solar panels, or from a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (i.e. a nuclear battery, just like Curiosity).]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wikipedia''s Most-Viewed Articles in 2012 Were...]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 09:18:05 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[What people searched for on the Web encyclopedia this past year was mostly to be expected -- like actors, musicians, and world events -- but there were a few oddball entries too. [Read more]]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[China Claims World''s Longest High-Speed Rail Line, Takes Travelers 1,428 Miles in a Workday]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:48:04 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[China has a thing for pushing the limits of trains. As of today, that includes distance: the country claims to have the world&apos;&apos;s longest high-speed rail line. Paying ?865 ($139) will take you 1,428 miles from Beijing in the north to as far as Guangzhou in the south. The 8-hour, 186MPH trip is technically slower than flying, but it&apos;&apos;s cheaper and potentially less stressful than the often protracted airport boarding process. It&apos;&apos;s certainly far more viable than the 20-hour rail trip it&apos;&apos;s replacing, which could lead to some locals choosing a ground route that wasn&apos;&apos;t even a realistic option until now.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[NCKU''s i-Transport Robot Wheelchair Helps Riders Reach Full Height]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 09:48:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Those who have to use a wheelchair are often bound to the elevation of the seat if they want to reach something, which isn&apos;&apos;t fair when some parts of our world are still built for standing height. Taiwan&apos;&apos;s National Cheng Kung University is redressing that imbalance with the i-Transport. Its robotic vehicle can raise the driver to an upright level and shift them into a better position to grab objects that wouldn&apos;&apos;t otherwise be at arm&apos;&apos;s length. The added independence doesn&apos;&apos;t stop with the assistance, either, as the i-Transport carries its own blood pressure and breathing monitors to keep checkups to a minimum. NCKU hasn&apos;&apos;t said how likely it is that we&apos;&apos;ll see the robot enter mass production, but we hope it forges ahead -- the potential freedom would be worth the effort.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Xsens Teases Wearable 3D Body Sensors That Won''t Cost, Will Track an Arm and a Leg]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:28:17 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[When we think of full-body motion capture, we most often associate it with movie-grade equipment that demands a dedicated room, odd-looking suits and a corporate bank account to finance it all. Xsens hints that we may not have to rent a professional studio (or stand in front of a Kinect) to get complete body tracking for personal use. It&apos;&apos;s planning to show a wearable, 3D-capable tracking system at CES that uses &quot;consumer grade&quot; MEMS sensors to monitor joint positions and movement -- in other words, the kind of technology that might go into a phone&apos;&apos;s accelerometer, just strapped to our arms and legs. Further details are scarce, although Xsens is pressing for uses in everything from fitness to gaming. We&apos;&apos;d like to see partners line up so that there&apos;&apos;s a product we can buy in a store. Until then, we&apos;&apos;ll have to make do with the company&apos;&apos;s skateboard-dominated teaser clip, which you can find after the break.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Step into NASA''s Next-Generation Spacesuit]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:58:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[We take a quick peek at some of the new wear NASA says astronauts will don within a few years.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Report: New Vancouver Bridge Closed Because Design Causes "Ice Bombs" to Rain Down on Cars]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:58:10 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Spanning 10 lanes of traffic, the Port Mann Bridge (shown in the rendering above) just outside of Vancouver, Canada is currently the widest bridge in the world. Unfortunately, it might also hold a new record for the shortest period of time a new bridge has remained open. The cable-stayed bridge just opened to full traffic earlier this month, but on Wednesday it was shut down due to massive chunks of ice falling from the cables and striking vehicles, which sent at least two people to the hospital. According to CBC News, the bridge has since reopened to traffic, but apparently nothing has been done about the falling ice as the Vancouver area is slammed with a severe winter storm. Construction of the bridge began back in 2009 at a cost of more than $3 billion, but it isn&apos;&apos;t clear if any changes are needed to prevent this sort of damage from happening in the future. Images of vehicles posted on The Province show damage that ranges from shattered windows and windshields to some pretty intense body damage. Scroll down to watch a news report from CBC News as well as a time-lapse video of the bridge&apos;&apos;s construction from August 2009 through January 2012.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Wartime Pigeon Message ''Cracked'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:58:14 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A World War II coded message strapped to the remains of a pigeon has foiled Britain&apos;&apos;s top code breakers. But has a Canadian enthusiast done what the experts could not and found the key?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Are You Rever More Than 6ft Away From a Rat?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 07:58:13 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Are you really always just 6ft from a rat? The old adage has it that we&apos;&apos;re never more than six feet away from a rat - but how was this worked out, and is it true?]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Boeing B-47 Stratojet''s First Flight]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:08:04 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1947, the Boeing B-47 Stratojet bomber took to the skies for the first time.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Company Claims Creation of Harry Potter-Style Invisibility Cloak]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:48:02 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A Canadian company called Hyperstealth says that it&apos;&apos;s developed a wearable cloak that uses &quot;Quantum Stealth&quot; technology to provides complete invisibility across the visible, infrared, and ultraviolet spectrum by bending light around objects. We&apos;&apos;re pretty sure that this is mostly or entirely not true, so stick with us while we explain why we&apos;&apos;re so skeptical.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The PC''s Past and Intel''s Future]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:58:17 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Is the desktop PC on the road to oblivion? Well, let&apos;&apos;s put it this way: it&apos;&apos;s hardly an Intel priority anymore. Yeah, desktops will still be around in 2016, but it&apos;&apos;s not something Intel -- which makes most PC processors -- thinks about a lot. Survival in the age of the big-screen smartphone and tablet is what Intel thinks about.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reservoirs ''Can Affect Rainfall'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:58:12 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Researchers say large man-made reservoirs can increase the intensity of rainfall and can affect the effectiveness of flood defences.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[7 Secret Ways America''s Stealth Armada Stays Off the Radar]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 08:57:57 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The basic principles of stealth technology are well known. These aircraft-hiding techniques? Not so much.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[MIT Researchers Concoct Smallest Indium Gallium Arsenide Transistor Ever Made]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:57:59 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Researchers at MIT&apos;&apos;s Microsystems Technology Laboratories may be giving Moore&apos;&apos;s Law a new lease on life with the development of the smallest indium gallium arsenide transistor ever made, measuring up at 22-nanometers. Such transistors could produce more current when shrunken down than those based on silicon, which means chips may continue to pack in more transistors while providing a bigger punch. &quot;We have shown that you can make extremely small indium gallium arsenide MOSFETs (metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors) with excellent logic characteristics, which promises to take Moore&apos;&apos;s Law beyond the reach of silicon,&quot; says co-developer of the tech Jes?s del Alamo. The development is an encouraging step in the right direction, but the MIT team still has a long road ahead of it before the tech shows up in your gadgets. Next on the docket for the scientists is improving the transistor&apos;&apos;s electrical performance and downsizing it to below 10-nanometers. For the nitty gritty on how the transistor was built, hit the adjacent source link.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Scientists Develop Eco Battery Powered by Root-extracted Dye]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:57:58 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Scientists have been figuring out how to develop eco-friendly ways of recharging batteries for years, from harvesting temperature fluctuations to harnessing your fidgets. But perhaps a better solution is to create a different kind of battery altogether; one that uses greener sources instead of finite ingredients like cobalt. That&apos;&apos;s exactly what the whiz-kids from the City College of New York, Rice University and the US Army Research Laboratory have done with a new lithium-ion battery powered by red dye extracted from madder roots. Called rose madder or purpurin, the dye was apparently used in ancient civilizations for dying fabrics in oranges, reds and pinks. Fortunately for the future of the battery, it turns out its color molecules are also carriers of carbonyl and hydroxyl groups that make it ripe for use as an electrode and that purpurin is far easier to process than other organic materials: &quot;These aromatic systems are electron-rich molecules that easily coordinate with lithium,&quot; said CCNY Professor George John. It&apos;&apos;ll likely take years before we&apos;&apos;ll get to the point of mass production of these things, but in the future we could finally say that batteries do indeed grow from trees.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[GE Develops Ultra-Thin, Almost-Silent Cooler for Next-Gen Laptops and Tablets]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:57:58 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[General Electric has unveiled what seems to be the thinnest, high-performance cooler for the next-generation of ultra-thin tablets and laptops (pictured above). While this cooler obviously allows for slimmer designs (or more space for other components), it also uses just half the power of a comparable fan, granting a significant boost to battery life. Oh, it&apos;&apos;s almost silent, too.The technology behind GE&apos;&apos;s cooler is called DCJ - Dual Piezoelectric Cooling Jets. DCJ basically acts as a miniature pair of bellows: Expanding to suck in cool air, and then contracting to expel hot air. GE originally invented DCJ to help cool commercial jet engines, but two years ago it seems someone had the clever idea of miniaturizing the tech for use in computers - and so here we are.At 2:15 in the video below you can see the DCJ in action, inside a modern ultrabook laptop. The rest of the video is a bit fluffy, featuring lots of dramatic lighting and excessive use of protective goggles.As you can see above, GE&apos;&apos;s cooler is roughly the size and thickness of a credit card, but the press release states that the complete cooling solution (presumably including a heatsink/pipe) is 4mm. This is apparently 50% thinner than existing fan-based solutions, and obviously rather significant as we move towards tablets and laptops that are sub-8mm. Perhaps most importantly, though, according to GE VP Chris Giovanniello, &quot;DCJ can be made so quiet that users won&apos;&apos;t even know it&apos;&apos;s running.&quot; This is partly because the tech is fundamentally different from a fan - there&apos;&apos;s no blade whizzing through the air at thousands of RPM, and thus no buzzing or vibrations - but it&apos;&apos;s also because DCJ supports very localized cooling. Instead of a complex heat pipe and fan assembly, GE suggests that you might instead have a bunch of smaller, more efficient DCJs directly attached to components that need cooling. Moving forward, GE has already licensed DCJ tech to Fujikura, a Japanese thermal management company. GE is also providing OEMs with DCJ kits, so that they can test the technology out in next-generation tablets and laptops. Realistically, we should see DCJ cooling solutions sometime in the next couple of years.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Stretchy Electronics Made from Stiff ''Islands'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:47:57 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A new way to build stretchable electronics, using layers of polyurethane.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Robot ''Race'' to Fix Nuclear Plant]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 09:37:57 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Japanese company Mitsubishi has joined the race to build a radiation-resistant robot to work on the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[What is ''Game M ode''?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:18:06 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[If you&apos;&apos;ve bought a TV in the last few years, it&apos;&apos;s likely that TV has a &quot;Game mode.&quot; As you&apos;&apos;ve discovered (or will discover, now that you&apos;&apos;re looking for it), this is not some supersecret hiding place for Angry Birds.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Caltech Wizards Develop Terahertz-radiating Chips, Eye Homeland Security and ''Touchless Gaming'' Applications]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:58:05 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[A duo of electrical engineers (or mad scientists, if you prefer) at the California Institute of Technology have developed chips that could very well end up in the next James Bond movie. Or, you know, real life. The newfangled chips are capable of generating and radiating &quot;high-frequency electromagnetic waves, called terahertz (THz) waves, that fall into a largely untapped region of the electromagnetic spectrum.&quot; They can penetrate a host of materials without the ionizing damage of X-rays, and apparently, can be integrated into small, handheld devices. The university is already dreaming of potential applications -- everything from homeland security to wireless communications to health care, and even touchless gaming. In theory, this kind of work would eventually lead to noninvasive cancer diagnosis as well. The technobabble can be seen in full at the source link.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Princeton''s Nanomesh Nearly Triples Solar Cell Efficiency]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:58:05 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[There is huge potential in solar power. The sun is a giant ball of burning hydrogen in the sky, and it&apos;&apos;s going to be sticking around for at least a few more billion years. For all intents and purposes, it&apos;&apos;s a free source of energy. Sadly, humanity hasn&apos;&apos;t been very good at harnessing its power directly. Our current methods of capturing the sun&apos;&apos;s energy are very inefficient. For example, modern silicon and indium-tin-oxide-based solar cells are approaching the theoretical limit of 33.7% efficiency. Well, a research team at Princeton has used nanotechnology to create a mesh that increases efficiency over organic solar cells nearly three fold. Led by Stephen Chou, the team has made two dramatic improvements: reducing reflectivity, and more effectively capturing the light that isn&apos;&apos;t reflected. As you can see by the illustration below by Dimitri Karetnikov, Princeton&apos;&apos;s new solar cell is much thinner and less reflective. By utilizing sandwiched plastic and metal with the nanomesh, this so-called &quot;Plasmonic Cavity with Subwavelength Hole array&quot; or &quot;PlaCSH&quot; substantially reduces the potential for losing the light itself. In fact, it only reflects about 4% of direct sunlight, leading to a 52% higher efficiency than conventional, organic solar cells.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Motorcycle That Doesn''t Fall Over]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:48:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Sumi Das examines how a bike using technology found on the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope can stand up by itself.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Brain Pacemakers Show Promise in Alzheimer''s Trials, Might Open New Treatment Possibilities]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:48:04 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Deep-brain electrical stimulation has been around for awhile -- rousing folks from comas and helping researchers find new ways to treat OCD, depression and maybe even obesity. Now doctors are testing the so-called &quot;brain pacemakers,&quot; on Alzheimer&apos;&apos;s patients and the results are promising, but not conclusive. After a year of treatment, six patients showed higher glucose consumption in PET scans of the learning and memory areas of the brain -- a change that is associated with increased neuron activity. Glucose metabolism typically decrease as a result of the disease. Researchers are seeking more patients for the trial, and are optimistic that the technique could one day be used to stave off some of Alzheimer&apos;&apos;s debilitating symptoms.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[This Parrot Doesn''t Fly -- It Drives A Buggy]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:18:26 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[The bird is the word. How do you appease a 10-year-old parrot with clipped wings, a loud mouth, and separation anxiety? Give the intelligent bird a way to get around the house so it can follow you, of course.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Kohler''s Bluetooth Showerhead Sprays Songs]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:08:01 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Moxie lets you rock out in the shower. We&apos;&apos;re not quite sure about the sunglasses.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Tackling an Around-the-world Plane Flight -- Without Fossil Fuel]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 09:18:24 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Adventurers discuss the challenges they face in their bid to become first to circumnavigate the globe without fossil fuel in the Solar Impulse, a solar-powered plane that can fly at night.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Nanogenerator Uses Surrounding Environment''s Energy to Charge Batteries]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:38:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[From the pocket computers we call smartphones, to the booming tablet market, to handheld devices that display 3D imagery without glasses, just about every cutting-edge, consumer-grade technology ends up in mobile devices. Perhaps the biggest issue portables face, though, isn&apos;&apos;t the ability to house complicated tech but to simply maintain a charge. However, a team of scientists has developed a portable nanogenerator that is capable of partially charging a lithium-ion battery using ambient energy as a power source. The team of scientists composed of Sihong Wang, Ya Yang, Yan Zhang, and Zhon Lin Wang, dubbed the device &quot;PENG,&quot; which stands for pyroelectric nanogenerator. PENG gathers thermal energy through the use of the pyroelectric effect, basically how small changes in temperature have electric potential. Essentially, the nanogenerator harvests unused, potential energy from its surroundings and puts it to use. Zhong Lin Wang says that released heat is a rich source of energy that doesn&apos;&apos;t have to be wasted, and noted that in 2010, &quot;more than 50 percent of the energy generated from all sources in the US was lost mainly in the form of wasted heat.&quot;]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[US ''sees biggest Cyber Monday'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:48:04 EST</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Second Try At ''Cheapest Tablet'']]></title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 07:48:03 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Technology writer Prasanto K Roy tests the upgraded version of the world&apos;&apos;s cheapest tablet computer Aakash 2 and discovers a significantly improved product.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Reindeers Can''t Fly But Can See in UV]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:28:07 EST</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Verdict&apos;&apos;s still out on flying and pulling robust white men in big red suits, but reindeer have recently been discovered to have a pretty cool power of sorts: they can see in UV. Well, not that they can see in UV, but that they do see the world in UV.]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Best Of What''s New In Engineering]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:18:08 EST</pubDate>
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