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But we can say something. They targeted a particle size able to provide sufficient energy density to store enough energy to drive a light electric vehicle a distance of 300 kms. This implies that any improvement in particle size will improve energ

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This article, though interesting because of the unique development history of the pineapple and the insight it casts on the lack of natural sweetening in Europe in particular is interesting to our efforts because of the description of the Indian cult

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arclein

What does it eat? It cannot run down herds of Kangaroos, nor can it prey on large herds of grazing dinosaurs that these hard cases likely hunted to extinction in their refuge a few million years ago. However, it is the perfect hunting machine for eat

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arclein

A surprise for me is the apparent scale of the comet described. It is as big as the atmosphere of Jupiter. This means that when it becomes time to terraform Venus, one such comet will be perfect. This is a much more tractable problem. Find the rig

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LiveScience

More than 47 million years ago, a whale was about to give birth to her young ... on land. That's according to skeletal remains of a pregnant cetacean whose fetus was positioned head-down as is the case for land mammals but not aquatic whales.

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LiveScience

The oldest fossilized evidence of animals has been unearthed in Oman and reveals that tiny sea sponges were abundant 635 million years ago, long before most of the planet's other major animal groups evolved.

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arclein

a nice summary of the present state of our ideas about the Earth’s interior and its magnetic engine. To be totally fair, it is complete rubbish to think in terms of swirling dynamos.

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arclein

News out of the labs on graphene is coming fast and furious. We are learning to manipulate it and to fabricate characteristics. By simply adding in hydrogen and we have no clue as to how, a single layer is turned into an insulator. Already, we can th

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gigapan.org

This inauguration photo is comprised of 220 images digitally assembled into one. You can "zoom in" so closely you can see individuals' faces in the crowd. You can even see Clarence Thomas seeming to sleep through President Obama's speech.

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LiveScience

A previously unknown species of climbing catfish has been discovered in remote Venezuela, and its strange traits are shaking the evolutionary tree for these fish. It has bony armor that protects its head and tail, and a grasping pelvic fin that helps

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Technology Review

Research shows that photonic crystals can change color as quickly as other technologies. (This means that you can buy a magazine and have the entire content changed with a download... Imagine)

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Technology Review

Carbon nanotubes can be thought of as sheets of graphite rolled up in different ways to form tubes. Depending on how they fold, the nanotubes can either have metallic or semiconducting properties

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newscientist.com/

If this doesn't blow your socks off, then Hogan, who has just been appointed director of Fermilab's Center for Particle Astrophysics, has an even bigger shock in store: "If the GEO600 result is what I suspect it is, then we are all livin

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"The new device can cloak a much wider spectrum of waves - nearly limitless - and will scale far more easily to infrared and visible light. The approach we used should help us expand and improve our abilities to cloak different types of waves,**