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The industry is targeting grid parity and looks well on the way to achieving just that and it sounds like it will all be very quick. My guess is that technical maturity is just around the corner as the new solar cell technology begins to flood the ma

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nypost.com/

President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that school closings may be necessary, in an escalating global health emergency that claimed the first death in the United States and swept Germany onto the roster of afflicted nations.

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LiveScience

The great splat of an asteroid that might have wiped out the dinosaurs apparently didn't get all of them. New fossil evidence suggests some dinosaurs survived for up to half a million years after the impact in remote parts of New Mexico and Color

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The world was now at a "turning period", said Gregory Hartl, a WHO spokesman, where it would soon become clear whether the virus was capable of the kind of sustained, large-scale movement between humans that would bring a full pandemic a st

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Just a Girl in Short Shorts

Another instance of hysteria, to be managed by the public health tyrants.

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ABL would deter potential adversaries and provide speed-of-light capability to destroy all classes of ballistic missiles in their boost phase of flight. Eliminating missiles in their boost phase would reduce the number of shots required by other e

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Since vitamin D deficiency is only now been recognized as a health concern in our own populations it is not too surprising that this unexpected test population would have an exaggerated response. It is perhaps too early to confirm the link but it

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Reuters

Archaeologists have unearthed a cache of pharaonic-era mummies in brightly painted wooden coffins near Egypt's little-known Lahun pyramid. The mummies were the first to be found in the sand-covered desert rock surrounding the mud-brick Lahun pyra

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Rense.com

Remember this? Scientists isolate genes that made the 1918 flu lethal. This was dated Dec. 29, 2008. It hasn't been very long since this discovery was made then the new strain variant showed up in Mexico and the US, not very long, indeed.

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EEStor feels this is a huge milestone which opens the advancement of key products and services in the electrical energy storage markets of today. The automotive and renewable energy sectors are a few of the key markets that would benefit greatly with

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Wall Street Journal

Scientists have reprogrammed mature skin cells into an embryonic-like state by using proteins instead of genes, a key advance aimed at overcoming safety concerns in one of the hottest areas of biological research.

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Reuters

Spider silk is already tougher and lighter than steel, and now scientists have made it 3 times stronger by adding small amounts of metal. Useful for manufacturing super-tough textiles and high-tech medical materials, including artificial bones and te

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arclein

More very good news here regarding the ongoing development of graphene technology. This suggests that it becomes plausible to mass produce ribbons of graphene in large amounts. Although not yet in sheets, this may be just as good for most applica

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"People never thought that anomalous sulfur isotope fractionation could be caused by a process other than atmospheric reactions," said Ohmoto. "Our study significantly shifts possibilities to something different, to a biological and th

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I can see the navy been very keen on this technology working. In retrospect they are even the best partner. After all they have a natural heat sink available to dispose of surplus energy.

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Egypt's top archaeologist made his version of a sales pitch Sunday, presenting 22 coins, 10 mummies, an alabaster head and a fragment of a mask with a cleft chin as evidence that the discovery of the lost tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra is at h

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Researchers have discovered a new kind of microbial life flourishing in a dark, icy-cold pool underneath an Antarctic glacier. The finding has implications for how life might have survived on Earth during the coldest, grimmest epochs.

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