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A team of MIT researchers has found a novel way to mimic the process by which plants use the power of sunlight to split water and make chemical fuel to power their growth. In this case, the team used a modified virus as a kind of biological scaffold

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The government makes no secret that it sees intelligent robots playing a key role in coping with the rapidly aging population. In 2007, the Japanese government announced that it wants to see one million industrial robots installed in the country by 2

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By mid March the device was operating at 90% good shots. In the best shots, ion energies were measured in the range of 40-60 keV (the equivalent of 0.4-0.6 billion degrees K). The electron beam carried about 0.5 kJ of energy and the plasmoid held

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We are at a critical nexus in our history. The aging of our population is occurring at an unprecedented rate due to the aging of the baby boom population. The cost of this age wave will cause economic, as well as personal human suffering. The United

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March, 2010. Thousands of harp seal pups are presumed dead in Canada's Gulf of St Lawrence and starving pups are being found abandoned on the beaches of Prince Edward Island, tragic victims of the worst ice conditions recorded in eastern Canada.

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Posted by Nick Eaton, blog.seattlepi.com

I was reading TechFlash's Monday piece on Microsoft's new "guardian angel" patent, and it stirred up a creepy feeling inside of me. In the time I've been covering Microsoft for seattlepi.com, I've had this strange shudder a handful of times. An

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On March 12, SOHO spied a bright comet, likely from that same sun-grazing lineage, in its final hours as it streaked toward a fatal encounter with the sun. The inbound comet is visible below and to the left of the sun in this SOHO image. (The blindin

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The falling cost of desalination, thanks to technology improvements, is key, and the reuse of water can be cheaper still. Contracts have been signed to deliver desalinated water in Algeria and Israel for 55–56 cents (36p) a cubic metre, and reuse pl

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FROM MARIJUANA TO CATNIP, THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF REMARKABLY COMMON HERBS, FLOWERS, BERRIES AND PLANTS THAT SERVE ALL KINDS OF IMPORTANT MEDICINAL AND HEALTH PURPOSES THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU: ANTI-INFLAMMATORY, ANTI-FUNGAL, INSECT REPELLENT, ANTISEPTIC

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Hla said the current findings, however, suggest it exists at the molecular scale, which opens up a novel route for studying the phenomenon, The study also provided evidence that superconducting organic salts can grow on a substrate material. "Th

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When the ZERO charger goes on sale in May, it will cost the same as existing replacement chargers, which means that customers do not have to spend more and can even save money over time because of the interchangeability of the design.

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Researchers have designed a super-elastic iron alloy which can be used in sophisticated heart and brain surgeries and even buildings in earthquake zones. The metal's super-elasticity allows it to return to its original form and gives it additional pr

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!” As he recalls in his new memoir Parallel Play (Doubleday, 2009), such incidents were not uncommon in his childhood, and he knew why he was being scolded: “I had noticed the wrong things.”

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the researchers synthesized nanoparticles - shaped something like a dumbbell - made of gold sandwiched between two pieces of iron oxide. They then attached antibodies, which target a molecule found only in colorectal cancer cells, to the particles. O

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Babies love a beat, according to a new study that found dancing comes naturally to infants. The research showed babies respond to the rhythm and tempo of music, and find it more engaging than speech.

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New research suggests that humans may have a previously unidentified sixth taste sense — for fat. Researchers of the new study also found that people with a high sensitivity to the taste of fat, paradoxically tended to eat less fatty foods and wer

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