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Feb 22

Power your phone by sitting on it- source- popsci.com

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Commentary: A new felt technology lets you power your phone simply by sitting on it. – excerpt below

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…. – Power Felt Wake Forest University A team from Wake Forest University’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials has created a new thermoelectric fabric they call Power Felt. It’s constructed of…- ….


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Feb 22

Techy glasses let one Google world- source- popsci.com

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Commentary: High tech glasses will make it possible to Google practically the whole world – as if Google didn’t do that already. – excerpt below

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…. – Terminator Vision Orion Pictures Augmented-reality eyewear is the next step toward a future in which we never again have an unmediated view of the world Google announced yesterday that…- ….


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Feb 22

Alzheimer’s treatment could have opposite effect- source- news.yahoo.com

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Feb 22

H5N1 studies kept under wraps- source- washingtonpost.com

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Commentary: Bird flu studies that demonstrate a mutated form of the bird flu, also known as H5N1, won’t be published until risks are evaluated. – excerpt below

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…. – BBC News For now, bird flu papers won’t be published Washington Post GENEVA — Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that…- ….


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Feb 20

New Theory On Stonehenge-source- news.yahoo.com

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Commentary: Stonehenge has seen so many  theories, from the far out, to the down to earth. The latest one is stating that it was built because of an illusion of sound.  - excerpt below

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…. -LiveScience.com – Theories about the purpose of Stonehenge range from a secular calendar to a place of spiritual worship. Now, an archaeologist suggests that the Stonehenge monument in southern England …- ….


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Feb 20

Russia Has High Hopes For Their Own ‘Silicon Valley’-source- wsj.com

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Commentary: Russia is getting bold with their latest global science park project. At $4 billion, they aim to make it their own ‘Silicon Valley’.- excerpt below

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…. – Russian ‘Silicon Valley’ Aims to be Global Science Park Wall Street Journal (blog) The Skolkovo project is a $4 billion scheme to construct a new technology city of 30000 people outside…- ….


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Feb 20

China To Send Three To Space In Latest Mission-source- news.yahoo.com

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Commentary:China is making steps forward with their space program. Three astronauts will dock and live inside a module launched last year. – excerpt below

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…. -AP – China’s next space mission will carry three astronauts who will dock with and live inside an experimental orbiting module launched last year, state media said Friday.- ….


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Feb 20

Blood test to diagnose Depression- source- popsci.com

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Commentary- No need to rely on ‘feelings’ or testimonials of sadness, doctors now have a blood test to determine when you are depressed- excerpt below

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…. – Blood Test Could Someday Diagnose Depression U.S. Navy The jury is still out, in many respects, on exactly what depression is and how it should be treated, but clinically…- ….


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Feb 18

Clothes float thanks to ‘magical’ washing machine- source- popsci.com

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Commentary: A new washing machine that washes clothes without the need for water levitates clothes and cleans them with dry ice. – excerpt below

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…. – Waterless Washing Machine The spherical drum floats through magnetic levitation. Elie Ahovi It makes my day when new technology promises to make life’s most tedious tasks more interesting. Take laundry…- ….


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Feb 18

Pop-up books kindle mini robots- source- popsci.com

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Commentary: Pop-up books provided inspiration for faster mini robots production. – excerpt below

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…. – Building More Mobees Courtesy of Pratheev Sreetharan/Harvard University A technique inspired by pop-up books could enable quicker production of tiny robots and other electrical devices, according to Harvard…- ….


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Feb 16

New Method For Malaria Drug May Help Production-source-news.yahoo.com

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Commentary: Malaria is a deadly disease that kills many people each year. German scientists are aiming to stop this with the latest way to make a drug for Malaria. – excerpt below

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…. – AP – German scientists have developed a new way to make a key malaria drug that they say could easily quadruple production and drop the price significantly, increasing the availability of…- ….


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Feb 16

Dolphin beachings in Cape Cod a mystery- source- news.yahoo.com

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Commentary: The reason behind eleven dolphins beaching themselves in Cape Cod remains a mystery, but they’re not the only dolphins who’ve stranded themselves in the area. Just last month, 124 of 177 dolphins who beached themselves unfortunately did not make it. – excerpt below

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…. – AP – There’s no good spot on Cape Cod for dolphins to continue this winter’s massive and unexplained beachings, but a group of 11 has chosen one of the worst. – ….


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Feb 16

NASA rocket flys in California – source- news.yahoo.com

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Commentary: A rocket took flight in California’s desert for a NASA vertical landing systems program. The rocket was privately built. – excerpt below

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…. -AP – A privately built rocket has made its first free-flight in the California desert as part of a NASA program exploring vertical landing systems for solar system exploration.- ….


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Feb 15

The Importance of The Unknown-source-cnn.com

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Commentary: The unknown is a great, vast place for humans. The Higgs Boson is a particle that eludes many scientists, but whose importance could change so many aspects of our school of thought. – excerpt below

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…. -Scientists say they have found hints of the existence of the Higgs boson, a never-before-seen subatomic particle long thought to be a fundamental building block of the universe.- ….


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Feb 15

Search For Life Continues-source-cnn.com

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Commentary: The discovery of earth-like planets is but a small one in the on-going search for life in the cosmos. – excerpt below

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…. -Americans were enthralled by fake reports of an alien invasion in the Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast on Halloween Eve in 1938. Hundreds of science fiction movies from …- ….


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Feb 07

Centuries-long ice age started quickly- source- sciencenews.org

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Commentary: An ice age that happened near the end of the 13th century started quickly. Particles that reflect sunlight from volcanic eruptions may have started the ice age, research suggests. – excerpt below

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…. -Frozen moss suggests climate cooling kicked off fast, possibly with help from volcanoes- ….


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Feb 07

Map could help prevent lyme disease- source- yahoo.com

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Commentary: A map researchers created over the course of three years could help prevent and diagnose lyme disease. The map was created by dragging fabric sheets across the woods to grab ticks. – excerpt below

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…. – AP – Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of…- ….


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Feb 07

Natural gas industry donates millions to Sierra Club- source- yahoo.com

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Commentary: The natural gas industry has donated million of dollars to the Sierra Club to fight the coal industry, writes Michael Brune in a blog post. Brune is the Executive Director of the Sierra Club. – excerpt below

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…. -ContributorNetwork – According to a blog post from Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune, the environmentalist organization accepted millions of donated dollars from the natural gas industry to fight against coal-…- ….


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Feb 07

Student unwittingly creates new molecule- source- popsci.com

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Commentary: Ten-year-old student Clara Lazen unintentionally created a new molecule dubbed Tetranitratoxycarbon in her science class. – excerpt below

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…. – Tetranitratoxycarbon Professor Robert Zoellner holds a model of tetranitratoxycarbon. He has a co-authorship on a paper about the new molecule–along with ten-year-old Clara Lazen. Humboldt State…- ….


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Feb 07

NASA confident in Russian rockets- source- yahoo.com

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Commentary: Aside from some glitches in Russia’s space program, NASA is satisfied with the quality of the country’s manned rockets. – excerpt below

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…. -AP – NASA says it still has confidence in the quality of Russia’s manned rockets, despite an embarrassing series of glitches and failures in the Russian space program.- ….


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