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Secret Air Force X-37B Space Plane Mission a 'Spectacular Success'
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, design, humans, interesting, NewTechnology, performance, research, science, space )

Rosemary
- 16 days ago - ca.news.yahoo.com
The U.S. Air Force's secretive robotic X-37B space plane mission continues to chalk up time in Earth orbit, nearing 430 days of a spaceflight that -- while classified -- appears to be an unqualified success. The space plane now circuiting Earth cont...
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Human Races May Have Biological Meaning, But Races Mean Nothing About Humanity
Science & Tech  (tags: archaeology, concept, discovery, environment, history, humans, investigation, research, science, scientists, society, study, world )

Kit
- 23 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
Like Charles Darwin, today's scholars have concluded that humans are fundamentally an African species. But unlike Darwin they conclude from this that there is a biological, essential unity of humankind, such that talk of "civilized" and "savage" is->
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Distant Galaxies Confirm Accelerating Growth of Universe, Dark Energy
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, computers, concept, discovery, investigation, NewTechnology, research, scientists, space, study )

Kit
- 42 days ago - livescience.com
The pesky reality that the universe's expansion is accelerating -- an observation that prompted astronomers to invoke an unknown entity called dark energy to explain it -- has been further confirmed by new measurements.
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How the New Mexico Anti-Nuclear Campaign Achieved a Major Victory
Science & Tech  (tags: business, climate, concept, energy, environment, habitat, health, medicine, nuclear plant, research, safety, science, society )

Kit
- 89 days ago - truth-out.org
On February 13, the President released his proposed fiscal year 2013 budget. On page 26 of the document "Cuts, Consolidations, and Savings: Budget of the U.S. Government" we find, "The Administration proposes deferring the construction of the Chemistry->
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How I Dismantled the World's Deadliest Weapon
Science & Tech  (tags: Atomic weapons, computers, concept, design, discovery, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, scientists, society, study, technology )

Kit
- 92 days ago - discovermagazine.com
In October Sandia National Laboratories engineer Phil Hoover dismantled the U.S. arsenal's last B53, a 9-megaton bomb 600 times as powerful as the one dropped on Hiroshima. Hoover talked to DISCOVER about taking apart America's most powerful weapon.
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Faster Than the Speed of Light
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, computers, concept, discovery, energy, investigation, New Technology, performance, research, science, scientists, space, technology )

Kit
- 92 days ago - discovermagazine.com
Runaway subatomic particles seem to be 
breaking the cosmic speed limit. If the results hold 
up, physicists have some explaining to do.
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Numbers Warn of Looming Collapses
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, discovery, environment, humans, interesting, news, NewTechnology, research, science, world )

Dan
- 101 days ago - sciencenews.org
Brains have seizures, ecosystems collapse, economies crash-- and recent research by the Max Planck Institute suggests that tipping points are foreseeable by running models into the future. Logged by Sunstroke author David Kagan in Doomwatch Legacy.
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The Engineer Who Has "Saved More Lives Than Any Single Person in the History of Aviation"
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Kit
- 108 days ago - blogs.discovermagazine.com
The number one cause of plane crashes used to be controlled flight into terrain (pdf), accidents where pilots unintentionally collide with an obstacle. A pilot unable to see through fog, for example, could fly straight into a mountain, crashing an-->
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How Human Waste Becomes Energy and Then Money
Science & Tech  (tags: waste, energy, environment, concept, design, research, health, economy, energy, GoodNews )

Organic
- 138 days ago - organicconnectmag.com
With 2.6 billion people on Earth lacking basic sanitation, Sanergy's simple concept of capturing human waste and converting it to energy, jobs and revenue has legs.
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New Theory Emerges for Where Some Fish Became Four-Limbed Creatures
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, concept, discovery, environment, humans, research, science, study )

Kit
- 144 days ago - sciencedaily.com
"These transitional fossils were not associated with drying ponds or deserts, but consistently were found with humid woodland soils," he said. "Remains of drying ponds and desert soils also are known and are littered with fossil fish, but none of our-->
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Higher Efficiency With Quantum Dot Solar Cells
Science & Tech  (tags: discovery, society, science, concept, design, energy, environment, solar research, scientists )

Michael
- 148 days ago - ecogeek.org
Photovoltaic technology has taken another step forward as researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have demonstrated a photocell with an external quantum efficiency over 100 percent using quantum dots.
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Violence and Evolution: Where Do We Stand?
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, discovery, history, humans, investigation, research, science, society )

Kit
- 148 days ago - truth-out.org
The question has come up because of recent studies by Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, featured on TED, among other venues, which seem to show that, contrary to common opinion, violence has been steadily decreasing by a number of measures-->
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If You Can't Notice a Gorilla in Plain Sight, How Can You Testify as a Witness?
Science & Tech  (tags: concept, discovery, humans, investigation, memory, research, science, scientists, society, study )

Kit
- 163 days ago - us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com
For example, when we recall a vivid experience, it often passes before our mind's eye in great detail. But we rarely check the accuracy of that imagery, and when we do, the details often are distorted. Our assumptions lead us to trust confident-->
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Mars Rover Curiosity Takes Off - NASA Science
Science & Tech  (tags: Mars Rover, New, technology, scientists, Planet, research, study, investigation, nasa, news, NewTechnology, space, interesting, environment, computers, design, Gizmos, science, concept, habitat, discovery, tech, world )

Elizabeth
- 180 days ago - science.nasa.gov
"We are very excited about sending the world's most advanced scientific laboratory to Mars," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "MSL will tell us critical things we need to know about Mars, and while it advances science, we'll be working on the....
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No Killer Superflares From Sun in 2012 | Space.Com
Science & Tech  (tags: Astronomy, SUN, Solar Flares, space, safety, nasa, investigation, ancient, concept, interesting, news, world )

Elizabeth
- 195 days ago - space.com
There is absolutely no chance of a giant solar flare destroying life on Earth in 2012, NASA scientist C. Alex Young says.
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