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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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10 Amazing Discoveries You Missed This Week
Science & Tech  (tags: science, discovery, society, news, Gizmos, design, medicine, study, interesting )

Cal
- 33 days ago - alternet.org
Here's what researchers revealed this week: blood tests for depression, how to escape a ticket, the science behind Tupac's reappearance, crazy new species and more.
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Butterfly Wings and Renewable Energy
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, investigation, energy, discovery, design, NewTechnology, scientists )

Organic
- 57 days ago - organicconnectmag.com
Scientists have found that one of the solutions to increased efficiency of renewable solar energy has been fluttering right before our very eyes for millions of years--in the wings of butterflies.
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Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A First Look at Microsoft's New Operating System
Science & Tech  (tags: computers, NewTechnology, design, performance )

Jae
- 86 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Today, Microsoft is pulling the curtain off of its next version of Windows -- Windows 8 -- and it looks entirely different from what those billions of people are used to seeing every day.
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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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The Engineer Who Has "Saved More Lives Than Any Single Person in the History of Aviation"
Science & Tech  (tags: business, computer, concept, discovery, design, engineering, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, society, technology )

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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Japanese Firms Look To Animals To Inspire Innovative Technology
Science & Tech  (tags: research, technology, study, biomimicry, innovative technology, amnimals, insects, efficient, Sharp Corp., cat's grooming, discovery, design, interesting )

Naoko
- 124 days ago - mdn.mainichi.jp
Biomimicry - an innovative trend that looks at animals and insects to inspire new and highly efficient technology - is becoming popular among manufacturing firms and researchers in Japan.
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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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Using Light to Make Solar Panels
Science & Tech  (tags: science, study, research, energy, solar, solar panels, technology, design, discovery, Gizmos )

Michael
- 146 days ago - ecogeek.org
A new optical furnace that uses intense light rather than a conventional furnace to heat the silicon to make solar cells saves about half the energy needed.
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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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15 Weird Covers Of The Yugoslavian Science Magazine 'Galaksija'
Science & Tech  (tags: science, technology, space, interesting, design, magazine )

Veljko
- 170 days ago - worldsbiggests.com
In the Seventies and Eighties, Yugoslavian science magazine Galaksija pumped out dozens of mind-blowingly weird covers that could easily be mistaken for prog rock LPs. Here's but a sampling of the many triptacular designs that hit Balkan newstands...
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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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7 Coolest Secret Passageways & Hidden Doors
Science & Tech  (tags: design, house, cool, interesting, doors, passageways )

Veljko
- 186 days ago - 7coollist.com
Hidden passages have a long history of appearing in fictional novels and films but an even richer past in reality dating back to Egyptian tombs passages for Christians to worship in hiding from Romans. Over the years hidden passages have been used to arre
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Face-To-Face With An Ancient Human
Science & Tech  (tags: ancient, archaeology, computer, design, discovery, Gizmos, humans, investigation, NewTechnology, research, science, scientists, society, technology )

Kit
- 211 days ago - sciencedaily.com
A reconstruction based on the skull of Norway's best-preserved Stone Age skeleton makes it possible to study the features of a boy who lived outside Stavanger 7,500 years ago.
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Steve Jobs, Apple Founder, Dies
Science & Tech  (tags: Steve Jobs, Apple, Co-founder, dies, computer, concept, design, discovery, technology, world )

Rosemary
- 233 days ago - cnn.com
(CNN) -- Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday
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