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<title><![CDATA[Better way to turn ocean into fuel]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[UOW scientists have developed a novel way to turn sea water into hydrogen, for a sustainable and clean fuel source. Using this method, as little as five litres of sea water per day would produce enough hydrogen to power an average-sized home and  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Atomic bomb tests confirm formation of new brain cells]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers have used the radioactive fallout from atomic bomb tests to show that new neurons are produced in one part of the human brain throughout life. Studies have shown that rats can grow new neurons, but there was little definitive evidence   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Consciousness After Death: Strange Tales From the Frontiers of Resuscitation Medicine]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Sam Parnia practices resuscitation medine. In other words, he helps bring people back from the dead � and some return with stories. Their tales could help save lives, and even challenge traditional scientific ideas about the nature of consciousness.    [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Sun Unleashes Biggest Solar Flare of the Year Yet]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[theres a big flare thinngy  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer zeroes in on dark matter]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The quest to understand dark matter has produced some encouraging new results.  They come from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, an experiment on the space station that surveys the sky for high-energy particles, or cosmic rays.  AMS has made detections  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Solid electrolyte may end the catastrophic failures of lithium batteries]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Lithium batteries have become a very popular technology, powering everything from cell phones to cars. But that doesn't mean the technology is without its problems; lithium batteries have been implicated in some critical technological snafus, from   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Physicists Increasingly Confident They've Found the Higgs Boson]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Physicists announced this week that they are more confident than ever that the "Higgs-like" particle discovered last year is actually the long-sought Higgs boson�the particle crucial for understanding why objects in the universe have mass.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Voyager probe�s key transition remains mysterious]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Where does our Solar System end? If you define it in terms of the Sun's gravitational influence, then it's the edge of the Oort cloud, a collection icy bodies that stretches over two light years from the Sun. You could also place it at the orbit of the  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Did This Wolf Get To An Isolated Chain Of Islands]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA[SpaceX�s reusable rocket completes short, controlled flight]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[SpaceX has managed to shoot a reusable rocket 24 stories in the air, then land it safely enough so the rocket may live to fly another day, according to a press release from the company. The Grasshopper test platform completed its flight last Thursday,   [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 24:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA Puts Mars Rover Curiosity on Standby After Solar Flare]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA's Curiosity rover has powered down to wait out a Mars-bound solar blast, complicating efforts to bring the 1-ton robot back from a computer glitch.  Curiosity's handlers put the rover on standby after the sun unleashed a medium-strength flare in the   [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 26:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Large Hadron Collider shuts down for two years of upgrades]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[No, finding the Higgs boson doesn't mean the end of physics. But as of today, no atoms will be smashed at the LHC (the Large Hadron Collider at CERN) for approximately two years. During that time, every piece of hardware around the accelerator's   [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vote To Name Two Newly Discovered Moons of Pluto]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The SETI Institute has launched a new website called 'Pluto Rocks!' intended to gather a public vote on the names of Pluto's smallest, and most recently discovered, moons P4 and P5. Discovered in 2011 and 2012 by Hubble, the two dinky satellites  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mars Rover Curiosity Has Become The First Robot To Drill Another Planet]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[America�s car on Mars is finally being allowed to do what it was designed to do--fire up its hammer drill and bore into the Red Planet. After 182 sols (Martian days) of work, the the first robot equipped to take a bite out of another world got its first   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Is The Difference Between A Lager And An Ale?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[For the average beer drinker, the difference between an ale and a lager comes down to how the beer looks, smells, and tastes. Ales tend to be fruity-estery, while lagers are clean-tasting and frequently described as "crisp." But to a brewer, the   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[US Military Building Space Robot to Recycle Satellites]]></title>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 15:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Space station to get $ 18 million balloon-like room]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA is partnering with a commercial space company in a bid to replace the cumbersome "metal cans" that now serve as astronauts' homes in space with inflatable bounce-house-like habitats that can be deployed on the cheap. A $17.8 million test project will  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rover finds intriguing rocks indicative of watery past]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Curiosity Mars rover has found intriguing veined rocks just below tilted cross-bedded layers indicating water once flowed and "percolated" through fractured terrain near the landing site in Gale Crater, scientists said Tuesday, additional evidence of   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More Evidence Emerges That "Hobbits" Were A Separate Species]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[While film buffs have been arguing over the need to make The Hobbit into three different films, anthropologists have been busy debating the origins of real hobbits, whose remains were discovered in Indonesia only a decade ago. In 2003, researchers  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA's Curiosity Rover Brushes Mars Rock Clean, a First]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has pulled out another item from its toolkit for the first time, using a brush to sweep Martian rocks clean of the planet�s ubiquitous red dust, the space agency announced Monday (Jan. 7). Curiosity�s first use of the Dust   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Double-Star Systems Can Be Dangerous for Exoplanets]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Alien planets born in widely separated two-star systems face a grave danger of being booted into interstellar space, a new study suggests. Exoplanets circling a star with a far-flung stellar companion � worlds that are part of "wide binary" systems � are   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Scientists Send A Cloud Of Atoms Plunging Below Absolute Zero]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Absolute zero--that�s zero degrees Kelvin, or -459.67 degrees Fahrenheit--is understood by textbook definition to be the absolute coldest anything can be, a temperature threshold at which atoms actually lose all of their kinetic energy and stop moving  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Antarctic IRC: how NASA's flying lab stays connected]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Mars and Antarctica have a lot in common�they're both cold, inhospitable places with terrible broadband service. The crew of Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne survey of glaciers and ice shelves in the Arctic and Antarctic works with networking  [..]]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Splendor Seldom Seen]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA's Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn, taken while the spacecraft was in Saturn's shadow. The cameras were turned toward Saturn and the sun so that the planet and rings are backlit. (The sun is behind the planet, which   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[NASA's Twin Orbiters Will Crash Into The Moon On Monday]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Just shy of a full year encircling the moon, NASA�s twin lunar probes are bidding farewell on Monday, crashing in a controlled fashion into a small mountain-like formation at the moon�s north pole. The GRAIL twins, nicknamed Ebb and Flow, are almost out   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Cosmic alcohol, vintage seven billion years, measures physical constant]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[While quantum physics and general relativity don't always play well together, they agree on important points, including that of the spectra of atoms. To wit: the spectrum of hydrogen shouldn't depend on where the atom is located in the Universe,   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Voyager 1 hits 'magnetic highway,' newly discovered part of space]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Voyager 1 is this close to interstellar space -- probably. On its way out of our solar system, the spacecraft has stumbled across a surprise: a "magnetic highway" that represents a brand-new, unexpected layer between here and out there.  This new layer  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Does Pluto Have an Atmosphere?]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A tiny, cold rock, Pluto seems almost incapable of having an atmosphere. Between its small size and its distant location, the dwarf planet seems unlikely to have what it takes. Yet the tiny body boasts an atmosphere in a constant state of flux.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Mind-reading scan locates site of meaning in the brain]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[MEANINGS of words can be hard to locate when they are on the tip of your tongue, let alone in the brain. Now, for the first time, patterns of brain activity have been matched with the meanings of specific words. The discovery is a step forward in our  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[If it forms like a star but looks like a planet...]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[You may have seen headlines earlier this week about a planet found wandering alone, without a star to orbit. Although that aspect of the new planetary find seems to have grabbed the headlines, it's actually one of the least interesting features of the new  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MIT-Made Metamaterial Focuses Radio Waves, Could Yield Up-Close Views Of Molecules]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[When nature's materials can't do the job scientists want done, it's time to head into the lab and get creative. That means entering the impressive, strange genre of metamaterials--stuff with a designer molecular structure that gives it unique properties.   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[ROGUE PLANET WITHOUT A SUN spotted in interstellar space]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In images, it doesn�t look like much: just a blue dot against the black of space. What�s exciting about this little planet is that it has somehow manage to escape its star.  Even getting an image of the object, dubbed CFBDSIR2149, is a pretty good trick:   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The First 'Perfect' Invisibility Cloak Completely Conceals Objects]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A big step forward in invisibility cloaking today: Researchers have pulled off the first-ever �perfect� cloaking of an object, rending a small cylinder completely invisible while creating absolutely no reflections of incident light that might give the   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Rare particle's decay confounds hunt for new physics]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Physicists have for the first time pinned down one of the rarest particle transformations glimpsed � the decay of a Bs meson into a muon and its antiparticle. The sighting might not spark celebration, though, as it skewers some leading candidates for a   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Brian Cox's search for alien life 'nixed by BBC health and safety tsars']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The BBC's star science presenter Brian Cox thought he might have a scoop on his hands when he trained his telescope at a newly discovered planet in search of alien life.  But the professor said his hopes for an exclusive were brought back down to earth   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Curiosity team switches back to Earth time]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A Martian day, called a sol, is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, so the team's start time for daily planning has been moving a few hours later each week. This often resulted in the team working overnight hours, Pacific Time. Starting this week,   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What's the Fate of the Universe? It's in the Dark Matter]]></title>
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<title><![CDATA['Frankenstorm' from Space: Hurricane Sandy Satellite Photos]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[This still from a NASA video shows a view of Hurricane Sandy on Thursday, Oct. 25, as the Category 2 storm approached the Bahamas. The video was taken by cameras aboard the International Space Station 240 miles above Earth.  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The von Neumann Probe: A Nano Ship to the Stars]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every week, Dr. Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it.  This week Dr. Kaku   [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Saturn's Moon Titan Has Soft and Crusty Surface, Probe Landing Reveals]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The surface of Saturn's huge moon Titan has the consistency of soft, wet sand with a fragile crust on top, a new analysis of a nearly eight-year-old space probe landing suggests.  Researchers reconstructed the European Space Agency's Huygens probe landing  [..]]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[House-Size Asteroid Comes Closer to Earth Than the Moon Friday: Watch Live]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[A newfound asteroid the size of a house will fly closer to Earth than the moon on Friday (Oct. 12), but poses no danger of impacting our planet, NASA says. The space rock, called asteroid 2012 TC4, is about 56 feet wide (17 meters) and will come within 59  [..]]]></description>
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