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Research & Innovations";"Understand how advancements in environmental research and innovation are changing the world.

  • U.S. military wants 'Mission: Impossible' self-destructing devices

    Thu, Jan 31, 2013 2:31 PM by Jeremy Hsu, TechNewsDaily

    The U.S. military and DARPA have expressed a desire to develop 'vanishing' devices' to use in martial communications.

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  • 11 most beautiful mathematical equations

    Wed, Jan 30, 2013 11:34 AM by Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience

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  • Iron-oxidizing bacteria fooled into 'eating' electrons instead

    Wed, Jan 30, 2013 11:13 AM by Melissa Breyer

    The new advance could eventually be used to turn electricity into fuel.

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  • U.S. military to test lasers for warplanes in 2014

    Tue, Jan 29, 2013 9:30 AM by Jeremy Hsu, TechNewsDaily

    The 150-kilowatt lasers would represent a new class of weapons 10 times smaller and lighter than current lasers of similar power.

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  • Doctors really do feel your pain

    Tue, Jan 29, 2013 7:10 AM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    A study shows that when doctors see their patients experiencing pain, the pain centers in the physicians' own brains light up.

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  • Identity of famous 19th-century brain discovered

    Tue, Jan 29, 2013 7:10 AM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    The mysterious patient who helped scientists pinpoint the brain region responsible for language was Monsieur Louis Leborgne, a French craftsman with epilepsy.

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  • Controversial bird flu research to resume

    Thu, Jan 24, 2013 9:23 AM by Wynne Parry, LiveScience

    Research on H5N1 transmission that uses funds from the U.S. National Institutes of Health cannot begin again until after safety guidelines are established.

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  • Storm clouds crawling with bacteria

    Wed, Jan 23, 2013 5:50 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    Research reveals that hailstones drawn from storm clouds harbor bacteria that tend to reside on plants, as well as thousands of organic compounds found in soil.

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  • Artificial gel mimics living cells

    Wed, Jan 23, 2013 5:00 PM by Charles Q. Choi, TechNewsDaily

    The gels could be useful in treating wounds and could even help in the development of artificial cells and tissues.

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  • Why DNA is the perfect storage container, even for Shakespeare

    Wed, Jan 23, 2013 2:10 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    It may be efficient and an ideal form of information storage, but recording all the world's data into DNA would likely cost 'more money than is on the planet.'

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  • Remains of King Richard III? Archaeologists dig up a controversy

    Wed, Jan 23, 2013 12:15 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    Interested parties argue that if the remains are the lost king's, they should be buried in York, Westminster Abbey or Windsor Castle.

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  • Could a surrogate mother deliver a Neanderthal baby?

    Tue, Jan 22, 2013 2:10 PM by Marc Lallanilla, LiveScience

    Scientists completed the first sequence of the Neanderthal genome in 2010, finding genetic evidence suggesting ancestors of modern humans successfully interbred with Neanderthals.

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  • What's the secret to self-control? A more efficient brain

    Tue, Jan 22, 2013 1:20 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    The findings can't explain how much of either nature or nurture is responsible for this effect, as a lifetime of delaying gratification could dramatically change the brain.

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  • Men commit more scientific fraud than women

    Tue, Jan 22, 2013 11:20 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    A few bad scientists can 'casts doubt' on the entire field of academic research.

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  • Stephen Hawking to receive a voice upgrade, thanks to Intel

    Tue, Jan 22, 2013 11:13 AM by John Platt

    Maker of semiconductor chips is designing a new system to help Hawking communicate up to 5 words a minute.

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