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Research & Innovations

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

  • Building a school in a cloud

    Tue, Mar 26, 2013 8:00 AM by Jenn Savedge

    What if everything we think we know about education is wrong? What if kids could do a better job teaching themselves?

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  • Normal brain activities cause DNA damage, too

    Mon, Mar 25, 2013 2:43 PM by Charles Choi, LiveScience

    The breaks in DNA strands 'may be part of normal learning' that we all experience.

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  • Negotiating the nuances of nothingness

    Mon, Mar 25, 2013 1:26 PM by Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience

    Kids can easily grasp the concept of nothingness, yet the great minds of the world debate about what it entails exactly.

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  • 8 outside-the-box uses for drones

    Mon, Mar 25, 2013 9:00 AM by Marc Lallanilla, LiveScience

    From keeping track of endangered species to sports photography, there are many positive ways unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs are solving problems.

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  • The neuroscience behind how you find your car keys

    Fri, Mar 22, 2013 2:17 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    Our brains make 'separate recordings of each environment' to help orient ourselves.

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  • Have we found a broad-spectrum solution for viruses?

    Thu, Mar 21, 2013 2:44 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    The new compound disables the machinery that the virus uses to copy its RNA, the molecules the carry a virus's genetic information.

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  • How the brain remembers your sister's cousin's boyfriend

    Thu, Mar 21, 2013 2:20 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    New research finds that the brain takes shortcuts in remembering the ties in a person's social networks.

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  • Ancient Egyptian sundial discovered at Valley of the Kings

    Thu, Mar 21, 2013 1:03 PM by Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience

    An ancient sundial has been discovered in an Egyptian tomb that predates other past sundial discoveries by 1,000 years.

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  • Mobile 3-D screen creates hologram-like effect

    Wed, Mar 20, 2013 5:30 PM by Julie Manoharan, TechNewsDaily

    Researchers from Hewlett Packard Laboratories has developed glasses-free, multi-perspective, three-dimensional display technology for mobile devices.

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  • Man makes finger prosthetic out of bicycle parts

    Wed, Mar 20, 2013 9:55 AM

    Video: Washington amputee Colin Macduff was granted a provisional patent for his design, which helps him grab items.

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  • How earthquakes turn water into gold

    Mon, Mar 18, 2013 12:03 PM by Becky Oskin, OurAmazingPlanet

    Science has finally discovered the answer to the centuries-old question of how to turn something into gold.

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  • Medieval knight's tomb found beneath parking lot

    Fri, Mar 15, 2013 4:04 PM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    A 13th-century tomb has been unearthed from a Scottish parking lot, and archaeologists have reason to believe it houses a noble knight.

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  • Classic physics 'thought' experiment finally recreated

    Fri, Mar 15, 2013 2:51 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    The experiment proves that electrons work they way they're supposed to.

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  • 5 elusive particles beyond Higgs

    Fri, Mar 15, 2013 9:44 AM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    From gravitons to winos, here are five bizarre things that may exist beyond the Higgs

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  • 6 implications of finding Higgs boson

    Thu, Mar 14, 2013 3:14 PM by Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience

    The Higgs boson discovery validates the work of the Large Hadron Collider and could change the nature of physics.

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