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DailyTech - Auto Execs Urge Government to Tax Fuel up to $8/Gallon to Increase Fuel EfficiencyAuto Auto Execs Urge Government to Tax Fuel up to $8/Gallon to Increase Fuel Efficiency - CEO at leading parts supplier: "Energy independence...ultimately means that fuel has to be more expensive" It's no secret that when gas prices dropped early in the year and with the recession in ...
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New Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic Offers Noninvasive Treatment For Major DepressionNew Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic Offers Noninvasive Treatment For Major Depression ScienceDaily (Nov. 7, 2009) — Rush University Medical Center has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, ...
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First Look at Carbon Capture and Storage in a West Virginia Coal-Fired Power Plant [Slide Show]: Scientific AmericanNEW HAVEN, W.Va.—A 100-story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily as much as 12,000 tons of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant —a total of 3.5 million tons a year. The facility just outside the town of New Haven ...
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Winner in Contest Involving Space Elevator - NYTimes.comWinner in Contest Involving Space Elevator A start-up company from the Seattle area won $900,000 on Friday in a NASA contest to build a miniature prototype of a machine that could one day climb from Earth to outer space. The idea of a space elevator — passengers and cargo traveling up and ...
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Futurists' report reviews dangers of smart robots - Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewScientists are preparing to publish a report this month that examines, in part, whether robots could eventually become so smart they pose a threat to society. The report will include concerns some researchers have voiced about the legal and ethical use of artificial intelligence. Most computer ...
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Ancient Human Metropolis Found in Africa // Currenthttp://www.viewzone.com/adamscalendar.html They have always been there. People noticed them before. But no one could remember who made them -- or why? Until
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The New Science of Temptation: Scientific AmericanThe New Science of Temptation What happens when Harvard scientists use a brain scanner to look for the devil inside? The power to resist temptation has been extolled by philosophers, psychologists, teachers, coaches, and mothers. Anyone with advice on how you should live your life has ...
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Before Flowers, Odd Bugs Pollinated Plants - Yahoo! NewsThese results come from an examination of fossils from 11 extinct species of scorpionflies (from three different families) that lived during the Mesozoic, which lasted from 251 million to 65.5 million years ago. Such insects have elongated heads that resemble snouts and are tipped with ...
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No joke: Large Hadron Collider shut down by speck of bread | DVICEHere's one for the books. CERN's Large Hadron Collider has once again been shut down. No catastrophic helium leak or failing magnets this time. The culprit? A speck of bread, which officials believe was originally part of a larger baguette. To make it all the more ridiculous, it's thought that ...
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Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding starArtist's impression of an AM-CVn star system, where helium flows from one star, a helium white dwarf (upper right), onto another, piling up in an accretion disk around a small, dense primary star. Helium from the disk eventually falls onto the star, forming a shell that may end up exploding as a ...
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