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Share your status – and your lungs. Facebook tool promotes organ donationFacebook on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to use the vast social network to connect organ donors with people who need life-saving transplants. |
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Bar Codes Apps Allow Consumers To Make Socially Conscious Choices
via Triple Pundit |
Fri April 27, 2012 |
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Saving Right Whales? There’s an app for that.A new app relies on whale calls to help mariners avoid hitting endangered right whales. |
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New technologies detect seizures, and could possibly even eliminate them
via GizMag |
Thu April 12, 2012 |
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Floating wind turbines to produce low cost renewable energy
via GizMag |
Wed March 28, 2012 |
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Device invented that can detect infectious disease in minutesInfectious diseases can spread very rapidly, so quickly identifying them can be crucial to stopping an epidemic. However, current testing for such diseases can take hours and days. But not for much longer. |
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American Scientists Make Great Leap in Battery TechnologyEnvia Systems, a battery maker based in California, announced on Monday what it called a “major breakthrough” in lithium-ion cell technology that would result in a significant increase in the energy density — and a sharp reduction in the cost — of lithium-ion battery packs |
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New system could eventually ‘eliminate’ batteriesResearchers at the University of Bedfordshire have developed a technique for powering electronic devices using only radio waves, which they claim could eventually eliminate the need for conventional batteries. |
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Digital tools ‘to save languages’Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world's endangered languages, scientists believe. |
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Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as firstA 3D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted to an 83-year-old woman's face in what doctors say is the first operation of its kind. |
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The Cleanweb Takes OffThis past weekend in New York, a group of high tech companies, venture investors, hackers, college students held the second Cleanweb Hackathon -- a gathering where software developers and serial entrepreneurs, fueled by coffee and burritos -- or similar fare -- stay up one, two or more nights writing code for apps that just may change the world. |
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Personal medicine is a little bit closer: Sequence your genome for under $1000
via Technology Review |
Mon January 16, 2012 |
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2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by NASAOn Dec. 21, 2012, many doomsday believers fear the apocalypse — anything from a rogue planet smashing into us to our world spinning end over end. However, the world should expect nothing more next year than the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, NASA says. |
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New discovery could lead to better artificial hipsFor many people who have suffered from an arthritic hip, the replacement of their natural hip bone with a prosthetic implant has meant an end to constant pain, and the restoration of a normal range of movement. Unfortunately, the ball-and-socket joints of the prostheses do wear down over time, so younger patients in need of the implants are typically told to either wait until they are older, or must face the prospect of someday requiring repeat surgery to service their device. |
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Ancient discoveries
- Exciting stone tool find in Kenya
- NASA satellite helps find 17 Egypt pyramids
- Vietnam’s own ‘great wall’ uncovered
- New Type of Ancient Human Found - Descendants Live Today?
- New discoveries concerning pre-Columbian settlements in the Amazon
- Ultraviolet light reveals how Greek statues really looked
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Technology news
- Light-powered bionic eye invented to help restore sight
- Share your status – and your lungs. Facebook tool promotes organ donation
- Bar Codes Apps Allow Consumers To Make Socially Conscious Choices
- Saving Right Whales? There’s an app for that.
- New technologies detect seizures, and could possibly even eliminate them
- Floating wind turbines to produce low cost renewable energy
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Breakthroughs in Technology
- American Scientists Make Great Leap in Battery Technology
- New system could eventually ‘eliminate’ batteries
- New plasma “brush” may mean painless cavity filling
- Artificial Intestines near reality
- Real-life Jedi: Pushing the limits of mind control
- Groundbreaking solar plant in Spain generates 24 hours of power
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