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Students Give New Life to Unwanted ComputersDon't tell Santa, but a workshop in Colorado Springs is filled with young people happily hacking electronics to bits. |
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Bendy Solar Panels Provide Portable Energy SupplyEuropean scientists have developed light, flexible solar panels that could be sewn on fabrics and placed on surfaces to charge objects ranging from cell phones and DVD players to batteries. |
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Bipedal robot learns to runThe latest version of Honda's humanoid robot Asimo can perform several new tricks thanks to a hardware overhaul. In a demonstration in Japan, the robot impressed onlookers by showing off the ability to run for the first time. |
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Slick trick could save marine ecosystemsA cheap modification to supertankers could help prevent devastating oil pollution if the vessels sink. The new system makes it quick and easy to empty the tanks if the ship ends up on the seabed. |
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Proud France Inaugurates World’s Highest BridgePresident Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France. |
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Stanford and Google to Make Library Books Available OnlineStanford University today announced an ambitious plan to cooperate with Google Inc. in digitizing hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of books from the shelves of Stanford libraries and making them available to readers worldwide and without charge. |
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GM, DaimlerChrysler to develop hybrid enginesGeneral Motors Corp. and DaimlerChrysler AG are teaming up to develop fuel-saving hybrid engines in hopes of cashing in on an expanding market already dominated by hybrid leaders Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. |
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Green Cars Start Taking RootEnvironmentally friendly hybrid cars are finally being mass-produced -- thanks to an increase in demand due to rising fuel costs, cheaper technology and growing public acceptance. |
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Scientists turn cellphones into flowersInstead of chucking your old cellphone, you can now transform it into the flower of your choice as a team of researchers at the Warwick University have found a novel way to compost old and discarded phones into flowers. |
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Batwing airliners would cut noise by half"batwing" aircraft, which would be far quieter and more fuel efficient than any conventional airliner, is being developed by British and American scientists. |
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Sponge-like artificial bone developedA Japanese research group has developed a sponge-like artificial bone that can be cut by scissors for an easy fit inside the body and transforms into real bone within months. |
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Disabled dolphin gets artificial finFuji, a female dolphin that lost 75% of her tail due to a mysterious disease, is jumping once again with the help of what is believed to be the world's first artificial fin, developed by Bridgestone Corp. |
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Speedy Plane Check-In by Mobile Phone Set for 2005Passengers wanting to skip airport queues will be able to check in for flights using their mobile phone beginning next year, two European firms set to offer the service announced on Tuesday. |
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Office workers and costs look healthier in green buildingsOffice workers who are worn down by shivering or sweltering at their desks will get relief in one of the newest skyscrapers under construction in New York City. |
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Science news headlines
- 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
- Device invented that can detect infectious disease in minutes
- American Scientists Make Great Leap in Battery Technology
- New system could eventually ‘eliminate’ batteries
- Digital tools ‘to save languages’
- Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as first
- The Cleanweb Takes Off
- Personal medicine is a little bit closer: Sequence your genome for under $1000
- 2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by NASA
- New discovery could lead to better artificial hips
- New plasma “brush” may mean painless cavity filling
- First Earth-sized planets spotted
- Artificial Intestines near reality
- Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery—healing without cuts
- Harnessing desert sun to power Europe
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