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	<pubDate>28 Jan 2009 13:02:12 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Peer reveals &apos;cello scrotum&apos; hoax</title>
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      <pubDate>28 Jan 2009 13:02:06 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Our world may be a giant hologram</title>
      <description>&lt;ul class=&quot;markerlist&quot;&gt;&lt;li&gt; 		 		 			 			 				15 January 2009 			 		  		 by 			 				 					&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newscientist.com/search?rbauthors=Marcus+Chown&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marcus Chown&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; 				 				 				 			 		 		&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;!-- pgtop --&gt;        	  	             	               	          		  	     	          		  	     	                                                    &lt;p&gt;DRIVING through the  ...</description>
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      <pubDate>17 Jan 2009 14:38:44 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Breakthroughs That Will Change Everything</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt; Will humans go extinct? Or will we instead evolve into divergent species? Can we stop killing each other? Perhaps old-fashioned wisdom will return and save the day. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; These are just some of the compelling thoughts generated when the forward-thinking Edge Foundation recently asked scientists, authors, futurists, journalists and other offbeat thinkers the question: &amp;quot;What will change  ...</description>
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      <pubDate>13 Jan 2009 13:39:25 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Geological mapping gets joined up</title>
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      <pubDate>01 Aug 2008 17:09:57 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>The Euroscience festival</title>
      <description>&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; cellspacing=&quot;0&quot; cellpadding=&quot;0&quot; class=&quot;storycontent&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;mxb&quot;&gt;&lt;h1&gt; 				&lt;/h1&gt; 			&lt;/div&gt; 		&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 		&lt;/tr&gt;     		 		                  &lt;tr&gt;                     &lt;td class=&quot;storybody&quot;&gt;                         &lt;!-- S BO --&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Science writer and broadcaster Sue Nelson reports from the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona. The forum is a rela ...</description>
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      <pubDate>20 Jul 2008 10:21:45 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Best inventors (according to Times magazine)</title>
      <description>&lt;h3&gt;Best Inventors&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1677708_1677861,00.html&quot;&gt;Archimedes (circa 287-212 B.C.)  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1677708_1677862,00.html&quot;&gt;Al-Jazari (circa A.D. 1150-1220)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1677329_1677708_1677 ...</description>
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      <pubDate>25 Apr 2008 19:43:07 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Notes On The PhD Degree</title>
      <description>&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p&gt; Last week at the department colloquium coffee hour, several students engaged the faculty in a discussion about our Ph.D. program.  It became clear that many of the students did not understand the basics; they were surprised at some of the questions and confused by some of the answers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; These notes provide basic information about the purpose of a Ph.D. program in an attempt to hel ...</description>
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      <pubDate>13 Apr 2008 14:02:21 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>3.14 and the rest</title>
      <description> 				 			 		 		     		 		                                                                	 		&lt;!-- S BO --&gt; &lt;!-- S IIMA --&gt; 	 		 			 			&lt;div&gt; 				&lt;img src=&quot;http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44491000/jpg/_44491967_pyrm_getty_203.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Pyramids at Giza&quot; hspace=&quot;0&quot; vspace=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;416&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; /&gt; 				&lt;div class=&quot;cap&quot;&gt;Pi can be found in the design of the pyramids at Giza&lt;/div&gt; ...</description>
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      <pubDate>14 Mar 2008 16:15:09 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>The brain</title>
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      <pubDate>17 Feb 2008 20:15:16 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>4bn euros for frontier research</title>
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      <pubDate>23 Nov 2007 09:40:40 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Open Source Science</title>
      <description> &lt;p class=&quot;byline&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldchanging.com/jamais_bio.html&quot;&gt;Jamais Cascio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August 24, 2004  4:18 PM&lt;/p&gt;  						&lt;div class=&quot;blogarticletext&quot;&gt;        &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040816/full/040816-14.html&quot;&gt;The Common Good&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;quot; a new essay in &lt;em&gt;Nature&lt;/em&gt; by consulting editor Philip Ball, explores the growing use of collaborative methods to build a ...</description>
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      <pubDate>18 Nov 2007 14:18:21 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Shiatsu</title>
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      <pubDate>29 Aug 2007 11:58:12 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Prana and the forces of the universe</title>
      <description>All the four basic forces in the Universe - weak nuclear force, strong nuclear force, electricity &amp;amp; magnetism - are but different manifestations of that Unified Power which the Vedists call Prana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As per Raja Yoga, there are only two powerful forces in the Universe- Akasha ( Ether-principle ) and the Cosmic Energy, Prana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All that we see around us, taste, touch and feel i ...</description>
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      <pubDate>28 Aug 2007 16:00:59 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Scientists discover massive strength of nanoparticle sheet only 50 atoms thick</title>
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      <pubDate>24 Jul 2007 10:16:52 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>&apos;Losing sight of Planet Earth&apos;</title>
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      <pubDate>21 Jul 2007 21:32:35 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Vertical farming in the big Apple</title>
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      <pubDate>19 Jun 2007 17:29:42 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>26 Apr 2007 14:55:37 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>26 Apr 2007 14:54:11 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>26 Apr 2007 14:49:14 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Discovery Of New Family Of Pseudo-metallic Chemicals</title>
      <description>       &lt;!-- BODY BEGIN --&gt;    &lt;p class=&quot;first&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #666666; text-decoration: none&quot;&gt;Science Daily&lt;/span&gt; &amp;mdash;&lt;/em&gt; The periodic table of elements, all 111 of them, just got a little competition. A new discovery by a University of Missouri-Columbia research team, published in Angewandte Chemie, the journal of the German Society of Chemists, allows scientists to manipulate a mo ...</description>
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      <pubDate>25 Apr 2007 22:24:20 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>20 Apr 2007 18:28:58 +0100</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>20 Apr 2007 09:46:18 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Einstein was right, probe shows</title>
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      <title>Special Report on The Human Brain - New Scientist</title>
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      <pubDate>12 Apr 2007 09:27:04 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Blood types A, B converted to type O</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt; NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a report released Sunday,  researchers describe the use of newly discovered enzymes to  convert blood types A, B, and AB into O, the universal donor  type.&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;       &lt;p&gt; Blood types are based on the type of a molecule, called  agglutinogen, found on the surface of red blood cells. Types A,  B, or AB can clump together if mixed, but type  ...</description>
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      <pubDate>03 Apr 2007 08:13:48 +0100</pubDate>
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