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<title>Scientists and Google create Singularity University to solve big problems</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some technologies are so complex and have so many frequent breakthroughs that few people can keep up. Now comes a new nine-week summer program in Silicon Valley for super-smart people. Dubbed Singularity University, its founders hope it will help close the gap in understanding and applying fast-developing technologies to solve what they called  "humanityâs grandest challenges."

Peter Diamandis, the Santa Monica physician credited with fueling private space rocketry; S. Pete Worden,...]]></description>
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<title>Scientists discover new forest with undiscovered species on Google Earth</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The mountainous area of northern Mozambique in southern Africa had been overlooked by science due to inhospitable terrain and decades of civil war in the country.

However, while scrolling around on Google Earth, an internet map that allows the viewer to look at satellite images of anywhere on the globe, scientists discovered an unexpected patch of green.

A British-led expedition was sent to see what was on the ground and found 7,000 hectares of forest, rich in biodiversity, known as Mount...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:11:55 CST</pubDate>
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<title>Scientists Find Key For T Cells To Fight Cancer &amp; Infections</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Like tuning a violin to produce strong, elegant notes, researchers at The Wistar Institute have found multiple receptors on the outside of the body's killer immune system cells which they believe can be selectively targeted to keep the cells in superb infection- and disease-fighting condition.

In a study published online November 30 in Nature Immunology, the researchers describe their discovery of seven different receptors on T cells that can tamp down immune responses during a prolonged...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:44:24 CST</pubDate>
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<title>The Large Hadron Collider prepares for take-off</title>
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<description><![CDATA[At about 9.30 am local time, scientists will introduce a beam of protons into the 18-mile-long circular particle accelerator, buried some 300 feet in the earth and straddling the Franco-Swiss border just outside Geneva, beginning what should be a remarkable career. Some 300 journalists from around the world will be on hand to watch the switch being thrown, accompanied by the thousands of scientists who will make the LHC a good part of their life's work. Last night, some 50 scientists were...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 9 Sep 2008 16:51:15 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Scientists Create Blood From Stem Cells</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists have used embryonic stem cells to generate blood -- a feat that could eventually lead to endless supplies of type O-negative blood, a rare blood type prized by doctors for its versatility.

"We literally generated whole tubes in the lab, from scratch," said Robert Lanza, chief science officer at Advanced Cell Technologies. 

People usually require blood transfusions that match their own blood type: A mismatch can be fatal. Type O-negative can be safely transferred into anyone,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:27:22 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Scientists find bugs that eat waste and excrete petrol</title>
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<description><![CDATA[âTen years ago I could never have imagined Iâd be doing this,â says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive, as he squints into the late afternoon Californian sun. âI mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But the people I talk to â especially the ones coming out of business school â this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into.â

He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs â very, very small ones â so that when they feed on agricultural...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:09:49 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Tiny Brain-Like Computer Created</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The most powerful computer known is the brain, and now scientists have designed a machine just a few molecules large that mimics how the brain works.

So far the device can simultaneously carry out 16 times more operations than a normal computer transistor. Researchers suggest the invention might eventually prove able to perform roughly 1,000 times more operations than a transistor.

This machine could not only serve as the foundation of a powerful computer, but also serve as the...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:24:07 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Black Fungus Found in Chernobyl Eats Harmful Radiation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The research began with the discovery of black fungus growing on the walls of the damaged, highly radioactive Chernobyl nuclear reactor and collected by robots.

The fungus was rich with melanin, the same pigment that gives human skin its color, protecting the skin from solar and ultraviolet radiation. Melanin is found in many, if not most, fungal species.

"The fungal kingdom comprises more species than any other plant or animal kingdom," said researcher Arturo Casadevall, an immunologist...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 2 Mar 2008 12:04:46 CST</pubDate>
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<title>World's Longest Accelerator Probes Universe's Tiniest Particles</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator, or SLAC, labs have won three Nobel prizes and are currently amassing the first scientific evidence that there is more matter than antimatter in the universe, by smashing positrons and electrons together.

The lab's next big project, the Linac Coherent Light Source, will go online next year. Its X-ray free electron laser will be roughly 10 billion times more powerful than existing X-ray sources and let researchers capture movies of atoms and...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:46:14 CST</pubDate>
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<title>The girl, 10, who could die from shock just by watching a scary film</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Like most children her age, Jennifer Lloyd loves watching her favourite programmes on TV.

But when a scary bit is about to happen the ten-year-old has to leave the room quickly - because the sudden shock could kill her.

Jennifer is one of just six known sufferers of polyglandular Addison's disease, which causes her to become ill whenever she is surprised or shocked.

The condition means she is unable to produce adrenaline in response to alarm or any sudden form of emotional or physical...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 6 Feb 2008 08:53:40 CST</pubDate>
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