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  Rivers Act as 'Horizontal Cooling Towers' for Power Plants, Study Finds

  April 22, 2013 — Running two computer models in tandem, scientists have detailed for the first time how thermoelectric power plants interact with climate, hydrology, and aquatic ecosystems throughout the northeastern ... > full story
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  NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

  April 22, 2013 — Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story
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  Germanium Is Now Laser Compatible

  April 22, 2013 — Good news for the computer industry: a team of researchers has managed to make germanium suitable for lasers. This could enable microprocessor components to communicate using light in future, which ... > full story
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  Biggest Family Tree of Human Cells Created

  April 21, 2013 — Biologists have created the biggest family tree of human cell ... > full story
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  Device to Mitigate Power Outages, Prevent Equipment Damage

  April 19, 2013 — Engineering researchers have developed equipment that will prevent rolling power outages by regulating or limiting the amount of excess current that moves through the power grid when a surge ... > full story
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  New Algorithm Helps Evaluate, Rank Scientific Literature

  April 18, 2013 — Keeping up with current scientific literature is a daunting task, considering that hundreds to thousands of papers are published each day. Now researchers have developed a computer program to help ... > full story
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  Scientists Scan the Human Heart to Create Digital Anatomical Library

  April 18, 2013 — Medical researchers have demonstrated the anatomical reconstruction of an active human heart. The research uses contrast-computed tomography (CT) to allow in-depth 3-D computer modeling of hearts ... > full story
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  Taking the Pulse of the Crowd

  April 18, 2013 — If everyone in the crowd at a sports event or concert or even the players had wireless heart monitors fitted, commentators and those behind the sound desk could get a real measure of the sense of the ... > full story
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  Helpful for Robotics: Brain Uses Old Information for New Movements

  April 18, 2013 — Information from the senses has an important influence on how we move. For instance, you can see and feel when a mug is filled with hot coffee, and you lift it in a different way than if the mug were ... > full story
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  Prototype Generators Emit Much Less Carbon Monoxide

  April 17, 2013 — Portable electric generators retrofitted with off-the-shelf hardware emitted significantly lower levels of carbon monoxide, according to the results of recent ... > full story

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