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  BrailleWise, Aircraft Toilet: Making Air Travel Easier for Visually Impaired People

  February 3, 2013 — Scientists have designed a new aircraft lavatory called BrailleWise®, giving visually impaired people greater independence and comfort when using toilets on ... > full story
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  Seeing the Aurora in a New Light: Sounding Rocket to Help Scientists Study Northern Lights

  February 1, 2013 — Armed with a series of instruments, the VISIONS rocket will soar high through the arctic sky to study the auroral wind, which is a strong but intermittent stream of oxygen atoms from Earth's ... > full story
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  New Device Traps Particulates, Kills Airborne Pathogens

  January 31, 2013 — A new device called a soft X-ray electrostatic precipitator protected immunocompromised mice from airborne pathogenic bacteria, viruses, ultrafine particles, and allergens, according to a new ... > full story

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  • New Device Better Traps Viruses, Airborne Pathogens
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  Humble 'Virtual Chimney' Fences Could Reduce Impact of Airport Pollution

  January 31, 2013 — Simple 'blast' fences called baffles could deliver improvements in air quality for people living near airports, new research has found. Placed behind a runway, the baffles could serve as a 'virtual ... > full story
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  The Big Picture: Getting a Better Look at Sandy's Wake of Destruction

  January 31, 2013 — In New Jersey, along Hurricane Sandy's path of destruction, engineers are using infrared and ultraviolet imaging technology and acoustic emission testing combined with low-altitude aircraft ... > full story
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  Virtual Superpowers Encourage Real-World Empathy

  January 31, 2013 — Giving test subjects Superman-like flight in a virtual reality simulator makes them more likely to exhibit altruistic behavior in real life, researchers ... > full story

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  • Virtual Superheroes More Helpful in Real World, Too
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  NASA Launches Next-Generation Communications Satellite

  January 30, 2013 — The first of NASA's three next-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), known as TDRS-K, launched at 8:48 p.m. EST Wednesday (Jan. 30) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... > full story
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  Electric Vehicle: Light Yet Safe Contender for City Streets

  January 30, 2013 — Can an electric vehicle be extremely light and safe at the same time? Researchers aim to show that the answer is yes. Engineers have chosen a sturdy monocoque body, state-of-the-art carbon fiber ... > full story
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  NASA to Launch Ocean Wind Monitor to Space Station

  January 29, 2013 — In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ... > full story
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  Bugs in the Atmosphere: Significant Microorganism Populations Found in Middle and Upper Troposphere

  January 28, 2013 — In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, researchers used genomic techniques to document the presence of significant numbers of living microorganisms -- principally bacteria -- in the ... > full story

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