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  'Tricorder' Closer to Reality: Portable X-Ray Source Could Put Medical Diagnosis and Terrorism Prevention in the Palm of the Hand

  January 8, 2013 — The hand-held scanners, or tricorders, of the Star Trek movies and television series are one step closer to reality now that an engineering team has invented a compact source of X-rays and other ... > full story
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  A New Point of Reference for Offshore Energy Development

  January 8, 2013 — A new Department of Energy research facility could help bring the U.S. closer to generating power from the winds and waters along America's coasts and help alleviate a major hurdle for offshore wind ... > full story
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  Concentrated Solar Power With Thermal Energy Storage Can Help Utilities' Bottom Line, Study Shows

  January 8, 2013 — The storage capacity of concentrating solar power can add significant value to a utility company's optimal mix of energy sources, a new report by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable ... > full story
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  Shareholder Responsibility Could Spur Shift to Sustainable Energy

  January 8, 2013 — Allowing shareholders to be held liable for the damages that companies cause to the environment, people could help transform the world's energy system towards sustainability, according to new ... > full story
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  Space Sailing Soon: A One-Kilometer-Long Electric Sail Tether Produced

  January 8, 2013 — An electric sail (ESAIL) produces propulsion power for a spacecraft by utilizing the solar wind. The sail features electrically charged long and thin metal tethers that interact with the solar wind. ... > full story
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  Galaxy's Gamma-Ray Flares Erupted Far from Its Black Hole

  January 7, 2013 — In 2011, a months-long blast of energy launched by an enormous black hole almost 11 billion years ago swept past Earth. Using a combination of data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the ... > full story
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  Engineered Bacteria Make Fuel from Sunlight

  January 7, 2013 — Chemists have engineered blue-green algae to grow chemical precursors for fuels and plastics -- the first step in replacing fossil fuels as raw materials for the chemical ... > full story
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  New Path to More Efficient Organic Solar Cells Uncovered

  January 7, 2013 — Working at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, an international team of scientists found that for highly efficient polymer/organic solar cells, size matters. Impure domains if made sufficiently ... > full story
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  A French Nuclear Exit?

  January 7, 2013 — France has been held up, worldwide, as the forerunner in using nuclear fission to produce electricity. However, a third of the nation's nuclear reactors will need replacing in the next decade, and ... > full story
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  Protein Key to Fighting and Preventing Obesity Discovered

  January 7, 2013 — Scientists have identified a protein that, when absent, helps the body burn fat and prevents insulin resistance and ... > full story

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