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Chemistry, Sep 7
Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT scientists have succeeded in mimicking a key aspect of that process.
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Legislators and DOE’s researchers alike are hoping FutureGen 2.0 is a smoother ride than the first go-around, which went the way of New Coke. With $1 billion now comitted, the coal-dependent U.S. is now headed rapidly for a massive retrofitting of coal generation. But carbon storage will inevitably mean higher energy prices for all.
Aug 2
Two bugs are making a comeback tour, and one is as annoying as the other is deadly. One bites skin, one attacks cells. There’s no vaccine, the treatments are less and less effective with each passing year, and they are beginning to take over the neighborhood. Itchy yet?
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Now that astronomers are finding rocky worlds orbiting distant stars, they're asking the logical questions: Do any of those worlds have volcanoes? And if so, could we detect them? Work by theorists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that the answer to the latter is a qualified "Yes."
Sep 7
Engineers at Harvard University have created a millionth-scale automobile differential to govern the flight of minuscule aerial robots that could someday be used to probe environmental hazards, forest fires, and other places too perilous for people.
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