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		<title>Z Machine Produces Six Times the World&#8217;s Energy to Create White Dwarf Star</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Z Machine at Sandia National Laboratories is capable of creating what astronomer Don Winget calls "star stuff," the same dense plasma that makes up the universe's white dwarf stars.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=142153&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Need a Reason to Get Excited About Technology Again, This Is It</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/07/if-you-need-a-reason-to-get-excited-about-technology-again-this-is-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early Monday morning, the 33-year-old version of me watched live as NASA engineers cheered, hugged and patted each other on the back. The Curiosity rover had landed safely on Mars and I was awake at close to 2am on a weeknight—two things that don't happen very often.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=141764&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mars Curiosity Rover: Wheels Down on the Red Planet</title>
		<link>http://science.time.com/2012/08/06/mars-rover-curiosity-lands-safely-on-the-red-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 14:43:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Cray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rover pulls off an improbable landing—and fires up its instruments for two years of research.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=141698&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curiosity Takes Center Stage as Crowds Cheer in Times Square</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 11:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large crowd gathered in Times Square to cheer the landing of Curiosity on Mars, a $2.5 billion endeavor that saw NASA's most advanced rover yet enter the planet's atmosphere at a blistering 13,200 miles per hour.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=141639&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Explore NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center with Google Street View</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/02/explore-nasas-kennedy-space-center-with-google-street-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With NASA's rover hopefully landing safe and sound on the surface of Mars late Sunday night, people are once again talking about space travel. Before getting images back from Curiosity, you can get your space fix by exploring NASA's Kennedy Space Center via Google Street View.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=141385&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hacking Your Memory: Could Total Recall Really Happen?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2012/08/02/hacking-your-memory-could-total-recall-really-happen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2012 12:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Wagstaff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Total Recall, both Paul Verhoeven's 1990 original and the remake starring Colin Farrell, features technology that erases and implants memories. Is that just sci-fi nonsense or will we one day be able to reprogram our memories as we see fit?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=141223&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet Weighs About as Much as a Strawberry</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/the-internet-weighs-about-as-much-as-a-strawberry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the world was shocked—shocked!—to discover that downloading an electronic book to a device such as a Kindle actually increases the weight of the Kindle. Not by any truly measurable amount, said the New York Times, but still: adding data to a device apparently results in trapped electrons which &#8220;have a higher energy than the untrapped ones.&#8221; And though the amount of data contained in a tiny e-book file is so miniscule as to render it almost irrelevant, the results become more meaningful when you measure a much larger set of data. In that spirit, how much does all the information on the entire internet weigh? The conclusion: about as much as a strawberry. Check out the above video for the explanation, which includes details about the Kindle stuff, too. How Much Does The Internet Weigh? [YouTube via Buzzfeed]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101652&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take a Look at the World&#8217;s Smallest Working Electric Motor</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/07/take-a-look-at-the-worlds-smallest-working-electric-motor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a truism that technology is always shrinking and getting more compact. This, however, might be something else altogether. Previously the world&#8217;s smallest electronic motor was a microscopic 200 nanometers across. Not bad, especially when you consider that the average human hair is only 60,000 nanometers wide. (MORE: Can Humans Actually Sense the Earth&#8217;s Magnetic Field?) But now a team of scientists from Tufts University has reportedly engineered a motor that&#8217;s a mere 1 nanometer across. Their findings, set to be published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, will be submitted to Guinness World Records as the smallest electric motor to date. How&#8217;d they do it? The team found that by controlling the temperature surrounding the molecule they could actually control its rotation, and voilà! A bona fide, working motor. &#8220;There has been significant progress in the construction of molecular motors powered by light and by chemical reactions, but this is the first time that electrically-driven molecular motors have been demonstrated, despite a few theoretical proposals,&#8221; says E. Charles H. Sykes, Ph.D., lead author of the study speaking with Science Daily. &#8221;We have been able to show that you can provide electricity to a single molecule and get it to do something that is not just random.&#8221; The applications of such an motor could impact everything from medicine to computing to really, really tiny cars. Here&#8217;s our official 3D Techland rendering of what we think the motor looks like:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96144&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Man Arrested for Attempting Nuclear Meltdown (on His Stove)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/04/man-arrested-for-attempting-nuclear-meltdown-on-his-stove/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swedish police have prevented what could either have been the birth of an outsider scientific genius or an unprecedented disaster. My money, admittedly, is on the latter, with the arrest of 31-year-old Richard Handl, a science enthusiast who was trying to build the world&#8217;s first home-based nuclear reactor. The arrest came after the police were alerted by Sweden&#8217;s Radiation Authority, who Handl had contacted upon realizing that perhaps it wasn&#8217;t entirely legal (or safe) to keep radium, americium and uranium in his apartment in order to conduct scientific experiments that included attempts to cause a small nuclear meltdown on his stove. Facing charges of up to two years in prison, Handl told reporters that he just wanted to &#8220;see if it&#8217;s possible to split atoms at home,&#8221; saying, &#8220;I have always been interested in physics and chemistry&#8230; From now on, I will stick to the theory.&#8221; Swedish police refuse to comment on the arrest. MORE: Wanna Know U.K. Nuclear Sub Secrets? Just Ask for the Redacted Version Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=92813&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Win More at Rock-Paper-Scissors (According to Science)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/21/how-to-win-more-at-rock-paper-scissors-according-to-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a few time-honored methods for settling disputes: Good ol&#8217; fashion fisticuffs are a fairly noble method, but you get all hurt and bruisy and that&#8217;s usually not a wise career move. Then there&#8217;s always coin flipping, but that usually requires the presence of a coin, which can be annoying to carry around. And aside from arm wrestling, thumb wrestling, pulling straws, picking numbers, six-sided dice, twelve-sided dice, smartphone apps, foot races, video games, or—you know—talking it out, the only real way to settle a modern day quarrel is to play a respectable game of rock-paper-scissors. In theory, if you&#8217;re better at rock-paper-scissors than anyone else, you get your way more. And getting your way is usually a good thing. So, if you&#8217;re interested in getting your way more, a study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B might be of use to you. They tested 45 subjects—some blindfolded, some not—and found that people subconsciously copy the movements of their opponents. Using financial incentives that were given out when a player either won a game or came to a draw, administrators found that when non-blindfolded players played blindfolded players, the seeing folks were achieving draws at a much, much higher rate, even if it was in their interest not to. (MORE: Sorry, Guys: Girls Sweep First Ever Google Science Fair) Apparently, this is something embedded in our scientific makeup. &#8220;From the moment we&#8217;re born, we are frequently exposed to situations where performing an action accurately predicts seeing the same action, or vice versa. Parents seemingly can&#8217;t help but imitate the facial expressions of their newborns— smiling, sticking their tongues out and so on,&#8221; says Richard Cook, the lead author of the paper from the UCL Department of Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Science. &#8220;This experience causes the impulse to imitate to become so ingrained it is often subconscious, for example when one person starts tapping their foot in a waiting room it is not uncommon for the whole room to start tapping their feet without thinking.&#8221; It&#8217;s called automatic<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=91125&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry, Guys: Girls Sweep Google&#8217;s First Ever Science Fair</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/07/13/sorry-guys-girls-sweep-googles-first-ever-science-fair/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;What!? Girls aren&#8217;t supposed to be good at science!&#8221; is what someone old and dumb would likely say regarding the above headline. Yesterday, the top 15 finalists in Google&#8217;s first ever Science Fair put their projects to the test in front of 1,000 attendees and a panel of judges. Taking first place across three age categories were three extremely bright young American women: Lauren Hodge, Naomi Shah and Shree Bose (pictured above). The event was sponsored by CERN (the organization who made that giant hadron collider thing), Lego and National Geographic. They reportedly saw &#8220;over 7,500 entries from more than 10,000 young scientists in over 90 countries around the world.&#8221; (MORE: Math Genius Solves 100 Year Old Problem, Refuses Million Dollar Prize) Lauren Hodge won the 13-14 age group by studying &#8220;the effect of different marinades on the level of potentially harmful carcinogens in grilled chicken.&#8221; Naomi Shah was the winner of the 15-16 age group in which she tried to prove &#8220;that making changes to indoor environments that improve indoor air quality can reduce people’s reliance on asthma medications.&#8221; Shree Bose, who won the 17-18 age group as well as the Grand Prize overall &#8220;discovered a way to improve ovarian cancer treatment for patients when they have built up a resistance to certain chemotherapy drugs.&#8221; Bose also took home a $50,000 scholarship from CERN to go along with a coveted internship at the organization. She received a trip to the Galápagos Islands sponsored by National Geographic Explorer as well. Shah and Hodge, on the other hand, were the recipients of $25,000 scholarships and slightly less prestigious internships at some company called &#8220;Google.&#8221; Ho-hum. (MORE: Stink At Math? Scientists Can Now Electro-Shock Your Brain to Make You More Competent) Liz Dwyer at GOOD already beat me to the punch with a hat tip to Beyonce&#8217;s &#8220;Run the World (Girls)&#8221; (which is a great song!); if an international contest to find the future&#8217;s best and brightest is any indication, they certainly will. Congrats, ladies! [via Official Google Blog] Chris Gayomali is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=90004&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nerdtastic Video: &#8216;Doctor Who&#8217; Theme Played on Tesla Coils</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/26/nerdtastic-video-doctor-who-theme-played-on-tesla-coils/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, let&#8217;s just go through the nerdgasm checklist: Any reference whatsoever to Doctor Who? CHECK Gratuitous use of the Doctor Who theme tune? CHECK In an unlikely setting? CHECK Full of nerds? CHECK In the dark? CHECK Volume up to 11? CHECK With Tesla coils? Hell CHECK yeah. And people standing between the Tesla coils? CHECK In a Faraday cage so that they don&#8217;t get fried to a crisp? CHECK In the dark? CHECK And every delicious second of it enshrined on YouTube for our viewing delight on any internet-connected device we damn well please? CHECK Great, we&#8217;re done. Everything&#8217;s checked, so you may now go ahead with your nerdgasm. Thank you for flying Techland.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=84283&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yell Phone: Using Speech to Recharge Portable Gadgets</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/09/yell-phone-using-speech-to-recharge-portable-gadgets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 18:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Engineers in South Korea are working on a system that converts sound to energy, with one potential real-world application of the technology being cell phones that recharge themselves as people speak into them. We won&#8217;t see a fully functioning solution like this in the near future, but the team demonstrated that &#8220;a prototype of the technology was able to convert sound of around 100 decibels – the equivalent of noisy traffic – to generate 50 millivolts of electricity,&#8221; according to the Telegraph. Project head Dr. Sang-Woo Kim hopes to make the technology more efficient so that it someday can provide more power at quieter sound levels, but said that even as it stands now, &#8220;Our current output performance can be applied to various electronic devices with low-power consumption such as self-powered sensors and body-implantable tiny devices.&#8221; The actual process by which sound is converted to energy under this system seems relatively straightforward. According to the Telegraph: &#8220;The technology uses tiny strands of zinc oxide sandwiched between two electrodes. A sound absorbing pad on top vibrates when sound waves hit it, causing the tiny zinc oxide wires to compress and release. This movement generates an electrical current that can then be used to charge a battery.&#8221; The concept behind this technology – the piezoelectric effect – has existed for a while, with kinetic wristwatches (like several that Seiko sells) being one of the better real-world examples today. A kinetic watch has a little weight in it that oscillates as you move your arm around, and that oscillation gets converted to energy that&#8217;s stored and used to power the watch. This system developed by these South Korean engineers looks like it may leverage the same type of oscillation, except that it&#8217;s created by sound vibrations instead of physical movement. It&#8217;ll likely be a long, long time before we&#8217;ll ever be able to completely power a phone like this, though. If you can&#8217;t wait that long, you can always pick up one of these wind-up phone chargers for around $20. I&#8217;ve used a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=81340&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chimps Know Who They Are When Playing Video Games</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/05/chimps-know-who-they-are-when-playing-video-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 17:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For humans, associating with video game characters is second-nature. I ducked. I jumped. I fell off a cliff and died. As it turns out, chimpanzees are capable of similar associations. At Kyoto University&#8217;s Primate Research Institute in Japan, scientists discovered that chimps become aware of their digital avatars when playing video games, according to LiveScience. (In other news, chimps freakin&#8217; play video games.) Testing involved a simple game in which adult female chimps dragged a white circle into green rectangles, using a track ball underneath a touch screen. But here&#8217;s the trick: each screen had two white cursors, one controlled directly by the track ball, and one whose movement was based on the chimps&#8217; previous interactions. The chimps would receive a treat for touching the screen whenever the white circle collided with the green rectangle, but only if it was the circle they were controlling directly with the trackball. The chimps correctly identified their own white circle avatars 99 percent of the time. Researchers concluded that chimps perceive self-agency in a manner similar to humans. The tests could provide insight into humans&#8217; evolution of self. Even so, the conditions for this test have to be just right. When researchers introduced a delay in trackball response, or changed the angle of cursor movement, chimps fared much worse in identifying their own avatars. That could mean chimps&#8217; self-agency is affected by factors not evident to humans, and that&#8217;s what the Primate Research Institute wants to figure out next. Hopefully, testing of chimps on Portal 2 co-op is not far behind.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=80752&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science Creates All-Female Breed Of Lizards</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/04/science-creates-all-female-breed-of-lizards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 22:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think that the trailer for Rise of The Planet of The Apes would be enough to remind people that screwing around with nature can lead to disasters even James Franco can&#8217;t endure. Apparently not, in light of news that researchers have bred a new species of all-female lizard under lab conditions. The team, led by biologist Peter Baumann of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, has reportedly created a new species of hybrid female lizards that&#8217;s lasted four generations, reproducing by essentially cloning themselves, developing embryos without fertilization. &#8220;It&#8217;s recreating the events that lead to new species,&#8221; says Baumann. &#8220;It relates to the question of how these unisexual species arise in the first place.&#8221; His creations mirror species that have arisen naturally, but never been directly observed. But with unisexuality potentially on the rise in species of fish, amphibian and reptile over the last decade, it&#8217;s definitely something that needs further investigation &#8211; although I&#8217;m unconvinced by Baumann&#8217;s central question: &#8220;Is it really the case that, once a species is unisexual, it&#8217;s set in stone, and it will be that way until it dies out? Or is it there a chance that material in unisexual lineages could find its way back?&#8221; When humans start cloning those lineages back into existence, I&#8217;m pretty sure scientific waters will be muddied just a bit. More on TIME.com: Professor Commissions Creepy Robot That Looks Exactly Like Him Planet Earth II: The Harrowing, High-Def Nature Thrills of &#8216;Life&#8217; Immortality Only A Few Decades Away Thanks To Singularity<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=80527&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Over 50 Years Later, NASA Probe Proves Two of Einstein&#8217;s Theories Correct</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/05/04/over-50-years-later-nasa-probe-proves-two-of-einsteins-theories-correct/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 22:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a super genius sure is hard. You have all these great theorems about how gravity works and whatnot without the proper means to prove if they&#8217;re viable or bunk. In Einstein&#8217;s case, it wasn&#8217;t until recently — 56 years after his death — that technology finally caught up to the inner machinations of his astounding intellect. NASA&#8217;s Gravity Probe B was recently able to prove correct two different aspects of Einstein&#8217;s theories on gravity: 1. the geodetic effect, and 2. frame dragging, the tests of which have been in the works for over 52 years. The first, the geodetic effect, concerns the warping of space and time around a gravitational body such as the Earth, while the second, frame-dragging, asserts that a spinning object pulls space and time with it as it rotates. Using four highly-sensitive gyroscopes, Gravity Probe B pointed at a single star, IM Pegasi, while orbiting around Earth&#8217;s poles. The ultra-precise gyroscopes demonstrated measurable changes in their readings, thus proving Einstein&#8217;s two aspects to be correct. Better late than never, I guess. (via Phys Org) More on TIME.com:   Math Genius Solves 100 Year Old Theorem, But Declines Million Dollar Prize Money Stink At Math? Scientists Can Now Electroshock Your Brain To Make You Better NASA Sinks Mars Rover 3D Camera Upgrade<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=80499&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Power You Can See Through</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/21/solar-power-you-can-see-through/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday we mentioned recent predictions that solar power will be as cheap as coal by 2013; today, though, the word is that it will also be a helluva lot easier to generate too. MIT scientists Vladimir Bulović and Richard Lunt have published a paper outlining a system of transparent photovoltaic cells which could be coated on to normal glass. The result: a window that generates electricity while sunlight streams through it. The new system contributes to reduced costs, too, because it takes away many of the most expensive aspects of building solar cells. Existing cells have to be specially manufactured with supporting structures, purpose-built glass panes, and so on. Bulović and Lunt&#8217;s alternative does away with pretty much all of that. This system won&#8217;t be enough to solve the energy crisis on its own. But it will, say its inventors, make a helpful contribution to our future energy needs as part of a wider package of alternative sources. The research is still at an early stage, and a commercial product is still 10 years away. But one day you might be able to buy a transparent material you can simply drape over your existing windows and plug in. (Via MIT)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=78080&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Accessories &amp; Peripherals</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/gadgets/accessories-peripherals/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>How Many Oranges Does It Take to Power an Electric Billboard?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/21/how-many-oranges-does-it-take-to-power-an-electric-billboard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It only takes 2,500 oranges to power a neon billboard and two repairmen to change a light bulb in my apartment. I think it’s time to head to the produce market the next time I have an electrical shortage. A recent Tropicana ad for the French market shows a team assembling thousands of oranges to power a neon sign. The project, which occurred over the course of three months, uses copper and zinc wires to power the lit-up sign. The scientific operandi behind the phenomena says that in order for it to work, the metals must pierce the oranges. The orange juice proceeds to dissolve the zinc and copper, causing a current of electrons. The reaction produces a bit of power, and when all of these tiny “batteries” are linked, it can generate a significant amount of electricity. It is the same concept behind the “lemon battery” test that is a common scientific experiment in many high schools. Bottoms up! (via Mashable) More on TIME.com: Should Lithium Batteries Be Classified &#8216;Hazardous Material&#8217;? The Human Heart Could Power Gadgets of the Future Batteries For Laptops and Consumer Gadgets<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=78017&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mustached Mythbuster to Bring Expertise to the US Military</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/13/mustached-mythbuster-to-bring-expertise-to-the-us-military/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 15:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jamie Hyneman — the thickly facial-haired, beret-adorned half of the hit TV show MythBusters — has landed himself a new side gig working on a special project for the US Military. CNET is reporting that the Office of Naval Research is tapping into the special effects expert to develop an ultra-lightweight armor for use on vehicles in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The armor would need to be lightweight so as to maintain a vehicle&#8217;s mobility, while providing ample resistance to explosives and shrapnel. Over the course of his career, Jamie has worked on more than 800 commercials for automakers, athletic equipment, soft-drink manufacturers and more. After earning a degree in Russian languages, Jamie ran a sailing and charter business in the Caribbean before moving into an illustrious career in Hollywood special effects. The owner of M5 industries Inc (a special effects and production modeling studio he purchased 18 years ago) has co-hosted the hit Discovery Channel show with Adam Savage over the course of nine seasons. The Wednesday night program, though oft criticized for its liberal (but TV-friendly!) applications of the scientific method, has consistently been one of Discovery Channel&#8217;s most popular draws, with its last episode pulling in over 1.7 million viewers. More on TIME.com: Watch the Navy Set a Boat on Fire with Their New Laser Gun China Bans Time Travel Obama Appears on Mythbusters<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=76529&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Gaming &amp; Culture</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/gaming-%c2%a0culture/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Media-Addicted Students Struggle Through a Day Without Facebook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/04/08/media-addicted-students-struggle-through-a-day-without-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giles Turnbull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re addicted to media and technology. News at 11. What&#8217;s unnerving, and a touch depressing, is what we say about it when we&#8217;re forced to disconnect, even if it&#8217;s only for 24 hours. In a global science study headed by the International Center for Media &#38; the Public Agenda and the University of Maryland, students in nine countries including the US, UK, and China were asked to switch off all digital media for a day. No TV, no phones, no computers. No Twitter. No Facebook. No checking in anywhere. No text messages, no TV. Each participant kept a diary of their thoughts and feelings during the experiment. The extracts from those diaries include things like: &#8220;The silence was killing me.&#8221; And: &#8220;Even in my dreams I see myself chatting, using Skype, Twitter, and adding people on Facebook.&#8221; And: &#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize it would be so isolating.&#8221; The study concludes that more people should try the same experiment, simply because it helped participants become more aware of their addiction and of the choices they make every day. Cutting out all media for a while can help people make better choices about work and play in the long run. (Via The Daily Telegraph)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=75617&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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