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Environment Update: Another Carbon Capture Technique Revealed

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With all these coal-fired and fossil-fuel driven power plants in the world the quest for capturing CO2 continues in research laboratories all over the...

Gizmos and Gadgets: Self-Charging Cell Phones Coming Soon

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Smartphones are too smart for their own good. Users have come to rely on them so much that they constantly need recharging. The batteries...

Urban Landscapes Update: China’s Great Urbanization Experiment

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Only in a centrally controlled economy could you pull off what China is attempting to do by moving a quarter billion of its people...

Is Perennial Thinking the Solution to Conquer World Hunger While Saving the Environment?

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An article in today's Globe & Mail  by Shaun Pett got me thinking about our heavy reliance on annual staple crops to feed the...

A Comment on the U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Human Gene Patents

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Despite Michael Crichton's "Next," a sci-fi novel in which he described a world in which a company could own the genetic information of an...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for June 14, 2013

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What's in this week's headlines? Three medical stories, one on world population and food, and another on China and capping carbon emissions.   MS Breakthrough Holds...

Gizmos & Gadgets: Tricorder of “Star Trek” Fame Comes to Life

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Meet the Scanadu Scout (TM), the first medical tricorder coming to you in the near future, in fact by March 2014 if it passes...

Energy Update: A Fuel Cell That Captures CO2 to Operate

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Carbonate fuel cells may be one answer to capturing CO2 from the atmosphere. The manufacturer is FuelCell Energy, a company located in Danbury, Connecticut. ...

Materials Science Update: Plastic Wood Replacing Timber in Construction – Not Necessarily a Good Thing

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Ever heard of plastic wood? It is a composite material consisting of waste wood mixed with plastic. For environmentalists it represents a dilemma. Plastic...

Gizmos & Gadgets: Inexpensive Nano Water Filter Could Save Hundreds of Thousands Every Year

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A team of scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras has developed a device that can deliver safe drinking water to families living...
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