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GM partners with utilities to
advance plug-in hybrids
CNET News.Com July 22, 2008
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General Motors is teaming up with
30 utilities in 37 states and with
the Electric Power Research
Institute to develop a charging
infrastructure for electric cars.
They aim to fine-tune the
technology, safety, and customer
experience for car-charging stations
by 2010, when the Chevy Volt is due
to be produced....
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First paper-based transistorsFirst
paper-based transistors
ZDNET July 22, 2008
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Portuguese researchers have created
the first field effect transistors
(FET) with a paper interstrate
layer. Possible applications include
new disposable electronics devices,
such as paper displays, smart
labels, bio-applications, and RFID...
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"Consensus" on Man-Made Warming
Shattering
Canada Free Press July 19, 2008
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Physics & Society, The journal of
the American Physical Society, has
published "Climate Sensitivity
Revisited," a debate. "There is a
considerable presence within the
scientific community of people who
do not agree with the IPCC
conclusion that anthropogenic CO2
emissions are very probably likely
to be primarily responsible for the
global...
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Tobacco 'could help treat cancer'
BBC News July 21, 2008
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Stanford University researchers are
using tobacco plants to grow key
components of a cancer vaccine,
turning the plants into factories
for an antibody chemical specific to
the cancerous cells that cause
follicular B-cell lymphoma, a type
of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Once a
patient's cancer cells are isolated
in the laboratory, the gene...
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Human-frog hybrids aid autism
investigations
NewScientist.com news service July 21, 2008
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University of California, Irvine
researchers have made human-frog
hybrid cells that can be used to
directly study neurotransmitter
signaling of brain-cell membranes
from people who had autism,
epilepsy, or other neurological
disorders. Brain cell membranes
(taken from brain tissue samples of
deceased patients with a particular
disease) contain...
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Country, the City Version: Farms in
the Sky Gain New Interest
New York Times July 15, 2008
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The "vertical farm," a 30-story
skyscraper growing hydroponic
vegetables, could feed 50,000 people
in a city (at a cost of hundreds of
millions of dollars), proposes
Dickson Despommier, a professor of
public health at Columbia
University....
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