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        <title><![CDATA[Make an invisibility cloak with your 3D printer]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Creating an &quot;invisibility&quot; cloak could one day be cheap enough to do at home.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[How 'visioneers' inspire future innovation]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Some scientists are staking out extreme frontiers in science and technology. Author W. Patrick McCray recounts how their visions have shaped - and could shape - our world.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Solar power reinvented?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Scientists from UC Santa Barbara's have reinvented solar power with completely new technology.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Worthington]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[Drink with impunity: Take the hangover pill]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Works on mice. Coming to your medicine cabinet soon?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-02-18T13:11:07Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[IBM says new gel can kill drug-resistant superbugs]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Big Blue's water-soluble concoction may someday be used in creams and various treatments for open wounds, skin infections and other injuries.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tuan C. Nguyen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-02-07T12:40:00Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Sunrise in the desert]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Two of the world's top oil and gas producers are transitioning to renewable energy. So why isn't the U.S.? Energy expert Chris Nelder reports from the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Nelder]]></dc:creator>
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        <title><![CDATA[How nanotechnology can make windows smarter]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A new window coating could make smart windows more energy efficient and cheaper.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Falk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-01-14T20:38:21Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[25 amazing people we talked to in 2012]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Yes, 2012 is behind us. But that doesn't mean you can't walk down memory lane. Here is our list of 25 amazing people we talked to last year.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Nusca]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-01-03T04:14:48Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Nanotechnology triples solar efficiency]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Princeton University researchers applied a &quot;nano-mesh&quot; to plastics, which could make way for inexpensive, flexible devices, or even greatly improve the efficiency of standard photovoltaic panels.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Worthington]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-12-12T03:49:51Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Breakthrough retinal implant fits entirely inside the eye]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Several companies are working on retinal implants that contain hundreds of tiny electrodes while requiring no external camera.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-12-09T03:12:30Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Self-healing plastic skin is sensitive to touch]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Stanford scientists have designed a flexible, electrically conductive polymer, making it possible for prosthetics and electronic skin to feel pressure and heal their own cuts.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-11-12T06:04:36Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Demands made for better oil spill clean-up technology]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Oil spills may cost a fortune but one area of the industry may benefit -- the technology used to clean them up.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-11-02T20:01:53Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Van Bo Le-Mentzel: Rethinking everything]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As the child of refugee parents in Germany, Van Bo Le-Mentzel always walked to the beat of a different drum. As an adult, he's rethinking everything.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Shannon Smith]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-11-01T20:11:16Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Our times: more nano-innovation, less 'big innovation']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Are we less innovative and imaginative than 50 years ago?  Or is amazing innovation just now so commonplace it has become routine?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe McKendrick]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-09-27T15:11:52Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Most sensitive mercury detector ever costs under $10]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The ultrasensitive device can detect heavy metals in fish and drinking water. The 'nano-velcro' detects mercury amounts millions of times smaller than current methods.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-09-19T05:10:26Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[The Morning Briefing: Nanotechnology advances]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The Morning Briefing&quot; is SmartPlanet's daily roundup of must-reads from the web. This morning we're reading about advances in nanotechnology.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-09-11T07:56:36Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Tiny scale weighs one molecule at a time]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[At just a couple millionths of a meter, the device can weigh things as small as viruses, proteins and nanoparticles, helping scientists diagnose diseases and measure air pollution.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-09-08T05:32:13Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[LED wallpaper illuminates the technology's role in design]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Lighting designer Ingo Maurer has been working with LED for decades, and says the circuit board aesthetic is &quot;magnificent.&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mary Catherine O'Connor]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-09-06T10:00:57Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Are nanofibers a health risk?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[New research has suggested that nanofibers may prove as high a health risk as asbestos.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-08-27T10:13:25Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Smart fingertips enhance a doctor's sense of touch]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[These new wearable electronics can augment a surgeon's senses. Researchers hope to improve the tech, making it possible to recreate sensations of heat and even texture.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2012-08-14T06:22:13Z</pubDate>
                                
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