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        <title><![CDATA[Apps that simplify your life in space]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Get alerts when you're about to orbit over the Grand Canyon! Learn whether you'll need an umbrella on Jupiter today! These things work for earthlings too.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-23T12:36:08Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Navy completes test flight of Triton spy drone]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the next step for the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles, the U.S. Navy took its MQ-4C Triton maritime drone to the skies for the first time.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-23T12:00:10Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[As a planet hunter falters, a new spacecraft takes flight]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Big week for NASA last week. The Kepler space telescope, the most prolific exoplanet detector ever, is paralyzed. Meanwhile, the Dream Chaser spacecraft is prepping for its first test flights.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-22T22:44:35Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Next on the menu: 3D-printed pizza]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[NASA invested in a company that's developing a 3D printer for pizza.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Falk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-21T20:03:41Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[6 traits of the best workplace on earth]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[For many corporate leaders, it's counter-intuitive to let employees go off and be free-thinkers on company time. Ultimately it may pay off.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe McKendrick]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-20T21:43:09Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[For $10, common airport device will detect black powder]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The same machine that analyzes those cloth swatches that TSA agents wipe against your carry-on could now be retrofitted to detect black powder explosives.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-08T21:00:56Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Farewell, Herschel space observatory]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/farewell-herschel-space-observatory/18890]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[The helium is gone! And now the world's largest, most powerful infrared telescope ever flown will be propelled to an orbit around the sun, where it will remain indefinitely.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-05-02T17:15:46Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[To Mars in 30 days, on nuclear fusion]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/to-mars-in-30-days-on-nuclear-fusion/17394]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[It took the Curiosity eight months to get to the Red Planet. The Fusion Driven Rocket could slash journey time and open up space travel.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-12T10:51:18Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[NASA scientist reinvents the wheel(chair)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[By pulling the wheels, instead of pushing them forward, wheelchair users can prevent damage to their shoulders and save hundreds of thousands of strokes per year.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-12T05:33:23Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[NASA hopes for $100m to drag an asteroid into orbit]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[A grant to bring an asteroid into orbit will be one of NASA's future goals.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-09T12:53:24Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Grandfather of global warming fight: Nuclear power saves millions of lives]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[James Hansen has been campaigning against global warming for decades. He retired as boss of NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies this week, giving lift-off to his latest call for nuclear.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-05T10:41:29Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Bloom: Photosynthetic pods for mid-ocean living]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/bloom-photosynthetic-pods-for-mid-ocean-living/16779]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[A French architecture firm has designed an aquatic farm in the Indian Ocean to help absorb excess carbon dioxide.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-04T20:36:59Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Radiate: Clothing that shows your hard work off at the gym]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Planning on working every muscle group? What if your clothing could tell you where to focus on next?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charlie Osborne]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-04-04T07:11:41Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[James Cameron donates deep-sea submersible to science]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Woods Hole will incorporate innovations from the Deepsea Challenger into existing vehicles and future exploration platforms. The main goal &quot;is to get the technology out there.&quot;]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-26T20:58:44Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[We need to be smarter about managing water]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/ideas-insights/we-need-to-be-smarter-about-managing-water/293]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[As we mark World Water Day, it's time to get smarter about water usage.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Williams]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-22T15:05:54Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[New York Times recognizes thorium and other alternative nuclear power]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As SmartPlanet has long noted, there are better, safer ways to harness atoms than how the nuclear industry has gone about it for decades. Must be true, because now the paper of record says so.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Halper]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-18T13:14:05Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Is NASA's maglev transit system coming to Tel Aviv?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[SkyTran is about as close to flying cars as we'll get, and it could be coming to Tel Aviv.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Falk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-14T11:00:46Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Japan first to tap gas from 'flammable ice']]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Japan made a major breakthrough in the production of a new energy source that has implications for the energy-poor country and the rest of the world.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tyler Falk]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-13T11:00:28Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[The four challenges that stand between us and Mars]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[One of the proposed solutions involves using astronaut waste as a radiation shield.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Janet Fang]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-06T23:28:37Z</pubDate>
                                
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        <title><![CDATA[Lifesaving 'smart cane' designed for seniors]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Grandma's next cane might rival the high tech gadgetry of your smartphone (and her robot will be way cooler).]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[David Worthington]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>2013-03-01T05:41:59Z</pubDate>
                                
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