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Germany will extend the life spans of 17 plants while alternative energy sources are developed, which is likely to make money for power companies and the government.
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A team at I.B.M.'s Almaden Research Center in California is trying to develop a new battery technology called lithium air that could allow a car to go 500 miles on a single charge. But a top researcher says that it will take many years, if it ever happens at all, to make the technology useful.
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We are always intrigued by biomimetic technologies that find answers based in imitating naturally developed systems. Mechanical locomotion that imitates animal locomotion is particularly interesting. So we liked finding this video of a robotic snake being which is developed by a team at Carnegie Mellon University.
The motion of the snake-bot would allow it to maneuver through tighter spaces than either people or other mechanisms can easily move through. According to the researchers, "Snake robots can use their many internal degrees of freedom to thread through tightly packed volumes accessing locations that people and machinery otherwise cannot use." The flexibility and maneuverability of the snakebot allow it to move through a wide range of terrain types, and could be useful for a range of tasks from building maintenance to field research.
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Turkey may be frustrated in its bid to become part of the European Union, but by the end of September, it will join Europe's electric grid.
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Technologies that help air traffic control systems discern flying airplanes from wind turbines show positive results, but cooperation among government agencies is needed.
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Jim Wilson/The New York Times:
The stated goal is to reduce the wild horse population to more sustainable levels but animal advocates say the roundups are cruel, expensive and unnecessary.
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September 5 -The latest celebrity news including George Clooney leads a slow weekend at the box office and Kanye West apologizes again. John Russell reports.
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The United States has virtually no fast trains like those of China, Japan and Europe, but that could change. President Obama has said that rail transport is a priority.
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The energy industry centered in Prudhoe Bay is the economic engine of the North Slope, helping preserve the Inupiat culture, but it also presents a potential threat to that culture. Mayor Edward Itta of the North Slope Borough e-mailed answers to our questions about these conflicts.
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Leif Parsons:
A domesticated version of the giant Atlantic bluefin means what, exactly, for the species?
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Recycled art comes to life in Glassphemy, where Brooklynites smash glass en masse.
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After a new blowout preventer was latched to the wellhead, BP prepared to conduct tests that should allow the company to finish plugging the well.
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Sandy Huffaker for The New York Times:
J. Craig Venter wants to create creatures — bacteria, algae or even plants — to carry out industrial tasks and displace fossil fuels.
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Recent food riots in poor countries prompted United Nations officials to call for a careful watch on prices.
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As lawmakers call for new inquiries into Thursday's accident, oil industry executives say it will now be more difficult to lift the government's offshore drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
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A group of fisheries scientists argue that the Marine Stewardship Council, an influential body that ranks fish sources as sustainable, grants its seal of approval too easily. As a result, some fish populations may be more endangered than consumers believe.
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The crackdown by Vietnamese forestry officials is part of a broader effort to halt the illegal international trade in the meat of threatened species.
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