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Technology Review: The Dirty Secret
The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates -- based on experience and on models -- that properly engineered systems could retain 99 percent of their carbon dioxide over 100 years and would "likely" do so over 1,000 years.
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Fuel from Algae
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A new strain of genetically engineered mice has allowed researchers to pinpoint, for the first time, the precise cellular connections that form as a memory is created.
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Technology Review: Flexible, Nanowire Solar Cells
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