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Tables Turned: Poor Countries Wag Fingers at Rich Ones - New York Times

In response to the global fallout from America’s housing troubles, developing nations are now lecturing the West on what they say are lax regulations and sleepy oversight.

In Study of Human Patterns, Scientists Look to Bird Brains - New York Times

Bird sleep is so mysterious that scientists are considering several answers, all intriguing.

An Active, Purposeful Machine That Comes Out at Night to Play - New York Times

New research underscores a vast transformation in the way scientists have come to understand the sleeping brain.

Caltech Electronic Nose Innovation

PhysOrg news: Caltech Electronic Nose Innovation

Rise in atmospheric CO2 accelerates as economy grows, natural carbon sinks weaken

PhysOrg news: Rise in atmospheric CO2 accelerates as economy grows, natural carbon sinks weaken

Nanowire Manipulation Could Lead to Hand-Held Supercomputers

PhysOrg news: Nanowire Manipulation Could Lead to Hand-Held Supercomputers

Plants live, die according to their size

PhysOrg news: Plants live, die according to their size

Bacterial Films Could Lead to Self-Repairing Materials

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Slideshow: Instant Housing and Designing for Disaster

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Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean

Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean

Ecuador wants military base in Miami | Editor's Choice | Reuters

NAPLES (Reuters) - Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.
Correa has refused to renew Washingt

Home-made helicopters hit northern Nigeria - Yahoo! News

Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts.

BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | How to build your own Sputnik

It seems incredible that the technology that went into building the first successful satellite 50 years ago can now be found lying around the average house. You could even build one yourself, as Paul Rubens explains below. Fancy having a go?

Patent filed for revolutionary technique to quickly recover lost passwords

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