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		<title>U.S. Army Unveils &#8216;Revolutionary&#8217; XM25 Rifle in Afghanistan</title>
		<link>http://www.therecentfuture.com/2010/11/u-s-army-unveils-revolutionary-xm25-rifle-in-afghanistan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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Since  the dawn of modern warfare, the best way to stay alive in the face of  incoming fire has been to take cover behind a wall. But thanks to a  game-changing &#8220;revolutionary&#8221; rifle, the U.S. Army has made that tactic  dead on arrival. Now the enemy can run, but he can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fermilab Experiment Hints At Existence of Brand-New Elementary Particle</title>
		<link>http://www.therecentfuture.com/2010/11/fermilab-experiment-hints-at-existence-of-brand-new-elementary-particle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 04:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fourth neutrino could help explain dark matter

Physicists working with a Fermilab neutrino experiment may have found a new elementary particle whose behavior breaks the known laws of physics. If correct, their  results poke holes in the accepted Standard Model of particles and  forces, and raise some interesting questions for the Large Hadron [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cell Phones Powered by Conversation?</title>
		<link>http://www.therecentfuture.com/2010/09/cell-phones-powered-by-conversation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 02:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chatty teenagers could be the world&#8217;s next renewable energy source.
Scientists from Korea have turned the main ingredient of calamine  lotion into a tiny material that converts sound waves into electricity.  The research could lead to panels that can charge a cell phone from a  conversation or provide a boost of energy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Beam me up, Scotty!&#8217; Breakthrough as scientists move objects 5ft using tractor beams</title>
		<link>http://www.therecentfuture.com/2010/09/beam-me-up-scotty-breakthrough-as-scientists-move-objects-5ft-using-tractor-beams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Scientists  have invented a tractor beam which is able to move large objects longer  distances than ever before by using a laser light.
A team of  researchers at the Australian National University in Canberra have  brought the art of molecular transportation, made famous by the  catchphrase &#8216;Beam me up, Scotty&#8217; from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists discover tiny solar panels that create themselves</title>
		<link>http://www.therecentfuture.com/2010/09/scientists-discover-tiny-solar-panels-that-create-themselves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:16:16 +0000</pubDate>
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File this one under &#8220;holy crap,&#8221; but scientists at MIT have  discovered molecules that spontaneously assemble themselves into a  pattern that can turn light into electricity — essentially a  self-creating solar panel. In a petri dish.
The researchers set out to create a synthetic process that imitates  photosynthesis. Certain molecules respond to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electricity collected from the air could become the newest alternative energy source</title>
		<link>http://www.therecentfuture.com/2010/08/electricity-collected-from-the-air-could-become-the-newest-alternative-energy-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine devices that capture electricity from the air ― much like solar cells capture sunlight ― and using them to light a house or recharge an electric car. Imagine using similar panels on the rooftops of buildings to prevent lightning before it forms. Strange as it may sound, scientists already are in the early stages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultra-tiny frogs discovered living like faeries inside pitcher plants</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
One of the world&#8217;s tiniest frogs has been discovered in Borneo. At 10-12 mm long, Microhyla nepenthicola may be micro, but its croak is loud. That&#8217;s how researchers found them,  swimming in tiny puddles of water captured by pitcher plants.
A group of zoologists with Conservation International say they found  the frogs by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flywheel power grid storage project gets DOE loan</title>
		<link>http://www.therecentfuture.com/2010/08/flywheel-power-grid-storage-project-gets-doe-loan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beacon Power on Monday said it has closed a $43 million loan guarantee  with the Department of Energy for a project to use flywheels to buffer  20 megawatts of power on the grid.
The loan covers 62.5 percent of the estimated $69 million needed to  construct the flywheel storage plant in Stephentown, N.Y. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Star Trek-like Heisenberg Compensators!??!</title>
		<link>http://www.therecentfuture.com/2010/08/star-trek-like-heisenberg-compensators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.therecentfuture.com/2010/08/star-trek-like-heisenberg-compensators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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A quantum memory may be all scientists need to beat the limit of  Heisenberg&#8217;s uncertainty principle, according to a paper published in Nature Physics.  According to a group of researchers, maximally entangling a particle  with a quantum memory and measuring one of the particle&#8217;s variables,  like its position, should snap the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Step Closer to Star Wars Holograms</title>
		<link>http://www.therecentfuture.com/2010/06/one-step-closer-to-star-wars-holograms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 17:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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An anonymous reader noted a USC research project that is coming ever  closer to bringing the classic Star Wars communication  holograms from Tatooine to Earth. There&#8217;s nifty video and some high  resolution pictures of Tie Fighters projected into 3-D.   Still no  clear way to project it from an astro [...]]]></description>
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