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The failure of the CO2-monitoring spacecraft NASA launched earlier this year is not holding back the agency from launching further climate change monitoring satellites. In May 2010, NASA plans to launch the Aquarius spacecraft into orbit to monitor salinity levels in the world's oceans.

Just when you thought that engineers have run out of ideas for harvesting power from mundane human activity, a scientist from Texas A&M invents a piezoelectric material that can turn sound waves into electricity. His idea? Stick it in a cell phone.

The biggest eels can produce charges up to 600 watts of electricity, enough to power your computer, monitor, printer and office lighting simultaneously...at least for a moment. Knowing that some of the best ideas come from nature, researchers at Yale University working with counterparts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are applying what eels do naturally to artificial cells.

Green the world, and scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have taken that to the level of explosives.
Researchers have added unique green solvents (ionic liquids) to an explosive called TATB to improve the crystal quality and chemical purity of the material.

About 10% of the UK’s fuel needs could come from a new strain of bacteria found in compost heaps.

Long-term storage and recovery of digital information is something that everyone -- from governments and businesses to home computer users -- is struggling with today. Even as more and more information goes digital, there is currently no sure-fire way to ensure that such data will be accessible in the future. According to a Science Daily report, University of California-Santa Cruz (UCSC) scientists are working on a solution.

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