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• How the Ancient Egyptians understood binary stars 3,200 years ago - and their calculations have helped solve a modern dilemma | Mail Online

  Source: the Mail online

  Startling evidence suggests the ancient Egyptians understood the inner mechanics of a binary star system, spinning through our skies 93 light years away, more than 3,200 years ago.

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• Dinosaurs struggled with arthritis just like humans

  Source: Telegraph

  Researchers studying a giant eight metre pliosaurus found evidence of an arthritis like disease in its jaw. Usually capable of ripping other dinosaurs to bits with its 20cm teeth, the gammy jaw would eventually have stopped her feeding and led to her death 150 million years ag …

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• Could driving your car power your house?

  Source: DailyTech

  When pressure was applied to the film a 400 millivolt, 6 nanoampere current was put off.  That's about a quarter of the voltage of an AAA battery, albeit at a far smaller current.  Still it was enough to power a '1' to show up on a low-power liquid crystal display.

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• Is the U.S. Government Deliberately Suppressing Fuel Efficiency? | TruthTheory

  Source: Truth Theory
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• Brookhaven National Lab Brings Cheap Hydrogen Fuel a Giant Step Closer

  Source: Talking Points Memo

  A team of researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, has opened the door to a future of clean, cheap hydrogen fuel. Though hydrogen is catalyzed in water -- abundant and cheap -- it used to require platinum -- not so cheap -- to catalyze it.  …

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