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		<title>Nice Guys Finish First</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Scott Berdahl</dc:creator>
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Water Strider
Source: Biosurvey.ou.edu

Researchers have taken a healthy stride towards understanding the evolutionary role of the nice guy.
A recent study of water striders—insects found skimming the surfaces of ponds and streams around the world—showed that while aggressive males enjoy greater reproductive success as individuals, more gentlemanly striders gain an unexpected advantage in the bigger picture.
The problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists “Super-Age” Cells to Better Understand Progeria</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:21:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nidhi Subbaraman</dc:creator>
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LMNA Protein

In a dish in Maryland, human skin cells have been prodded to age prematurely—several times faster than normal, say researchers. 
The scientists produced the super-aging cells as they were trying to understand the unusual disorder called Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria syndrome. Children born with this condition begin to lose hair early in childhood and develop visibly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrench in the Electric Hybrid Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Sherburne</dc:creator>
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The Chevy Volt

Electric vehicles that use electric power and gasoline separately have thrown a wrench into the EPA’s fuel-rating system.
 The Volt, belonging to a new class of vehicles called “extended-range electric vehicles,” operates on electric power for up to forty miles, says Stanley Sullivan, an engineer at a large automobile manufacturing company.  After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Algae a Possible Threat to Fisheries Worldwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Martinez</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marine Biology]]></category>
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Image: Cochlodinium Polykrikoides by Gert Hansen

A vicious species of algae whose massive blooms have caused millions of dollars in damage to commercial fisheries has arrived in the Arabian Gulf—evidence that the algae may be rapidly spreading through the world’s oceans.
The bloom, which began in August 2008 and persisted through May, was the first caused by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Rate of Non-Disclosure Reported in One Physician Group</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=559</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Feblowitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a test to see if doctors would report ethical conflicts, researchers found that nearly thirty percent of orthopedic surgeons failed to do so at a recent conference.
Researchers determined that 91 physicians at last year’s annual conference of the American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) did not disclose recent payments from device manufacturers. Presenters and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The CSI Effect</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=552</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille Carlisle</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Science and Society]]></category>

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		<title>Sartorial Robotics</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=547</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Calamia</dc:creator>
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Vibrotactile Suit
Image courtesy of Jeff Lieberman

When roboticists make the clothes, the clothes might improve the man. New vibrating robotic suits could teach wearers to perform complex movements faster and more accurately. 
If you have ever struggled to learn a sport, you know that new motor skills don’t come easy. Your coach may shout commands or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Protein Found Promising in Prevention of HIV Infection</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Scott Berdahl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
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Human immunodeficiency virus on a human lymphocyte
Image courtesy CDC Public Health Image Library

A new protein aimed at preventing HIV infection in humans has proven itself in initial lab tests.  The protein is a mash-up of two previously existing proteins that occur naturally in humans. 
While existing HIV therapies target the virus after it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abbrevs is totes the lang of the fuche</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=524</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Calamia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Linguistics]]></category>
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Image source: Wikimedia Commons

Whatevs, def, and ridic—abbreviations filling text-messages and Facebook walls—may be less related to new technologies than old ties between language and social identity, say researchers.
The link between technology’s limitations and lopping off word parts seems reasonable:  if you write abbreviations like those above—instead of whatever, definitely, and ridiculous—you can send your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dubloons</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=508</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nidhi Subbaraman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History of Science]]></category>

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Shrock and Edgerton
Image courtesy MIT Museum

A hundred meters in front of the Green Building, a metal giant rises from the red brick paving. Thirty-three tons of curved steel stand tall; five black plates touch at angles, then bloom outward. Forty feet high, this sculpture barricades the open mouth of the building behind, its wide plates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papa Flash: One summer, two tenacious men and the birth of underwater photography</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=491</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amanda Martinez</dc:creator>
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Harold Edgerton with his deep-sea
underwater camera
Courtesy MIT Museum

When a technology comes along that revolutionizes the way we live, we often look back on the effort it took through the lens of its incredible significance. We unwittingly romanticize the act of invention. 
In the summer of 1953, MIT professor and prolific inventor, Harold Edgerton, set sail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerome Hunsaker’s Dark Shadow</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=510</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Scott Berdahl</dc:creator>
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Control car of the USS Akron
Image courtesy of Hagley Digital Archives

He was a champion of aeronautics.  He taught the first course on the subject at MIT in 1914 and built America’s first modern wind tunnel there two years later.  He was responsible for the development of U.S. naval aviation during World War I, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Woman Scientist and the Woman Architect</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=497</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Sherburne</dc:creator>
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Dover Sun House
Image: Wide World Photo, the MIT News Office,
and the MIT Museum

Fifty years before the term “carbon footprint” came in vogue, MIT held a symposium titled “Space Heating with Solar Energy.”  Three women were on the 98-person registration list. 
Scientists at the August 1950 gathering warned of dire situations familiar to us today. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Professor Van de Graaff</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=471</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Calamia</dc:creator>
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Van de Graaff Generator
Courtesy MIT Libraries

A metallic sphere in air with a 100-centimeter radius has a total charge of  250,000 electrostatic units. Deduce an expression for the sphere’s capacitance. Compute the potential gradient just outside the surface. What is the minimum radius a sphere can have to retain this charge?
Five minutes after noon on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing Physics</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=464</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:52:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Camille Carlisle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, if you walk through the guts of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, you might see a man tinkering with what looks like a giant Lego wheel.  But Dr. Jan Egedal isn’t just playing around:  he’s trying to fix something called the theory of ideal magnetohydrodynamics.
Many people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Examining a Link Between Abuse and Physical Health</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=448</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Calamia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>

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Your doctor gives you a choice: prolonged life or rapid decline. If you are an abuse victim, a recent National Institutes of Health-funded study indicates, you might choose decline. 
David W. Pantalone, a clinical psychologist at Suffolk University, studied 171 HIV-positive gay men. Each month, abused men skipped nearly 20 percent of their HIV medications. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Case of the Ancient Toxic Gas</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=439</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nidhi Subbaraman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paleontology]]></category>

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Trilobites, by Heinrich Harder

Lindsay Hays remembers having conversations with paleontologists about whether trilobites would taste good. “They’re like horseshoe crabs, basically a shell with legs,” she says. 
Trilobites, once ubiquitous, suddenly and mysteriously died out 250 million years ago. It turns out they weren’t the only ones. Something big changed on the planet at that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Study Confirms Two-Thousand-Year-Long History of Arctic Climate</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=431</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nidhi Subbaraman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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Researching climate in the Arctic, an international team of geochemists has finally hit pay dirt. 
Digging up layers of ancient lake sediment and residue from glacial ice, they have pieced together a detailed temperature history of the Arctic over the last two thousand years. 
Close analysis of these sediments has confirmed scientists’ suspicions that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Explore the Genome of the Dog</title>
		<link>http://scopeweb.mit.edu/?p=403</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Calamia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>
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Bo Obama, a Portuguese Water Dog

“Westminster. There’s only one.” That’s the slogan for America’s most prestigious dog show. Yet despite all the distinctive dog coats that will trot through Madison Square Garden this February, when it comes to the genes responsible, there are only three. 
Researchers at laboratories including the National Institutes of Health and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andromeda Galaxy Found Eating Its Cosmic Neighbors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Morgan Sherburne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
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The Planet Killer from Star Trek Episode #35
&#8220;The Doomsday Machine&#8221;

Science fiction gets another chance to get it all wrong.   
A study using the Canada-France-Hawaii telescope based in Hawaii confirmed that as the Andromeda galaxy moves through our local cosmic neighborhood, it eats everything in its path—including, eventually, us.
Andromeda grows by pulling galactic companions [...]]]></description>
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