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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:27:19 CST</pubDate>
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	<title><![CDATA[NASA's Swift finds a gamma ray burst with a dual personality]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/nasas-swift-finds-a-gamma-ray-burst-with-a-dual-personality/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111130171058.htm"><![CDATA[NASA's Swift finds a gamma ray burst with a dual personality]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA's Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual collision much closer to home, within our own galaxy.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:27:19 CST</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
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	<title><![CDATA[Abrupt permafrost thaw increases climate threat  experts say]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/abrupt-permafrost-thaw-increases-climate-threat-experts-say/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111130161535.htm"><![CDATA[Abrupt permafrost thaw increases climate threat  experts say]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[As the Arctic warms, greenhouse gases will be released from thawing permafrost faster and at significantly higher levels than previous estimates, according to survey results from 41 international scientists published in the Nov. 30 issue of the journal Nature ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:26:28 CST</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA[Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics  Adaptable decision-making found in bacteria communities]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/smart-swarms-of-bacteria-inspire-robotics-adaptable-decision-making-found-in-bacteria-communities/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111117144043.htm"><![CDATA[Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics  Adaptable decision-making found in bacteria communities]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Much to humans' chagrin, bacteria have superior survival skills. Their decision-making processes and collective behaviors allow them to thrive and even spread efficiently in difficult environments. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:04:59 CST</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA[New material can enhance energy, computer, lighting technologies]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/new-material-can-enhance-energy-computer-lighting-technologies/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111116124737.htm"><![CDATA[New material can enhance energy, computer, lighting technologies]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Arizona State University researchers have created a new compound crystal material that promises to help produce advances in a range of scientific and technological pursuits. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:04:20 CST</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA[ Call to evolve rodent conservation policy]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/-call-to-evolve-rodent-conservation-policy/</link>
	<source url="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/kerala/article2624515.ece"><![CDATA[ Call to evolve rodent conservation policy]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Mike Jordan, Chair of the Small Mammal Subgroup of the Reintroduction Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Species Survival Commission, has urged the Indian government to evolve a rodent conservation policy. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:39:22 CST</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/-call-to-evolve-rodent-conservation-policy/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Life set to flow back to 200 lakes]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/life-set-to-flow-back-to-200-lakes/</link>
	<source url="http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Chennai/article2614193.ece"><![CDATA[Life set to flow back to 200 lakes]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Nearly 200 lakes falling under Kosasthalaiyar river sub-basin in Tiruvallur district near Chennai will soon be rejuvenated. The Water Resources Department has initiated the tendering process under the Irrigated Agriculture Modernisation and Waterbodies Restoration and Management project. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:21:20 CST</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA[Highly efficient oxygen catalyst found  Rechargeable batteries and hydrogen-fuel production could benefit]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/highly-efficient-oxygen-catalyst-found-rechargeable-batteries-and-hydrogen-fuel-production-could-benefit/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111028105033.htm"><![CDATA[Highly efficient oxygen catalyst found  Rechargeable batteries and hydrogen-fuel production could benefit]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[A team of researchers at MIT has found one of the most effective catalysts ever discovered for splitting oxygen atoms from water molecules a key reaction for advanced energy storage systems, including electrolyzers, to produce hydrogen fuel and rechargeable batteries. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:30:46 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/highly-efficient-oxygen-catalyst-found-rechargeable-batteries-and-hydrogen-fuel-production-could-benefit/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Meerkats recognize each other from their calls]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/meerkats-recognize-each-other-from-their-calls/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111013085110.htm"><![CDATA[Meerkats recognize each other from their calls]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Wild meerkats living in the Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa recognize group members from their calls, behavior researchers at the University of Zurich have established for the first time. The researchers assume that meerkats can tell the individual group members apart. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:29:01 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA[Insects are scared to death of fish]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/insects-are-scared-to-death-of-fish/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111027125241.htm"><![CDATA[Insects are scared to death of fish]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[The mere presence of a predator causes enough stress to kill a dragonfly, even when the predator cannot actually get at its prey to eat it, say biologists at the University of Toronto. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:32:33 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/insects-are-scared-to-death-of-fish/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Do bacteria age Biologists discover the answer follows simple economics]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/do-bacteria-age-biologists-discover-the-answer-follows-simple-economics/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111027150207.htm"><![CDATA[Do bacteria age Biologists discover the answer follows simple economics]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[When a bacterial cell divides into two daughter cells and those two cells divide into four more daughters, then 8, then 16 and so on, the result, biologists have long assumed, is an eternally youthful population of bacteria.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:31:28 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
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	<title><![CDATA[Babies show sense of fairness altruism as early as 15 months]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/babies-show-sense-of-fairness-altruism-as-early-as-15-months/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111007161636.htm"><![CDATA[Babies show sense of fairness altruism as early as 15 months]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[A new study presents the first evidence that a basic sense of fairness and altruism appears in infancy. Babies as young as 15 months perceived the difference between equal and unequal distribution of food, and their awareness of equal rations was linked to their willingness to share a toy. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:09:12 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/babies-show-sense-of-fairness-altruism-as-early-as-15-months/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Supersaturated water vapor in Martian atmosphere]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/supersaturated-water-vapor-in-martian-atmosphere/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111006113408.htm"><![CDATA[Supersaturated water vapor in Martian atmosphere]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Analysis of data collected by the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft leaves no room for doubt: the Martian atmosphere of contains water vapor in a supersaturated state. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 23:08:23 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/supersaturated-water-vapor-in-martian-atmosphere/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Humans ‘are just modified fish’]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/humans-%E2%80%98are-just-modified-fish%E2%80%99/</link>
	<source url="http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article2517454.ece"><![CDATA[Humans ‘are just modified fish’]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Humans are just modified fish, say scientists who claim to have discovered how the muscles controlling the pelvic fins of the marine species have paved the way for the evolution of back legs in higher animals. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:51:31 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/humans-%E2%80%98are-just-modified-fish%E2%80%99/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Astronomers find elusive planets in decade-old Hubble data]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/astronomers-find-elusive-planets-in-decade-old-hubble-data/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111006173612.htm"><![CDATA[Astronomers find elusive planets in decade-old Hubble data]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[In a painstaking re-analysis of Hubble Space Telescope images from 1998, astronomers have found visual evidence for two extrasolar planets that went undetected back then. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:28:45 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/astronomers-find-elusive-planets-in-decade-old-hubble-data/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Plants may have the genetic flexibility to respond to climate change]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/plants-may-have-the-genetic-flexibility-to-respond-to-climate-change/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111006141402.htm"><![CDATA[Plants may have the genetic flexibility to respond to climate change]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Plants may have the genetic flexibility to respond to climate change. In experiments with the common European plant Arabidopsis thaliana, a team of researchers led by Brown University scientists learned that climate is the agent that determines the suite of genes that gives the plant the best chance of surviving and reproducing throughout its natural range. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:27:50 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/plants-may-have-the-genetic-flexibility-to-respond-to-climate-change/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[ Physics prize an unexpected but happy surprise for Schmidt]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/-physics-prize-an-unexpected-but-happy-surprise-for-schmidt/</link>
	<source url="http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/article2512429.ece"><![CDATA[ Physics prize an unexpected but happy surprise for Schmidt]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[It feels like when my children were born,” exclaimed Brian P. Schmidt, co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize winner for Physics, soon after the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences made the announcement in Stockholm on Tuesday.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 19:14:31 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/-physics-prize-an-unexpected-but-happy-surprise-for-schmidt/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[RCB, KKR gear up for a face-off]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/rcb-kkr-gear-up-for-a-face-off/</link>
	<source url="http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/article2494249.ece"><![CDATA[RCB, KKR gear up for a face-off]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Over the past few days in which Lewis Hamilton revved up his hot wheels in Bangalore, the Champions League too cranked up excitement here at the Chinnaswamy Stadium thanks to two matches that twisted and turned towards last-ball finishes.  ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:29:35 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/rcb-kkr-gear-up-for-a-face-off/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Feathered friends help wild birds innovate]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/feathered-friends-help-wild-birds-innovate/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110926223419.htm"><![CDATA[Feathered friends help wild birds innovate]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Larger groups of great and blue tits are better at solving problems than smaller ones, Oxford University scientists have found.The researchers believe that this is probably because the larger the group, the more chance there is of it including a 'bright' or 'experienced' bird that can solve a particular new problem: in this case operating lever-pulling devices to receive a food reward. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:19:00 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/feathered-friends-help-wild-birds-innovate/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[New 'FeTRAM' is promising computer memory technology]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/new-fetram-is-promising-computer-memory-technology/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110927155228.htm"><![CDATA[New 'FeTRAM' is promising computer memory technology]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Researchers are developing a new type of computer memory that could be faster than the existing commercial memory and use far less power than flash memory devices. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:18:14 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/new-fetram-is-promising-computer-memory-technology/</guid>
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	<title><![CDATA[Climatic fluctuations drove key events in human evolution, researchers find]]></title>
	<link>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/climatic-fluctuations-drove-key-events-in-human-evolution-researchers-find/</link>
	<source url="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110921115910.htm"><![CDATA[Climatic fluctuations drove key events in human evolution, researchers find]]></source>
	<description><![CDATA[Research at the University of Liverpool has found that periods of rapid fluctuation in temperature coincided with the emergence of the first distant relatives of human beings and the appearance and spread of stone tools. ]]></description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:27:53 CDT</pubDate>
	<author>Jenni</author>
	<category>Science</category>
	<votes>1</votes>
	<guid>http://www.chennailatest.com/science/climatic-fluctuations-drove-key-events-in-human-evolution-researchers-find/</guid>
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