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  Military Fuel-Cell Aircraft Sets Record

  The Navy has built a fuel cell-powered aircraft that can fly all day.

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  Powerful Ideas: Navy Plans Robotic Barnacle Buster

  A new barnacle-scraping robot may be a welcome addition to a ship's crew.

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  Lamp Runs on Human Blood

  A lamp that uses blood to create light is meant to make people rethink how they use energy

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  Blood Makes Lamp Glow

  CAUTION: Potentially disturbing content: The blood lamp uses the chemical luminol to light up when mixed with blood, as demonstrated here.

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  Powerful Ideas: River Turbines Could Electrify New York City

  Floating docks could provide clean energy and new space for parks, researchers now propose.

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  Electricity Harvested From Trees

  New devices can be powered by electricity from trees.

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  Powerful Ideas: To Hot Rocks in Earth, Just Add Water

  A major study will help determine the future of geothermal energy.

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  Powerful Ideas: Cars Could Run on Watermelons

  Sugar from watermelons could be a sweet deal for your car.

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  Laser-Propelled Spaceships Could Transform Transportation

  Beamed Energy Propulsion is a powerful enabling technology that will radically transform the future of air and space transportation.

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  New Origin of Life Proposed: Zinc

  A new model for the origin of life says zinc may have played a vital role.

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  Lights Out for Traditional Bulbs

  The European Union begins its ban on certain incandescent light bulbs.

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  Powerful Ideas: Bacteria Clean Sewage and Create Electricity

  Batteries made with microbes could help generate power by cleaning up organic waste at the same time.

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  Microbe Metabolism Harnessed to Produce Fuel

  Genetic engineering used to manipulate microbes to produce biofuels.

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  More Wind Power: Not So Simple

  Getting more energy from the wind may require some extra ingenuity.

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  Sun's Cycle Alters Earth's Climate

  Study finds links between solar energy output and changes in stratosphere circulation and ocean temperature.

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  Powerful Ideas: Spray-On Solar Cells

  Nano-inks could allow for spray-on solar cells.

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  Seawater May Someday Power Jets

  The ocean may hold the largest source of power.

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  Hydrogen: Future of Fuels Finally Drives Up

  What emits no carbon, stores electric energy from renewable sources, and makes engines run fast and powerfully? Hint: the Universe is mostly made of it (so it should be cheap).

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  Powerful Ideas: Beer Waste Makes Fuel

  After beer is made, the waste from breweries could help generate power, researchers now suggest.

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  Computer Game Aims to Offer Real Energy Solutions

  Thought experiment will focus the creative genius of hundreds of scientists.

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  Powerful Ideas: Fungus Sex Forced for Fuel

  Scientists hope to breed fungus that can help the environment.