<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - PureScience's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/</link><description>Science, Pure and Simple.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:00:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:03:30 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>A New View Of Gravity </title>
<description><![CDATA[Entropy and information may be crucial concepts for explaining roots of familiar force]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/16/5124534-a-new-view-of-gravity</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2010/09/16/5124534-a-new-view-of-gravity</guid><category>science</category><category>gravity</category><category>quantum-physics</category><category>relativity</category><category>thermodynamics</category><category>information-theory</category><category>verlinde</category><category>erik-verlinde</category><category>newtonian-physics</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 02:57:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>ExxonMobil Bets $600 Million on Algae</title>
<description><![CDATA[Oil giant Exxon Mobil Corp. is making a major jump into renewable energy with a $600 million investment in algae-based biofuels.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/14/3026055-exxonmobil-bets-600-million-on-algae</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/14/3026055-exxonmobil-bets-600-million-on-algae</guid><category>business</category><category>energy</category><category>global-warming</category><category>alternative-energy</category><category>synthetic</category><category>biodiesel</category><category>algae</category><category>biofuel</category><category>exxonmobil</category><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:15:13 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>One man's quest to honor America's Saturn V rocket</title>
<description><![CDATA[The story of the biggest scale model rocket ever built
On April 25, 2009, history will be made.  At Higgs Farm in Price, Maryland, Steve Eves will enter the history books as the person who flew the largest model rocket in history.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/20/2710185-one-mans-quest-to-honor-americas-saturn-v-rocket</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/20/2710185-one-mans-quest-to-honor-americas-saturn-v-rocket</guid><category>odd-news</category><category>technology-news</category><category>science-news</category><category>hobbyist</category><category>space-news</category><category>saturn-v</category><category>largest-model-rocket</category><category>biggest-model-rocket</category><category>steve-eves</category><category>higgs-farm</category><category>mark-canepa</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:43:39 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>7 Civilian Uses for Nuclear Bombs </title>
<description><![CDATA[You might think of nuclear weapons as just the most fearsome weapon ever invented by humans, but that would be seriously underplaying their versatility.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/12/2672252-7-civilian-uses-for-nuclear-bombs</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/12/2672252-7-civilian-uses-for-nuclear-bombs</guid><category>technology</category><category>nuclear-weapon</category><category>nuclear-energy</category><category>nuclear-waste</category><category>fission-bomb</category><category>project-orion</category><category>nuclear-demolition</category><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:55:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Is dark energy getting weaker?</title>
<description><![CDATA[AFTER billions of years of runaway expansion, is the universe starting to slow down? A new analysis of nearby supernovae suggests space might not be expanding as quickly as it once was, a tantalising hint that the source of dark energy may be more exotic than we thought.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/09/2663110-is-dark-energy-getting-weaker</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/09/2663110-is-dark-energy-getting-weaker</guid><category>space</category><category>physics</category><category>science</category><category>astronomy</category><category>dark-matter</category><category>cosmology</category><category>dark-energy</category><category>darkmatter</category><category>universe-expansion</category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 02:06:35 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Women Smell Better Than Men</title>
<description><![CDATA[A woman friend of mine recently commented about her guy: "He's such a boy. His towels are stinky. And he doesn't seem to notice!" Well, maybe he can't smell the stinkyness.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/09/2659018-women-smell-better-than-men</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/09/2659018-women-smell-better-than-men</guid><category>science</category><category>female</category><category>male</category><category>scent</category><category>olfactory</category><category>sweat</category><category>men-smell</category><category>women-smell</category><category>women-olfactory-sense</category><category>human-sense-smell</category><pubDate>Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:32:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Quantum mathematics could improve web searches</title>
<description><![CDATA[A MATHEMATICAL technique for studying disorder in quantum systems could improve internet keyword searches. It is able to spot significant patterns in large data sets such as web pages and text documents, and may even be adaptable to genome analysis]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/05/2644018-quantum-mathematics-could-improve-web-searches</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/05/2644018-quantum-mathematics-could-improve-web-searches</guid><category>technology</category><category>internet</category><category>search-engine</category><category>keyword</category><category>context-search</category><category>keyword-generation</category><category>random-matrix</category><category>cluster-algortithm</category><category>pedro-carpena</category><category>university-of-malaga</category><pubDate>Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:41:50 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Bacterium eats electricity, farts biogas </title>
<description><![CDATA[Bacteria that can convert electricity into methane could help solve one of the biggest problems with renewable energy – its unreliability compared to the steady output of polluting fossil-fuel power stations.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/05/2643905-bacterium-eats-electricity-farts-biogas</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/05/2643905-bacterium-eats-electricity-farts-biogas</guid><category>technology</category><category>battery</category><category>methane</category><category>renewable-energy</category><category>biogas</category><category>energy-storage</category><category>biorenewable</category><category>co2-disposal</category><pubDate>Sun, 5 Apr 2009 17:04:46 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Media distortion damages both science and journalism</title>
<description><![CDATA[WHEN media reports state that scientist X of Y university has discovered that A is linked to B, we ought to be able to trust them. Sadly, as many researchers know, we can't.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/03/2638815-media-distortion-damages-both-science-and-journalism</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/03/2638815-media-distortion-damages-both-science-and-journalism</guid><category>media</category><category>science</category><category>autism</category><category>media-ethics</category><category>misreporting</category><category>autism-vaccine-link</category><category>simon-baron-cohen</category><category>sensational-headline</category><category>media-accountabililty</category><category>journalist-integrity</category><pubDate>Sat, 4 Apr 2009 03:58:57 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Robot scientist makes discoveries with no human help </title>
<description><![CDATA[A robot scientist that can generate its own hypotheses and run experiments to test them has made its first real scientific discoveries.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/02/2633752-robot-scientist-makes-discoveries-with-no-human-help</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/04/02/2633752-robot-scientist-makes-discoveries-with-no-human-help</guid><category>science</category><category>technology-news</category><category>mit</category><category>ross-king</category><category>lab-automation</category><category>robot-scienctist</category><category>adam-robot</category><category>aberystwith</category><category>yeast-genetics</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 Apr 2009 00:45:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Fears over 'designer' babies leave children suffering</title>
<description><![CDATA[MADELINE Kara Neumann, age 11, died of diabetes because her parents prayed rather than taking her to doctors. Caleb Moorhead, age 6 months, died after his deeply religious vegan parents refused a simple vitamin injection to cure his malnutrition.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/21/2578894-fears-over-designer-babies-leave-children-suffering</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/21/2578894-fears-over-designer-babies-leave-children-suffering</guid><category>science</category><category>ethics</category><category>genetic-engineering</category><category>genetic-modification</category><category>designer-babies</category><category>human-genetics</category><category>religion-medicine</category><category>morality-genetics</category><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 02:16:11 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>DARPA orders hypersonic Nazi Doodlebug engine </title>
<description><![CDATA[Rebellious Pentagon boffins, whose plans for a really cool hypersonic robot stunt plane were stymied by stick-in-the-mud Washington politicos, have managed to sneak through an alternative project.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/20/2574549-darpa-orders-hypersonic-nazi-doodlebug-engine</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/20/2574549-darpa-orders-hypersonic-nazi-doodlebug-engine</guid><category>technology</category><category>darpa</category><category>argus</category><category>vulcan</category><category>v1</category><category>doodlebug</category><category>pulse-jet</category><category>nazi-weapons</category><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:13:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>MRI Lie Detection to Get First Day in Court</title>
<description><![CDATA[Defense attorneys are for the first time submitting a next-generation lie-detection test as evidence in court.
]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/17/2555358-mri-lie-detection-to-get-first-day-in-court</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/03/17/2555358-mri-lie-detection-to-get-first-day-in-court</guid><category>science</category><category>lie-detector</category><category>mri</category><category>fmri</category><category>next-generation-lie-detector</category><category>lie-detector-court</category><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:26:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Darwin on a Godless Creation: &quot;It's like confessing to a murder&quot;</title>
<description><![CDATA[200 years after the birth of Charles Darwin, his theory of evolution still clashes with the creationist beliefs of some organized religions. For him personally, it meant the end of his belief in creation by God]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/19/2452967-darwin-on-a-godless-creation-its-like-confessing-to-a-murder</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/19/2452967-darwin-on-a-godless-creation-its-like-confessing-to-a-murder</guid><category>evolution</category><category>science</category><category>darwin</category><category>creationism</category><category>natural-selection</category><category>origin-of-species</category><pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:47:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>NVIDIA Tesla Makes Personal SuperComputing A Reality</title>
<description><![CDATA[Today, scientific research is carried out on supercomputing clusters, a shared resource that consumes hundreds of kilowatts of power and costs millions of dollars to build and maintain.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/18/2125339-nvidia-tesla-makes-personal-supercomputing-a-reality</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/18/2125339-nvidia-tesla-makes-personal-supercomputing-a-reality</guid><category>technology</category><category>tesla</category><category>nvidia</category><category>science-news</category><category>computer-news</category><category>nvidia-tesla</category><category>tesla-supercomputer</category><category>personal-supercomputer</category><category>gpu-processing</category><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:45:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Out of this World Pictures: First Direct Photos of Exoplanets</title>
<description><![CDATA[Two groups of researchers searching for extrasolar planets—planets orbiting stars other than our own sun—laid claim today to an astronomy milestone: photographing extrasolar planets directly, rather than inferring their presence through effects on their parent stars.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/13/2108909-out-of-this-world-pictures-first-direct-photos-of-exoplanets</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/13/2108909-out-of-this-world-pictures-first-direct-photos-of-exoplanets</guid><category>science</category><category>astronomy</category><category>exoplanet</category><category>exo-planet-image</category><category>planet-imaging</category><category>first-planet-picture</category><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:59:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Smart DNA: Programming the Molecule of Life for Work and Play</title>
<description><![CDATA[From a modern chemist's perspective, the structure of DNA in our genes is rather mundane. The molecule has a well-known importance for life, but chemists often see only a uniform double helix with almost no functional behavior on its own.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/10/2094348-smart-dna-programming-the-molecule-of-life-for-work-and-play</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/10/2094348-smart-dna-programming-the-molecule-of-life-for-work-and-play</guid><category>science</category><category>technology-news</category><category>health-news</category><category>smart-dna</category><category>dna-machines</category><category>dna-programming</category><category>dna-automata</category><category>dna-nanobots</category><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:35:52 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Has new physics been found at the aging Tevatron?</title>
<description><![CDATA[While engineers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) race to fix its teething problems and start looking for new particles, its ageing predecessor is refusing go silently into the night.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/03/2068733-has-new-physics-been-found-at-the-aging-tevatron</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/03/2068733-has-new-physics-been-found-at-the-aging-tevatron</guid><category>science</category><category>tevatron</category><category>new-particle</category><category>particle-accelerator-new-discovery</category><pubDate>Mon, 3 Nov 2008 22:24:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ultrafast Lasers Show Snapshot Of Electrons In Action</title>
<description><![CDATA[In the quest to slow down and ultimately understand chemistry at the level of atoms and electrons, University of Colorado at Boulder and Canadian scientists have found a new way to peer into a molecule that allows them to see how its electrons rearrange as the molecule changes sh&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/02/2065103-ultrafast-lasers-show-snapshot-of-electrons-in-action</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/11/02/2065103-ultrafast-lasers-show-snapshot-of-electrons-in-action</guid><category>science</category><category>technology-news</category><category>ultra-fast-lasers</category><category>electron-motion</category><category>electron-spectroscopy</category><category>bond-energy</category><category>x-ray-probe-laser</category><pubDate>Sun, 2 Nov 2008 21:13:06 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>New injectable flu drug shows promise</title>
<description><![CDATA[A new, injected influenza drug appears to reduce symptoms as well as rival drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, researchers reported.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/28/2049773-new-injectable-flu-drug-shows-promise</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/28/2049773-new-injectable-flu-drug-shows-promise</guid><category>health</category><category>cold-and-flu</category><category>msnbci</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:32:15 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>NASA aims to keep moon's skies junk-free</title>
<description><![CDATA[There are well over 100,000 objects in Earth orbit, the vast majority being non-functioning junk in the form of satellites and debris from rocket launches.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/28/2048877-nasa-aims-to-keep-moons-skies-junk-free</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/28/2048877-nasa-aims-to-keep-moons-skies-junk-free</guid><category>space</category><category>technology-science</category><category>msnbci</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:25:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Sticky tape generates X-rays</title>
<description><![CDATA[Christmas could bring with it a new hazard as you wrap your gifts – X-ray-emitting sticky tape.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/24/2034850-sticky-tape-generates-x-rays</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/24/2034850-sticky-tape-generates-x-rays</guid><category>science</category><category>duct-tape-xrays</category><category>scotch-tape-xrays</category><category>triboluminescence-xrays</category><category>sugar-light</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:01:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>No ice rinks on the Moon after all</title>
<description><![CDATA[Hopes for large lakes of frozen water at the Moon's poles have taken another bashing, with new images of a prominent crater revealing dull lunar dust instead of shiny pools of ice.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/23/2034121-no-ice-rinks-on-the-moon-after-all</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/23/2034121-no-ice-rinks-on-the-moon-after-all</guid><category>science</category><category>water-moon</category><category>ice-moon</category><category>lunar-ice-search</category><category>kaguya-spacecraft</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:25:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Better Killing through Chemistry:</title>
<description><![CDATA[Buying chemical weapons material through the mail is quick and easy.I was reading up on nuclear proliferation when our editorial assistant came by my office. "You've got a package downstairs," he said.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/16/2008951-better-killing-through-chemistry</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/16/2008951-better-killing-through-chemistry</guid><category>science</category><category>chemistry-news</category><category>sarin-gas</category><category>nerve-gas-synthesis</category><category>home-made-chemical-weapons</category><category>mail-order-wmd</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:36:12 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>One-Organism Ecosystem Discovered in African Gold Mine </title>
<description><![CDATA[In the hot, dark water of a South African mine, scientists have found the world's loneliest species.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[PureScience]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[PureScience]]></source><link>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/09/1977079-one-organism-ecosystem-discovered-in-african-gold-mine</link><guid>http://PureScience.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/09/1977079-one-organism-ecosystem-discovered-in-african-gold-mine</guid><category>science</category><category>mine-ecosystem</category><category>single-species-ecosystem</category><category>autotroph</category><category>audaxviator</category><pubDate>Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:44:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>
