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			<news:title><![CDATA[A retired solar panel gives up its silicon at 99.998 percent purity after being scanned with green laser light, which never touches the glue that everyone assumes is the target]]></news:title>
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			<news:title><![CDATA[Divers scraping 3 clusters of solar floats 7 miles offshore counted 543 mussels for every square foot of surface, and the finding that matters is the dozen species that were not native to the water]]></news:title>
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			<news:title><![CDATA[Salmon began packing into California’s rivers for their autumn journey, so a federal dam opened the taps for three weeks to keep disease from racing through the crowd before the fish could finish the run]]></news:title>
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			<news:title><![CDATA[Scanning Mars for ancient oceans through seismic waves, scientists found one stretching thousands of miles beneath the surface, but not the kind anyone expected since it formed from cooling molten rock pooling silently across an entire hemisphere]]></news:title>
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			<news:title><![CDATA[A 75 foot tour boat sat on the reef 60 feet outside a Honolulu harbor mouth for 10 days, but the coral it came down on was already so thin that the damage was mostly to bare rock]]></news:title>
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			<news:title><![CDATA[Researchers gave a plain black solar panel a liquid-crystal “jacket” that sweeps through the colors of the rainbow as it warms, while still keeping 88% of its original power]]></news:title>
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			<news:title><![CDATA[People sealed in a windowless Bavarian bunker drifted onto a 25 hour day across 418 separate runs, while the body clock they were measuring turns out to be 11 minutes over 24]]></news:title>
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			<news:title><![CDATA[Crews drove 95 steel tubes of up to 1,985 tons into the North Sea and the record went to neither the tubes nor the crane, while the monopile gripper that earned it gets unbolted and shipped away]]></news:title>
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