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However, Stephen King has let slip that he's considering a sequel to The Shining, first published in 1977.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glowing plaster that destroys skin cancer by zapping it with light unveiled]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/113392/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A glowing plaster that can patch up wounds AND destroy skin cancer cells by zapping them with light, has been unveiled by British scientists.<br/><br/>The strip of bendy plastic is embedded with light-emitting diodes that blast a high-powered of beam of red light onto tumours.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quantum doughnuts slow and freeze light at will]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/98753/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Research led by the University of Warwick has found a way to use doughnut shaped by-products of quantum dots to slow and even freeze light, opening up a wide range of possibilities from reliable and effective light based computing to the possibility of &quot;slow glass&quot;.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light Cone]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/56941/1/</link><description><![CDATA[As soon as you are born, you are influencing light.  From the day of your birth, you can see how many stars that light has reached.  Works only on stars up to 50 light years away.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letter From School: Your Kid is Fat]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74684/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Due to the increase in overweight children, the government in the UK is introducing &quot;The National Child Measurement Programme.&quot; <br/><br/>If parents agree to their kids being weighed they will receive a letter to let them know if their child is overweight and advice on how to help them lose weight.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists break the speed of light]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/31824/1/</link><description><![CDATA[It was supposed to be the one speed limit you cannot break. 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