<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>17 Year Old May Have Discovered Way to Screen and Treat the Flu : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>17 Year Old May Have Discovered Way to Screen and Treat the Flu : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[17 Year Old May Have Discovered Way to Screen and Treat the Flu]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61045/1/</link><description><![CDATA[It's not the long-sought cure for the common cold but a 17-year-old Ottawa high school student won a national science competition today by developing a novel way of identifying and perhaps even fighting flu infections.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New legal threat to school science in the US]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/68194/1/</link><description><![CDATA[On the 28 June, The Science Education Act was passed as law in the State of Louisiana. This piece of legislature now allows teachers in this US state to present non-scientific alternatives to evolution, global warming and cloning &#8211; including ideas related to intelligent design. Opponents fear that Louisiana teachers are now free to present evolution and other targeted topics as matters of debate rather than broadly accepted science, and could have national implications.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resuscitation Science: Is There a Third State of Being?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/49341/1/</link><description><![CDATA[They call it resuscitation science. It's a new area of research at the University of Pennsylvania, where a Center for Resuscitation Science opened less than a year ago, and where the line between life and death is shifting.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has U.S. Science Lost Its Competitive Edge?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60082/1/</link><description><![CDATA[How far has the United States risen above the gathering storm of global competition in science? Not nearly far enough, warned a succession of luminaries at a symposium held today by the U.S. National Academies.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science Facts]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/8579/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Check out some unique science facts about different areas of science.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could You Pass 8th Grade Science?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/55204/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Think you know a thing or two about science? Take our short quiz to determine if you'd pass an 8th grade science test.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New british TV show teaches science in an exciting new way]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/52323/1/</link><description><![CDATA[What happens when you have physics and chemistry professors teach grade school science classes?  A whole lot of fun.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Top 10 Craziest Science Stuff you didn&#8217;t know]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/11610/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Do you know you can Hypnotize Chickens, you can have an erection once dead?...Stuff you may not have known about science and some of the crazy things you can do, things your body is capable of doing that you may not have known.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girls shatter glass ceiling at science competition]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/43362/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Girls swept a prestigious high school science competition for the first time Monday, winning top prizes of $100,000 scholarships for their work on potential tuberculosis cures and bone growth in zebrafish.<br/>It was the first time girls had ever won the grand prizes in both the team and individual divisions of the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homebrewed Science]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/38015/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A fellow Plimate, <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/members/Snocrash/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Snocrash</a>, has a website called Homebrewed Science that you might find interesting.<br/>It is a new community that encourages discussion and experimentation on science projects you can do at home. Read it for enjoyment, read it for education, check it out today.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tony Blair Talks Science]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/5234/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Tony Blair talks to New Scientist magazine about science. He admits that he wasn't particuarly gifted at the subject at school, but that he sees it as vital to the UK.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful nanotechnology images from the Science as Art competition]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/46138/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The 2007 Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting concluded in Boston on November 30. This was the first time that the popular Science as Art competition was held at an MRS Fall Meeting. Three first place and three second place winners were selected from the various entries. Some of the images are from the nanotechnology domain but most are micro-scale.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Most Popular Myths in Science]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/12000/1/</link><description><![CDATA[I knew some of these couldn't be true.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction # 23 edited by Gardner Dozois]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/24/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Gardner Dozois' presents the twenty-third volume of The Year's Best Science Fiction, an anthology containing 30 stories from 2005.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science Fiction's Most Controversial Novel?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14654/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Is Robert Heinlein's &quot;Freehold&quot; the most controversial? Or consider &quot;Brave New World&quot;, &quot;The Fountainhead&quot;, &quot;The Left Hand of Darkness&quot;, &quot;Dhalgren&quot;, Heinlein&#8217;s own &quot;Stranger in a Strange Land&quot;. What say you?]]></description></item></channel></rss>