<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : science : All Links : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[Never try to kite surf in a hurricane!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72972/1/" /><id>72972</id><summary><![CDATA[Never try to kite surf in a hurricane!]]></summary><issued>2008-08-20T13:44:14+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-20T13:44:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Darwin missed this one, but he's always watching.<br/><br/>I don't have to say <b>where</b> the hurricane is, do I?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Stone Age Graveyard reveals Lifestyles of a 'Green Sahara': Two Successive Cultures Thrived Lakeside]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72946/1/" /><id>72946</id><summary><![CDATA[Stone Age Graveyard reveals Lifestyles of a 'Green Sahara': Two Successive Cultures Thrived Lakeside]]></summary><issued>2008-08-20T08:25:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-20T08:25:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The largest Stone Age graveyard found in the Sahara, which provides an unparalleled record of life when the region was green, has been discovered in Niger.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How many different ways can a charity balloon launch go wrong?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72841/1/" /><id>72841</id><summary><![CDATA[How many different ways can a charity balloon launch go wrong?]]></summary><issued>2008-08-19T17:46:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-19T17:46:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Every balloon launched by the University of the West of England was said to represent an orphan in need.<br/><br/>I wonder what Plan B is?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bigfoot 'Discovery' declared Hoax.]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72825/1/" /><id>72825</id><summary><![CDATA[Bigfoot 'Discovery' declared Hoax.]]></summary><issued>2008-08-19T13:41:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-19T13:41:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Gee..  nobody saw THAT coming.  <br/><br/>Update to:<br/><div style='display:block;width:250px;text-overflow:clip;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/f/3951/153/#q4" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/f/3951/153/#q4</a></div> <br/><div style='display:block;width:250px;text-overflow:clip;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/weird/l/72284/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/weird/l/72284/1/</a></div>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sexual selection: Symmetrical bodies wow the opposite sex]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72806/1/" /><id>72806</id><summary><![CDATA[Sexual selection: Symmetrical bodies wow the opposite sex]]></summary><issued>2008-08-19T10:04:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-19T10:04:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scientists using hi-tech body scanners have discovered that people with more symmetrical bodies are more attractive to the opposite sex. The research backs up previous findings that symmetrically proportioned faces are more attractive and suggests that our brains are hard-wired to find symmetry sexy in a potential partner.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[A New State of Mind]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72741/1/" /><id>72741</id><summary><![CDATA[A New State of Mind]]></summary><issued>2008-08-18T23:18:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-18T23:18:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Decoding the brain is hard work. It is incredibly complex and we don't even know what the code is - chemical, electrical, both, neither let alone how to decode it. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter may be the key to unlocking the brain's encryption and may be linked to complex social phenomena as well as changing neuroscience in the process.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Premie comes &quot;back to life.&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72733/1/" /><id>72733</id><summary><![CDATA[Premie comes &quot;back to life.&quot;]]></summary><issued>2008-08-18T19:08:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-18T19:08:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A couple from Kafr Yasif in the Galilee received the shock of their lives Monday when the wife's miscarried 610-gram fetus, which had been declared dead five hours earlier, was found to be breathing.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Scientists Are Hard At Work To Eradicate The Scourge Of Bad Hair ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72727/1/" /><id>72727</id><summary><![CDATA[Scientists Are Hard At Work To Eradicate The Scourge Of Bad Hair ]]></summary><issued>2008-08-18T16:39:23+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-18T16:39:23+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A nanoscale analysis of hair and what makes it silky could end frizzy perms, over-bleached waves and other mishaps that affect a global industry now worth some $60 billion annually.<br/><br/><i>Of course as we know, the solution to</i> every<i> problem is to &quot;reverse the polarity</i>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Astronomers Find a New &quot;Minor Planet&quot; near Neptune]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72715/1/" /><id>72715</id><summary><![CDATA[Astronomers Find a New &quot;Minor Planet&quot; near Neptune]]></summary><issued>2008-08-18T13:56:26+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-18T13:56:26+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Astronomers announced today that a new &quot;minor planet&quot; with an unusual orbit has been found just two billion miles from Earth, closer than Neptune.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[An end to the need for dialysis?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72712/1/" /><id>72712</id><summary><![CDATA[An end to the need for dialysis?]]></summary><issued>2008-08-18T11:55:02+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-18T11:55:02+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[MELBOURNE scientists have developed a drug that may prevent a condition responsible for up to 45% of all deaths in the Western world. The drug prevents the spread of fibrosis, the scarring of organs that exasperates the severity of many diseases, including kidney diseases.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Martian Weather Report]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72703/1/" /><id>72703</id><summary><![CDATA[Martian Weather Report]]></summary><issued>2008-08-18T09:40:12+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-18T09:40:12+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Come on, how many of you have thought, &quot;Hmmmm, I wonder what the weather's like on Mars right now?&quot;<br/><br/>That's right, now you can find out.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[6 legged deer to go back down to 4 legs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72699/1/" /><id>72699</id><summary><![CDATA[6 legged deer to go back down to 4 legs]]></summary><issued>2008-08-18T09:27:33+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-18T09:27:33+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Vets will operate to remove the two extra legs. Not sure if the deer will be able to return to the wild afterwards.<br/><br/>Update to <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/weird/l/69492/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> princess2408's earlier post</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Anxiety can cause Allergy Attacks to be Longer, more Miserable]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72618/1/" /><id>72618</id><summary><![CDATA[Anxiety can cause Allergy Attacks to be Longer, more Miserable]]></summary><issued>2008-08-17T19:16:44+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-17T19:16:44+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Interesting information for the allergy sufferers out there. I'm so glad I don't have any or else I would have died throughout high school.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Details of Evolution in Protein Translation]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72617/1/" /><id>72617</id><summary><![CDATA[Details of Evolution in Protein Translation]]></summary><issued>2008-08-17T19:11:47+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-17T19:11:47+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A new study of transfer RNA, a molecule that delivers amino acids to the protein-building machinery of the cell, challenges long-held ideas about the evolutionary history of protein synthesis.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cataloguing invisible life: Microbe genome emerges from lake sediment]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72603/1/" /><id>72603</id><summary><![CDATA[Cataloguing invisible life: Microbe genome emerges from lake sediment]]></summary><issued>2008-08-17T14:23:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-17T14:23:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Microorganisms from a mud sample collected in Lake Washington. The purple and orange organisms are relatives of Methylotenera mobilis, whose complete DNA sequence is now published.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Saturn Moon &quot;Mother Lode&quot; Located]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72596/1/" /><id>72596</id><summary><![CDATA[Saturn Moon &quot;Mother Lode&quot; Located]]></summary><issued>2008-08-17T11:18:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-17T11:18:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The exact location of jets on Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus have been found&#8212;a discovery scientists are calling a &quot;mother lode.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72594/1/" /><id>72594</id><summary><![CDATA[Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind]]></summary><issued>2008-08-17T10:57:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-17T10:57:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Subtle refinements in brain architecture, rather than large-scale alterations, make us smarter than other animals]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The only library of the ancient world  is slowly revealing its long-held secrets]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72593/1/" /><id>72593</id><summary><![CDATA[The only library of the ancient world  is slowly revealing its long-held secrets]]></summary><issued>2008-08-17T10:49:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-17T10:49:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[STORED in a sky-lit reading room in Naples are the charred remains of the only library to survive from antiquity. The ancient world's other great book collections -- at Athens, Alexandria and Rome -- all perished in the chaos of the centuries. But the library of the Villa of the Papyri was conserved, paradoxically, by an act of destruction.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cellphone popped popcorn]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72576/1/" /><id>72576</id><summary><![CDATA[Cellphone popped popcorn]]></summary><issued>2008-08-16T23:09:14+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-16T23:09:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[What have you cooked with your cellphone today?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Evidence for evolution]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72478/1/" /><id>72478</id><summary><![CDATA[Evidence for evolution]]></summary><issued>2008-08-15T15:40:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-15T15:40:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[There seems to be an ongoing debate here at Plime. It goes something like this:<br/>&quot;There is no evidence for evolution, other than questionable fossil records!&quot;<br/><br/>Well, here's some other evidence courtesy of Brittanica.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Ear Infections May Increase Obesity Risk]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72425/1/" /><id>72425</id><summary><![CDATA[Ear Infections May Increase Obesity Risk]]></summary><issued>2008-08-15T01:30:08+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-15T01:30:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Are kids with frequent ear infections at increased risk of becoming overweight later in life? Early research suggests they are, and that damage to the nerves controlling taste may be to blame.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Three babies are alive after each received an unorthodox heart transplant, raises ethical issues]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72337/1/" /><id>72337</id><summary><![CDATA[Three babies are alive after each received an unorthodox heart transplant, raises ethical issues]]></summary><issued>2008-08-14T04:11:22+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-14T04:11:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The experimental transplant procedure marks the first time infants have received hearts from infant donors who had been taken off life support.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Does the Milky Way Influence Earth's Biodiversity Cycles? Research Says &quot;Yes&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72292/1/" /><id>72292</id><summary><![CDATA[Does the Milky Way Influence Earth's Biodiversity Cycles? Research Says &quot;Yes&quot;]]></summary><issued>2008-08-13T21:54:07+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-13T21:54:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Horoscope enthusiasts will be happy to hear that a grand cosmic force does indeed seem to be responsible for controlling the direction of all life on Earth.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Rise of the rat-brained robots]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72271/1/" /><id>72271</id><summary><![CDATA[Rise of the rat-brained robots]]></summary><issued>2008-08-13T15:50:48+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-13T15:50:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Brain tissue cultured from rats has controlled a wheeled robot around a lab, according to New Scientist this week. Researchers in the UK have harnessed signals from thousands of disembodied rat neurons, and manipulated them to get a robot to respond to instructions.&quot;<br/><br/>*unrelated pic]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Discovery to stop plants branching out]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/72247/1/" /><id>72247</id><summary><![CDATA[Discovery to stop plants branching out]]></summary><issued>2008-08-13T10:55:00+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-13T10:55:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A hormone that can literally stop trees branching out has been discovered by an international research team, who say the find could improve productivity of crops around the world.]]></content></entry></items></xml>