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Two Narcissists Are Better Than One (or Three)

For many years psychologists have explored whether narcissism and creativity are linked, and some studies have suggested that the self-obsessed may, in fact, be more creative than the rest of us. But new research from Cornell University argues otherwise. Two hundred and forty-four under

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Dramatic rescue of a century-old turtle in Vietnam could help save species from extinction

A giant softshell turtle known as Cu Rua that has been living in Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi, Vietnam, for more than a century is one of the last four members of its critically endangered species, Rafetus swinhoei . The freshwater animal weighs about 200 kilograms and is worshiped as a deity that protects the city, but neither its size nor its stature has prevented it from being injured recently by fishermen and an aggressive invasive species.

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White iPhone Becomes White Elephant, Report Shows Strong Facebook Sharing ROI, Branson Dives Deep, and More…

The Fast Company reader's essential source for breaking news and innovation from around the web--updated all day. Is Apple Trying to Forget the White iPhone? Apple appears to be erasing traces of the coveted white iPhone because it secretly plans to kill it--if you believe the conspiracy theorists who noted that images of the device went missing from the store late last night.

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Single Device Captures Sun’s Light and Heat

Solar cells convert sunlight to electricity. But they don’t take advantage of all that solar heat, thereby missing out on the majority of the solar energy reaching the cell. The sun’s heat can be captured to warm up liquid that can then warm a building’s water, but those devices don’t generate electricity

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The 10 Most Innovative Web Companies

01 / Twitter > > For ballooning into a global phenomenon that, finally, has a business model. In 2009, Twitter boasted some 20 million users. Today

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The Inflation Debate (preview)

Thirty years ago Alan H. Guth, then a struggling physics postdoc at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, gave a series of seminars in which he introduced “inflation” into the lexicon of cosmology

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Richard Branson unveils deep-sea submarine plans

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, known for such exploits as trying to balloon around the world, said on Tuesday he planned to explore the deepest parts of the world's oceans with a jet-like submarine. The 18-foot vessel is capable of descents more than 36,000 feet below the surface, said Branson at a news conference in Newport Beach, California.

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NASA Human Spaceflight Program Lost in Transition

By Adam Mann of Nature magazine NASA should be revitalized "not just with dollars, but with clear aims and a larger purpose," US President Barack Obama said last April, after cancelling the previous administration's under-resourced Constellation programme of rockets and capsules for human space flight. [More]

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