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Marquis Yachts Makes It Airy and Open

When Marquis Yachts introduced its Sport Yacht series five years ago, buyers gravitated toward the new big-boat models. With design inside and out by Nuvolari-Lenard, a renowned megayacht design firm, Marquis’ offerings boasted big-boat details that other production craft did not

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Fusion presents low proliferation risk, experts conclude

American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon-usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their associated fuel cycle.

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8 Things Your Employees Need Most

Forget about raises and better benefits. Those are important -- but this is what your staff really wants. Pay is important .

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8 Things Your Employees Need Most

Forget about raises and better benefits. Those are important -- but this is what your staff really wants. Pay is important .

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Has Petroleum Production Peaked, Ending the Era of Easy Oil?

Despite major oil finds off Brazil's coast, new fields in North Dakota and ongoing increases in the conversion of tar sands to oil in Canada , fresh supplies of petroleum are only just enough to offset the production decline from older fields. At best, the world is now living off an oil plateau--roughly 75 million barrels of oil produced each and every day--since at least 2005, according to a new comment published in Nature on January 26. ( Scientific American is part of Nature Publishing Group.) That is a year earlier than estimated by the International Energy Agency--an energy cartel for oil consuming nations

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Meet the Real Mother of Invention: Persistence

For Jonas Eliasson to bring the Me-Mover to market, all it took was one eureka moment. And then 13 years of painstaking improvement. Like any sane human being, Jonas Eliasson hated commuting.

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Fisker Unveils Karma-Based 2013 Surf Gasoline-Electric Wagon

With the paint hardly dry on the luscious Karma plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, California-based upstart Fisker Automotive—helmed by the gifted and prolific designer Henrik Fisker (BMW Z8, Aston Martin DB9)—has revealed its next big thing: the production-bound Surf.

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Fisker Unveils Karma-Based 2013 Surf Gasoline-Electric Wagon

With the paint hardly dry on the luscious Karma plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, California-based upstart Fisker Automotive—helmed by the gifted and prolific designer Henrik Fisker (BMW Z8, Aston Martin DB9)—has revealed its next big thing: the production-bound Surf. Mechanically identical to the Karma sedan, the Surf features a stretched roofline ...

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Magnetic breakthrough may have significant pull

(PhysOrg.com) -- Northeastern University researchers have designed a super-strong magnetic material that may revolutionize the production of magnets found in computers, mobile phones, electric cars and wind-powered generators.

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Magnetic breakthrough may have significant pull

(PhysOrg.com) -- Northeastern University researchers have designed a super-strong magnetic material that may revolutionize the production of magnets found in computers, mobile phones, electric cars and wind-powered generators.

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Fabric of the Cosmos Some Seriously Mind-Bending Physics

Fabric of the Cosmos, starring theoretical physicist Brian Greene , premieres tonight on NOVA (with further episodes airing November 9, 16 and 23). The 4-part miniseries based on Greene s latest book of the same name is a remarkable journey into the jarring world of theoretical physics. I must admit that I was somewhat daunted by the task of watching these episodes could I really spend 4 hours of my life being entertained by physics?! Actually yes I could

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Photographic Memory: Wearable Cam Could Help Patients Stave Off Effects of Impaired Recall

Hopes for new Alzheimer's drugs that would slow or stop the disease's inexorable decline have repeatedly foundered in recent years. Large pharmaceutical companies, which have pushed ahead with drugs that stop the buildup of toxic proteins that damage and kill brain cells, have reported a recurring string of bad news.

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America’s Favorite Small Business

Have you ever wondered what your business idea would be worth if you had an opportunity to present it to the nation for a vote? Apparently, Dell, Microsoft, the American public and MasterCard believe that this small business idea is priceless. Following an eight-week long search that began on August 15th, Dell announced that Shwood Handcrafted Wooden Eyewear has been voted as the winner of the “America’s Favorite Small Business” contest sponsored by Dell, MasterCard and Microsoft.

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