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  <title>Are biofuels a load of rubbish?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Turning our waste paper in to biofuel could replace over 5% of global petrol consumption.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Seeing is Believing</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Constructing extremely small lenses can help overcome Abbe's diffraction limit, which limits seeing very small objects with regular light.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Heavy Metal Packaging</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Researchers in Argentina have developed a new approach to testing food packaging for trace amounts of the toxic heavy metal cadmium.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 00:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Charity Computers and Environmental Waste</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Indiscriminately accepting charitable donations of old electronic equipment might not be worth the cost of increased waste.&lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
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