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Runaway Blimp Incident Blamed on Empty Battery Pack
2016-02-16 23:05:41| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Pro tip: Don't forget the batteries for your blimp.
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Stanford team develops thermoresponsive film allowing fast and reversible shutdown of Li-ion batteries to prevent thermal runaway
2016-01-13 16:55:44| Green Car Congress
Zombie Spitzer space telescope detects interstellar shockwaves from runaway stars
2016-01-07 20:30:51| Extremetech
Most of the stars in the known universe reside within relatively stable systems. But what about the ones that don't? The Spitzer Space Telescope is still gathering data long after its supposed death, and it can detect the interstellar sonic boom from runaway stars like Zeta Ophiuchi.
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We must curtail runaway drug prices
2015-12-06 07:12:24| Biotech - Topix.net
In the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Peter Bach recently wrote, "Hand clapping for science is now inextricably linked to hand wringing over affordability." This has been demonstrated frequently in the era of personalized medicine, which has offered unprecedented benefits at huge costs.
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Runaway ice loss in Antarctica
2015-11-30 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: By studying rocks at different elevations beside the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS), a New Zealand-led team concluded that a period of rapid glacier thinning occurred in the recent geological past, and persisted for several centuries. Satellite observations show that parts of the Antarctic ice sheet are currently thinning in response to a warming ocean. Of particular concern is the potential for 'marine ice sheet instability', where an initial retreat of ice margins into deepening valleys could...
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