While this will merely assist in stretching phone life, the company says it is working on more efficient models which could one day be fitted as standard to mobiles and perhaps virtually eliminate dependence on mains electricity.

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I'm calling on all 200, 000 scientists who work for the federal government to do their part in their communities: to speak at schools, to create hands-on learning opportunities through efforts like National Lab Day, and to help stoke that same curiosity in students which perhaps led them to pursue a career in science in the first place.

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Perhaps one day, a glove like this could be part of a universal translator, which is something that will continue to be pursued as mobile computing, speech recognition, and translation advance.

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More memorable perhaps than the research reported in April which debunked conventional wisdom about how drinking eight glasses of water a day keeps you healthy.

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The new service kicked off in San Francisco and could be a reaction to competition from Amazon, which has begun what appears to be an initiative to get next day delivery up and running, and perhaps eventually same day delivery.

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