Instead, Google needs a really good method for having ideas surface, and then creating dedicated teams to explore those ideas in an unbounded way.

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In the study released Wednesday, researchers suggest extracting the natural gas hydrates with "depressurization" -- a method that involves changing the ice into gas and water at the surface.

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The other is a non-contact method by detecting intensity of the invisible infrared light that naturally emanates from every surface in this Universe.

FORBES: Body temperature.