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		<title>Volcanoes may give a 100-year warning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A BLAST from the past has left tantalising hints that volcanic eruptions could be predicted decades in advance. Volcanoes can signal their intent to erupt days or months ahead of time, giving authorities a chance to evacuate the area. Now evidence of the events leading up to a Bronze Age eruption suggests it might be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New &#8220;Super Earth&#8221; found</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new planet, probably a rocky super-Earth has been found squarely within its star&#8217;s habitable zone, making it one of the best candidates yet to support life, its discoverers say. The planet, dubbed GJ 667Cc, orbits a red dwarf star 22 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Scorpio. Binary pair of orange dwarf stars are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elephants took 24m generations to evolve</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some mammals need roughly 24 million generations to go from mouse-size to elephant-size, a new study says. Using both fossil and living specimens, scientists calculated growth rates for 28 different mammalian groups during the past 65 million years—and found that, for mammals, getting big takes longer than shrinking. It takes a minimum of 1.6 million generations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Largest optical telescope created</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Astronomers have created the world&#8217;s largest virtual optical telescope, linking four telescopes in Chile so that they operate as a single device. The telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory form a virtual mirror of 130m (424ft) in diameter. A previous attempt to link the telescopes last March failed. Thursday&#8217;s link-up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer software</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Computer software, or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it. Software refers to one or more computer programs and data held in the storage of the computer for some purposes. In other words, software is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook to start mobile ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices before its $5 billion initial public offering, the Financial Times reported on Monday. Facebook has already discussed proposals with unidentified advertising agencies for displaying what it calls &#8220;featured stories&#8221; in the news feed seen by users on the site [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple overturns Motorola&#8217;s ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:33:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple has been granted a temporary suspension of a sales ban imposed on some of its products in Germany. Motorola Mobility had forced Apple to remove several iPad and iPhone models from its online store earlier on monday after enforcing a patent infringement court ruling delivered in December. An appeals court lifted the ban after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malaria toll &#8216;is twice as high&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Worldwide malaria deaths may be almost twice as high as previously estimated, a study reports. The research, published in the British medical journal, the Lancet, suggests 1.24 million people died from the mosquito-borne disease in 2010. This compares to a World Health Organisation (WHO) estimate for 2010 of 655,000 deaths. But both the new study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abnormalities in the brain may make some people more likely to become drug addicts, according to scientists at the University of Cambridge. They found the same differences in the brains of addicts and their non-addicted brothers and sisters. The study, published in the journal Science, suggested addiction is in part a &#8220;disorder of the brain&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nigeria Launches Two Satellites</title>
		<link>http://www.theghanaianjournal.com/2011/08/18/nigeria-launches-two-satellites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theghanaianjournal.com/2011/08/18/nigeria-launches-two-satellites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Determined to firm up its drive towards technological advancement, especially in relation to Information Communications Technology (ICT), Nigeria today launched two observation satellites into the orbit to be used for disaster management, with President Goodluck Jonathan describing the move as another milestone in his country&#8217;s effort to solve national problems through space technology.   The [...]]]></description>
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