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In the case of shared stories, all rights reside with the original creator. en 2013-05-23T18:24:12 2013-05-23T18:24:12 httpd:/www.citytools.net/essentials/rss_docs.html http://www.citytools.net/images/rss_logo.jpg http://www.citytools.net 182 35 citytools image http://www.citytools.net/showstory/166bf60a-c3d0-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Chinese scientists trace the rare white colouration in Bengal tigers to a single change in a gene that affects a host of animals, including humans.<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22638341#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/b4a6d19a-c3c7-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Few have explored the remote volcanic islands of the Galapagos archipelago, an otherworldly landscape inhabited by the world&#39;s largest tortoises and other fantastical creatures that inspired Charles Darwin&#39;s theory of evolution....<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GOOGLE_GALAPAGOS_STREET_VIEW?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/52c482d6-c3bf-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ After a crash landing in Albania during World War II, Harold Hayes was trapped behind Nazi lines with 25 fellow medics and nurses.<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130523-world-war-ii-veteran-nazi-crash-survive-albania-secret-rescue/">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/f0d8dc28-c3b6-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Space engineers in Ecuador are trying to establish if the country&#39;s only satellite has been damaged in a crash with space debris.<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22635671#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/8f1a0230-c3ae-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ See amazing space photos taken by the European Southern Observatory&#39;s Very Large Telescope at Paranal Observatory in Northern Chile.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/spaceheadlines/~3/Dfkmn9ksMok/21258-eso-very-large-telescope-space-photos.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/2d47821a-c3a6-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ The Thackeray globules, thick clouds of dust that are silhouetted again the pink glowing nebula (IC 2944) gas, is under attack from ultraviolet radiation emitted from nearby stars. The cloud lies 6500 light-years away in the Centaurus constellation.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/spaceheadlines/~3/CUSFU0p9glg/21273-hot-young-stars-radiation-will-one-day-erase-this-picture-video.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/cb4a10e4-c39d-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ US researchers analysed tooth of a 10-12 year-old child that lived in a cave in Belgium around 100,000 years ago - and found it it was breastfed exclusively for seven months followed by seven months of supplementation.<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2329484/Neanderthals-breastfed-babies-year--goes-here.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/44c13258-c37c-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ The UK’s National Physical Laboratory has developed a printed circuit board made of ‘unzippable polymeric layers’ that comes apart in hot water. Resistors, capacitors, and integrated circuits can simply be scraped off and used again.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~3/l6Agx7hc2SE/34611-gadget-recycling-solution-dissolving-circuit-boards-video.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/e23bffb2-c373-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Eight Congress members are questioning how Google Glass would impact the privacy of the &#39;average American&#39; but others say these worries may be overblown. Powered by NewsLook.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~3/3AMvNtRidKg/34615-google-glass-causing-congressional-privacy-concerns.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/81494316-c36b-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Several World War II-era shipwrecks threaten to leak oil in U.S. coastal waters.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~3/pSFE5YrdYUA/34601-shipwrecks-pose-oil-pollution-risk.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/1f5c3788-c363-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Physicist Marc Millis discusses how close humanity really is to a faster-than-light drive like warp speed on &quot;Star Trek.&quot;<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/spaceheadlines/~3/4uYmhKriHs8/21274-star-trek-warp-drive-physics.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/bdb44726-c35a-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ The UK’s National Physical Laboratory has developed a printed circuit board made that comes apart in hot water.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~3/QvUf1DajJYQ/34619-gadget-that-dissolve.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/5bf10dba-c352-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Joplin tornado survivors share advice.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~3/nKmPyFzbnCs/34618-moore-tornado-recovery-joplin-lessons.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/f9cb1458-c349-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Patterns of barium in the fossil tooth of a child indicate that breast-feeding ended after 1.2 years, researchers say — much sooner than in modern nonindustrial populations.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/science/from-neanderthal-molar-scientists-infer-early-weaning.html?partner=rss&emc=rss">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/9868daf4-c341-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Texas&#39; McDonald Observatory is embarking on a search for dark energy.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/spaceheadlines/~3/Ik6wmOTPWLw/21266-mcdonald-observatory.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/366398b0-c339-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ A small custom made splint made with a 3D printer saved the life of a baby with a severe case of tracheomalacia, a condition that causes the windpipe to collapse.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/Livesciencecom/~3/JQjR4po2zbA/34609-3d-printed-medical-device-saves-baby-s-life-video.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/d477c71e-c330-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ The Herschel Space Observatory captured imagery of colliding galaxies, called HXMM01 (~ 11 billion light-years from Earth and when our universe was about 3 billion years old.) A merger of galaxies is simulated.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/spaceheadlines/~3/DXvbLqsCmm0/21264-massive-galactic-merger-scoped-by-several-space-observatories-time-lapsed-simulation.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/731687e2-c328-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ In a medical first, doctors used plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer to create an airway splint to save the life of a baby boy who used to stop breathing nearly every day....<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_BABYS_LAB_GROWN_AIRWAY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/10978ec0-c320-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ This space wallpaper shows the ray pattern of dust that was ejected from the crater over a billion years ago, when an asteroid larger than a mile (1.6 km) across slammed into the Moon.<a href="http://feeds.space.com/~r/spaceheadlines/~3/LYw_RbslM6o/21265-crater-copernicus-space-wallpaper.html">[original story]</a> http://www.citytools.net/showstory/af23948e-c317-11e2-8240-f3337a10a9b7/ Two hungry young galaxies that collided 11 billion years ago (pictured) are rapidly forming a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way, California astronomers have found.<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2329173/Astronomers-spot-missing-link-galaxy-collision-creating-supermassive-galaxy-times-size-Milky-Way.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490">[original story]</a>