<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - xref</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/xref</link><description>Newsvine - xref</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 00:51:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 15:01:35 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Women may be hardwired to prefer pink</title>
<description><![CDATA[The long-held notion that girls prefer pink while boys prefer blue may hold some truth, suggests a new study. And moreover, there might be a biological basis for why women prefer pink &#150; or at least more reddish colours than men, say researchers.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Roxanne Khamsi]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Roxanne Khamsi]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/20/910680-women-may-be-hardwired-to-prefer-pink</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/20/910680-women-may-be-hardwired-to-prefer-pink</guid><category>women</category><category>science</category><category>pink</category><category>colour</category><category>preference</category><category>being-human</category><category>xref</category><pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>How the big bang chilled out</title>
<description><![CDATA[YOU would think that right after the big bang, the universe would have been pretty hot. In fact it looks like things were a lot cooler than you might imagine.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[newscientist.com-172949]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[newscientist.com-172949]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/17/900883-how-the-big-bang-chilled-out</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/17/900883-how-the-big-bang-chilled-out</guid><category>inflation</category><category>science</category><category>astronomy</category><category>galaxies</category><category>fundamentals</category><category>clusters</category><category>ferreira</category><category>xref</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Cosmic 'train wreck' defies dark matter theories</title>
<description><![CDATA[The galaxy cluster Abell 520 has a massive dark core filled with hot gas (red) and dark matter (blue) but empty of bright galaxies (yellow and orange), suggesting that when the original clusters collided, their dark matter was stripped out (Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UVic./A.Mahdavi et al. Optical/Lensing: CFHT/UVic./A.Mahdavi et al.)]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Battersby-172953]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Stephen Battersby-172953]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/16/902991-cosmic-train-wreck-defies-dark-matter-theories</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/16/902991-cosmic-train-wreck-defies-dark-matter-theories</guid><category>space</category><category>dark</category><category>science</category><category>astronomy</category><category>matter</category><category>galaxies</category><category>clusters</category><category>xref</category><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:07:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/400/ns-dn12497-1_792.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="400" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/120/ns-dn12497-1_792.jpg" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The galaxy cluster Abell 520 has a massive dark core filled with hot gas (red) and dark matter (blue) but empty of bright galaxies (yellow and orange), suggesting that when the original clusters collided, their dark matter was stripped out (Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC/UVic./A.Mahdavi et al. Optical/Lensing: CFHT/UVic./A.Mahdavi et al.)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">nul</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Forget biofuels - burn oil and plant forests instead</title>
<description><![CDATA[The amount of carbon emissions that are avoided depends on which crop is used to produce the biofuel (top six bars) and if forest is cleared for crops (red). Converting cropland to forests or grassland can also save emissions (bottom three bars) (Image: AAAS/World Land Trust)]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Catherine Brahic]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Catherine Brahic]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/16/902994-forget-biofuels-burn-oil-and-plant-forests-instead</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/16/902994-forget-biofuels-burn-oil-and-plant-forests-instead</guid><category>energy</category><category>food</category><category>forests</category><category>land</category><category>science</category><category>earth</category><category>crops</category><category>biofuel</category><category>xref</category><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:10:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/400/ns-dn12496-1_650.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="401" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/120/ns-dn12496-1_650.jpg" width="120" height="120" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;The amount of carbon emissions that are avoided depends on which crop is used to produce the biofuel (top six bars) and if forest is cleared for crops (red). Converting cropland to forests or grassland can also save emissions (bottom three bars) (Image: AAAS/World Land Trust)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs">nul</media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Fickle ocean current foils climate modellers</title>
<description><![CDATA[The North Atlantic is stirring fitfully. A new monitoring system has shown that the ocean's currents change rapidly, surging or slowing from one week to the next. That makes it difficult to judge whether they really are slowing down over the long term, as one study has suggested.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Battersby-172953]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Stephen Battersby-172953]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/16/900879-fickle-ocean-current-foils-climate-modellers</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/16/900879-fickle-ocean-current-foils-climate-modellers</guid><category>technology</category><category>science</category><category>ocean</category><category>earth</category><category>north-atlantic</category><category>xref</category><category>overturning</category><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:46:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Shuttle commander says Endeavour is safe to return</title>
<description><![CDATA[Astronauts on board the shuttle Endeavour are confident their spaceship is safe to return to Earth without a repair to its heat shield, following an early analysis that showed a fix will probably not be needed, NASA officials said on Tuesday.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[New Scientist Space ]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[New Scientist Space ]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/15/898422-shuttle-commander-says-endeavour-is-safe-to-return</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/08/15/898422-shuttle-commander-says-endeavour-is-safe-to-return</guid><category>space</category><category>shuttle</category><category>crew</category><category>science</category><category>human-spaceflight</category><category>space-tech</category><category>xref</category><category>refiddn</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:26:00 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>