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Turning air into drinking water

Remember those sweltering summer days when the air was so muggy you could practically drink it? A new home appliance is promising to make that possible by converting outdoor air into nearly 13 quarts of fresh water every day.

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China's Weather Manipulation Brings Crippling Snowstorm to Beijing
Source: Popular Science -

In The People's Republic of China, it's no secret that the Party controls just about everything. But as Beijing suffers through its second major snowstorm this season, residents are growing weary of their leadership's control-freak tendencies.

NASA Prepares to Bomb the Moon (Space Mission Taking Missile to Put Hole in Lunar Surface)
Source: Telegraph

NASA is scheduled on June 18, 2009 "to launch a space mission from Cape Canaveral" that will be "carrying a missile that will fire a hole deep in the lunar surface."

Kitchen Science: Boil Water Into Ice [video]
Source: ScienceBlogs

This should go into the category: "What scientists do when the boss is out of town." This video shows a couple scientists who are "boiling water into ice." Can you describe how they do this?

Smoking 2.0 Gives Lungs a Break
Source: Wired News

The NicStic is a cigarette-size plastic tube with a rechargeable heating coil that vaporizes tobacco instead of burning it.

Inhaling cannabis without the smoke
Source: News at Nature

Vaporizing cannabis leaves instead of burning them can release the drug's active ingredient just as effectively — while avoiding the harmful toxins inhaled through smoking the drug, according to a pilot study.

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