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- Compact multipurpose scooter for crowded megacities
- Alternative way to explain life's complexity proposed
- Can one buy the right to name a planet? A response to recent name-selling campaigns
| Compact multipurpose scooter for crowded megacities Posted: 12 Apr 2013 11:38 AM PDT Researchers have unveiled an all-new multipurpose scooter prototype, codenamed VOI, at the 3rd Taiwan International Electric Vehicle Show. VOI gets its name from the Vietnamese word for elephant -- a symbol of a safe and intelligent mean of transport. It is a two-wheel concept vehicle.  |
| Alternative way to explain life's complexity proposed Posted: 12 Apr 2013 10:24 AM PDT Evolution skeptics argue that some biological structures, like the eye, are too complex for natural selection to explain. Biologists have proposed various ways that so-called "irreducibly complex" structures could emerge incrementally over time. But a new study proposes an alternative route.  |
| Can one buy the right to name a planet? A response to recent name-selling campaigns Posted: 12 Apr 2013 10:23 AM PDT In the light of recent events, where the possibility of buying the rights to name exoplanets has been advertised, the wishes to inform the public that such schemes have no bearing on the official naming process. The IAU wholeheartedly welcomes the public's interest to be involved in recent discoveries, but would like to strongly stress the importance of having a unified naming procedure.  |
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