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Tired of trying to remember when leap year hits, which months have 30 days, and more? You're not alone. Johns Hopkins researchers are lobbying to jettison the Gregorian calendar in favor of a new one that never rotates. What do you think?

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Metamaterials...controlling the brain...commercial space exploration… These are just a few of the topics cited by a panel of experts asked to name the six technologies they expect to most strongly impact science and the world over the next decade. Take a look at the results. Do you agree or do you think other developments will have more profound effects?

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The National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) has released the 2011 Environmental, Health, and Safety Research Strategy, which will guide the 25 member federal agencies of the NNI when they select proposals to fund. Do you think these types of broad-brush standards should guide research or should agencies be able to fund proposals as they see fit?

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A host of smartphone and iPad apps have sprung up for engineers, including engineering calculators, optical tweezers applications, software for controlling UAVs, and even 3D imaging apps. What's your favorite engineering app? What app do you wish someone would develop?

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The Kepler space telescope has discovered 1100 candidate extra-solar planets, 54 of which are orbiting in a zone where they would potentially have liquid water. It seems inevitable that sooner or later, we'll detect a planet with the building blocks of life. When we do that, what should our next step be? Should we send a probe to study it? Should we attempt to communicate? If so, what should we say?

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Nanotechnologists focus on the very, very small. Other folks are more interested in the very, very large. Wealthy Arab sheik, Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, carved his name into an island. Visible from space, the five letters are over half a mile high and two miles long. If you could carve a message visible from space, couldn't you think of something better to say? If you want to see "HAMAD" yourself type the coordinates "24.3442, 54.3255" into Google Earth.

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