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      <news:title><![CDATA[A 29-year-old man has created magnetic cement, and his invention promises to revolutionize a construction sector that has not undergone a true transformation in decades]]></news:title>
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    <loc>https://www.ecoticias.com/en/there-is-a-single-sea-on-earth-that-has-no-shores-and-its-strange-boundary-is-not-defined-by-land-but-by-the-currents-of-the-atlantic/30874/</loc>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[There is a single sea on Earth that has no shores, and its strange boundary is not defined by land, but by the currents of the Atlantic]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[China’s Ministry of Natural Resources has announced an additional 10.7 million metric tons of rare earth oxides, reigniting the “neodymium rush” that will determine how many electric cars and drones the world will be able to produce over the next 20 years]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[They reexamined the world’s largest T. rex skeleton and discovered something that forces us to rethink the true life of prehistory’s most feared predator]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[He thought he had struck gold in Australia, but for years he had held something far more improbable in his hands: a fragment of the solar system that predates our planet]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[No drills, no lasers, no giant robots: the latest outlandish idea in space mining involves a box the size of a Tupperware container and microbes capable of extracting metals from a meteorite in orbit]]></news:title>
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      <news:title><![CDATA[NASA is testing an idea in orbit that once seemed like science fiction and has discovered that a fungus can extract valuable metals from space rocks 400 kilometers above Earth]]></news:title>
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