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Atari has just stepped forward with the announcement that their RollerCoaster Tycoon franchise will be making a shift at the next bend to the mobile platform, which is news that will definitely send fans of the game series delirious with happiness. This particular title would be known as RollerCoaster Tycoon 4 Mobile, where it will be a sequel which will feature a slew of new features that revolve entirely around various social aspects including Facebook integration, social advertising and a near guarantee of micro-transactions. Of course, what is the whole point of all those if you cannot create your own dastardly rollercoaster, right?

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LINE users can already call other users for free through the app, but this new feature lets users call phone numbers in eight markets for a flat-rate. It had actually announced this feature back in February, but LINE Call has been formally launched today. Users will be able to retain their mobile numbers for this feature, which is only available through the Android app right now. Presumably the iOS app will soon be updated with LINE Call as well.

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The leaf of a plant embedded with carbon nanotubes is examined under a near-infrared microscope.

(Credit: MIT/Bryce Vickmark)

Bionics, such as this device invented to replace the functionality and feeling of a man’s hand lost in an accident, are steadily finding their way into human lives. Thanks to new research conducted at MIT, such devices may soon be infiltrating the plant world as well — leading to plants that could monitor their surroundings, communicate via cell phone signals, act as living streetlamps, and create more robust crops.

To engineer their bionic plants, the researchers applied a solution containing carbon nanotubes to the underside of the leaves on a Arabidopsis thaliana plant. The plant sucked up the tubes through its leaves using a process known as vascular infusion, incorporating them into its chloroplasts, the structures responsible for photosynthesis. The researchers found that the energy subsequently produced by the plant increased 30 percent, as measured by the amount of electrons that got flowing during the photosynthetic process.

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