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Titan's Seas Get an Earthly Stand-In as Robot Explores Chilean Lake
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Titan's Seas Get an Earthly Stand-In as Robot Explores Chilean Lake

Early Mars rovers had little more intelligence than a fancy remote-controlled car.

Stop Pouting About Tech's Next Big Thing, It's Here
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Stop Pouting About Tech's Next Big Thing, It's Here

It's easy to get jaded when you cover the technology industry.

Nasa Lays Out Long-Term Vision For Astrophysics
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Nasa Lays Out Long-Term Vision For Astrophysics

A new year is a good time to make long-term plans, and NASA has jumped into the deep end of planning.

Catching (radio) Waves
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Catching (radio) Waves

In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology—wireless readers and data-transmitting tags—to...

James Kuffner, Google Robotics Researcher
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James Kuffner, Google Robotics Researcher

At a racetrack in Florida this weekend, 16 robots competed to complete a series of tasks inspired by challenges faced in cleaning up the destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi...

Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots

An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...

How One Publisher Is Stopping Academics from Sharing Their Research
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How One Publisher Is Stopping Academics from Sharing Their Research

One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars'...

Darpa's Robotic Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course
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Darpa's Robotic Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course

In a robotic twist on American Gladiators, 17 robots and their teams will descend upon Florida this week to see which ones have the greatest superhero potential...

What Do Computer Models Reveal About Likely Impacts of Climate Change?
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What Do Computer Models Reveal About Likely Impacts of Climate Change?

Impact models attempt to translate changes in natural systems into effects on agriculture, weather, and human health.

Nasa's Deep Space Network Turns 50
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Nasa's Deep Space Network Turns 50

NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th...

The Geeks on the Front Lines
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The Geeks on the Front Lines

Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America's most badass hackers are going to war—working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy...

Cs Professor's Research Contributes to System Recognized as Best Invention of 2013
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Cs Professor's Research Contributes to System Recognized as Best Invention of 2013

Orlando Auciello, a professor in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Sciencein, co-developed a film that enables a microchip to be implanted in...

Heavy Internet Use Shares Symptoms of Addiction
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Heavy Internet Use Shares Symptoms of Addiction

Young adults who are heavy users of the Internet may also exhibit signs of addiction, say researchers in a recently published study.

Professor Helps Address Need for Foreign-Language Science Textbooks
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Professor Helps Address Need for Foreign-Language Science Textbooks

Boston University Professor Richard Primack has produced 29 foreign-language editions of popular textbooks with input from co-authors who translate and add local...

An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'
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An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'

Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions.

Officials Say ­.s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
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Officials Say ­.s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks

American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...

Picture of Health: A Selfie That May Save Your Life
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Picture of Health: A Selfie That May Save Your Life

A new smartphone device can take an accurate iPhone camera selfie that can read the subject's cholesterol level in about a minute.

Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots

BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie.

Green Innovator
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Green Innovator

University of Delaware Professor Richard Wool has been awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for his work developing bio-based materials to...

Virtually Immortal
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Virtually Immortal

Digital preservationists are on a mission to capture the world's threatened masterworks in all their 3-D glory.
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