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Reconstructing the First Atomic Bomb Test from a Chunk of Scorched Earth
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Reconstructing the First Atomic Bomb Test from a Chunk of Scorched Earth

If the CSI family of television shows has blunted your appetite for impossibly omniscient crime scene analysis, consider the real, and very serious, science of...

Engineer Explores Heat Recovery from Silicon Nanowires at High Temperatures
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Engineer Explores Heat Recovery from Silicon Nanowires at High Temperatures

A University of California-Irvine engineer has invented a method for analyzing nanowires at temperatures approaching 800 degrees Fahrenheit, showing the possibility...

Operators Control Multiple Drones with Brain-Machine Interface
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Operators Control Multiple Drones with Brain-Machine Interface

A researcher at Arizona State University has discovered how to control multiple robotic drones with a brain-to-machine interface.

Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics
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Cozmo Is an Artificially Intelligent Toy Truck That's Also the Future of Robotics

Hanns Tappeiner types a few lines of code into his laptop and hits "return."

Engineered 'sand' May Help Cool Electronic Devices
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Engineered 'sand' May Help Cool Electronic Devices

A new class of high thermal conductivity materials could allow heat dissipation from power electronics, LEDs, and other applications with high heat fluxes.

Meet the Remotec Andros Mark V-A1, the Robot that Killed the Dallas Shooter
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Meet the Remotec Andros Mark V-A1, the Robot that Killed the Dallas Shooter

Much has been made of the fact that Dallas police used a robot to kill the gunman who fatally shot five officers last week.

Exploring Networks Efficiently
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Exploring Networks Efficiently

Analysis of ant colony behavior could yield better algorithms for network communication.

Nasa's Bold Bet on Juno Will Pay Off. Stay Tuned.
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Nasa's Bold Bet on Juno Will Pay Off. Stay Tuned.

Memory-foam mattresses. The breathing devices firefighters wear. And infrared ear thermometers that give near-instant readings.

Silk-Based Tissue Chip Provides Promise for Drug Testing and Implantable Devices
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Silk-Based Tissue Chip Provides Promise for Drug Testing and Implantable Devices

Researchers have created a new type of tissue chip that can better represent human tissues compared with current chips, and can be more widely used for drug testing...

How to Stay Anonymous Online
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How to Stay Anonymous Online

Riffle is a bandwidth and computation efficient communication system that guarantees anonymity among all honest clients as long as at least one server in the network...

How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn ­S of Another Dallas
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Warn ­S of Another Dallas

As the country reels from the spasm of gun violence that killed two black men and five police officers this week, a prominent digital vigilante is using an online...

Robot Helps Study How First Land Animals Moved 360 Million Years Ago
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Robot Helps Study How First Land Animals Moved 360 Million Years Ago

A study on how early terrestrial animals began moving on mud and sand 360 million years ago could help designers create amphibious robots able to move across granular...

The Next Great Race Between the U.s. and China Will Be Over Computer Chips
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The Next Great Race Between the U.s. and China Will Be Over Computer Chips

In 2014, China announced a plan to drop $150 billion on the chipmaking industry over the next decade, pulling it even with the level of investment by Intel, the...

­se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in ­S History
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­se of Police Robot to Kill Dallas Shooting Suspect Believed to Be First in ­S History

For what experts are calling the first time in history, US police have used a robot in a show of lethal force.

Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature
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Makers of Self-Driving Cars Ask What to Do With Human Nature

Even before Tesla revealed that a fatal accident had occurred while one of its cars was in semiautonomous driving mode, a debate was well underway between researchers...

Why Companies Can't Spam You with Robo-Calls, but the Government Can
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Why Companies Can't Spam You with Robo-Calls, but the Government Can

Be ready: Your phone might soon start ringing with a few more unsolicited robo-calls.

Hacking a Desktop Printer to Make Batteries and Circuits
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Hacking a Desktop Printer to Make Batteries and Circuits

Under a bench at Sang-Young Lee’s lab is an ordinary, somewhat beat-up ink-jet printer he has modified so that it spits out electronic circuits and a type of energy...

Your Smartwatch Is Giving Away Your Atm Pin
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Your Smartwatch Is Giving Away Your Atm Pin

Researchers used a computer algorithm and data from smartwatches, fitness trackers, and other wearable technologies to crack private PIN codes and passwords of...

How Today's Farmers Got a Head-Start on Tomorrow's Tech
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How Today's Farmers Got a Head-Start on Tomorrow's Tech

Cory Anstey always wanted to be a farmer. It was the joy of riding in the tractor, "the smell of the dirt in the spring" that drew him to the fields.

Why Tech Support Is (purposely) Unbearable
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Why Tech Support Is (purposely) Unbearable

You may consider yourself even-keeled, the kind of person who is unflappable when those around you are losing their cool. But all that goes out the window when...
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