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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...

First Completely 3D-Printed Working Loudspeaker Built
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First Completely 3D-Printed Working Loudspeaker Built

Researchers for the first time have used 3D printing to make a consumer electronic device, a loudspeaker ready for use almost as soon as it comes off the printer...

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.

Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money
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Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money

Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...

Graphene-Based Nano-Antennas May Enable Networks of Tiny Machines
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Graphene-Based Nano-Antennas May Enable Networks of Tiny Machines

By taking advantage of the unique electronic properties of graphene, researchers believe they could generate a type of electronic surface wave that would allow...

Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help
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Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help

NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.

Graphene: Growing Giants
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Graphene: Growing Giants

A research team at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology may help bring graphene's promise closer to reality.

Harvesting Electricity: Triboelectric Generators Capture Wasted Power
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Harvesting Electricity: Triboelectric Generators Capture Wasted Power

Researchers are using the triboelectric effect to capture mechanical energy and say it could be put to work powering mobile devices.

Spectroscopic Technique Could Lead to Better Lithium-Ion Batteries
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Spectroscopic Technique Could Lead to Better Lithium-Ion Batteries

A new technique developed at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source could help scientists better understand and improve the materials required for high-performance...

7 Epic Fails Brought to You By the Genius Mind of Thomas Edison
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7 Epic Fails Brought to You By the Genius Mind of Thomas Edison

Almost everyone can name the man that invented the light bulb.

Google Puts Money on Robots, ­sing the Man Behind Android
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Google Puts Money on Robots, ­sing the Man Behind Android

In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.

Singularity ­niversity Plots Hi-Tech Future For Humans
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Singularity ­niversity Plots Hi-Tech Future For Humans

Rob Nail walks into the room looking like a Silicon Valley Doctor Who as played by David Tennant—tailored suit, 3D-printed trainers and the Californian twist on...

Pills of the Future: Nanoparticles
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Pills of the Future: Nanoparticles

Researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women's Hospital have developed a drug-carrying nanoparticle that can be delivered orally and absorbed through the digestive...

Scientists Seek Other Scientists For Cosmology Problem
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Scientists Seek Other Scientists For Cosmology Problem

How do you measure something that is invisible?

Already Anticipating 'terminator' Ethics
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Already Anticipating 'terminator' Ethics

What could possibly go wrong?

Three Questions For Computing Pioneer Carver Mead
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Three Questions For Computing Pioneer Carver Mead

Computer scientist Carver Mead gave Moore's Law its name in around 1970 and played a crucial role in making sure it's held true in the decades since.

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Why the ­.s. May Lose the Race to Exascale

In the global race to build the next generation of supercomputers—exascale—there is no guarantee the U.S. will finish first.

Computer Scientists Create 3-D Technique
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Computer Scientists Create 3-D Technique

UT Dallas computer scientists are using a famous mathematician's theory to make 3-D images that are more accurate approximations of the shapes of the original objects...

Chaotic Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing
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Chaotic Physics in Ferroelectrics Hints at Brain-Like Computing

Unexpected behavior in ferroelectric materials explored by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory supports a new approach...

Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey
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Remembering Legendary Enigma Code Breaker Mavis Batey

Cracking one of the most complicated cipher devices ever created—the Enigma machine—may not have been what Britain's Mavis Batey envisioned when she studied the...
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