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Opals: Light Beams Let Data Rates Soar
You may know opals as fiery gemstones, but something special called OPALS is floating above us in space. On the International Space Station, the Optical Payload...
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Data From Our Wearables Is Now Courtroom Fodder
Courtrooms typically lag in technological innovation.
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Food: The Rarely Seen Robots That Package What We Eat
Last July, while touring a jelly bean factory, I came upon a startling sight.
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An Interface For Tracking Botnets That's Fit For a Sci-Fi Starship
What do you get when you ask a bunch of digital artists to dream up a state-of-the-art tool for fighting cybercrime?
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Detecting Gases Wirelessly and Cheaply
MIT chemists have devised a new way to wirelessly detect hazardous gases and environmental pollutants, using a simple sensor that can be read by a smartphone.
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Saturn's Moons: What a Difference a Decade Makes
Almost immediately after NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft made their brief visits to Saturn in the early 1980s, scientists were hungry for more.
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Bridging Sensory Gap Between Artificial and Real Skin
An international team of researchers have developed a polymer designed to mimic the elastic and high-resolution sensory capabilities of real skin.
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Fujitsu Develops Compact Rfid For Wearables, Metal
Fujitsu says its new radio frequency identification tag technology can work on surfaces such as metal, which can otherwise impede radio waves.
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STEM Cells: The Black Box of Reprogramming
Eggs and sperm do it when they combine to make an embryo.
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Apps Change the Face of Computing
As computing evolves and becomes increasingly mobile, apps are fundamentally changing actions…and interactions.
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Rosetta Fuels Debate on Origin of Earth's Oceans
ESA's Rosetta spacecraft has found the water vapour from its target comet to be significantly different to that found on Earth.
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Tech's Lost Chapter: An Oral History of Boston's Rise and Fall
In the popular telling, the dawn of personal computing begins in the summer of 1976, when Steve Wozniak showed off the Apple I at a meeting of the Homebrew Computer...
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Print Thyself
In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month...
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The Sun and Jupiter Could Reveal Space-Time Ripples
Ripples in space-time could squeeze and stretch the sun and Jupiter, forming a gigantic gravitational-wave detector in our own celestial backyard.
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Tiny Motions Bring Digital Doubles to Life
New technology is helping animators convert moving dots into detailed body shapes that move like real humans.
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Researchers Develop Clothes That Can Monitor and Transmit Biomedical Info on Wearers
Smart textiles developed at Laval University in Canada could benefit people suffering from chronic diseases and the elderly, as well as first responders.
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Football Robot Promises to Get Rid of the Boring Bits
BBC NewsPolytechnic University of Catalonia researchers have developed software that can identify the important parts of a soccer match and edit them together to...
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Artificial Skin That Senses, and Stretches, Like the Real Thing
Some high-tech prosthetic limbs can be controlled by their owners, using nerves, muscles, or even the brain. However, there's no way for the wearer to tell if an...
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That’s Traffic; p Next, Weather
Smartphone apps emerge to support better weather forecasting.
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