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3D Technology Revolutionizing Face Transplants
Face transplants are a proving ground for medical applications of three-dimensional printing and imaging.
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These Scientists May Be Your Next Members of Congress
A growing number of aspiring candidates for U.S. congressional offices have a background in science.
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The Complex Physics Behind Bending It Like a World Cup Player
The gems of every World Cup are the impossible goals.
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This Sculpture Was Designed and 3-D Printed By an AI Artist
Information Technology University of Copenhagen professor Joel Lehman and colleagues have created an artificial intelligence that can design and generate physical...
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Fooling the Machine
A growing field of research suggests artificial intelligence can easily be fooled, as it can provide correct answers without truly understanding information.
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Soldier Shoots Down Drone with Cyber Rifle at Defense Secretary's Feet
A coding (but not smoking) gun.
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This Ancient Paper Art Makes Flexible, Super Strong Electronics
Teams of researchers are using Kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, as inspiration for developing flexible and stretchable electronics.
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Have We Found Alien Life?
Kenneth Nealson is looking awfully sane for a man who’s basically just told me that he has a colony of aliens incubating in his laboratory.
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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.s. Computer Scientists Reject Mass Surveillance
Fifty influential American computer scientists have signed an open letter urging the United States to reject mass surveillance and preserve privacy.
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Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?
David Holz took the main stage at this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the annual innovation conference in Austin, Texas, looking like a hobbit on casual...
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How Computer Analysis ncovered J. K. Rowling's Secret Novel
A Duquesne University professor used computer analysis to determine that Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling wrote "The Cuckoo's Calling."
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Leia in Your Living Room: Projecting a Star-Wars-Style Hologram With a Microsoft Kinect
Michael Bove, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Object-Based Media Group, recently purchased a Kinect for his graduate students to experiment...
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In Brazil, an Explosion in Computing Power Is Revolutionizing Weather Prediction
Rio de Janeiro recently launched a new command center, equipped with IBM's Deep Thunder supercomputer, dedicated to developing more advanced weather prediction...
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Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of Light Waves
Like Schrödinger's cat, teleported light is both dead and alive.
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Roila, a New Spoken Language Designed For Robots
Eindhoven University of Technology researchers are developing the Robot Interaction Language (ROILA), a spoken language for robots that is meant to be easy for...
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Japan Plans a Moon Base By 2020, Built By Robots For Robots
An ambitious $2.2 billion project in the works at JAXA, the Japanese space agency, plans to put humanoid robots on the moon by 2015, and the Japanese could have...
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Robots Display Predatory-Prey Co-Evolution, Evolve Better Homing Techniques
Researchers at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne are applying evolutionary principles to robot development.
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Pneumatic Ball-Levitating Robot Wins at Beer Pong
A pair of grad students at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are using a computer-controled gimbaled air-jet system with two degrees of motion to not...
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Hackers: The China Syndrome
For years, the U.S. intelligence community worried that China's government was attacking our cyber-infrastructure. Now one man has discovered it's worse: It's hundreds...12