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3D Technology Revolutionizing Face Transplants
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3D Technology Revolutionizing Face Transplants

Face transplants are a proving ground for medical applications of three-dimensional printing and imaging.

The Complex Physics Behind Bending It Like a World Cup Player
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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.

Soldier Shoots Down Drone with Cyber Rifle at Defense Secretary's Feet
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Soldier Shoots Down Drone with Cyber Rifle at Defense Secretary's Feet

A coding (but not smoking) gun.

Have We Found Alien Life?
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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.

Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot

Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.

Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?
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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...

Leia in Your Living Room: Projecting a Star-Wars-Style Hologram With a Microsoft Kinect
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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...

Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of Light Waves
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Researchers Succeed in Quantum Teleportation of Light Waves

Like Schrödinger's cat, teleported light is both dead and alive.

Roila, a New Spoken Language Designed For Robots
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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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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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