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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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Just a Few Self-Driving Cars Stop Traffic Jams
University of California, Berkeley researchers demonstrated that a few self-driving cars can prevent traffic jams, and in some cases double the average speed of...
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Beyond Silicon: $1.5-billion .S. Program Aims to Spur New Types of Computer Chips
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced $75 million in new grants to revitalize the computer chip industry.
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Bug-Sized Robot Competitors to Swarm DARPA's 'Robot Olympics'
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking insect-sized robots to compete under its Short-Range Independent Microrobotic Platforms (SHRIMP) program...
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A Surprising New Superconductor
Researchers have developed a process for producing an ultrathin layer of rhenium sandwiched between gold layers that can superconduct at temperatures higher than...
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Snake-Inspired Robot Uses Kirigami to Move
Researchers have developed a soft robot without any rigid components that moves like a snake.
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China's Quantum-Key Network, the Largest Ever, Is Officially Online
China has the quantum technology to perfectly encrypt useful signals over distances far vaster than anyone has ever accomplished, spanning Europe and Asia, according...
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Wavy Transistors That Vertically Gain Width Without Increasing Their On-Chip Footprint For Future Flexible Displays
Researchers say they have developed a unique transistor architecture that improves the performance of display circuitry in next-generation mobile electronics.
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Revolutionizing Electronics sing Kirigami
Researchers in Japan have developed an ultrastretchable bioprobe using Kirigami designs, which enables the device to follow the contours of deformable biological...
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Armed With Tough Computer Chips, Scientists Are Ready to Return to the Hell of Venus
Robot missions to Venus could become routine within the next decade by sending exploratory probes with highly durable computer chips that can handle the planet's...
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The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret
A pair of physicists announced the discovery of a subatomic event so powerful that the researchers wondered if it was too dangerous to make public.
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New Robobee Flies, Dives, Swims, and Explodes Out of the Water
The latest generation of RoboBee is an aerial-to-aquatic robot that is 1,000 times lighter than any previous model.
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Stretchy Artificial 'skin' Could Give Robots a Sense of Touch
Rubberized electronics and sensors that function normally when stretched up to half of their length could operate as artificial skin on robots.
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Artificial Intelligence Helps Scientists Map Behavior in the Fruit Fly Brain
Scientists have used artificial intelligence technology to make 100 billion annotations of behavior from 400,000 fruit flies.
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Government Researchers Hope to Teach New Robots Some of the Old Tricks of Etiquette
Researchers are working to enable robots to learn human etiquette.
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Microrobots Inspired By Nature
Researchers have developed microrobots that mimic the rowing action of the cilia present in the single-celled paramecium.
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Information Storage With a Nanoscale Twist
Researchers have discovered a rotational force inside magnetic vortices, which they say could make it easier to design ultrahigh-capacity disk drives.
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Scientists Turn Mammalian Cells Into Complex Biocomputers
Researchers have genetically engineered the DNA of mammalian cells to execute complex computations.
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Supercool Electrons
The Quantum Dynamics Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan is researching a potential system for quantum computing...
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