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A Robot Revolution, This Time in China
Even a decade ago, car manufacturing in China was still a fairly low-tech, labor-intensive endeavor.
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The Search For Life on Mars Is About to Get Weird
Since the dawn of the space age NASA and other agencies have spent billions of dollars to reconnoiter Mars—assailing it with spacecraft flybys, photo-snapping orbiters...
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Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula
Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning nearly the entire breadth of the electromagnetic...
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The Harmony That Keeps Trappist-1's 7 Earth-Size Worlds From Colliding
In February, astronomers announced the discovery of a nearby star with seven Earth-size planets, and at least some of the planets seemed to be in a zone that could...
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The Finesse of Flying Cassini Between Saturn's Rings
The Cassini space probe is going to dive through Saturn's rings again on Wednesday, the third of a planned 22 orbits threading that planetary needle as the probe...
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...
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Satellite Images Reveal Gaps in Global Population Data
Nigerian health officials won't have to rely on flawed, decade-old census data when they plan deliveries of the measles vaccine next year.
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Device Allows sers to Manipulate 3D Virtual Objects More Quickly
CAPTIVE is an inexpensive controller for manipulating virtual objects in a computer program in three dimensions.
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Pocket Laboratories
As spring turns to summer along the east coast of the United States, thoughts turn to holidays, beaches, picnics—and mosquitoes.
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Nasa Rover Samples Active Linear Dune on Mars
As it drives uphill from a band of rippled sand dunes, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is toting a fistful of dark sand for onboard analysis that will complete the...
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Hand That Sees Offers New Hope to Amputees
Researchers are developing a new generation of prosthetic limbs that will enable the wearer to automatically reach for objects without thinking.
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Holography With the Wi-Fi Router
Researchers in Germany have developed a holographic imaging process that depicts the radiation of a Wi-Fi transmitter to generate three-dimensional images of the...
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The Shock Tactics Set to Shake p Immunology
Six times a day, Katrin pauses whatever she's doing, removes a small magnet from her pocket and touches it to a raised patch of skin just below her collar bone....
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How to Prepare For an Automated Future
We don't know how quickly machines will displace people's jobs, or how many they'll take, but we know it's happening—not just to factory workers but also to ...
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Iarpa, Nist Hosting Face Recognition Challenge to Improve Accuracy
The Face Recognition Prize Challenge is designed to improve core face-recognition accuracy.
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New Movie Shows Cassini's First Dive Over Saturn
A new movie sequence of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the view as the spacecraft swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between...
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Sent to Prison By a Software Program's Secret Algorithms
When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last month, he was asked a startling question, one with overtones of science fiction...
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Watch Hackers Sabotage an Industrial Robot Arm
When the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the "internet of things," the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products...
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Your Smartphone Can Tell If You've Had a Good Night's Sleep
A new tool uses machine learning to model personal sleep patterns based on sounds made during sleep.
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