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The Most Promising Route to 'mental Superpowers'
Many of us have our special ways of dealing with our feelings and emotions.
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How Nasa Visualizes Stunning Worlds Without Really Seeing Them
Everyone likes a good space photo.
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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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Mobile Device Can Accurately and Inexpensively Monitor Air Quality Using Machine Learning
c-Air is a new, cost-effective mobile device designed to measure air quality.
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Stanford Team Brings Quantum Computing Closer to Reality With New Materials
In an attempt to bring functional quantum computers closer to reality, researchers are developing materials that can trap a single isolated electron.
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Nanofridge Could Keep Quantum Computers Cool Enough to Calculate
Researchers have conceived of a nanoscale refrigerator to maintain temperatures cold enough to keep qubits functioning in a quantum computer.
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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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Laser-Controlled Touch Displays Near Reality
Researchers have discovered a phenomenon called the photodielectric effect, which they think could be applied to the development of laser-controlled touch displays...
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Nasa Challenges Coders to Speed p Its Supercomputer
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has issued a challenge to programmers to boost the performance of its Pleiades supercomputer.
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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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Dartmouth-Led Team Develops Smartwatch With All The Moves
Cito is a prototype smartwatch face that moves in five directions.
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Powerpoint & Led Projector Enable New Technique For Self-Folding Origami
Researchers are using PowerPoint slides to generate self-folding three-dimensional origami structures from photocurable liquid polymers.
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