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Gravity Satellite Yields 'potato Earth' View
It looks like a giant potato in space. And yet, the information in this model is the sharpest view we have of how gravity varies across the Earth.
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Ancient Greek Computer Had Surprising Sun Tracker
The world's oldest astronomical calculator is famous for having intricate gear systems centuries ahead of their time. But new work shows the Antikythera mechanism...
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Targeted Results
By envisioning data as "graphs," MIT researchers show how to find local solutions to otherwise overwhelmingly complex problems.
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Can Google Reinvent Web Video?
An ambitious attempt by Google to shift the Web over to a new, royalty-free video format has taken significant strides. New software has been released that can...
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Flying Robots Team p to Juggle
Our flying robot overlords seem to have a fun side after all. In this video, watch two quadrocopters team up to skillfully juggle a ball, thanks to software developed...
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First Image Ever Obtained from Mercury Orbit
At 5:20 am EDT on Mar. 29, 2011, Messenger captured this historic image of Mercury, the first ever obtained from a spacecraft in orbit about the Solar System's...
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Kaashoek Wins Acm's Prize For Young Researchers
Frans Kaashoek, a professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and associate director of the Computer Science and Artificial...
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Spiders and Crabs Inspire Robot Locomotion
The walking patterns of crabs, lobsters and spiders are helping to inspire new ways of getting robots to move around.
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The First Plastic Computer Processor
European researchers have developed a computer processor and memory chip made from plastic semiconductors. "Compared to using silicon, this has the advantage of...
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Researchers Find a New Way to Mix Computers and Neurons
Nerve cell tendrils recently grew through tiny tubes made of semiconductor material in groundbreaking research conducted by University of Wisconsin, Madison graduate...
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Diamond Could Store Quantum Information
Could be that diamonds are a geek’s best friend. Scientists have developed a new way to manipulate atoms inside diamond crystals so that they store information...
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Making a Microscope Without a Lens
Recent work from the University of Twente doesn't use a lens yet achieves a resolution that is about twice what you would expect under optimum conditions. How...
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The First Plastic Computer Processor
Silicon may underpin the computers that surround us, but the rigid inflexibility of the semiconductor means it cannot reach everywhere. The first computer processor...
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Computer Chips Wired with Nerve Cells
Nerve cell tendrils readily thread their way through tiny semiconductor tubes, researchers find, forming a crisscrossed network like vines twining towards the...
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Surveillance Robots Know When to Hide
The spy approaches the target building under cover of darkness, taking a zigzag path to avoid well-lit areas and sentries. He selects a handy vantage point next...
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Study Analyzes Role of Mobile Software in the Future Internet
Donghua University researchers have performed a macrodynamics analysis of mobile agents' migration behaviors that could provide the basis for a ubiquitous Internet...
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Dueling Algorithms
There's an old joke about two hikers on a trail, one wearing hiking boots and the other running shoes. "Why the running shoes?" the first hiker asks. "In case...
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Quantum Computing Device Hints at Powerful Future
One of the most complex efforts toward a quantum computer has been shown off at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas in the U.S. It uses the strange...
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The Quest For Randomness
It's not easy to generate a string of numbers that lack any pattern or rule, or even to define exactly what randomness means.
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