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Researchers Teaching Robots to Feel and React to Pain
Researchers are developing an "artificial robot nervous system to teach robots how to feel pain" and quickly react in order to avoid potential damage.
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1,500 Scientists Lift the Lid on Reproducibility
More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments...
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Four Wild Technologies Lawmakers Want Nasa to Pursue
Imagine a tissue-box sized device, with blades a few feet long, whirring to life after charging for a full Sol on Mars.
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Nasa Telescopes Find Clues For How Giant Black Holes Formed So Quickly
Using data from NASA's Great Observatories, astronomers have found the best evidence yet for cosmic seeds in the early universe that should grow into supermassive...
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This Robot ses Machine Learning to Take Care of Absent-Minded Humans
The Watch-bot robot can independently learn a user's household activity patterns to provide helpful reminders.
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China's Scary Lesson to the World: Censoring the Internet Works.
First there was the Berlin Wall. Now there is the Great Firewall of China, not a physical barrier preventing people from leaving, but a virtual one, preventing...
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Physicists Discover a New Form of Light
Physicists from Trinity College Dublin's School of Physics and the CRANN Institute, Trinity College, have discovered a new form of light, which will impact our...
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Giant Tsunamis Washed Over Ancient Mars
Some 3.4 billion years ago, giant meteoroids slammed into a frigid ocean covering Mars's northern hemisphere. The impacts kicked up enormous waves that raced across...
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Dronebuster Will Let You Point and Shoot Command Hacks at Pesky Drones
Anti-drone technology has been high on the shopping list of public safety and military organizations at least since a drunken federal employee crashed a drone onto...
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China Quietly Targets .s. Tech Companies in Security Reviews
Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pose potential...
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Light-Controlled Genes and Neurons Poised For Clinical Trials
Every time something poked its foot, the mouse jumped in pain.
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Shape-Shifting Modular Interactive Device nveiled
Cubimorph is a newly developed interactive mobile device that can change shape on demand.
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How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
The possibility that a malevolent artificial intelligence might pose a serious threat to humankind has become a hotly debated issue.
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Want to Buy a Self-Driving Car? Big-Rig Trucks May Come First
Imagine you are driving on a highway late at night when a big-rig truck closes in behind you.
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How Will Virtual Reality Change Our Lives?
And it's not just gamers who are benefiting from the immersive possibilities it offers.
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Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs
Before the invention of the computer, most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box.
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Robot's In-Hand Eye Maps Surroundings, Determines Hand's Location
Researchers have developed a new technology that includes a camera attached to a robot's hand that can rapidly create a three-dimensional model of its environment...
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Gentle Strength For Robots
Researchers have developed an elastic actuator that is compliant and small enough to be integrated in robots.
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Europa's Ocean May Have An Earthlike Chemical Balance
A new NASA study modeling conditions in the ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa suggests that the necessary balance of chemical energy for life could exist there, even...
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