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Kids and Robots Learn to Write Together
Young children can use a new program to teach a humanoid robot how to write letters and improve their writing skills at the same time.
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Nasa Spacecraft Becomes First to Orbit a Dwarf Planet
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around a dwarf planet.
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Rover Examining Odd Mars Rocks at Valley Overlook
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity climbed last month to an overlook for surveying "Marathon Valley," a science destination chosen because spectrometer observations...
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Astronomers Observe Supernova and Find They're Watching Reruns
It's "Groundhog Day" in the cosmos.
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A Robot That Collapses nder Pressure (in a Good Way)
If NASA plans to send robots to other planets, it's going to need some new designs: ones that are easy to land, easy to move around, and easy to fix.
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...
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Facebook Invents an Intelligence Test For Machines
John is in the playground. Bob is in the office. Where is John?
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Researchers Report Milestone in Developing Quantum Computer
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Google reported on Wednesdayin the journal Nature that they had made a significant advance that...
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Rosetta Catches Its Own Shadow
The highest resolution image yet taken of Comet 67P by the Rosetta satellite has just been released.
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China Says Tech Firms Have Nothing to Fear from Anti-Terror Law
China's proposed anti-terrorism law will not affect the legitimate interests of technology firms, a top Chinese spokeswoman said Wednesday after U.S. President ...
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New App Monitors Net Neutrality in Mobile Networks
Northeastern University researchers have developed an app for detecting traffic differentiation in mobile networks.
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Panoramas for Your Tablet
Panoramic video could soon pop up on the screens of smart TVs, smartphones, and tablets.
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Cockroach Robots? Not Nightmare Fantasy but Science Lab Reality
Texas A&M University researchers have fused a computer onto the back of a live cockroach in order to control the insect.
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This Woman Flew an F-35 Simulator with Her Mind
Jan Scheuermann, a quadriplegic and pioneering patient for an experimental Pentagon robotics program, continues to break ground in freeing the mind from the body...
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Testing to Diagnose Power Event in Mars Rover
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for several days of engineering analysis following an onboard fault-protection action on Feb. 27 that...
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How Alien Life Might Look on Saturn's Moon Titan
Alien lifeforms may exist in the solar system but they would look very different to life on Earth, scientists have suggested.
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The First Ever Photograph of Light as Both a Particle and Wave
Light behaves both as a particle and as a wave. Since the days of Einstein, scientists have been trying to directly observe both of these aspects of light at the...
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Hunting Black Holes at the South Pole
Each of the telescopes that the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) are currently working to bring into their black-hole-observing, planet-size array...
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Six Keys to Sports Analytics
The ninth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (SSAC) was the biggest meeting yet of sports-data experts: More than 3,100 people attended the event last...
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