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Robot From Twente to Save Lives in the Alps
The SHERPA project involves cooperation between human rescue workers, a ground robot with a robotic arm, and flying robots.
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Ebola: Can Big Data Analytics Help Contain Its Spread?
The Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has now claimed more than 4,000 lives.
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Fbi Director Warns Against Cellphone Encryption
FBI Director James Comey warned in stark terms Thursday against the push by technology companies to encrypt smartphone data and operating systems, arguing that...
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ESA Confirms the Primary Landing Site for Rosetta
ESA has given the green light for its Rosetta mission to deliver its lander, Philae, to the primary site on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November, in the first...
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Accessibility Claims Expected Over Websites
Businesses should brace for a new crop of so-called "accessibility" lawsuits alleging that their commercial websites fail to comply with federal disabled-access...
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Snakes and Snake-Like Robots Show How Sidewinders Conquer Sandy Slopes
Researchers have improved the ability of a snake-like robot to traverse sandy slopes by examining how real-life snakes move.
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Rosetta Mission Selfie at 16 Km
Using the CIVA camera on Rosetta’s Philae lander, the spacecraft have snapped a "selfie" at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from a distance of about 16 km from...
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How to Make a Black Hole
On July 2, 1967, a network of satellites designed to detect tests of nuclear weapons recorded a flash of gamma rays coming from the wrong direction—outer space.
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Nasa Mission Provides Its First Look at Martian Upper Atmosphere
NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft has provided scientists their first look at a storm of energetic solar particles at Mars, produced...
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Solid Nanoparticles Can Deform Like a Liquid
A surprising phenomenon has been found in metal nanoparticles: They appear, from the outside, to be liquid droplets, wobbling and readily changing shape, while...
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Robot Gets a Driving Lesson For DARPA Challenge
One of the most difficult tasks at next year's U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency robotic challenge finals will be having a robot drive and then get...
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Nobel Prize: How English Beat German as Language of Science
Permafrost, oxygen, hydrogen; it all looks like science to me.
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Nasa Prepares its Science Fleet For Oct. 19 Mars Comet Encounter
NASA's extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and study a once-in-a-lifetime comet flyby...
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How Jean Tirole's Work Helps Explain the Internet Economy
For anyone who has wondered how it’s possible to get so much stuff from web companies free or at too-good-to-be-true prices—whether Google searching, Facebook socializing...
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Should Industrial Robots Be Able to Hurt Their Human Coworkers?
How much should a robot be allowed to hurt its coworkers?
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Gravity Map Uncovers Sea-Floor Surprises
s though someone had pulled a plug in the oceans and drained them away, a sea-floor map has exposed thousands of never-before-seen underwater mountains and ridges...
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Robotic Solutions Inspired By Plants
The European Union is funding a project that is using plant models to design a robotic solution.
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Hadoop Wins Converts Outside Silicon Valley
Two years ago, when the Detroit Crime Commission began collecting and analyzing the social media posts of suspected criminals, it found Excel wasn’t up to the task...
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Microsoft's Quantum Mechanics
In 2012, physicists in the Netherlands announced a discovery in particle physics that started chatter about a Nobel Prize.
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