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How Did Life Arise? Fuel Cells May Have Answers
How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet billions of years ago remains a deep mystery.
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Where in the Solar System Are We Most Likely to Find Life?
Last week, NASA announced one of its most exciting missions in recent memory: a plan to visit Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons.
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The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started
Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...
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Diagnosing Diseases With Smart Phones
Researchers are developing a disease diagnostic system that offers results that could be read using a smartphone and an inexpensive lens attachment.
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...
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Gps Tech Built to Find Missing Aircraft Not Always Used
Aviation experts have cited multiple possible reasons for the problems in the multi-country effort to locate the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that dropped off the...
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Oscar-Winning Visual Effects Mastermind Behind Gravity, Talks Physics Lessons, Nasa Imagery, and Defining the Art of Cg 'weightlessness' in Space
Tim Webber is a visual effects supervisor who has worked on an array of critically acclaimed blockbusters.
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Iupui Researchers Use Computers to 'see' Neurons to Better Understand Brain Function
New information about the brain could help those developing therapies to treat conditions such as stroke, schizophrenia, spinal cord injury, or Alzheimer's disease...
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Space Diaries Reveal 6 Things on an Astronaut's Mind
While you are in space, could you keep a diary?
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Nasa's Wise Survey Finds Thousands of New Stars, But No 'planet X'
After searching hundreds of millions of objects across our sky, NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has turned up no evidence of the hypothesized...
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Cyberwar in kraine Falls Far Short of Russia's Full Powers
The tense on-the-ground standoff in Ukraine has already tipped into open hostilities online, with hackers targeting members of parliament and state agencies.
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Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives
Most magnets shrug off tiny temperature tweaks.
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Google's Project Loon: The Gamble That's So Crazy It Might Work
Google recently launched Project Loon, which provides Wi-Fi connectivity to remote locations using high-altitude balloons, wind currents, and solar power.
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Missing Malaysia Jet Adds Fuel to 'live Black Box' Debate
Regardless of what caused a Malaysia Airlines jet to disappear from the sky over the weekend, air-safety experts predict it will reignite debate over new technology...
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Hot on the Trail of Consciousness in Brain and Machine
"Nowhere in science have so many devoted so much to create so little consensus," writes physicist, author, and TV presenter Michio Kaku of consciousness research...
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Computer Science: The Learning Machines
Three years ago, researchers at the secretive Google X lab in Mountain View, California, extracted some 10 million still images from YouTube videos and fed them...
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Are You Too Paranoid About Digital Privacy, or Not Paranoid Enough?
Let's start with one thing you hear over and over again when interviewing people about privacy: "I've got nothing to hide."
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Federal Agencies Embrace New Technology and Strategies to Find the Enemy Within
After years of focusing on outside threats, the federal government and its contractors are turning inward, aiming a range of new technologies and counterintelligence...
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