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Iowa State Engineers Treat Printed Graphene With Lasers to Enable Paper Electronics, Devices
An Iowa State University team says it has developed a new way to use inkjet printers to print multi-layer graphene circuits and electrodes.
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Nasa Aims at an Asteroid Holding Clues to the Solar System's Roots
For the next two years, NASA's latest robotic spacecraft will be chasing down an asteroid near Earth in the hopes of scooping up some of the most primordial bits...
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Mars Contamination Fear Could Divert Curiosity Rover
Four years into its travels across Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover faces an unexpected challenge: wending its way safely among dozens of dark streaks that could indicate...
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Carbon Nanotube Transistors Finally Outperform Silicon
Back in the 1990s, observers predicted that the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) would be the nanomaterial that pushed silicon aside and created a post-CMOS...
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Artificial Intelligence: Are We Facing a Future of Robots Running Wild?
The University of Southern California Center on Artificial Intelligence for Social Solutions studies how AI can be utilized to address a wide range of social problems...
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Plastic Crystals Could Improve Fabrication of Memory Devices
Plastic crystals with ferroelectric properties could accelerate the development of additional flexible and cost-efficient materials for use in electronic devices...
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'hello Human, How Are You?' When Robots Observe Their Operators
Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Communication Information Processing and Ergonomics have developed a system in which robots observe humans.
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No Sailors Needed: Robot Sailboats Scour the Oceans for Data
Two robotic sailboats trace lawn-mower-style paths across the violent surface of the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska.
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Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
NASA's Juno spacecraft has sent back the first-ever images of Jupiter's north pole, taken during the spacecraft's first flyby of the planet with its instruments...
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Msu Technology Could Help Keep Elderly Safe in Their Homes
Michigan State University researchers are exploring whether home Wi-Fi systems can preserve the privacy of the elderly while detecting abnormal events in their...
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Machine Learning Techniques Enable Models From Partial Image Data
Researchers say they have developed a method to automatically generate complete three-dimensional building models of a given area by using partial images.
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Philae Found!
Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta's high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko...
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What Starlight Teaches S About Space (pretty Much Everything)
In the southern sky, there is a constellation called Centaurus, its arms outstretched and its flanks straddling the famous Southern Cross.
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Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research
A lonely 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain on Ceres is likely volcanic in origin, and the dwarf planet may have a weak, temporary atmosphere.
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How Maggots Are Influencing the Future of Robotics
The European Union-funded MINIMAL project says the learning processes of fruit fly larva (maggots) could have important applications for technology.
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New Digital Antenna Could Revolutionize the Future of Mobile Phones
Aalto University researchers have developed a method that enables antennas to make the shift from the analog to the digital world.
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Graphene Key to Two-Dimensional Semiconductor With Extraordinary Properties
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University say they have developed a method for making two-dimensional materials that could lead to new properties for nitrides...
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This AI Software Can Tell If You're at Risk From Cancer Before Symptoms Appear
Artificial intelligence software developed by researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas can accurately predict breast cancer risk.
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