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The Fuzzy Math Behind the Search For Mh370
Five weeks into the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, more than $30 million has been spent scouring great swatches of the southern Indian Ocean.
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The Telescope Big Enough to Spot Signs of Alien Life on Other Planets
Cerro Armazones is a crumbling dome of rock that dominates the parched peaks of the Chilean Coast Range north of Santiago.
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Trouble with Russia, Trouble with the Law: Inside Europe's Digital Crime Unit
Four black brick towers search upwards to an empty grey sky.
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Biometric Surveillance Means Someone Is Always Watching
Incrimination by selfie can happen.
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Watch the Astounding Dexterity of Honda's Dancing Humanoid Robot
Even in today's rapidly evolving world of technology, there are few things that make your jaw drop when you see them in real life.
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Microrobots, Working Together, Build with Metal, Glass, and Electronics
Someone glancing through the door of Annjoe Wong-Foy's lab at SRI International might think his equipment is infested by ants.
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Five Wonder Materials That Could Change the World
"The history of materials is a history of mistakes," says Mark Miodownik, a materials scientist at University College London, who traces his own fascination with...
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The Plot to Kill the Password
Last Friday, Samsung's new Galaxy S5 arrived with an unexpected and underhyped feature.
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Why Nobody Can Tell Whether the World's Biggest Quantum Computer Is a Quantum Computer
For the past several years, a Canadian company called D-Wave Systems has been selling what it says is the largest quantum computer ever built.
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The Truth About Google X
Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad. Or maybe it's something good.
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Atomic Time Lord to Battle Sneaky High-Speed Trades
Welcome to the room where time lives. I am standing in a space bristling with atomic clocks at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, U.K., which generates...
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Google Maps Displays Crimean Border Differently In Russia, .s.
The U.S. sees Crimea as "occupied territory," as the government said in a recent statement.
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Bend It, Charge It, Dunk It: Graphene, the Material of Tomorrow
I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
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Heartbleed Bug's 'voluntary' Origins
The encryption flaw that punctured the heart of the Internet this week underscores a weakness in Internet security: A good chunk of it is managed by four European...
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Heartbleed: Developer Who Introduced the Error Regrets 'oversight'
The developer who introduced the "Heartbleed" vulnerability to the open-source code used by thousands of websites has told the Guardian it was an "oversight"—but...
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Forget Wearable Tech, Embeddable Implants Are Already Here
Smartphone mapping features are great for getting directions, until you lose signal.
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Stanford Medical Technology Exposes Hidden Maladies of Sculptor Auguste Rodin's Celebrated Hands
One has a ganglion cyst.
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Exotic Space Particles Slam Into Buried South Pole Detector
A belowground experiment at the South Pole has now discovered three of the highest-energy neutrinos ever found, particles that may be created in the most violent...
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