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Nasa Selects Investigations For Future Key Planetary Mission
NASA has selected five science investigations for refinement during the next year as a first step in choosing one or two missions for flight opportunities as early...
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A Magical Answer to an 80-Year-Old Puzzle
Can you devise a series of steps to avoid hazards two paces to either side of you, even if you are forced to take every second, third or Nth step in your series...
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Fighting Isis Online
The two men pecked out messages on opposite sides of the country.
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A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
Videos of Google-owned robots, some that look like mechanical bulls and others resembling humanoids from sci-fi movies, have been viewed more than 90 million times...
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Hawaii's Deepest Secret
Earth's concentric layers scale remarkably well to those of a peach.
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How a Single Car Could Spread Malware to Thousands More
Over the last summer, the security research community has proven like never before that cars are vulnerable to hackers—via cellular Internet connections, intercepted...
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The Jocks of Computer Code Do It For the Job Offers
At 21, Gennady Vladimirovich Korotkevich is already a legend. Tourist, as he's known online, is now the world's top sport programmer.
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Neural Implant Enables Paralyzed Als Patient to Type Six Words Per Minute
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.
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How Rosetta's Comet Got Its Shape
Two comets collided at low speed in the early Solar System to give rise to the distinctive 'rubber duck' shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, say Rosetta scientists...
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
The impending end of Moore's Law could have a negative impact on the computing industry, or any industry that depends on highly reliant, low-cost electronics.
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That Big Security Fix For Credit Cards Won't Stop Fraud
Tomorrow is the deadline that Visa and MasterCard have set for banks and retailers across the U.S. to roll out a new system for more secure bank cards with microchips...
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A New Map Traces the Limits of Computation
At first glance, the big news coming out of this summer's conference on the theory of computing appeared to be something of a letdown.
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Engineering Humans For War
Retired four-star general Paul F. Gorman recalls first learning about the "weakling of the battlefield" from reading S.L.A. Marshall, the U.S. Army combat historian...
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Searching For Life in Martian Water Will Be Very, Very Tricky
NASA scientists announced today the best evidence yet that Mars, once thought dry, sterile and dead, may yet have life in it: Liquid water still flows on at least...
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Physicists Find New Explanation For Key Experiment
Bielefeld University researchers have developed a new measurement method for "spin caloritronics."
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'wiring Diagrams' Link Lifestyle to Brain Function
The brain's wiring patterns can shed light on a person’s positive and negative traits, researchers report in Nature Neuroscience.
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Nasa Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today's Mars
New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.
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Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot nder the Hood
Shwetak N. Patel looked over the 2013 Mercedes C300 and saw not a sporty all-wheel-drive sedan, but a bundle of technology.
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer...
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