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In Pursuit of the Perfectly Animated Cloud of Smoke
Researchers have developed a way to enhance graphical simulations, which they say may soon be used for medical and engineering applications and video games.
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Magnetic Brain Stimulation
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to stimulate brain tissue using external magnetic fields and injected magnetic nanoparticles—a technique allowing direct...
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Robot vs. Robot
Beautiful mathematical patterns are hidden in the chaos of Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings.
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On Pi Day, How Scientists Use This Number
If you like numbers, you will love March 14, 2015.
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Complex Molecules Made to Order in Synthesis Machine
Synthesizing complex molecules is a notoriously fiendish art—and a daily toil for many chemists.
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The Philae Comet Lander Might Have Enough Power to Wake Up
In November, a spacecraft made a dramatic, first-ever landing on a comet—three times.
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Spacecraft Data Suggest Saturn Moon's Ocean May Harbor Hydrothermal Activity
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first clear evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus exhibits signs of present-day hydrothermal activity which...
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Pre-Crime Software Recruited to Track Gang of Thieves
They always choose the line at the bank farthest from CCTV—that's how the Felony Lane Gang got its name.
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Finding Out What the Past Smelled Like
It was the smell that hit me first, a heady mixture of roasting meat, woodsmoke, and farmyard manure.
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Dna Mutation Clock Proves Tough to Set
Mathematicians keep refining π even though they know it to more than 12 trillion digits; physicists beat themselves up because they cannot pin down the gravitational...
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Pluto-Bound Probe Tweaks Its Trajectory
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft fine-tuned its path toward Pluto on Tuesday, firing its rocket thrusters for 93 seconds to aim for a fleeting flyby of the distant...
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Silicon Valley Debate on Self-Driving Cars: Do You Need a Map?
The Silicon Valley race to build a self-driving car may revolve around one simple question: to map or not to map.
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The Real Star Wars: Air Force Heads to the Heavens For Weapons Guidance
The success of precision-guided bombs in 1991’s Gulf War was a revelation.
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Mistrust and Meddling nsettles .s. Science Agency
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has had a tough couple of years.
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Quantum Sensor's Advantages Survive Entanglement Breakdown
MIT researchers have demonstrated that entanglement can improve the performance of optical sensors, even when it does not survive light's interaction with the environment...
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If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?
Let me hazard a guess that you think a real person has written what you're reading. Maybe you're right. Maybe not.
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Do You Only Trust Wall-E Because He's Cute?
Each year it seems a little less like science fiction to ask your phone for advice about local chinese food or trust your car to get you to a new location.
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Mediators Call For Change to Science of Human Brain Project
Mediators appointed to analyse the rifts within Europe’s ambitious €1-billion (US$1.1 billion) Human Brain Project (HBP) have called for far-reaching changes both...
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Use of Rover Arm Expected to Resume in a Few Days
Managers of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover mission expect to approve resumption of rover arm movements as early as next week while continuing analysis of what appears...
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