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Three Touchdowns For Rosetta's Lander
After achieving touchdown on a comet for the first time in history, scientists and engineers are busy analysing this new world and the nature of the landing.
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Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the niverse
As Google's core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that...
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Robot That Moves Like an Inchworm Could Go Places Other Robots Can't
Researchers have developed a soft, worm-like robot that moves similarly to inchworms.
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Google Boosts Turing Award Computing Prize to $1 Million
There's no Nobel prize for computer science, but after a grant from Google, the top award in the field now just as lucrative.
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Human Thoughts sed to Switch on Genes
Could a futuristic society of humans with the power to control their own biological functions ever become reality?
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Rosetta: Concerns For Comet Lander After neven Landing
The lander bounced twice, initially about 1km back out into space, before settling in the shadow of a cliff, 1km from its intended target site.
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Weapons Directed By Robots, Not Humans, Raise Ethical Questions
On a bright fall day last year off the coast of Southern California, an Air Force B-1 bomber launched an experimental missile that may herald the future of warfare...
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Technology's Latest Quest: Tracking Mental Health
You can now count your steps, measure your glucose levels, monitor your blood pressure and track your caloric intake from your phone or high-tech wristband.
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Touchdown! Rosetta's Philae Probe Lands on Comet
ESA's Rosetta mission has soft-landed its Philae probe on a comet, the first time in history that such an extraordinary feat has been achieved.
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Philae Lander Nears a Cosmic Touchdown
In its 10-year chase of a comet, the European Space Agency’s ambitious Rosetta mission has pushed the edges of engineering ingenuity.
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Hacking a niverse's Worth of Data
On a Friday night in New York City you can find just about anything. And this past Friday about 130 hackers gathered in the Hayden Planetarium to participate in...
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For Rosetta Mission's Scientists, the Thrill Is in the Comet Chase
Claudia Alexander has spent the last 15 years of her life waiting for this moment: landing a spacecraft the size of a washing machine on the surface of a speeding...
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Dark Net Experts Trade Theories on 'de-Cloaking' After Raids
The hidden web community has started trying to find out how services and identities were compromised after police raids led to 17 arrests.
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Diagnostic Exhalations
Researchers say an algorithm they developed can accurately determine whether a patient is suffering from emphysema or heart failure based on their breath.
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What Is Tor? Did Police Outfox It?
European police Friday said they had figured out how to pierce an Internet privacy tool used by dissidents, journalists and online drug dealers.
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The $11m Tool That Could Help Computers Write Their Own Code
Nowadays, if you start typing something into Google, it tries to guess what you’re looking for.
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Digital Reconstruction Restores Rare Dino Skull
Dinosaur fossils are valuable resources—yet access to them can be tricky.
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European Genetic Identity May Stretch Back 36,000 Years
Europeans carry a motley mix of genes from at least three ancient sources: indigenous hunter-gatherers within Europe, people from the Middle East, and northwest...
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