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Chip pgrade Helps Miniature Drones Navigate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers reduced the size and power consumption of a computer chip they designed in 2017 to help honeybee-sized drones...
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The Science Behind the World Cup Ball
Each World Cup, the sportswear giant Adidas designs an official ball to be used in the tournament.
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AgBOT That Slaps Watermelons to Determine Ripeness Wins Top Prize
A team from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University received first prize in the third annual 2018 agBOT Challenge in Indiana.
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A Robot Has Performed Eye Surgery on Humans for the First Time
Researchers used a robot developed to can perform eye surgery on humans to help six patients who needed a membrane removed from their retina to improve their vision...
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New Human Gene Tally Reignites Debate
One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and pure guesswork...
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Underwater Robot Finds Second World War Bomber Plane on Seabed
Harvey Mudd College researchers have developed a novel autonomous underwater vehicle that can explore the sea floor looking for signs of wrecked ships.
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New AI System Can Imagine What It Hasn't Seen
"Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don't we do something about natural stupidity?" computer scientist Steve Polyak once joked.
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Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of a supermassive...
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Spotlight Falls on Russian Threat to ndersea Cables
The Trump administration's new sanctions on Russia are casting light on the threat posed to the undersea cables that carry the world's electronic communications...
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If You're A Facebook ser, You're Also a Research Subject
The professor was incredulous.
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Seafloor Fiber Optic Cables Can Work Like Seismometers
There are enough seismometers around these days to detect and locate nearly all earthquakes on land, except the most minuscule ones.
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MIT Engineers Configure RFID Tags to Work as Sensors
Researchers have developed an ultra-high-frequency radio-frequency identification tag-sensor configuration that senses spikes in glucose and wirelessly transmits...
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Drone Swarms Are the New Fireworks Lighting Up China's Skies
Since China banned fireworks across more than 400 cities to reduce pollution, a new entertainment has emerged to fill the skies: drone swarms.
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Ramp-p in Antarctic Ice Loss Speeds Sea Level Rise
Ice losses from Antarctica have tripled since 2012, increasing global sea levels by 0.12 inch (3 millimeters) in that timeframe alone, according to a major new...
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Colliding Wormholes May Be Causing Gravitational Waves
One of the most significant scientific developments of recent times has been the five separate observations of the elusive ripples in space-time known as gravitational...
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Novel Transmitter Protects Wireless Data From Hackers
A new transmitter can hack-proof wireless data by frequency hopping each individual 1 or 0 bit of a data packet, every microsecond.
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Massive Martian Dust Storm Endangers NASA Rover
An enormous dust storm is blanketing much of Mars, blocking the sunlight that NASA's 15-year-old Opportunity rover needs to survive.
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In Newark, Police Cameras, and the Internet, Watch You
The camera perched above the bus stop sends back a continuous feed from the corner of 16th Avenue and South 18th Street in Newark's West Ward.
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Cosmic Ray Showers Crash Supercomputers. Here's What to Do About It
The Cray-1 supercomputer, the world's fastest back in the 1970s, does not look like a supercomputer.
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