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Satellite Images Reveal Gaps in Global Population Data
Nigerian health officials won't have to rely on flawed, decade-old census data when they plan deliveries of the measles vaccine next year.
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Device Allows sers to Manipulate 3D Virtual Objects More Quickly
CAPTIVE is an inexpensive controller for manipulating virtual objects in a computer program in three dimensions.
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Pocket Laboratories
As spring turns to summer along the east coast of the United States, thoughts turn to holidays, beaches, picnics—and mosquitoes.
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Nasa Rover Samples Active Linear Dune on Mars
As it drives uphill from a band of rippled sand dunes, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is toting a fistful of dark sand for onboard analysis that will complete the...
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Dartmouth-Led Team Develops Smartwatch With All The Moves
Cito is a prototype smartwatch face that moves in five directions.
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Powerpoint & Led Projector Enable New Technique For Self-Folding Origami
Researchers are using PowerPoint slides to generate self-folding three-dimensional origami structures from photocurable liquid polymers.
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Planetariums, Not Just For Kids
Most researchers think of planetariums, if they think of them at all, as a place to take schoolchildren for whizzy trips through the stars, with nothing to offer...
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Hand That Sees Offers New Hope to Amputees
Researchers are developing a new generation of prosthetic limbs that will enable the wearer to automatically reach for objects without thinking.
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An Ostrich-Like Robot Pushes the Limits of Legged Locomotion
The Planar Elliptical Runner is a two-legged robot that will help explore how mechanical design can be used to enable sophisticated legged locomotion.
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When Autonomous Machines Can Do More Than Just Vacuum
Rapidly aging populations will drive growth in home-based robotics, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Rodney Brooks.
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The Shock Tactics Set to Shake p Immunology
Six times a day, Katrin pauses whatever she's doing, removes a small magnet from her pocket and touches it to a raised patch of skin just below her collar bone....
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How to Prepare For an Automated Future
We don't know how quickly machines will displace people's jobs, or how many they'll take, but we know it's happening—not just to factory workers but also to ...
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At&t Labs Working to Combine Drone Video Footage With Artificial Intelligence Monitoring
Researchers are studying ways to use artificial intelligence techniques to analyze video shot by a drone for signs of damage to cell towers.
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Stanford Researchers Develop New Wave of Electronics
Engineers at Stanford University say they have developed a flexible, organic, biodegradable electronic device.
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New Movie Shows Cassini's First Dive Over Saturn
A new movie sequence of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the view as the spacecraft swooped over Saturn during the first of its Grand Finale dives between...
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Sent to Prison By a Software Program's Secret Algorithms
When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last month, he was asked a startling question, one with overtones of science fiction...
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Watch Hackers Sabotage an Industrial Robot Arm
When the cybersecurity industry warns of digital threats to the "internet of things," the targets that come to mind are ill-conceived, insecure consumer products...
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Berkeley Students Create Wheelchair Add-On to Help Blind Users Navigate
A new low-cost, modular, customizable add-on system for wheelchairs employs sensors and software to make navigation easier for visually-impaired users.
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The AI Revolution Is Making Game Characters Move More Realistically
When we talk about artificial intelligence in games, we usually picture smarter or more realistic enemies that don't come off as mindless automatons.
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