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Comet Lander Checks In with Earth
The Philae lander, which Europe hopes to put on the surface of a comet later this year, has been re-activated after three years in deep-space hibernation.
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Search For Lost Jet Is Complicated By Geopolitics and Rivalries
The frantic hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been, in one way, a nearly miraculous display of international collaboration: 26 nations, many of them rivals...
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How the Nsa Would Get Phone Data nder Obama Administration's New Plan
One of the key points in the "fact sheet" that the White House published today about its plan to end the NSA's bulk collection of phone record data is that while...
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Hypnotic Art Shows How Patterns Emerge From Randomness in Nature
British mathematician Alan Turing is perhaps best known for the Turing test, which determines if a computer can be considered intelligent based on whether it can...
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Consortium Wants Standards For 'internet of Things'
Attention: Internet of Things. For better or worse, big boys are in the room.
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How Vintage Tech Helped S Track the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
The saga of MH370, the Malaysian Airlines flight missing for more than two weeks, seems to be entering its final chapter.
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Justice Scalia Looks Forward to Hearing Nsa Spying Case
Justice Antonin Scalia signaled during a law school talk on March 21 that the Supreme Court is very much aware that legal challenges to the National Security Agency's...
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Dwarf Planet Stretches Solar System's Edge
The Solar System just got a lot more far-flung.
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The Virtual Genius of Oculus Rift
To understand why Oculus Rift matters, it helps to know who John Carmack is.
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The Robot Tricks to Bridge the Uncanny Valley
If A robot bleeped and squeaked with personality like R2D2 from Star Wars, would you like it better?
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Mugshots Built from Dna Data
Leaving a hair at a crime scene could one day be as damning as leaving a photograph of your face.
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This Underwater Microphone Could Find the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet
Authorities are all but certain Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went down in the south Indian Ocean in water that may be as deep as 23,000 feet.
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College Basketball Data Aplenty for Those Who Can Afford It
When Butler fell a precious few inches short of winning a national championship in 2010, its players took the court during that season believing they were the most...
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Could Diamonds Be a Computer’s Best Friend?
Researchers have demonstrated that information can flow through a diamond wire, a finding that could lead to the material's use in computing.
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A 'crisis' in Online Ads: One-Third of Traffic Is Bogus
Billions of dollars are flowing into online advertising. But marketers also are confronting an uncomfortable reality: rampant fraud.
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Nasa Mars Rover's Next Stop Has Sandstone Variations
Variations in the stuff that cements grains together in sandstone have shaped the landscape surrounding NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and could be a study topic at...
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The Digital nwrapping of the Egyptian Priest Neswaiu
In the 19th century and even later, there was no shortage of people eager to watch the unwrapping of an Egyptian mummy.
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N.S.A. Breached Chinese Servers Seen as Security Threat
American officials have long considered Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, a security threat, blocking it from business deals in the United States for...
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