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Snakes and Snake-Like Robots Show How Sidewinders Conquer Sandy Slopes
Researchers have improved the ability of a snake-like robot to traverse sandy slopes by examining how real-life snakes move.
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Shellshock Awakens Bourne-Again Zombies
A bug appears in places people didn’t think to look, or patch.
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Australian Teams Set New Records for Silicon Quantum Computing
University of New South Wales researchers say they have developed two types of quantum bits that each process data with an accuracy of greater than 99 percent.
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Rosetta Mission Selfie at 16 Km
Using the CIVA camera on Rosetta’s Philae lander, the spacecraft have snapped a "selfie" at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from a distance of about 16 km from...
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Solid Nanoparticles Can Deform Like a Liquid
A surprising phenomenon has been found in metal nanoparticles: They appear, from the outside, to be liquid droplets, wobbling and readily changing shape, while...
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Robot Gets a Driving Lesson For DARPA Challenge
One of the most difficult tasks at next year's U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency robotic challenge finals will be having a robot drive and then get...
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Nasa Prepares its Science Fleet For Oct. 19 Mars Comet Encounter
NASA's extensive fleet of science assets, particularly those orbiting and roving Mars, have front row seats to image and study a once-in-a-lifetime comet flyby...
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Agriculture Is Becoming a 'model Citizen'
New tools not only make farmers' calculations more accurate and their lives less labor-intensive, but also portend of better dissemination of data about agriculture’s...
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Should Industrial Robots Be Able to Hurt Their Human Coworkers?
How much should a robot be allowed to hurt its coworkers?
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ltrafast Internet Opens p New Possibilities: Experts
Superfast Internet connections will transform communication and interaction, according to experts polled by the Pew Research Center and Elon University.
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Wonder Stuff: Glass That Will Store Your Info For Ever
New meticulously focused lasers are close to enabling a durable transparent material such as glass to serve as a long-term data storage solution.
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Homeland Security Funds Software Security Initiative
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has contributed $23.5 million toward an online resource to help test open source programs and improve software analysis...
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Gravity Map Uncovers Sea-Floor Surprises
s though someone had pulled a plug in the oceans and drained them away, a sea-floor map has exposed thousands of never-before-seen underwater mountains and ridges...
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Microsoft's Quantum Mechanics
In 2012, physicists in the Netherlands announced a discovery in particle physics that started chatter about a Nobel Prize.
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Artificial Arms Get Closer to the Real Thing
Powered prosthetic hands and arms have advanced little in the last 50 years.
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Drop That Beaker
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford universities are promoting massive online laboratories as a way to combat the rising level of errors and fraud in life...
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Large Hadron Collider: The Big Reboot
Mike Lamont grabs the last croissant from a table and eats it as he walks through the control centre at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics just...
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Your Phone Screen Just Won the Nobel Prize in Physics
You've probably got the fruits of this year’s Nobel laureates' handiwork in your pocket. In fact, if you're reading this on your phone or a relatively recent flat...
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Real Holodeck Turns Your Living Room Into a Game
Good news, Star Trek fans: Microsoft has created a prototype Holodeck that transforms an entire room into a virtual gaming environment.
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