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:: 17 November, 2009
Last week, as I tapped a laptop keyboard in Massachusetts, a humanoid robot whirled around a lab in California. I tapped more slowly and the robot...
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:: 11 November, 2009
The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and...
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:: 09 November, 2009
Mars Express flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae and the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German...
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:: 08 November, 2009
Motorola's new Android-based smart phone is a viable iPhone alternative.
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:: 08 November, 2009
Dampening a light-sensing reaction in the eye might slow a common cause of blindness.
Molecules designed to slow the production of toxic...
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:: 08 November, 2009
CMOS image sensors in special cameras – as used for driver assistance systems – mostly only provide monochrome images and have a limited...
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:: 07 November, 2009
Solar wafers for use in the production of photovoltaic systems are extremely sensitive. In a test and demonstration center research is being...
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:: 03 November, 2009
When searching for basketball videos online, a long list of websites appears, which may contain a picture or a word describing a basketball. But...
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:: 27 October, 2009
Last week Apple released the Magic Mouse, a new computer mouse with a "multitouch" interface that responds to movement of fingertips across its...
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:: 24 October, 2009
Aerospace, automotive and airplane construction count on lightweight construction. But to make sure that lightening the load does not come at the...
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:: 24 October, 2009
As Saturn's rings orbit the planet, a section is typically in the planet's shadow, experiencing a brief night lasting from 6 to 14 hours. However,...
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:: 19 October, 2009
Scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a remote-controlled robot that is able to simulate the "visual"...
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:: 15 October, 2009
New technologies and academic collaborations are helping scholars at the University of Chicago analyze hundreds of ancient documents in Aramaic,...
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:: 12 October, 2009
With recent advances in biochemistry, researchers can control the circuitry in a developing cell, thereby influencing cells to develop into...
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:: 12 October, 2009
University of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help...
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:: 09 October, 2009
The High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on board the...
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:: 09 October, 2009
People are increasingly using household robots for chores, communication, entertainment and companionship. But safety and privacy risks of...
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:: 07 October, 2009
Although Cornell's self-driving car didn't win the DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007, it is alive and well and soon to become safer and more talented...
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:: 05 October, 2009
Smart phone's senses keep track of its surroundings.Your smart phone may soon be able to know not only that you're at the mall, but whether you're...
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:: 03 October, 2009
NASA researchers capture thermal images of the shuttle's reentry to design better heat shields.
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