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Location: 5000 Forbes Ave , 315 Scaife Hall , Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, United States
Robots come in all shapes and sizes — but one that looks like a spider and
walks on water? That's exactly what Carnegie Mellon researchers have developed
in the university's
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Location: Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in collaboration with scientists
at NASA's Ames Research Center, have built a low-cost robotic device that
enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel (billions of
pixels)...
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Location: 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University's School
of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep
over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a...
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Location: Suite 5K39, Washington, DC 20546-0001, United States
The crews of future missions to the moon and Mars could face serious health
risks from exposure to space radiation. NASA and the
National
Space Biomedical Research...
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Location: P.O. Box 5425 , Colorado Springs, CO 80931, United States
NASA has made a decision to restart an
astronomy mission that will have
greater capability than any existing instrument for detecting black holes in the
local universe.
The
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Location: Suite 5K39, Washington, DC 20546-0001, United States
Launch and flight teams are in final preparations for the planned Sept. 27
liftoff from Pad 17-B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., of
NASA's Dawn
mission. The Dawn spacecraft will venture into...
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Location: RPI, 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180, United States
Engineers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed tools to help
solve two of the main problems slowing the progress of stem cell research — how
to quickly test stem cell response to different drugs or genes, and how to
create a...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, United States
It’s not every day an engineering professor gets to rub elbows with top
military brass, watch from a few meters away as three F-15 fighter jets refuel
in mid air, and stroll through a “petting zoo” of Cold War era Soviet machines
of war. ...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180, United States
Geochemists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
are challenging commonly held ideas about how gases are expelled from the Earth.
Their theory, which is described in the Sept. 20 issue of the journal...
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Location: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, United States
The NASA-managed
Sea-viewing Wide
Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) instrument settled into orbit around Earth in
1997 and took its first measurements of ocean color. A decade...
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Location: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), 110 8th St., Troy, NY 12180, United States
A group of computer scientists, mathematicians, and biologists from around
the world have developed a computer algorithm that can help trace the genetic
ancestry of thousands of individuals in minutes, without any prior knowledge of
their...
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Location: 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001, United States
The next step in the silicon industry's steadfast pursuit of ever smaller and
faster chips has been unveiled.
Intel has shown off what it says are the world's first working chips which
contain transistors with features just 32 billionths...
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Location: 520 Providence Highway, Norwood, Massachusetts 02062, United States
NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible
caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano. The find is fueling interest in
potential underground habitats and sparking searches for caverns elsewhere on
the Red Planet....
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Location: 4800 Oak Grove Drive , Pasadena, CA 91109, United States
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is examining several features on
Mars that address the role of water at different times in Martian history.
Features examined with the orbiter's advanced instruments include material
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Location: 60 GARDEN STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138, United States
The Milky Way's two best-known companion galaxies are recent immigrants
rather than the long-time neighbours they were thought to be, a new study
suggests.
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are a pair of nearby dwarf galaxies...
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Location: GPO Box 404, Hobart Tasmania 7001, United States
Most 40-year-old electronic systems have long since been consigned to the
scrap heap. But astronomers who use the giant 305-metre Arecibo radio telescope
in Puerto Rico say it still offers unique capabilities, despite a review panel
that...
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Location: University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-2421, United States
Were vast numbers of black holes spawned during our universe's earliest
moments? It is an intriguing idea, made possible by the extreme densities
associated with the big bang.
So far, there is no hard evidence that such primordial black...
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Location: University of Arizona , Tucson, AZ 85721, United States
Dramatic features of the Martian landscape that appear to have experienced
catastrophic flooding may have been covered over by lava flows, new research
suggests. This could make it much harder for future landing missions to analyse
the...
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Location: 77 Massachusetts avenue , Cambridge, Ma 02139-4307, United States
Researchers in the MIT Media Lab's
Biomechatronics Group
have created a device to lighten the burden for soldiers and others who carry
heavy packs and equipment.
Their...
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Location: 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich St, 40th Fl, New York, NY 10007-2157, United States
China has experienced tremendous growth within the past decade. Its
economic boom and growing domestic market is now paralleled by its
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