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November 19, 2024
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Another dramatic booster catch is on tap.
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Aftershock II reached 470,400 feet, setting new records in amateur rocketry for altitude and speed.
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Waymo on Tuesday opened its robotaxi service to anyone who wants a ride around Los Angeles, marking another milestone in the evolution of self-driving car technology since the company began as a secret project at Google 15 years ago.
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researchers at Google and CU Boulder have transformed millions of Android phones across the globe into a fleet of nimble scientific instruments—generating one of the most detailed maps to date of the uppermost layer of Earth's atmosphere.
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The design will stay pretty similar but will improve on the original model in three key ways.
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PanoRadar marks a breakthrough in the ever-advancing world of robotics, addressing the challenge of providing effective perception systems for robots that can function in severe weather and unfavorable conditions.
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Small, modular reactors are supposed to be safer and cheaper form of carbon-free energy. But they’re not yet a sure thing
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The three driving-trained rats eagerly ran to the side of the cage, jumping up like a dog does when asked if he wants to take a walk.
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For a very long time, we have been under the impression that memory and learning are solely the brain’s forte. Central to this belief is the fact that our brains, particularly our brain cells, store memories.
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A researcher made the discovery when a larva comb jelly mysteriously "replaced" an adult comb jelly in his laboratory.
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Imagine a machine so powerful it could redefine artificial intelligence, reshape industries, and push the limits of what we believe is technologically possible.
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cyanobacterial artificial plants that enhance indoor carbon capture while converting CO2 into oxygen (O2) and bioelectricity.
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Police departments around the world are increasingly using body-worn cameras in an attempt to improve public trust and accountability. But this has created huge amounts of data, about 95% of which is never reviewed or even seen.
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Laser beams have been shown to cast shadows, defying previous notions that light cannot block light. This phenomenon, demonstrated using ruby crystals and special laser settings, opens up potential uses in advanced light control and optical switching
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The new artificial intelligence algorithms combined with a headphone prototype allow the wearer to hear people speaking within a bubble with a programmable radius of 3 to 6 feet.
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People with a phobia of needles may soon experience relief with an innovative blood sampling method inspired by leeches. Updated:
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November 12, 2024
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Apple appears to be shifting gears on the Vision Pro's production, but it's unclear if that means a new version is on the way.
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The world's first electric running humanoid robot "Tiangong" went open source on Monday, a move that is expected to facilitate secondary development of humanoid robots and accelerate robots' integration into human life.
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China is inviting researchers to apply for the first batch of lunar samples returned by the Chang'e-6 mission, as well as the eighth batch of samples from the Chang'e-5 mission.
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Someone moved the UK's oldest satellite and there appears to be no record of exactly who, when or why.
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The tiny device uses a tightly focused beam of light to capture and manipulate cells.
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Captagon is bringing big profits to Syria’s Assad regime and Hezbollah—and it’s triggering a health crisis
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Microplastics have been found in some of the world’s most remote environments, from the snow-capped peaks of Mount Everest to the ocean depths of the Mariana Trench, infiltrating ecosystems and even human bodies.
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Within three minutes of drinking a few cups of water (12 mL/kg of body weight), the level of the adrenal gland hormone noradrenaline in our bloodstream can shoot up by 60 percent,
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ChatGPT and Runway together are a game changer for creating hyper-realistic AI videos. In this video, I demonstrate how to combine these powerful tools to reach ‘God Mode’ in video production. Learn how to push the boundaries of what’s possible in content
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How-to videos are great for robots looking to become amazing surgeons.
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The robot was able to copy human “teachers” after being shown how to the do the task only once.
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Details about the robot security dog’s capabilities are a closely guarded security.
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The treatment, given to four people with damaged corneas, seems safe but needs to be tested in larger trials.
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November 5, 2024
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NASA has identified an updated set of nine potential landing regions near the lunar South Pole for its Artemis III mission.
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After months of campaigning, scandal, propaganda, and downright weirdness, it all comes down to this.
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f they can manage to vote from space, you can sure manage to get to your polling place to cast a ballot of your own.
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All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for compartmentalization. Recent discoveries are revealing how the first eukaryote got its start.
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Scientists injected baby mice with human brain cells. Within just 1 year, some parts of the mice's brains were entirely of human origin.
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Wood is more durable in space than on Earth because there's no water or oxygen that would rot or inflame it
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Smart telescopes like the Dwarf 3 are designed to make observing and photographing the Sun, the Moon, wildlife, and deep-sky objects like distant nebulae and galaxies enjoyable, straightforward, and hassle-free.
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October 29, 2024
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As the Line gigaproject continues to grow in the Saudi desert, some new construction details have been announced that highlight the mind-boggling challenge of turning a huge tract of rugged landscape into a futuristic megacity,
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In a 36-week test, CDA foam lost 65-70% of its mass in flowing seawater, while Styrofoam showed zero degradation.
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A mile and a half beneath the ocean’s surface, the seafloor seems nearly as alien as the surfaces of other planets.
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Not quite a planet and not quite a star, the object remains unidentified
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James Webb Space Telescope sees lonely supermassive black hole-powered quasars in the early universeThe James Webb Space Telescope has discovered lonely quasars in the early universe, with "empty larders" that defy theories surrounding their growth to monster sizes.
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A deep neural network was trained using quantum tunneling to mimic the human ability to view optical illusions.
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Our AI crew do a report on the classic Irwin Allen Scifi show from the 60's, The Time Tunnel.
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October 22, 2024
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Researchers working with Colossal Biosciences have assembled a near-complete Tasmanian tiger genome and developed artificial reproductive technologies that could help de-extinct the species.
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U.S. officials don’t know who is behind the drones that have flown unhindered over sensitive national-security sites—or how to stop them
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a new nanoparticle infusion therapy has been found to break down these plaques safely in tests in pigs.
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Giant impact had silver lining for life, according to new study
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This follows the failure of another satellite from the same series that may have been due to a meteoroid impact.
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Anewly developed air defense laser has 100 percent of incoming threats during a new trial, the U.K. government has said, as several militaries forge ahead with efforts to get lasers operational and integrated into their forces.
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October 15, 2024
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The power plant is a 38-meter raft with wind turbines and solar panels, generating about 1 MW with a 40% capacity factor.
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The plane has a maximum cruise speed of 250 knots or 287 miles per hour.
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Evidence of a second asteroid found off coast of West Africa
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A jubilant Elon Musk called it “science fiction without the fiction part.”
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The night’s surprise, however, was a brand-new “Robovan” transport vehicle that can be configured as “mass transit” or a cargo carrier.
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The robot, consisting of three separate arm-like structures carrying batons reminiscent of "Star Wars" light sabers, conducted musicians from the Dresdner Sinfoniker orchestra
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State officials cited Musk’s antics in rejecting SpaceX’s plan to launch more rockets off the Central California coast.
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Europa Clipper is headed to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, where an ocean is thought to lie below the surface.
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E-skin is basically a new generation of electronics. E-skin looks like skin, feels like skin, and has the capability of sensing and signal processing to allow us to interact with the external environment
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This design replaces three large blades with 82-foot poles and 33-foot vertical wings that generate power as they move along a track. Updated: Oct 11, 2024 08:25 AM EST
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Apple unveiled a new iPad mini today, featuring an A17 Pro chip, and support for Apple Pencil and Apple Intelligence.
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Trump goes to Peru and transforms himself. He does all the therapies. He becomes a shaman. People say the best shaman.
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October 8, 2024
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Our dear AI show guests reach a deep realization
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The brain diagram, called a connectome, could revolutionize researchers’ understanding of the human brain, which has many parallels with a fruit fly’s
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New observations from a retrofitted U2 spy plane reveal a surprising amount and variety of gamma radiation is produced in large tropical thunderstorms.
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A European spacecraft and two shoebox-size satellites have launched to survey the aftermath from NASA’s DART mission, which intentionally slammed into an asteroid named Dimorphos and altered its orbit two years ago.
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Not for everyone, this map will take you far, young Jedi. But do you know where to go, or for what to look?
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Powerful writing tools notification. Summaries. Memory Movies. Natural language search in Photos. Object removal in Photos
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Biologists at the University of Maryland have discovered a previously unknown talent in geckos that’s shaking up what we thought we knew about animal hearing.
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October 1, 2024
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is grounded again after the vehicle’s second stage did not come down in the expected area of the ocean, following an otherwise successful mission that delivered a Dragon capsule and its crew to orbit.
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The device uses infrared laser light to assess brain blood flow through a technique called speckle contrast optical spectroscopy.
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A new analysis of maps of the near and far sides of the moon shows that there are multiple sources of water and hydroxyl in the sunlit rocks and soils, including water-rich rocks excavated by meteor impacts at all latitudes.
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The personal and societal burdens of debilitating mental health disorders, including the growing prevalence of mild cognitive impairment with associated anxiety, motivate the development of novel therapeutics. We studied a possible solution using RNA edit
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The study focused on a little-known structure in the digestive system called Brunner’s glands, located in the duodenum (the first section of the small intestine). These glands appear to play a pivotal role in how stress affects gut bacteria and immune def
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Physicists showed that photons can seem to exit a material before entering it, revealing observational evidence of negative time
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One of the features of Google's Notebook LM AI, simulating a two host talk show.
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State of the art mobile TV Studio for $1300 - no computer needed!
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Our full interview with Michael while visiting our domain
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Traveling filmmakers and evolutionary agents visit with an update from their Aboriginal visit down under..
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September 24, 2024
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Lab-based proof-of-concept shows how radiation creates explosive plumes to deflect menacing space rocks
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The newly discovered asteroid, named 2024 PT5, will temporarily be captured by Earth’s gravity and orbit our world from September 29 to November 25,
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Let’s go through Altman’s promises and rate them as believable or just hype:
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This is amid the rising concern of sufficient power supply to foster sophisticated AI advances in the landscape.
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Instead of being constrained by the physical reality which constrains the sun to its daily cycle, imagine a future where the sun can be turned on and off like a flashlight.
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EVs can burn for days, firefighters have little or no training to deal with them, and conventional equipment isn’t effective. But new technology is being developed that should make all the difference.
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Musk announced the AI-focused supercomputer, dubbed Colossus, in an X-formerly-Twitter post last week. Built to power his AI venture xAI, the supercomputer is said by Musk to run on 100,000 powerful Nvidia H100 graphics processing units (GPUs).
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Global travelers understand that in order to appreciate traveling the world, you need a certain level of health and fitness
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Based on how light interacts with dyed biological tissues; may ultimately apply to a wide range of medical diagnostics
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The new electrochemical cell converts bicarbonate (from captured carbon) into formate, a potent green fuel.
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Interview with one of the leaders of biophotonic therapy.. ‘there’s a theory in quantum physics that our memories are stored in the universe and accessed by alpha waves’
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We are preparing for the time when humanity takes our place in the galactic family and benefits from the technological and societal advances inherent in a post-contact existence.
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Clips on what Danny has discovered and what he's planning regarding the alien question
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September 17, 2024
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Get ready: Just in time to kick off the spooky season, the moon will be bigger, brighter and tinged red.
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After resolving a threat to the spacecraft’s circuitry, the US space agency is now weeks away from launching the orbiter.
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"No one had ever seen anything like this."
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Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space.
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The study has opened a new path for modularization research, which is essential for commercialization of transparent silicon solar cells.
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Robots have been working on this problem for decades.
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Presenting his “Dreamcatcher” comedy-hypnosis show to public and critical acclaim, Michael has toured throughout the United States and the Orient.
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The newest iPhone operating system will be released next week. Do some digital decluttering while you wait.
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September 10, 2024
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The biohybrid robot can survive extreme conditions, including radiation, say scientists.
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On Aug. 29, the ACS3 spacecraft deployed its 860-square-foot (80-square-meter) solar sail while operating at an altitude about 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) above Earth, which is nearly twice as high as the International Space Station.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifted off in the early hours of Tuesday morning carrying a crew that will attempt the first commercial spacewalk and travel higher than any crewed mission in fifty years.
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Picture a clock ticking so steadily that it doesn’t lose a second, even after running for 1 billion years.
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Commentary: AI was buried in Apple's iPhone 16 reveal. I have no complaints.
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The unconference for the people who move the Fediverse forward.
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August 27, 2024
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“Eve” the robotic fish swings its silicone tail side to side, powered by pumps hidden inside, as it glides fluidly through Lake Zurich’s chilly water, where it is being tested
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A house can be printed in around three weeks with Vulcan and a single crew of workers.
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New engines will “levitate” instead of make combustion
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The researchers were able to create high-quality low-loss microwave resonators, critical components of quantum computing.
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Starliner landed back on Earth with more damaged parts that only reaffirmed NASA’s decision not to trust it with the lives of two astronauts
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August 20, 2024
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Of greatest interest—powered by Black Forest Lab's Flux 1—Grok-2 now generates images directly on X, with very few (if any) copyright protections, allowing X users to generate photo realistic images with a simple prompt in seconds.
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Beyond slowing cognitive decline, if DDL-920 can actually “restore memories”... it’s a watershed moment for humanity’s fight against Alzheimer's and age-related cognitive decline.
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The researchers also discovered that autonomous vehicles were over five times more likely to be involved in an accident at dawn or dusk and nearly twice as likely when making a turn.
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PSYCHE NEEDS A SERIOUS POLISH.
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The impactor likely formed in the outer solar system before migrating to the asteroid belt.
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The hunt for Planet 9 has instead spotted a stellar object doomed to escape our galaxy.
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Humanity has never contended with the differences in time zones between two celestial bodies
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While prior missions to space that were funded by wealthy businesspeople may have conjured images of self-indulgent joy rides, Polaris Dawn is a test mission designed to push boundaries.
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These diamonds, which are able to generate their own electrical current, could potentially provide a power source for thousands of years, due to the longstanding half-life of the radioactive substances they're made from.
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Google Search and ads are adopting the C2PA’s authentication standard to flag an image’s origins.
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August 5, 2024
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China plans to launch 108 satellites this year, 648 by 2025, and 15,000 by 2030.
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It is hoped the technology could be faster and more accurate than conventional procedures.
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Groq, a startup developing chips to run generative AI models faster than conventional processors, said on Monday that it has raised $640 million in a new funding round
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"THANKS TO A GRAVITATIONAL QUIRK, THE OUTER SOLAR SYSTEM CAN BE QUITE BALMY."
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July 23, 2024
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The rover happened to drive over a rock and crack it open, revealing yellowish-green crystals never spotted before on the red planet.
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Enceladus and Europa are among the most promising places where alien life could exist in our solar system.
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The moon is also to receive its own time zone, as plans to develop permanent living bases quickly progress
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“A natural product called aniquinazolin B that is isolated from the marine fungus Aspergillus nidulans stimulates the opioid receptors and could possibly thus be used instead of opioids in the future,”
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Dr. Trent will be talking about UpCycle Systems, a ecosystem/industrial symbiosis project for the Monterey Bay and beyond.
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"I was, like, drifting deeper into weirdness, I didn't know where I was at all. Time stopped, and I was everyone."
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The team led by Shao Zhicheng created a revolutionary cryopreservation method, dubbed MEDY, which preserves the structural integrity and functionality of neural cells
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Tesla will have humanoid robots in low production for the company's internal use next year, CEO Elon Musk said on Monday
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July 16, 2024
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Transistors on the Europa Clipper spacecraft, scheduled to launch in October, may not be able to endure the harsh radiation around the planet Jupiter.
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SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket fleet has been grounded by the Federal Aviation Administration after a Thursday launch from California produced an upper-stage failure that deployed a batch of Starlink satellites into an eccentric orbit.
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With nearly 200,000 Instagram followers, and a further 45,000 on TikTok, Layli is entirely AI-generated, from her images to her captions and buzzword-filled acceptance speech.
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Google has started enabling the speedometer and speed limits for users on iPhone and CarPlay, with the company now confirming that it's aiming for global availability in the coming weeks.
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Last week, Russian news agency Interfax reported that Apple had removed 25 VPN apps from its App Store in Russia after Roskomnadzor, a government body that regulates the internet — including what Russians can access — demanded the removals.
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A security researcher who assisted with the deal says he believes the only copy of the complete dataset of call and text records of “nearly all” AT&T customers has been wiped—but some risks may remain.
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Tech founders painted a vision of employees clocking into virtual workplaces. But the adoption of VR at work has been slow.
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If you’re not familiar with the dark web, it’s a small part of the deep web. The deep web is, essentially, everything that won’t show up in Google searches and won’t load up in your web browser
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The villains behind an exploding online romance scam.
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As owner of Pleasure Point Computers in Santa Cruz, Luigi has helped thousands of folks with computer problems of all kinds, including internet scams.
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July 9, 2024
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A teenage computer whiz who used the early-aughts internet to spread awareness of the Catholic faith will become the church's first millennial saint.
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The U.S. government has awarded vaccine maker Moderna a $176 million federal contract to help create a vaccine against pandemic influenza for people as concerns rise about a bird flu outbreak in cattle on U.S. dairy farms.
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The news comes as officials are considering requiring vaccines for farm workers vulnerable to infection
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The four volunteer crew members spent more than 12 months inside NASA’s first simulated Mars environment at Johnson Space Center in Houston, coming out of the artificial alien enviroment Saturday around 5 p.m.
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July 2, 2024
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World UFO Day 2024 will be celebrated on Tuesday, 2 July, this year.
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Body language spoke louder than words last night.
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A witness described a UFO camouflaged with stars: "It was surreal, yet unmistakably real, awe-inspiring, unlike anything I've ever seen."
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The Polaris Dawn mission aims to hit several major milestones, like traveling 800 miles above Earth.
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The startup Turion Space is developing a family of satellites for autonomous docking and deorbiting services
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Researchers suggest our planet is being battered by waves of dark matter, the elusive stuff that's believed to make up 27 percent of the universe
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The stock of Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY), the world's largest pharmaceutical company, keeps reaching new all-time highs, largely off the back of its weight loss and diabetes drugs, Zepbound and Mounjaro.
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"RoboGrocery" combines computer vision with a soft robotic gripper to bag a wide range of items. To test the system, researchers placed 10 objects unknown to the robot on a grocery conveyer belt.
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Here are some of the top flying car stocks ready to take flight
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New York state has sent out thousands of robots in a bid to keep older adults engaged
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GLP-1 drugs directly affect emotional and cognitive functions in the brain.
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The term "Wavja," rooted in Latin, signifies "WOW," reflecting the company's commitment to groundbreaking advancements and transformative initiatives.
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tatistical modeling methods that were developed to study gravitational waves have been used to predict the structure of a broken section of a millennia-old artifact, the Antikythera Mechanism.
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Research on carpenter ants provides first example of a non-human animal severing limbs to curb infections
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Solar energy breakthrough sees scientists stabilize perovskite crystals for use in future solar panels, promising more efficient and sustainable green technology.
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“Cheap fake” videos of President Joe Biden that have been selectively edited or taken out of context to undermine his mental and physical fitness have inundated social media and are the subject of political spin.
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June 25, 2024
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After months of driving, Perseverance has finally arrived at ‘Bright Angel’, discovering oddly textured rock unlike any the rover has seen before.
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Because of the need for accuracy in high profile scenarios, like diplomacy, human translators with AI assistance makes the most sense.
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The engineering challenges involved are fiendish, but worth tackling
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Apple Supplier Says It Has Made Tech Breakthrough That Could Improve Performance Of Watches, Earbuds""We believe that our newly developed material for solid-state batteries can make a significant contribution to the energy transformation of society."
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A team of epidemiologists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture have traced the H5N1 viral spread in Michigan to a single herd of dairy cattle that had been unknowingly introduced in the spring to infected cows imported from a Texas dairy operation.
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A groundbreaking implantable device has significantly reduced the frequency and severity of seizures in children with severe epilepsy
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A lawyer’s offer, a judgment that foretold years of legal wrangling, and diplomatic pressure all played a part in the release of the WikiLeaks founder
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"Even if these are cherry-picked, they already look better than Sora."
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We believe the next major advancement in AI will come from systems that understand the visual world and its dynamics, which is why we’re starting a new long-term research effort around what we call general world models.
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June 18, 2024
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Space flight significantly alters kidney structure and function, with galactic radiation causing permanent damage, which could jeopardize any mission to Mars,
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Beta Pictoris, a relatively young star system a mere 63 light-years away from Earth, is a captivating subject for astronomers due to its ongoing planetary formation.
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What if an unknown technological civilization is hiding right here on Earth, sheltering in bases deep underground and possibly even emerging with UFOs or disguised as everyday humans?
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We believe that the SETI Institute’s efforts to detect advanced extraterrestrial intelligence demonstrate several valuable concepts that can be adapted for AGI research.
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the laser will use quantum entanglement to essentially “glue” light particles together
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Kemmerer, Wyoming will soon be home to the most advanced nuclear facility in the world.
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New electric-powered, vertical-lift aircraft are rising to the challenge of delivering clean and cheap air taxi services
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Spiritual Hydration with Whales: Sacred Summer Solstice June 22, 2024
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June 11, 2024
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Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity spaceplane conducted its final commercial mission June 8, taking a Turkish researcher and three private astronauts on a suborbital spaceflight.
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Events in space don’t often unfold like they do in the movies. But the journey of a spacecraft can provide awe-inspiring views and surprising moments more spectacular than fiction.
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A disruption of the solar system's heliosphere by an interstellar cloud could have severely impacted life on our planet.
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For some physicists, the failure to find dark matter is getting desperate, leading to radical proposals.
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There is now a new addition to the magnetic family: thanks to experiments at the Swiss Light Source SLS, researchers have proved the existence of altermagnetism.
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If it wins, “AI Steve” will be represented by businessman Steve Endacott in Parliament. Endacott says he’ll merely be a conduit, and the AI will make the policy decisions.
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This development offers a potential one-time solution for a condition that currently requires lifelong management.
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Billionaire Elon Musk said on Monday he would ban Apple (AAPL.O), opens new tab devices at his companies if the iPhone maker integrates OpenAI at the operating system level.
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t’s WWDC 2024 keynote time! Each year Apple kicks off its Worldwide Developers Conference with a few hours of just straight announcements, like the long-awaited Apple Intelligence and a makeover for smart AI assistant, Siri.
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Tuesday, June 4, 2024
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China says a spacecraft carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon has lifted off from the lunar surface to start its journey back to Earth.
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SpaceX’s business has considerably changed since 2018: since that point, the company has hit a number of impressive milestones, including certifying and flying its crewed Dragon spacecraft for astronauts,
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Google doesn’t want users to eat glue and rocks, but it does want people to double-check some of the more far-fetched content they receive from AI-enhanced searches.
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Robotic dogs are popping up around the world for various uses
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New book: The 9 Pillars of Resilience The Proven Path to Master Stress, Slow Aging, and Increase Vitality
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Physician/medical school professor (UCLA and USC) focusing on the applied science of health, longevity, and consciousness. After reversing chronic disease and transforming his life he is making it his mission to help others do the same.
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Dr. Lufkin Book "Lies I Taught in Medical School" and Dr. Sideroff Book "The Nine Pillars of Resilience and Success"
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May 28, 2024
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"ONE OF THE WAYS TECH COMPANIES IN GENERAL CAN DISEMPOWER THOSE SEEKING TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE..."
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Sierra Space's 'Dream Chaser' – which can land horizontally on a runway like a traditional aircraft – has completed testing. The craft will make its maiden trip to the International Space Station (ISS) in low Earth-orbit later this year, carrying over
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Clearing blocked filters and clogged valves is the order of the day.
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Dr. Cross found that a small dose of a chemotherapy drug called Paclitaxel might be capable of repairing injuries, whether caused by pathology or by trauma, to the human brain.
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A good idea to eat Lion's Mane, Blue Oyster, and Shiitake mushrooms
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Recent discoveries in quantum physics have revealed simpler atomic structures than hydrogen, involving pure electromagnetic interactions between particles like electrons and their antiparticles
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Pioneering methods boost US rubber production through innovative TK dandelion and guayule shrub latex extraction.
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As it turns out… it says rather a lot.
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MycoSpectrum™ is made with more than a dozen highly bioactive adaptogenic mushrooms and fungi that are high in 1,3 and 1,6 beta-glucans, arabinoxylans, glycoproteins, triterpenes and antioxidants.
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May 21, 2024
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The actress alleges OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tried to hire her, then copied her voice when she said no.
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Six tourists shot into the edge of space and became astronauts early Sunday following a nearly two-year layoff after a previous failed uncrewed test flight by the space exploration company Blue Origin.
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The U.S. government claims that a recently launched Russian satellite is a counterspace weapon placed in nearly the same orbit as an American reconnaissance satellite.
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NASA is gearing up for back-to-back launches of cubesats designed to provide key data for improving models of the Earth’s climate.
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"Planting trees is a very effective way to absorb carbon, but it’s very slow," said Little. "So we need a human intervention — like human-made molecules — to capture greenhouse gases efficiently from the environment more quickly."
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Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes pushed by laser light are likely to be the only technology capable of reaching another star this century.
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A new report claims that Apple's current schedule doesn't include updates to its Mac Pro and Mac Studio machines until the middle of 2025.
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May 14, 2024
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SpaceX's Elon Musk said the company's Starlink satellites were "under a lot of pressure" from the incoming radiation.
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the best evidence of an atmosphere around a rocky world outside our solar system.
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The transport system will be critical to the daily operation of a sustainable lunar base in the 2030s, NASA said in a statement.
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Check out the winner of this. year's Science magazine's "Dance Your Ph.D." competition, on kangaroos!
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We spoke with Dr Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, to find out more about their new heavy-lift rocket.
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OpenAI had their surprise live demo today showing off their new model GPT-4o! It sounds the most life-like and human we’ve ever gotten from an AI.
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Nasa is currently working with a business that is creating power engines that can send humans to Mars in two months as opposed to nine. One of humanity's greatest goals is to conquer other worlds. The new creation will expedite our progress toward our co
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May 7, 2024
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The updated chip, which comes with an entirely new CPU architecture, builds on the GPU found in the M3 chip with ray tracing, mesh shading, and Apple’s special Dynamic Cache.
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Unlike other hydrogen engines that run on fuel cells, AVL’s technology utilizes direct hydrogen injection into the combustion chamber. This allows the engine to operate much like a conventional petrol or diesel engine, but fueled by hydrogen.
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Amateur archaeologists in England have unearthed one of the largest Roman dodecahedrons ever found, but mystery surrounds what it was actually used for.
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And the company failed to notify users that their details were compiled in curated lists and leaked online.
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Musk's sleight of hand has inspired robot companies to add "no teleoperation" to their videos.
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RAG has limitations that many vendors gloss over.
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Japanese scientists are set to kick off the world's first clinical trials of "tooth regrowth medicine" at the Kyoto University Hospital, The Mainichi reports.
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Researchers at MIT CSAIL and Project CETI believe that they have unlocked a kind of sperm whale “alphabet” with the aid of machine learning technologies.
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Now a market disrupting technology has been launched that increases compression speed by 38% while using 33% less electricity. Multiply that by billions of units and you get a pretty helpful contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions!
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April 30, 2024
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Astronomers identified the largest stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way, with a mass 33 times that of the Sun
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A new propellantless propulsion drive, which appears to defy the known laws of physics, has produced enough thrust to counteract Earth’s gravity.
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NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications experiment also interfaced with the Psyche spacecraft’s communication system for the first time, transmitting engineering data to Earth.
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Harvard Medical School professor George M. Church didn’t think that by the end of his breakfast in Harvard Square, he would have $100,000 to bring back the wooly mammoth.
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Rather than being actual spiders, these small, dark features form when spring sunshine falls on layers of carbon dioxide deposited over the dark winter months.
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The phenomenon is called primary endosymbiosis, and it occurs when one microbial organism engulfs another, and starts using it like an internal organ
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A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other overlooked animals experience consciousness.
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this conference aims at investigating and evaluating AI’s impacts on two classes of nonhuman beings, nonhuman animals and potentially sentient or conscious AI. Scroll down for event videos
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Elon Musk's surprise visit to China this week won concessions for Tesla but left India feeling spurned after he cancelled a scheduled trip there for earlier this month
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Can the LHC also be used to probe the underlying meaning of quantum theory and why it paints reality as being so deeply weird.
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"Animal communication through the lives of Great Black-backed Gulls and Herring Gulls"
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Let's take a little journey back to the year 2000, Maui, Hawaii. It was quite the occasion, psychonaut and dolphin researcher John C. Lilly's second to last birthday on this planet
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Kristin Andrews is York Research Chair in Animal Minds and Professor of Philosophy at York University (Toronto).
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Squirrels were stealing my bird seed so I solved the problem with mechanical engineering :)
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April 23, 2024
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Meta has released Llama 3, an up-to-date general purpose AI, check it out!
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NASA believes solar sails can enable “low-cost missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.”
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A team of researchers at Georgia Tech and Tianjin University has created the world’s first functional semiconductor made from graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms held together by the strongest bonds known.
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The US space agency says its Voyager-1 probe is once again sending usable information back to Earth after months of spouting gibberish.
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"YOU COULD PROBABLY JUST ROLL PERSEVERANCE INTO STARSHIP AND FLY BACK TO EARTH."
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AI “somewhat weirdly” chose to make the blend out of four different type of coffee beans, rather than the usual two or three which allows distinction in taste between flavors from different origins.
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Danny gives a great update and review of his work on the UFO topic
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What's going on?
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Something gigantic appears to be stabilizing objects beyond the orbit of Neptune.
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Kurzweil has a track record of getting his predictions right.
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"This green PV technology will be the future sustainable solution for solar power generation."
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1:44 - Expertise Will Be Near Free 5:00 - Labor Will Be Near Free 7:09 - Computers WIll Grow Expansively 9:25 - AI In Entertainment 10:40 - Internet Access Will Be Via Agents 13:01 - AI In Science and Medicine 14:03 - Food Alternatives 15:14 - Autonomous
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very funny review of the latest Dune movie by Nina Paley
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The Antisocial Network: Memes to Mayhem is a 2024 Netflix documentary that explores how a group of teenagers created an online community out of loneliness and accidentally broke consensus reality.
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April 16, 2024
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A solar geoengineering experiment in San Francisco could lead to brighter clouds that reflect sunlight. The risks are numerous
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The Europa Clipper is being prepped for a five-year mission to Europa, one of the moons orbiting the planet Jupiter
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NASA is seeking innovative methods that could help retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars in the future.
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Seen in 2022, a gamma-ray burst nicknamed the BOAT is believed to be the brightest explosion ever witnessed by humanity. But the James Webb Telescope's search for its origins has only thrown up more questions.
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"We have never seen anything like this before."
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The Model 2, with a rumored base price of $25,000, was highly anticipated by investors and consumers eager for cheaper electric options.
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Despite what some excited eclipse viewers have claimed, those are not solar flares. But they are an equally impressive phenomenon, known as solar prominences — large, often looping towers of plasma that leap out of the sun's surface
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For musicians, AI is a “deeper tool” that can help stimulate creativity,
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James Webb Space Telescope imagery of the Carina Nebula, Southern Ring Nebula and exoplanet WASP-96 b atmospheric data has been converted into sound by SYSTEM Sounds musicians Matt Russo and Andrew Santaguida.
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Meta Quest 3 just got a big upgrade in quality that makes the experience even better after Google updated its YouTube VR app to support 8K resolution.
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Both private investment — that is, investments in startups from VCs — and corporate investment — mergers and acquisitions — in the AI industry were on the downswing in 2023 versus the year prior
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April 9, 2024
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UK’s best-selling classical artist debut in recent years is Poor Clare Sisters of Arundel, a choir of nuns whose ages range from 50 to 96.
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Google is reportedly considering charging users a subscription to access its experimental AI-integrated search feature — a proposed measure that would mark the first time the search giant has ever charged users for access to a core feature.
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It’s all relative.
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the camera will be the size of a small SUV
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Latest evidence suggests the cloud-collapse model seems more likely
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"These are unthinkable numbers, but we’re not breaking any physics to achieve this."
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This event will capture and present a snapshot of how artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI, and machine learning are being fused with spatial computing hardware, platforms, and applications to dramatically accelerate spatial computing capabilities,
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April 2, 2024
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NASA will launch three sounding rockets during the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, to study how Earth’s upper atmosphere is affected when sunlight momentarily dims over a portion of the planet.
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Solar totality itself will be viewed for a combined total of 100 minutes from a 115-mile path of totality stretching from Mexico to the Canada, via the U.S. So why not have cameras stationed all along the track & broadcast the entire thing as one continu
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an binary black holes, two black holes orbiting each other, influence their respective behaviors?
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Researchers have used genetic evidence to pinpoint where ancient humans went after leaving Africa. They suggest the 'Persian Plateau' — an area including modern day Iran.
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As ice melts into water and flows toward the equator, it redistributes mass around the Earth, affecting the planet’s spin, a new study finds
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Here I cover it in 20 minutes without sacrificing the juicy details and also share my perspective on these AI innovations as a Machine Learning Engineer myself.
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xpected to take place in early May, will focus on bringing the craft back to Earth safely from orbit for the first time.
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Our brain waves can align when we work and play closely together. The phenomenon, known as interbrain synchrony, suggests that collaboration is biological.
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Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres.
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"Eclipse Path and Date Miscalculated," reads the headline.
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Leo Laporte, Glenn Fleishman and Ant Pruitt discuss the latest news on the Lastpass breach of 2022. There has been more happening online since the breach.
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The gap widens the more it knows about us – and once it can see us in real time, AI seems likely to become an unprecedented persuasion machine.
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Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. From chaotic assemblies of life, order somehow emerges.
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March 26, 2024
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Steel structures aren’t as strong as you might think—and the immense power of a container ship shouldn’t be underestimated.
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Odysseus had not phoned home this week when its solar panels were projected to receive enough sunlight to turn on its radio.
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Paper by UCL professor says ‘wobbly’ space-time could instead explain expansion of universe and galactic rotation
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Named after Hindu deities, the star streams appear to be the remnants of two galaxies that merged with an early version of the Milky Way between 12 billion and 13 billion years ago when the first galaxies were forming across the cosmos.
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Learning to observe bodily sensation is a powerful strategy for improving mental health
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IT'S A STEP, BUT IT'S A SMALL ONE.
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology said the graphene semiconductor they have developed is compatible with standard microelectronic processing methods, a fundamental requirement for any viable alternative to silicon.
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scientists propose the concept of "virtual quantum broadcasting," which provides a workaround to the longstanding no-cloning theorem, thereby offering new possibilities for the transmission of quantum information.
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Guest: Michai Morin, CEO of Coeus Institute, Futurist, Data Analyst, Author, Artist & Public Speaker
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We offer social innovations by which a few people can FACILITATE "All the People" to come together as "We the People"
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March 19, 2024
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SpaceX has revealed some new information regarding the third test flight of its massive Starship rocket.
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A new study unveils a universal tendency for the mind to wander more as time on a task progresses, affecting focus irrespective of the task's complexity.
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Marie and Pierre Curie admitted to not fully understanding the source of radioactivity. Could a psychic medium named Eusapia Palladino reveal some clues?
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"WE HAVE A LOT OF TEACHERS WHO ARE USING THE PROGRAM AND ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT."
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“There are times when I have sort of a … negative chemical state in my brain, like depression I guess, or depression that’s not linked to any negative news, and ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the negative frame of mind,”
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“It was jarring for folks in the room to see how quickly just a handful of these types of threats could spiral out of control and really dominate the election cycle,” said one of the organizers.
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Space Capital managing partner Chad Anderson told TheStreet that the third Starship test flight was "super exciting" to watch.
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Unlike optical lasers, these devices emit particle-like chunks called phonons in a narrow beam.
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Suno wants everyone to be able to produce their own pro-level songs — but what does that mean for artists?
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x.ai and Elon Musk released Grok, which is 100% open-source, and it was a massive blow to OpenAI, aka C
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang kicks off its GTC keynote in San Jose with a slew of AI infused chip announcements. Check out our recap right here.
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March 12, 2024
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The international crew of four spent 199 days in orbit.
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The move makes Grok’s source code freely available — and thus able to be redistributed and modified — in what’s seen as Musk’s latest jab at rival OpenAI’s popular ChatGPT
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Colossal Biosciences, a Dallas-based company aiming to create a mammoth hybrid that looks exactly like its extinct counterpart, has reprogrammed cells from an Asian elephant.
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Two AI-altered clips of Hitler’s 1939 Reichstag speech have racked up millions of views on X after being shared by a far-right troll.
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Exclusive: Significant discovery, made by James Webb telescope, provokes disagreement over conditions on planet’s surface
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Water connects our planet Earth with Jupiter's moon Europa.
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The rate at which the universe is expanding, known as the Hubble constant, is one of the fundamental parameters for understanding the evolution and ultimate fate of the cosmos.
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Exclusive: Significant discovery, made by James Webb telescope, provokes disagreement over conditions on planet’s surface. JET IS CONNECTED TO JUPITER'S WEIRD MAGNETIC FIELD.
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What would a future visitor to Mars see during a night’s stargazing? What do the stars look like on Mars?
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People who had tiny plastic particles lodged in a key blood vessel were more likely to experience serious health problems or die during a three-year study
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New Paradigm Institute attorney Daniel Sheehan, says he was shown photos from the Project Blue Book archives of what he believes were non-human craft being recovered by the U.S. military while investigating UAPs under the Carter administration.
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"First Contract" is a comedic SciFi short about intergalactic traders who create deals with civilizations across the universe and get them to sign contracts.
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March 5, 2024
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It is also the third most valuable company in the United States. What is NVIDIA doing right?
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. hit a U.S. government roadblock in attempting to sell an artificial intelligence chip tailored for the Chinese market
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"IF WE WOULD HAVE HAD THE LASER RANGE-FINDERS, WE WOULD HAVE NAILED THE LANDING."
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Sonification translates complex space data into soundscapes.
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Basically, the impact changed Dimorphos for good, but without leaving a crater behind.
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researchers were surprised to discover that it seemed to detect the fact that it was being tested by them.
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cientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at the Jovian moon Europa to be substantially less than most previous studies.
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A fully automated process, including a brand-new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, has successfully detected, identified and classified its first supernova.
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includes planets, asteroids, space craft currently exploring the solar system, and more..
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A detailed look at the actual lawsuit
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This could help decrease unnecessary antibiotic use in young children.
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The race to build general-purpose humanoid robots is heating up.
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Using radar scans and analysis of sand grains buried deep inside the star dune, scientists mapped the mound’s internal structure.
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Researchers at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a way to potentially predict the success of immunotherapy treatment in cancer patients.
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EMO by AliBaba is scary-good at taking any source image plus audio and making the image look like they are saying/singing the audio. See for yourself.
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The Chinese military's top drone-makers have built a new robotic bird that they say could have far-reaching applications
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AiSee, a reasonably priced wearable assistive device that uses artificial intelligence (AI) based on Chat GPT-4 to help people with visual impairments "see" objects around them.
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The Cupertino tech behemoth says the homespun remedy could cause "small particles of rice to damage your iPhone"
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One of the devices being tested is a U.S.-made Vision 60 robotic dog, which costs US$165,000.
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As torrential rains pounded California in February 2024, social media posts claimed "cloud seeding" triggered the storms and constituted an "environmental hazard."
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Could blood biomarkers be a diagnostic tool for Alzheimer’s?
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Already-existing clinical laboratory blood test may be new standard for detecting Alzheimer’s biomarkers
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February 27, 2024
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LTE/5G communication via Direct to Cell satellites in low-Earth orbit using regular handsets.
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The launch is targeted for 12:04 a.m. EST, Friday, March 1, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The targeted docking time is about 7 a.m. on Saturday, March 2.
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Don't mothball that ugly Christmas sweater just yet. It's the perfect attire for viewing the upcoming total solar eclipse
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The latest reports from the lander at the moon's South Pole.
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changes to Gemini’s image generation feature would take “a few months to fix.”
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This article is the first in a series from the Co-founder and President of the Center for MINDS (Multidisciplinary Investigation into Novel Discoveries and Solutions).
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The shallow, salty body of water situated on volcanic rock — known as Last Chance Lake — holds clues that carbonate-rich lakes in ancient Earth could have been a “cradle of life,”
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They discuss alternate ways psychedelics could have been introduced, Aldous Huxley & Humphry Osmond’s speculative Outsight project, convergent vs divergent thinking, Bruce’s mushroom trip with Terrence McKenna, concrescence into novelty, the stoned ape
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Bruce's website - supporting the science of life's origins
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PSYCHEDELIC-ASSISTED INNOVATION FOR HUMANITY'S GREATEST CHALLENGES
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February 20, 2024
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Apple has bought more AI companies than anyone else
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In the photos, the spacecraft known as Nova-C is visible with Earth in the distant background.
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If you have a background in STEM and live for the extreme, this is the job for you.
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Astroscale's ADRAS-J will attempt to rendezvous with a defunct Japanese H-2A rocket upper stage.
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For anyone passionate about nature, it’s an event not to be missed—but it often comes at a cost for those who don’t plan well ahead of time.
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Japan and the US are planning to launch the world's first wooden satellite, the LignoSat probe, into space this summer.
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"If V1 didn't make it? I'd be very proud; the mission has far exceeded the designers' expectations."
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Meet the startup trying to maintain American military dominance in space.
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Moving to Santa Cruz in the early 90s, Len developed his talents as a poet, co-founding Poetry Santa Cruz and Hummingbird Press
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Santa Cruz poet/physicist Len Anderson, reading at Willow Glen Poetry
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Bar-Ilan University researchers produce laboratory-grown testicle organoids, offering insights into male fertility and potential therapies.
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February 13, 2024
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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured the powerful X-class solar flare – the rarest type of flare – erupting from the Sun in ultraviolet light. A solar radiation storm could cause communication issues at Earth's poles.
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The program’s aim is to develop lunar landers under relatively cheap, fixed-price contracts, in the hopes of using the spacecraft to give the US a presence on the moon as a new international space race heats up.
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Astronomers have found the best evidence yet of a vast, young ocean beneath the icy exterior of Saturn's Death Star lookalike mini moon.
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Scientists have discovered a super-Earth, named TOI-715 b, located within the “conservative” habitable zone of a nearby red dwarf star.
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Astronomers have found a huge ring-shaped structure in outer space that is so big it challenges humanity's current understanding of the universe.
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Understanding their vocalizations can transform our approach to poultry farming, enhancing chicken welfare and quality of life.
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The view of biology often presented to the public is oversimplified and out of date. Scientists must set the record straight, argues a new book.
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By the equivalent of roughly 65 years of age in humans, the mice were slimmer, could better regulate blood sugar and insulin levels, and had lower inflammation and a more youthful metabolic profile.
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Over the next few weeks, the robotic assistant will practice operating in zero gravity.
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From using fire to cook food and manage vegetation to the technologies and institutions that support intensive agriculture, increasingly urbanized societies, and global supply chains stretching across the planet, human societies have evolved the social..
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The first time guidelineS have been established not only for chickpeas, but also for growing food for long-term human space missions.
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A linguist explains how loanwords and direct translations known as calques are reshaping the sound of Miami and beyond.
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In today’s blog, I’ll discuss my own approach to investing in AI, share details of some of my own AI investments, and perhaps most importantly, provide some principles and general guidance.
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ADD "BETTER SEX" TO THE LONG LIST OF REPORTED PSYCHEDELIC BENEFITS.
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HE'S TRYING TO SECURE A LUDICROUS AMOUNT OF MONEY.
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The Federal Communications Commission announced Thursday a ban on unsolicited robocalls that use an AI-generated voice
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An international research group has identified a novel state of matter, characterized by the presence of a quantum phenomenon known as chiral current.
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February 6, 2024
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After swooping by Jupiter's tortured moon Io on Feb. 3, NASA's Juno spacecraft beamed back some of the closest-ever images of this unique world.
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A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Earth-observing spacecraft PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) was set to liftoff Tuesday morning
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The Norwegian Space Agency's tiny NorSat-TD satellite has made its first satellite-to-ground connection using an innovative new laser technology.
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The worms are found in nature and are attracted to cancer cells.
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They lose track of the sky
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They make ludicrous amounts of lift, and can take off and land at incredibly slow speeds, using absolutely tiny runways.
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In a viral video meant to be a 'skit,' an influencer drove in Autopilot while wearing the $3,499 spacial computing headset.
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THIS DEFINITELY ISN'T YOUR AVERAGE PLANT DAD VIBE.
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"We're really harnessing what nature has developed to do manufacturing for us."
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January 30, 2024
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"This organic matter might be the small seeds of life once delivered from space to Earth."
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the optimal number is probably closer to 6,000 steps per day, depending on your age.
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Peering into the jungle of microbes that live within us, researchers have stumbled across what seem to be an entire new class of virus-like objects.
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AI researchers found that widely used safety training techniques failed to remove malicious behavior from large language models — and one technique even backfired
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The company’s Passive Refueling Module is the first to be officially adopted as an interface standard for military satellites. The Space Force also will support Northrop Grumman’s development of an orbital refueling tanker
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The SLIM lander’s mission can be considered at least a “minimum success” because it achieved a precise and soft lunar landing using optical navigation
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ARRES Prevent, a state-of-the-art robot with AI, detects and fills cracks autonomously, preventing water ingress and halting pothole formation.
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BMW aims to deliver hydrogen cars as soon as 2025
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About the organizers of the Russian Spirit Fest in San Jose
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January 23, 2024
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An uncanny audio deepfake impersonating President Biden has sparked further fears from lawmakers and experts about generative AI’s role in spreading disinformation.
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Police around the US say they're justified to run DNA-generated 3D models of faces through facial recognition tools to help crack cold cases. Everyone but the cops thinks that’s a bad idea.
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MIT reveal Lamborghini battery with 500kw charging & 765Wh energy density
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The design uses China’s first diamond semiconductor material.
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Resurrected in electric form, Honda's folding scooter tries to rethink urban mobility—again.
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Solid-state batteries hold the promise of more energy storage, longer driving ranges and faster charging for next-generation electric vehicles.
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MIT chemists developed a battery cathode based on organic materials, which could reduce the EV industry’s reliance on scarce metals.
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If we get the technology right, the uses for robots will be almost limitless:
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January 16, 2024
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The failed moon landing attempt is a setback for NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services, or CLPS, program, which recruits private companies to help the space agency investigate the lunar surface as it aims to return humans to the moon later this decade.
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Other apps announced with Vision Pro support include ESPN, MLB, PGA Tour, Max, Discovery Plus, Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus, Peacock, Pluto TV, Tubi, Fubo, Crunchyroll, Red Bull TV, IMAX, TikTok, and MUBI.
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Astronomers have discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting a star similar to the sun, only 73 light years away.
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From translucent TVs to indoor smokers, the Consumer Electronics Show never disappoints when it comes to cool new gear.
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Here's the common themes and what the experience was like.
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Instead of getting dentures when we’re old, we might be able to grow a third set of teeth.
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"This isn't just an airplane, this is an X-plane. It's the manifestation of a collaborative genius"
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Wendy is specializing in helping you connect with your 'higher self.'
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January 9, 2024
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The spacecraft, a collaboration between Nasa and Astrobotic, is unlikely to reach the lunar surface
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A massive heat shield will guard the spacecraft during the daring plunges toward the scorching star, facing temperatures of 1,400°C.
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A new AI system developed by researchers at Stanford University makes impressive breakthroughs in training inexpensive mobile robots that can perform complex tasks in different environments.
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The year AI took over, and all the awesome tech from the show floor.
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Here are six mysteries about human history that scientists have cracked in 2023. Plus, one that still has researchers scratching their heads.
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MIT engineers and collaborators developed a solar-powered device that avoids salt-clogging issues of other designs.
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an approach to CAR T-cell therapy that could treat all forms and types of blood cancer.
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Astrobotic's Peregrine could be the first ever private spacecraft to make a soft landing on the lunar surface.
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The Signature OLED T is a whopping 77 inches of nothingness and will be "very expensive."
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January 2, 2024
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A massive solar flare — the largest in years — was spotted on the sun on New Year’s Eve, sparking a warning to some high-frequency radio users.
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Explore the features of Unitree's B2, the fastest and most versatile industrial quadruped robot in the market, designed to enhance efficiency across various industries.
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Earth’s perihelion happens close to the New Year every year. Earth's orbit around the Sun isn't perfectly circular, so we get closer to and farther from the Sun depending on where we are in that orbit
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Recent discoveries in the field of human evolution have fanned the flames of a renewed debate among scientists regarding the status of Neanderthals.
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Check out the amazing magical retreat created by Halleluhjah Blessing and Taressa Bell
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The alien, via a telepathic contact with Matilda, talks about the Domain and the hostiles occupying our planet Earth.
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December 26, 2023
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‘Revolutions’ in nuclear fusion and artificial intelligence offer cause for optimism in the new year
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Bill Gates: This year signaled the start of a new era. Here’s why I believe next year is an opportunity to shape the world’s next chapter for the better.
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The center will track greenhouse gas emissions and help the public be more attuned to the impacts of climate change.
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Bets against the value of Israeli companies spiked in the days before the October 7th Hamas attacks, suggesting some traders may have had advance knowledge of the looming terror attack and profited off it
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Why does gravity pull us down and not up?
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The personalized shot gives a standard melanoma treatment a huge boost.
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The beast, invented by Japanese researchers, could eventually be recruited to join firefighter teams to extinguish fires that are too large and dangerous for humans to combat.
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The 'world's first operating restaurant' where orders and food are taken care of by robots and AI is set to open in the US.
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Tesla unveils its most advanced and realistic robot yet
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Apple will begin mass shipments of its Vision Pro mixed-reality headset “in the first week of January” before launching it in Apple Stores in late January or early February,
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In honor of the upcoming release of this evolutionary tech
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Henry Seltzer has a graduate degree in Linguistics and has studied Computer Science, and attended MIT as an undergraduate, but his real study is Astrology and Tarot.
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Reading an astrology chart is as easy as visiting a website. Click on any chart feature to view in-depth interpretations
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December 19, 2023
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Tesla says its new prototype is 30% faster, 10 kg lighter, and has sensors on all fingers.
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These hidden black holes could be the real dark matter in the universe.
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Report also supports projects of unprecedented scale to study dark matter, neutrinos and the Higgs boson.
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The material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows, and more.
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There have been many attempts to make computing more brain-like, but a new effort takes it all a step further – by integrating real, actual, human brain tissue with electronics.
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EPA regulations were supposed to improve air quality, but fires have limited or erased these gains, experts say
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Called anthrobots, these tiny groups of cells use their cilia to move around the body.
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What if someone came up with a salt substitute that tasted just like regular salt, yet had proven blood pressure-lowering qualities?
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Webb's infrared image highlights the planet's dramatic rings and dynamic atmosphere.
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The Holiday show, highlights in this show include Dr. Nick's Quantum Tantra poetry and Sun Lundell's story of this month's moon.
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Our guest today with a philosophical view of the Now and what's next.
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It gets its shape for seven to 10 minutes.
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December 12, 2023
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The fact the Musk, Tate, and Jones could be having a convo where Vivek and PBD could randomly hop on while the general public asks questions… man!
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Researchers have identified how Lactobacillus, a member of our guts’ microbiome community, affects a critical immune system protein, influencing stress levels and mental health.
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Life may be much, much older than Earth.
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It is now expected that a release could be more likely to happen in February, rather than starting the year with a January shipment.
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Let's take a look.
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Senan Molony, an Irish author who’s written extensively about the history of the Titanic, points out that new pieces of evidence suggest that the much-famed demise was actually started by a fire, not ice.
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A new study has found that ancient stars may have been producing extremely heavy elements that remain unknown to science.
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Is it creepy or heartwarming? Listen for yourself to find out.
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December 5, 2023
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More than 70 countries and 40 international and humanitarian organizations joined a call to action to enhance climate resilience in fragile and conflict-affected states at the United Nations’ COP 28 climate talks in Dubai.
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Cognitive improvements were particularly evident in terms of their ability to process short conversations, perform simple calculations and match names with faces.
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Called "sub-Neptunes," they are absent from our solar system and their fundamental nature has remained a puzzle.
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a mysterious cosmic ray has appeared in the state of Utah, with origins that can be traced beyond our known galaxy.
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The structure, dubbed "Cosmic Vine," has a size of about 13 million physical light years.
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Researchers unveil cryo–electron microscope that could solve protein structures for much less than existing designs
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Environmental activists and nonprofits focused on climate change routinely assert contrails contribute more to global warming than the carbon dioxide emitted from jet engines.
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“Nonstructural carbon reserves can be many years old, but direct use of old carbon has rarely been documented and never in such large, old trees. We found some sprouts contained the oldest carbon ever observed to be remobilized for growth.”
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Scientists have discovered a real Lost City beneath the waves, and this one is teaming with life.
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The "fantasy based superheroes" are the work of George Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic visual effects studio, which employed motion capture technology and machine learning to replicate the movements and essence of real-life band members.
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Gmail's spam filters can now understand "adversarial text manipulations."
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Researchers have created “anthrobots” out of human lung cells that are capable of moving independently and even healing damaged tissue
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For the first time, dopamine regulation has been mapped in real time, deep inside the brains of three humans, revealing how the brain neurotransmitter plays an essential role in not just recognizing rewards but learning from mistakes.
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"Consideration of a patient's cultural background and belief system can help avert erroneous disqualification for disease-modifying therapy, exclusion from clinical trials, and all the negative ramifications associated with a misdiagnosis of psychiatric d
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Reports of a mysterious breakthrough called Q* at OpenAI sparked anxious rumors. AI experts say it’s probably just a conventional attempt to make ChatGPT a little smarter.
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If OpenAI's new model can solve grade-school math, it could pave the way for more powerful systems.
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the male mosquitoes possessed elongated piercing-sucking mouthparts seen now only in females.
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Bacteria found in sick and even deceased dogs may be traced to animals that spent time at doggy daycares, groomers and dog parks.
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November 28, 2023
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Climate financing and reining in fossil fuels are to top the agenda of the 2023 climate change summit to be held in Dubai.
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COP28 is the 28th annual United Nations (UN) climate meeting where governments will discuss how to limit and prepare for future climate change.
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"Feel the AGI! Feel the AGI!"
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The rumored Q* model from OpenAI is believed to be a significant advancement in AI
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Free-thinking computers reverse-engineered the fossil record to identify the causes of a cataclysm.
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This could explain a lot.
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The system calculated more than 3.7 million molecules it could make from six different metallic elements in the rocks.
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how haziness muddles observations by ground and space telescopes.
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A new electrocatalyst made of nickel (Ni), iron (Fe) and silicon (Si) that decreases the amount of energy required to synthesize H2 from water has been manufactured in a simple and cost-effective way.
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hey are faster than ambulances in situations where timing is key.
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Debra Giusti has been on the leading edge of the ever-emerging progressive culture, both locally and internationally, supporting and creating ‘New Paradigm’ evolution for over 45 years.
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"A blueprint to support your ascension journey
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Experience the Reactivation of the Sacred Sites of Egypt with The Stargate, Viviane Chauvet and Host Debra Giusti
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Subscribe and stay connected to thousands of meaningful events, transformational courses, and life-changing resources.
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November 21, 2023
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On just its second flight, Starship now is arguably as successful as NASA's SLS rocket.
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Some have theorized that Sam Altman and the OpenAI board fell out over differences on how to safeguard an AI capable of performing a wide variety of tasks better than humans.
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By tapping the AI Pin, you can ask it to do smartphone-y things like make phone calls, text your friends, play music, and catch you up on your email
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DSOC, an experiment that could transform how spacecraft communicate, has achieved ‘first light,’ sending data via laser to and from far beyond the Moon for the first time.
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100 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the high desert of California’s Antelope Valley lies the blueprint of a city. But the blueprint isn’t drawn on paper — it’s etched into the sand.
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Renderings show red-roofed homes amid rolling green hills and trees like something out of a Tuscan fantasy. Imaginings of the city streets are also European-style, with car-free plazas, streets and bike paths; one rendering is a bit more New York City
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Senior official at Fermanagh and Omagh council John Boyle told a recent meeting the issue would "not be an easy one to crack".
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Here's how scientists make exact genetic replicas of our furry best friends—and how identical we can expect them to be.
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In the 2003 recording, BBC reporter Nigel Wrench asks him if he is called "Robert Banks", and the artist replies: "It's Robbie."
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November 14, 2023
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Joby Aviation and Volocopter gave the public a vivid glimpse of what the future of aviation might look like this weekend, with both companies performing brief demonstration flights of their electric aircraft in New York City.
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Rovers and orbiters will continue collecting limited data during a two-week communications pause due to the position of Earth, the Sun, and the Red Planet.
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The SETI Institute, a non-profit scientific research organization, announced today a philanthropic gift of $200m from the estate of Franklin Antonio, a visionary supporter and catalyst of the work of the SETI Institute for more than 12 years.
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Frank Borman, Air Force fighter and test pilot, American astronaut who commanded Gemini 7 and Apollo 8, and later head of Eastern Air Lines, died Nov. 7 at 95.
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The plane will scan for critical minerals to reduce US reliance on imports.
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"We have a new weapon against heart failure."
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Scientists on Tuesday unveiled the first pictures taken by the European space telescope Euclid, a shimmering and stunning collection of galaxies too numerous to count.
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Edward Snowden and Jack Dorsey have a conversation at Nostrasia about Nostr, Decentralizing the internet, and authoritarianism in todays age.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s research in quantum biology and AI has significantly improved the efficiency of CRISPR Cas9 genome editing in microbes, aiding in renewable energy development.
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For the first time in more than 40 years, America is using its own money to send weapons to a place it officially doesn't recognise.
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Breema is the art of being present. It’s a practical philosophy that enables us to constantly increase our understanding of ourselves.
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Redefining Health by Increasing Vitality
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November 7, 2023
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There just isn't time for something that big to grow from a supernova remnant.
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Researchers are developing a real-life tractor beam, with the goal of pulling defunct satellites out of geostationary orbit to alleviate the space junk problem.
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This “photomolecular effect” could revolutionize solar desalination and climate modeling, potentially tripling water production in desalination processes and advancing solar cooling technologies.
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The tech recently received FDA approval, and will soon be available as a treatment option for patients in the US.
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"The idea is to maximize the incentive for accuracy over sensationalism,"
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Yet another tech billionaire is taking to the skies — although this one isn't planning on venturing beyond the Earth's atmosphere.
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Imagine you are chatting with Futurist/Visionary Peter Diamandis; but it's PeterBot!
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China revealed its bold plans to mass produce "advanced-level" humanoid robots by 2025.
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IT CAN EVEN RESPOND TO TUGGING AT THE LEASH.
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This research seeks to broaden modern perspective of animal design and movement by introducing a new a field of study—paleobionics—aimed at using softbotics, robotics with flexible electronics and soft materials, to understand the biomechanical factors
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Soon, humans will be limited to only setting goals for AI to accomplish, while mastering programming languages will be akin to learning Latin.
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Apple's new Thunderbolt 4 USB-C cable costs a staggering $130, more than ten times the price of a generic USB-C cable. But what's the difference between Thunderbolt and USB-C? Adam is joined by electrical engineer Zach Radding to examine Lumafield's CT sc
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Alma Wellness works to spearhead discussions with community leaders, healers, and teachers to realign and unify humanity with purpose on a continual basis by holding space physically and metaphorically for innovative and insightful ideas and initiatives t
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October 31, 2023
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Blue Origin, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has unveiled a full-scale mock-up of the Blue Moon Mark 1 lander destined for a lunar touchdown.
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NASA’s ILLUMA-T investigation tests technology to provide enhanced data communication capabilities on the space station.
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Researchers dated lunar crystals from the Apollo 17 mission, revealing the Moon to be 4.46 billion years old—40 million years older than previously believed.
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Mouse embryos have been grown on the International Space Station and developed normally in the first study indicating it could be possible for humans to reproduce in space
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Apple’s new M3 chip lineup was the focal point of the event, powering each of the devices Apple showcased in their half-hour pre-recorded event that had some seasonally appropriate fog, bats and ominous choir music…
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The latest law-breakers defy Newton's third law of motion, distorting their bodies as they swim in a way that elicits no response from their surroundings.
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Scientists at the University of Surrey have created the game-changing new paint
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And it might double as a drive-in theater
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China's AeroHT has released video of its innovative low-altitude multi-parachute system turning a catastrophic propulsion system failure into a soft-ish landing from just 50 m (164 ft) up.
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game changing photorealistic avatars - Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/mark-zuckerberg-3-transcript
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Great in depth walkthrough of the Adobe updates. I for one am excited to have a central place to do all the various elements and not have to pay hundreds of dollars for the swath of subscriptions needed to accomplish all the tasks.
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Comedian and author Steve Bhaerman (aka Swami Beyondananda) interviews Jim Rough from the Center for Wise Democracy on how to transform our global/national System to Wise Democracy. Oct 22, 2023
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On The Patriot Underground, where they discuss the Trump Card, Israel’s FF and the WW3 Agenda, Geopolitical Maneuvering, BRICS, Underground War, Cyborgs and much more!
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Meet Peter's personal AI clone!
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October 24, 2023
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Proposed law of nature says systems such as stars and hurricanes are made up in varying ways, with some succeeding and others failing
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Cosmic melody: Astronomical data can be converted to music, revealing the universe like never beforeNot only does astronomical sonification expand access for the blind community, it gives scientists new perspective
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Scientists have collected rock and dust from outside the canister, but the bulk of the sample remains stuck inside.
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Alien life may one day be found not from radio signals beamed across the cosmos but from an all-too-familiar side-effect of civilisation: pollution.
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Our guest Paul Gotel suggests how you can live a bigger now through self-revolution.
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Our guest discusses gourmet coffee roasting and adaptogenic mushroom blends paired with complimentary ingredients like organic fermented raw cacao powder.
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October 17, 2023
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To test the new AI, the researchers gave the system a simple prompt: Design a robot that can walk across a flat surface. the new algorithm compressed evolution to lightning speed—designing a successfully walking robot in mere seconds.
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the world's first fully certified eVTOL air taxi, cleared for commercial air taxi work.
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Hubble has spotted a strange burst of light in a region of space where there didn’t seem to be a trigger.
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It’s cool to blast low-poly baddies breaking through your walls, but isn’t it more technically impressive that Meta’s new headset lets you cook a meal or sweep your floors or enjoy a fancy coffee on a beautiful day without ever taking off the machine?
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The new bacterium has been genetically engineered to be more efficient a degrading plastic.
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Mount Vesuvius' eruption in A.D. 79 carbonized hundreds of scrolls and papyri in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Now, AI has decoded part of a scroll.
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October 10. 2023
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The mystery of the nearby Orion Nebula has deepened.
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Previous observations indicate that Psyche is a dense, largely metallic object thought to be the leftover core from a failed planet.
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Constructed from cement, carbon black, and water, the device holds the potential to offer affordable and scalable energy storage for renewable energy sources.
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In March, the United Nations released a massive climate change report. The biggest takeaway: Global warming will soon pass the oft-mentioned target of 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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Physicists have come closer to solving one of the biggest mysteries in geophysics: how the Earth powers its magnetic field.
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You've goat to see this!
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There really were human remains on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, but Walt was not among them.
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The finding opens the door to an entirely new approach to treating this deadly type of cancer.
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"It’s an incredible capability for our nation. We’re fortunate to have it.”
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October 3rd, 2023
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Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for using attosecond-scale pulses of light to study the motions of electrons
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There’s a lot of very forward thinking technology in this build, from camera systems to processing to network devices, to audio systems to the playback of the video
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Analogue in-memory computing (AIMC) with resistive memory devices could reduce the latency and energy consumption of deep neural network inference tasks by directly performing computations within memory.
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Nikola Tesla's vision of the world is about to become reality.
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FedEx handles over 15 million packages daily. A two-armed, AI-infused robot is now helping pack some of them into delivery trucks with expert care.
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Imagine building a billion-dollar company that competes with the biggest companies in the industry, and doing it with a modest 3 person team powered by AI. We’re living through a time of rapid change and endless possibilities and opportunities, what are y
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The federal government said it will conduct on Wednesday afternoon a nationwide test of its Emergency Alert System and Wireless Emergency Alerts.
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“The very best ‘problem’ to have is that there is so much material, it’s taking longer than we expected to collect it,” said deputy OSIRIS-REx curation lead Christopher Snead of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
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“We now think that we have observational evidence that the carbon we see on Europa’s surface came from the ocean. That’s not a trivial thing. Carbon is a biologically essential element,” said Samantha Trumbo, a Cornell astronomer who analyzed the data
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Where did they come from?
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Scientists studying the famous monster have confirmed it spins, which could explain how black holes produce relativistic jets.
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Today we go over the fires in Maui and what could have caused them.
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September 26, 2023
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The team found the capsule in good shape at 9:07 a.m. MDT (11:07 a.m. EDT) and then determined it was safe to approach. Within 70 minutes, they wrapped it up for safe transport to a temporary clean room on the range.
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'From this point on, we know what to do. We're safe. We're home. We did it.'
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We don’t know what to expect once we start analyzing the samples. We hope to be pleasantly surprised by learning something that we hadn’t expected!
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On 2 September, the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover were put into ‘sleep mode’ to protect their electrical components during the brutal two-week night
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The launch is now targeting 10:34 a.m. EDT on Thursday, October 5 from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after optimizing the trajectory for the mission to study a metal-rich asteroid.
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Currently, studios are looking to push more and more AI into the entertainment industry because it is cheaper for them to use AI than to have actual humans creating this content.
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After treatment, 86% of the MDMA group improved on a standard PTSD assessment compared to 69% of the placebo group. The assessment measures symptoms such as nightmares, flashbacks and insomnia.
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Gives a whole new meaning to 'fowl' language.
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FireBot is a high-temperature resistant and wirelessly controlled robot that can assist firefighters in search and rescue operations.
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Making the world more accessible to blind and partially sighted individuals. Be My AI knows more than just what’s in the photo – just ask for more context and discover what it can tell you.
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We live in a profoundly interesting time where historically polarized viewpoints between science and spirituality are converging to redefine our beliefs about the nature of the Universe and who we really are. The validity of ancient spiritual insights is
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Sweden has the power to change the shifting global world order. It's secret lies in a very special mine in the North.
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Have you ever experienced an outrageously over-the-top metaphysical or multidimensional spiritual event that was a big Aha Moment for you? Debra Giusti shares her latest download on activation of sacred sites with synchronistic confirmation!
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September 19, 2023
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This genetically engineered microorganism has the ability to break down a type of plastic known as polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
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NASA'S long-awaited report into Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) followed hundreds of UFO sightings but people may be looking in the wrong place.
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Groundbreaking research led by Mariapina D’Onofrio suggests that compounds found in espresso may inhibit the aggregation of tau proteins associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Early morning on Sunday, September 24, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s sample capsule will come face-to-face with Earth’s atmosphere for the first time since the mission’s 2016 launch.
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Central Location, Looser Regulations Attract Autonomous Companies
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All eligible Adobe Stock contributors with photos, vectors or illustrations in the standard and premium Stock collections will receive a bonus, which it plans to pay out annually going forward.
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August 15, 2023
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“It was a perfect storm – literally. There were just a confluence of factors that lined up to essentially wipe this town off the map,” climate scientist Daniel Swain
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Claims about the deadly wildfires in Hawaii - including that shadowy forces orchestrated the disaster with a laser beam - have gained traction online.
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“We can now edit insect genomes more freely and at will.”
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Imagine an iPad that's more than just an iPad—with a surface that can morph and deform, allowing you to draw 3D designs, create haiku that jump out from the screen
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Cathie Wood is a bullish technology investor who runs Ark Investment Management. The firm believes shares of electric vehicle maker Tesla, could surge to $2,000 per share by 2027. The prediction rests on a major change to Tesla's business model compared t
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Photoshop generative fill is a new AI-powered image generator. It arrived as part of the Adobe Firefly collection – a new family of innovative generative AI models that can create both text and image effects.
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As candidate superconductors go, the team behind LK-99 was really thinking outside the box.
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Two forms of lithium-ion technology are vying to dominate an industry destined to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars
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Suspicious of the powers that be Peggy analyzes what she finds in the news that may reveal what's really going on with the Maui Wildfire.
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Sound is being used to put out fires. It's from a simple device created by college students for a class project.
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THE MAGIC & GENIUS OF BEING BOLD
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Multiple separate fires, Bungled single party (D) government responses, yet more Corporate Media lies about weather
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August 22, 2023
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Writer and cook Alicia Kennedy says 'tech burgers' were only ever a distraction
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How Amazon is racing to keep up in generative AI with cusom AWS chips.
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it could, in theory, be a feasible way for people to retain their wealth, power, and influence in perpetuity
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When thinking about a cemetery, the terms eco-friendly, technology, immersiveness, and an interactive app do not immediately come to mind.
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August 1, 2023
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A team of physicists affiliated with several institutions in South Korea is claiming to have created the elusive room-temperature/ambient-pressure superconducting material.
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The team discovered six chemical cocktails which reversed the ageing process in both human and mice skin cells "by several years".
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The lime clasts give the concrete remarkable self-healing abilities.
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Although the details of Moolec's molecular farming technology are a trade secret, the company states that it has added pig genes to the genome of regular soya plants.
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AI can help you search smarter.
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Skepticism abounds for claim that lead-based material perfectly conducts electricity at room temperature and pressure
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July 11, 2023
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Roughly 48 to 60 km (30 to 37.3 mi) above the surface, the temperatures are much cooler, and the air pressure is roughly equal to Earth’s at sea level. As such, scientists have speculated that life could exist above the cloud deck (possibly in the form of
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Japanese firm believes it could make a solid-state battery with a range of 745 miles that charges in 10 minutes
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Images of several politicians engaged in infidelity were created to force a high-level conversation on disinformation.
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The shots of a young Ford look impressive, and it’s thanks to the team of over 100 artists at Industrial Light and Magic, who spent three years on the film’s visual effects
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Turns out it's pretty tough to build a state-of-the-art piece of tech.
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Granite decorates kitchens, and stems from volcanic clogs on Earth. But now, researchers have found a huge hunk of granite on the Moon.
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A record number of observers, including citizen scientists in the form of amateur astronomers, came together to collect data from a supernova that took place in the Pinwheel Galaxy, a spiral galaxy located approximately 21 million light-years from Earth.
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According to a recent study based on data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory , a supernova would have to be within 160 light-years of Earth before we would feel its damaging effects.
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There are six known white dwarfs within 18 light-years or so of the Earth. T
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his is also one of the first reports of (possible) organics in Jezero Crater.
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Scientists from the UOC and the University of Leicester have discovered a molecule with the potential to effectively eliminate senescent cells remaining in the body following cancer therapies.
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A lady from a village in Alsace in east France shared her story about being rudely interrupted as she sipped on her coffee when something hit her on the chest, what she believes was a small meteorite fragment..
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July 4, 2023
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They’ll live in the test environment for a full year, collecting insights that will eventually be used for real Mars missions.
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MIT engineers have developed cutting-edge technology to investigate the intricate relationship between the brain and the gut.
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JBS says the factory it’s building in Spain will be able to produce more than 1,000 metric tons of cultivated beef per year, and could expand capacity to 4,000 metric tons per year in the medium term.
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With few experts left in the world who understand this ancient form of writing, can AI step in to save the language?
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This robot can roll on four wheels, turn its wheels into rotors and fly, stand on two wheels to see over obstacles, use its wheels like feet to walk, use two rotors to add momentum while it rolls up inclines on two wheels, tumble, and more.
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Deep below the Indian Ocean, there's a giant "gravity hole" over one million square miles in size, a depression in the Earth's crust that has puzzled scientists for decades.
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Many believe AI will bring the end of the world, but Emad Mostaque believes AI (and humans) can change it.
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On Tuesday, San Mateo, California-based start-up Alef announced that Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) had approved its Model A flying car, making it the first vehicle to receive approval for use in the U.S., the company said.
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AI software and voice cloners simulate distracted saps willing to stay on the phone forever—or until callers finally give up
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Here’s a look at just a few of the ways Indigenous peoples impacted American culture.
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Will the new app from the creators of Facebook and Instagram be able to take on Musk's Twitter?
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June 27, 2023
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Carbon compounds form the foundations of all known life, and as such are particularly interesting to scientists working to understand both how life developed on Earth, and how it could potentially develop elsewhere in our universe.
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The dark energy and dark matter hunter launches on July 1.
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Two rival theories about the basis of perception went head-to-head in neuroscience experiments, but advocates of "losing" idea aren't conceding yet
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300 exhibitors and 10,000 attendees — from politicians and professional athletes to researchers, authors and advocates — are flooding the Colorado Convention Center from across the world for this year's Psychedelic Science conference.
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A team including Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb may have just found a trace of an interstellar object, which Loeb believes could be alien in origin.
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It’s a big deal for future missions beyond Earth.
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What caused the last ice age to end around 10,000 years ago?
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Even if we can’t “see them”, programs like ChatGPT's ability to emote like a human gives some people an eerie feeling. Scientists have a few theories on why this phenomenon happens.
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The Uncanny Valley is a common unsettling, anxious, creepy feeling people experience when androids, robots, dolls, mannequins, video games and animations closely resemble humans but are not quite realistic enough.
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New AI tools for Voice to Voice and Text to Speech processing
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June 20, 2023
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An otter with dreams of being a surf champion shocked Santa Cruz beach-goers when it swam right up to a group of surfers, picked out a board and went for a ride.
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Scientists have discovered that phosphorus, a key building block of life, lies in the ocean beneath the icy surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus.
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And for that matter, could our universe be inside a black hole?
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Rather than water being delivered to Earth by icy comets, this vital ingredient for life is present on our planet due to our young planet thirstily sucking up water from its space environment.
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Europe's Mercury probe BepiColombo will take a close look at its target planet on Monday (June 19), and we can expect some exciting new images to reach Earth soon after that.
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Earth's tilt has changed by 31.5 inches (80 centimeters) between 1993 and 2010 because of the amount of groundwater humans have pumped from the planet's interior.
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Weather modification in the form of cloud seeding has been implemented in various parts of the world, most recently in the Western US.
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Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers found that psychedelic drugs can reopen “critical periods” in the brain, enhancing its receptivity to learning from the environment.pen-the-brains-learning-window/
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Globally, over 200,000 people already have brain implants, and Silicon Valley companies like Elon Musk's Neuralink are working on trying to get millions of us to become cyborgs.
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The reactor uses CO2 from 'thin air.'
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From today the Eden Project in Cornwall will use deep geothermal energy to heat greenhouses and rainforest biomes.
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June 13, 2023
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The California-based automaker's first model, the Ocean compact SUV, has been given an official EPA driving range rating of 360 miles per charge.
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A NASA planetary scientist said conditions on the lunar south pole could be ripe for microbial life.
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The British auteur's new movie, Oppenheimer, includes a practical effects re-enactment of the world's first nuclear weapon test.
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Scientists have sent out an alert for a potential solar storm which may occur in next 10 years and take down world's communication system
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The discovery of the new planet BEBOP-1c confirms the 2nd-ever known planetary system orbiting twin stars.
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Whistleblower: U.S. has “quite a number” of "non-human” vehicles
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This is your link to the full National Press Club hosted event this week in Washington, DC
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There's another way Earth might have ended up in the belly of a black hole: It could have formed there.
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June 06, 2023
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Researchers in Switzerland have developed implants that provide a "digital bridge" between the brain and spinal cord, which have allowed a man to walk again 12 years after being paralyzed from the waist down in a motorcycle accident, The New York Times re
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In the 80s and 90s, taping and sampling were said to be killing the music industry. Now, AI is said to steal artists’ work and threaten their jobs. Is Generative AI an accelerated version of remix culture?
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Caltech's recent breakthrough has moved us closer to achieving the transformative potential of space-based solar power.
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Watch the world premiere of the AI-generated short film The Frost.
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Starlink set an altitude and speed record for use in-flight during Starship’s first flight test, providing connectivity at 123,600+ feet and while traveling at Mach 1.7!
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A study published in the journal Nature has proposed a new model for human evolution, asserting that modern Homo sapiens stemmed from multiple genetically diverse populations across Africa rather than a single ancestral population
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To say that Apple's WWDC 2023 keynote was packed would be an understatement.
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NASA’s Psyche asteroid mission is back on track for a launch this October after software problems, exacerbated by institutional issues at JPL, delayed its launch last year.
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May 30, 2023
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Lunar module pilots Charlie Duke, Harrison Schmitt and Rusty Schweickart served as 2023 grand marshals in Washington, DC parade.
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The coded message is designed to help us prep for a real potential signal from E.T.
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The country made a breakthrough in space-based solar energy back in 2015.
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Even as the market for crypto and gaming PC GPUs has cooled, the AI gold rush sees Nvidia selling shovels at just the right time.
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Adobe is extending existing subscriptions without charge but new licenses cannot be purchased, according to media reports
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Because of their special skills, octopuses may have origins that are quite literally out of this world.
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An unknown beach-goer picked up a giant mastodon tooth that first surfaced on an Aptos beach Friday.
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Increase your overall contentment with these simple practices.
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Scientists making the "Air-gen" device have discovered that any material can be used to generate electricity from the air.
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Ham radio users, from teenagers to eightysomethings, are ready to communicate in the next crisis – be it a wildfire, pandemic or ‘the big one’
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Damage to DNA and replication errors caused by stress and other factors play a major role in disease, and are a hallmark of cancer and other afflictions.
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The streaming industry has been facing a reckoning for a while. This week, it hit.
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A new study by MIT scientists shows that Alzheimer's model mice exposed to 40 Hz vibration an hour a day for several weeks showed improved brain health and motor function compared to untreated controls.
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This is fascinating. It’s a bit like the “watson” PC program from the 80’s, but much more sophisticated. I can see how it could be used a s a personal therapist/coach etc
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Threat posed by ‘provocative’ Russia and China has left US no choice but to prepare for orbital skirmishes
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Our current deep learning approach leverages more data, more computational power, and novel techniques to deliver our most advanced speech synthesis model
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May 23, 2023
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The crew is embarking on a weeklong stay aboard the International Space Station.
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After nine months in orbit, China's mysterious space plane has landed for the second time, making the nation one of the few entities to successfully launch and recover a reusable spacecraft.
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A Sign in Space imagines how Earth might respond to a signal from aliens and invites the public to help decode an ET message.
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The odor generators attach underneath the nose or via a soft mask. And for some reason, durian is one of the included scent profiles.
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Google’s I/O keynote was jam-packed with announcements, including three new Pixel devices and a bunch of new AI advancements.
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Scientists with the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory (YVO) recently released their report of observations and discoveries made over the last year and have come across new evidence that suggests that the last major eruption at Yellowstone 631,000 years ago
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In a major advance, scientists have assembled genomic sequences of 47 people from diverse backgrounds to create a pangenome, which offers a more accurate representation of human genetic diversity than the existing reference genome.
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Now, scientists from Brazil show that ADE could be a 'secret weapon' to boost reforestation around the globe.
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“We actually have amazingly little information about the center of the planet we live on,”
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An underwater volcanic eruption last year was powerful enough to generate plasma bubbles that disrupted radio communications in outer space
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Various cannabis products have been shown to improve sleep quality.
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The Northern Accelerator Proof-of-Concept system can produce enough water for three to four households—15 to 20 liters per day—but the team behind Solar2Water have plans to upscale the water production capacity to 50 liters per day, so that one unit can p
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Here are seven such coincidences — some of historical significance, others just downright mind-blowing — that have rational people questioning the odds of just how things could have unfolded that way.
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hydrofoils lift the hull right out of the water on stilts, hugely reducing drag and extending a craft's useful battery life.
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ONE’s work on iron-phosphate and dual chemistry batteries promises to address ongoing challenges for the electric automotive industry
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A review by one of the big influencers in social media
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Greer explains the inner-workings of a global government that goes beyond the world's most elite intelligence agencies and infiltrated the circles of pop culture icons like Marilyn Monroe and JFK.
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May 16, 2023
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The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted water around a rare comet located in the main asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.
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Solar-powered balloons detected strange rumblings at a height of 70,000 feet above the Earth's surface. Scientists can't identify them.
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Pro apps introduce powerful features designed for iPad to deliver the ultimate mobile studio for video and music creators
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A new study found that restoring certain signals in the brain region that processes smell can counter depression. The study reported the timing and strength of gamma signals in the olfactory bulb can alter emotions.
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Paul is a big fan of 'self evolution' and no doubt will evolve you as you listen..
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May 9, 2023
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The TROPICS cubesats will measure the hour-by-hour formation and progression of tropical cyclones and hurricanes with enhanced specificity.
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Space-tourism company Virgin Galactic Holdings said on Monday that a four-member test flight will take place in May and that it aims to launch its first commercial flight in late June.
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The New Glenn rocket, listed as having a payload capacity of 13 metric tons to geostationary transfer orbit or 45 metric tons to low Earth orbit, is Blue Origin’s entry into the heavy-lift launch services arena.
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Where will scientists find water in the solar system next?
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The report further said that the seismic data effectively examine the inner composition of the objects in the solar system.
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Stars like our Sun eventually become red giants and expand and consume planets that get too close
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a star experiencing spaghettification as it’s sucked in by a supermassive black hole during a ‘tidal disruption event’.
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“The central argument is about whether placental mammals (mammals that develop within placentas) diverged before or after the Cretaceous-Paleogene (or K-Pg) extinction event that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs,”
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EELS could one day wriggle its way into Enceladus' hidden oceans in search of extraterrestrial life.
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They can even handle uneven terrains and puddles of water.
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It’s called the Natrium plant, and it was designed by TerraPower, a company he started in 2008.
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Is AI in radio a force for good or the end of our industry? Here are the pros & cons of 5 case-uses from across Europe & America.
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Americans actually tried to farm and ranch Hippos before, in the beginning of the 20th Century (1900s), during a meat shortage and an ecological crisis.
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Here's what's really proven to increase your lifespan, and what's not.
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The Richest Family is a conversation between Magnetic Stripper, Greg Kulz and claytantor, three life long GENX weirdos, explore Ancient Technology, Science, Culture, and more.
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the Biden Administration convened the CEOs of leading AI companies on May 4, 2023 at the White House and announced several projects to promote what it terms “responsible” AI innovation.
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May 2, 2023
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NASA’s long-running spacecraft Voyager 2 will be able to continue its operations for years longer than anticipated with a new power strategy.
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80% of the world was once polygamous. What happened?
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The real story of progress today is its remarkable expansion to the rest of the world in recent decades.
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not only can cognitive decline be prevented through lifestyle interventions alone, but it can potentially be reversed through cognitive gains even late in life.
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National Library Week goes through April 29 with the theme “There’s more to the story.”
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"Weirdly, we did not see evidence of the rock tornado actually damaging engines."
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"It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things," he said.
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This AI system, which is non-invasive and does not require surgical implants, could provide a new means of communication for individuals who are unable to physically speak.
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US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy released an advisory Tuesday addressing the “epidemic of loneliness and isolation” affecting the country and laying out a framework for a “National Strategy to Advance Social Connection.”
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April 25, 2023
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Electric aircraft maker Joby Aviation (JOBY.N) will deliver up to nine air taxis to the U.S. Air Force under a $55 million contract extension that marks the company’s first revenue-generating operations
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SpaceX's Starship blew a huge hole in its launchpad during takeoff last week.
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A pair of quakes in 2021 sent seismic waves deep into the Red Planet’s core, giving scientists the best data yet on its size and composition.
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The Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of the galaxy cluster ACO S520, containing several interesting astronomical finds, including a ring-shaped galaxy and a pair of bright stars.
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The ISS is actually pretty fragile, and it must carefully use its thrusters to move it around. The very massive space shuttle would make moving the ISS around almost impossible
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Bard will have services provided by GPT-4. But what will set it apart?
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Apple’s VR headset has the chance to create an iPhone moment. Above all, the user experience could become a big threat to the competition.
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Elephant seals drift downwards in a "sleep spiral" when deep diving in the ocean, a new study found.
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It turns out there’s a huge supply of water 400 miles underground stored in rock known as 'ringwoodite'.
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The spring, known as Pythia’s Oasis, is likely venting water from beneath local tectonic plates through a fault called the Cascadia Subduction Zone.
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The recently uncovered feature is the second deepest blue hole in the world, and it could unlock the secret history of the Earth and potentially offer insight into conditions in far flung corners of the galaxy.
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April 18, 2023
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Elon Musk says he ‘guarantees excitement’ for lift off of world’s biggest ever rocket
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This summit highlights evidence-based strategies and tools to improve your healthspan. It aims to impart knowledge on preventing and even reversing the most disruptive diseases and chronic conditions.
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a visionary, uplifting synthesis of quantum science, Eastern mysticism, indigenous wisdom and plain common sense. This practical self-help, personal-development handbook guides us through the next phase of our personal evolution and sets us firmly on the
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Authors, Filmmakers, Photographers, Futurists and Climate Solutionaries
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Reverse Inflammaging Summit: Body and Mind Longevity Medicine April 25 – May 2, 2023
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April 11, 2023
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It will be able to produce 3,991 tonnes of thrust, 15 per cent more than Nasa’s Apollo Moon rocket Saturn V.
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The eight-year, £1.4bn voyage into deep space will explore the frozen oceans of Ganymede, Europa and Callisto
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Anthropic plans to train a powerful model with billions in new funding
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LEDs can be broken even when they appear to be working. The impetus is on you to decide when things have started to look uncanny.
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Personal Empowerment, Wholistic Health, New Science
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April 4th, 2023
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Insects that are essential to agriculture have emotions, dreams and even PTSD, raising complex ethical questions
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“I was obsessed with an idea that maybe is not shared by everyone,” said Abraham, “the idea that the hippie culture of the 1960s and ’70s was a miracle.”
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Beetle daisies evolved weird fly-like shapes to fool pollinators. Biologists now know how this odd trick evolved
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The cultured cut matches the texture and marbling of the famous Japanese meat
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Engineers show 3D printing’s potential by turning cartridges of paste and powder into cheesecake
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SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket could attempt to go orbital for the first time as soon as next week.
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Last Year Likely Witnessed the Brightest Cosmic Explosion 'Since Human Civilization Began'
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The AI chatbot has stoked fears of an educational apocalypse. Some teachers see it as the reboot education sorely needs.
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An autobiography of Gordon Cooper, reflecting on his career as one of the first astronauts, including his experiences with UFOs.
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Steven Wolfram speaks of combining his system with Chat GPT.
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Geoffrey Hinton is considered a godfather of artificial intelligence, having championed machine learning decades before it became mainstream.
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March 28, 2023
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“Over the last few weeks we’ve seen some really, really good auroras,” says Ian Griffin, an astronomer and the director of Otago Museum.
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Glass beads on moon’s surface may hold billions of tonnes of water, scientists say Finding from lunar soil samples is important breakthrough for hopes of building bases on the moon
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Marine heat waves dramatically impact the health of ocean ecosystems around the globe, disrupting the productivity and distribution of organisms as small as plankton and as large as whales.
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A national association of current and former military digital security leaders is calling on Congress to establish a separate cyber service, arguing that the lack of one creates an “unnecessary risk” to U.S. national security.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is cruising back to Earth with a sample it collected from the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu.
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Take a trip through these master-crafted fantasy societies and ask yourself: Could I actually live there?
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It seems these godlike AIs are already frighteningly cheap and easy to replicate.
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Mindplex is a magazine dedicated to the rapidly-unfolding future, a platform for sharing our community to share and discuss futurist content, and a showcase in using AI tools to improve the media experience.
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March 21, 2023
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Mysterious streaks of light were seen in the sky in the Sacramento area Friday night, shocking St. Patrick's Day revelers who then posted videos on social media of the surprising sight.
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The gigantic vortex, comprised of unfathomably hot plasma caught in a frenzy of competing magnetic fields, was spotted by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Friday before it dispersed the following day.
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Scientists have direct geological evidence of recent volcanic activity on Venus. Researchers analyzed archival radar images taken by NASA's Magellan mission more than 30 years ago, which revealed a volcanic vent changing shape and increasing significantly
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https://scitechdaily.com/massive-solar-eruption-blasts-nasa-probe-head-on-before-impacting-earth/
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A glancing CME impact on March 20-21st and two coronal holes with high speed streams are likely to destabilize the Earth's geomagnetic field due to the spring equinox Russell-McPherron effect, and then if old sunspot cluster AR3234 rotates back into Earth
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The Northern Lights captured in their equisite beauty by those who love them.
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Although co-appearance technology is already used by authoritarian regimes such as China's, Vintra seems to be the first company marketing it in the West
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From making use of everything from algae-grown limestone to olivine – researchers are focusing on finding low-carbon substitutes for cement
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By beaming 55 “modes” of signals down a single-core optical fiber, the team was able to transmit at a data rate of 1.53 petabits per second (Pbit/s).
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Documents show an attempt to clamp down on proven information about natural immunity
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Bruce loves to live at the intersection of Mind, Body, and Spirit
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March 14, 2023
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The quantum energy teleportation protocol was proposed in 2008 and largely ignored. Now two independent experiments have shown that it works.
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At the start of the pandemic, Dr. Robert Malone had faith in the medical system he had worked within for decades. When vaccines were approved, he got double jabbed. To this day he is still trying to heal from the injuries he received as a consequence of
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The new systems will complement teachers not replace them.
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They promise riches for drugmakers, huge savings for health systems and better lives for millions
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Build, train and deploy state of the art models powered by the reference open source in machine learning.
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Infinite image generation powered by AI.
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The most realistic and versatile AI speech software, ever. Eleven brings the most compelling, rich and lifelike voices to creators and publishers seeking the ultimate tools for storytelling.
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AI generated content & web3 infrastructure to create a hyperreal metaverse owned by users
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March 7, 2023
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My name is Stefan Burns, I was born in California and have lived there most of my life, and I studied and worked as a geologist/geophysicist in NorCal. So yeah, this is my home.
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The first look at samples returned by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft supports the theory that vital elements for life like amino acids could have been delivered from space.
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Northwestern University researchers have developed a first-of-its-kind small, flexible, stretchable bandage that accelerates healing by delivering electrotherapy directly to the wound site.
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According to research from the University of Arizona, when you’re in a bad mood, you might want to focus on tasks that require attention to detail, such as proofreading.
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The next full moon has many names including Crow, Crust, Sap, Sugar, Worm, or Death Moon. Southern Native American tribes called it the Worm Moon because earthworm casts that appeared as the ground thawed at this time of year.
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The crucial role is that of "sun flashes'"
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We'll be following the inaugural launch of Japan's H3 rocket and a mysterious Russian mission.
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If I could only leave one video behind me after my time on this earth, I would choose this one. Because I believe that every human on this earth can at least find one message in this video that goes right through their barriers and reaches the soul.
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Sierra persevered from a brain injury in college, and decided to launch a drink that natures your brain, as well as promote health and creativity.
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February 28. 2023
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The sky was ablaze as far south as London in the UK last night, and more auroral beauty is expected to come.
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SpaceX launched the first batch of next-generation Starlink internet satellites Monday from Cape Canaveral, deploying 21 bigger, heavier, more capable spacecraft to boost capacity for the global broadband network.
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“Starlink is the communication backbone of Ukraine,” Musk tweeted before saying that SpaceX “will not enable escalation of conflict that may lead to WW3.”
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Fewer streaky photos of the sky? NSF and SpaceX hope so.
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Russia's assault on Ukraine, entering its second year, has been largely a physical war. Experts are still concerned that can change.
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Called “Moonlight,” a new communications system will include a standardized Moon clock.
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Lab leak theory was dismissed as 'fringe,' 'conspiracy' at start of pandemic
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An updated intelligence assessment about the origins of the Covid-19 virus has reopened the long-simmering and unsolved debate about how the virus came to be – and will fuel a new committee House Republicans have created to investigate the issue.
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Lunar dust was found to have the perfect properties to provide shielding from the sun. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Published: FEBRUARY 13, 2023 06:22 Updated: FEBRUARY 13, 2023 09:38Email Twitter Facebook fb-messenger A coronal mass ejection from the Sun im
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How we use the internet is changing fast, thanks to the advancement of AI-powered chatbots that can find information and redeliver it as a simple conversation.
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Broken bones. Eye trauma. Brain injuries. How America’s sketchy “less-lethal” weapons industry exports its insidious brand of violence around the world.
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Targeting a previously undiscovered weakness.
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A judge issued an arrest warrant for a teacher charged with illegal crypto mining at a Massachusetts school.
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Former SpaceX engineer and Radiant CEO Doug Bernauer told us "execution is everything."
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Here you will find all of Jim's offerings to the Folk Song Army
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Folk Song Army Video aimed at achieving Peace in the Ukraine
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February 21, 2023
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The company is pitching the plan to people in countries where Starlink service isn't already available.
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The company first filed paperwork for the flight in 2021.
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On Dec. 6, SpaceX filed a request with the FCC to equip its second-generation Starlink satellites with “direct-to-cellular” hardware.
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It's the clearest evidence of waves and water the Curiosity rover has ever found.
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A de-extinction company known for its plans to resurrect the mammoth and Tasmanian tiger has announced it will also bring back the dodo
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The European Space Agency is exploring a unique way to dramatically cut carbon emissions by tapping sunlight closer to the source.
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Launcher plans to launch additional missions later this year, on SpaceX's Transporter-8 in June and Transporter-9 in October.
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Combining the transformative power of art, science, and spirituality
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On January 3, 2023, inner planet Mercury crossed the spacecraft's field of view, resulting in a transit where Mercury appeared as a perfectly black circle moving across the face of the sun.
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Three brightest objects in the night sky will get together early on Feb. 22 and you can watch it live via the Virtual Telescope Project.
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February 14, 2023
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The leading explanation among US intelligence officials is that three objects shot down over North America last weekend were balloons being flown for benign purposes
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Twice a day, every day of the year, weather balloons are released simultaneously from almost 900 locations worldwide!
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Moderators for the 22 million member forum banned someone for making an illustration that too closely resembled AI-generated art.
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Scientists are now trying to analyze the mechanism behind it, but undoubtedly, the video has stunned the space community.
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Jupiter’s count of 92 knocks Saturn out of first place for most moons in the solar system.
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it looks like the "Un-carrier's" 5G Home Internet network is starting to get even more attention with unexpectedly rapid growth and killer deals.
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An international team of astronomers has confirmed the existence of K2-415b, an Earth-sized exoplanet circling an M dwarf star, just 72 light years away from Earth.
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ngineers from Caltech have discovered that Leonardo da Vinci's understanding of gravity—though not wholly accurate—was centuries ahead of his time.
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As of Monday, February 6, the cherry-colored sports car has officially been in space for exactly five years.
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So up until now, the biggest hurdle with creating hydrogen from seawater has been the chlorine, which is abundantly present in the ocean
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The study found that the cognition ranking of participants decreased by 1-2% when just 8 minutes of vigorous activity was replaced by sedentary behavior.
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The generative AI space is gaining formidable players.
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Google and Baidu are set to introduce their own A.I.-powered chatbots to challenge OpenAI, Microsoft and the rising popularity of ChatGPT.
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It's a pithy line for the lovelorn and screenwriters to say, but is it true?
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February 7, 2023
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The US Fleet Forces Command posted several photos on its Facebook page showing large debris of the balloon being hauled into a boat.
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The global drone market is expected to grow from $30.6 billion in 2022 to $55.8 billion by 2030, according to a report by Drone Industry Insights. DJI dominates more than 70% of that market.
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Altman believes it will dovetail with sentient AIs, otherwise known as artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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A search bot you converse with could make finding answers easier—if it doesn’t tell fibs. Microsoft, Google, Baidu, and others are working on it.
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NASA hopes Apptronik's Apollo will help lead to a humanoid robot that can go to space.
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This means Pfizer and Moderna would sell the shots directly to health-care providers at a higher price.
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The discovery of this hidden molten rock layer shows that molten rocks have nothing to do with tectonic plate movements, which cause earthquakes.
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Researchers from Cambridge and University College London have discovered a previously unknown type of water ice, dubbed medium-density amorphous ice (MDA). It’s frozen but has a density similar to that of liquid water.
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December 27, 2022
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2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
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"It was colorless," Taboada says. Not even the telltale red streak of a vessel in the frog's belly was visible. "It was insane. I had never seen anything like that."
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The vaccine will be used as a booster
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Some Mars robots get help from nature to fend off dust for longer.
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Scientists from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and the Chinese Academy of Sciences think they may have identified the bacteria responsible for the change in metabolism.
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Technology Is Psychedelic
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Manufacturers of drones made after 16 September 2022 must, from today (16 December), ensure that those drones are "Standard Remote ID" compliant. This means that the drones must broadcast packets of data once per second (using Bluetooth or Wifi) that cont
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Smartphones can do lots of things — but plenty of people with them make very few, if any, actual phone calls.
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For more than a year, AP journalists interviewed sources and pored over thousands of documents to trace how technologies marketed to “flatten the curve” were put to other uses.
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By 2015, smartphone ownership will surpass 80% in the U.S., up from 17% of the population today,
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VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI told scientists that their research can lead to knowledge of God by revealing the natural order of the universe.
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MIT graduate student is working to make water available for the world’s poor by refining the tools and techniques of fog harvesting.
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A handful of scientists aim to satisfy the world's growing appetite for steak without wrecking the planet.
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A research breakthrough toward odor-generating TV
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December 20, 2022
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damage was less than what might be expected from the size of the temblor.
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A new application of machine learning boosts scientists’ ability to use data from satellite navigation systems to detect and warn of earthquakes.
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Basically, the mattress would fall into the box and a lid would close over the box. Survival supplies would be readily available in the box for the person or persons sitting inside. Air vents would provide oxygen.
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The mega-marsquake, which is 5 times stronger than the previous record, may be the last big find from the InSight Mars Lander.
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In a new study published on Monday, a team of mostly US-based researchers said they hope the doomed exoplanet Kepler-1658b can help shed light on how worlds die as their stars get older.
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Astronomers have identified two worlds with Earth-like masses, sitting in the habitable zone around a red dwarf star called GJ 1002.
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At present, it’s unclear where this residual glow is coming from, but astronomers have an idea.
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BF.7 is a new version of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that's driving a surge of infection in China.
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After all, the AI chatbot seems to be slaying a great deal of search engine responses.
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This AI powered Chatbot just might be the next step beyond search engines.
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Green light supposedly can reduce pain levels in people with conditions such as arthritis, migraines and fibromyalgia
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Engineers have been building machines with 'extremum seeking' algorithms for decades. Sea urchins perfected the method naturally.
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"Enhance Speech" uses AI to make poor-quality voice recordings sound professional.
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Alie is a science correspondent and "Ologies," is a comedic science show named one of Time Magazine’s top 50 podcasts.
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December 14, 2022
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“This is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century,” Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said a press conference.
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Two meteor showers will be gracing the night sky in December, including one that is known for producing lots of bright shooting stars.
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The incoming capsule hit the atmosphere at Mach 32, or 32 times the speed of sound, and endured reentry temperatures of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 degrees Celsius) before splashing down west of Baja California near Guadalupe Island.
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To the four out of ten that didn't make it, we salute 'em
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Most of the Artemis 1 cubesats have checked in as the Orion spacecraft looped around the moon, but a few still have not phoned home after launch.
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The commercial Hakuto-R moon lander, developed by a Japanese company called ispace, will attempt to become the first privately-developed spacecraft to accomplish a soft landing on the lunar surface.
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AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures.
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Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface. Unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile of wind-blown sand and dust similar to but smaller than a dune.
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The Earthshot Prize, a global environmental prize founded by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2020, aims to spotlight, support and scale groundbreaking solutions to our world’s most pressing environmental challenges.
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Here, Interesting Engineering puts the 'iconic' AI Chatbot to the test.
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"It does feel like it could eat up the world."
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It had been a point of contention for many Chinese people, including due to concerns around data collection and its use by local governments to ban entry to those who have visited a city with a “high-risk zone,” even if they did not go to those areas with
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December 6, 2022
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NASA’s Orion spacecraft is on course for its return to Earth on Sunday, Dec. 11. The spacecraft made its second and final close approach to the Moon at 10:43 a.m. CST Monday, Dec. 5, just before its return powered flyby burn
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A spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Public Safety told(Opens in a new window) Insider that search and rescue teams were dispatched at 3:30 a.m. and the stranded man was taken to Kotzebue at 6 a.m.
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Two giant telescopes — one in Australia, the other in South Africa — will comprise the supersensitive Square Kilometre Array.
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What the researchers discovered when looking into the volcano was that it has a 16 to 20 percent reservoir of melted rock on average. That is almost double the previous estimate of nine percent.
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"Our study demonstrates that Mars is not dead."
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Two explosions at major Russian military bases, including the Dyagilevo base near Ryazan just 150 miles from Moscow, mean the war in Ukraine has come right to Vladimir Putin’s doorstep.
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Researchers delved deep underground into the permafrost in Siberia and discovered 13 prehistoric zombie viruses frozen in the ice
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Neuralink, another of Elon Musk’s companies, held its Show & Tell on Wednesday, and many revelations were shared in the live stream. One of those revelations included restoring vision even if someone was born blind. And also restoring full body functional
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As AI begins influencing the world of art and music, many question what it means to be creative.
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Gene therapies promise long-term relief from intractable diseases—if insurers agree to pony up.
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A new treatment for Parkinson’s disease that sees stem cells grown in the laboratory and transformed into nerve cells replace those destroyed by the disease will start first trials with patients in the next few months
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An existing drug used to treat a type of liver disease is able to "lock" the doorway by which SARS-CoV-2 enters our cells, a receptor on the cell surface known as ACE2.
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Kanye West was kicked off Twitter on December 2 for posting a swastika inside a Star of David — but it turns out the image is actually the insignia for a UFO-worshiping cult
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Video by Glen Greenwald about Musk and Twitter on "will we have free speech, or not?"
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Tech billionaire addresses question on why he'd make an 'alternative phone'
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Contributors will have to disclose whether their work was made using AI, and are not allowed rip off artists
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Long time contributer to the show helps us look at the latest evidence of potential life on Mars
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During Mauna Loa's 1935 eruption, the U.S. Army Air Corps dropped 600-pound bombs on the lava to prevent the lava flow from advancing toward Wailuku River, Hilo's water supply.
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November 29, 2022
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NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft reached the farthest distance from Earth it will travel during the Artemis I mission — 268,563 miles from our home planet — just after 3 p.m. CST. The spacecraft also captured imagery of Earth and the Moon together
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WASP-39b, a gas giant about 700 light-years away, is turning out to be quite the exoplanetary treasure.
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According to NASA, the black hole in the video is about 7,800 light years away from Earth and has a mass between five and ten times that of the Sun.
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We'd love to know what natural resources are available, especially volatile stuff, water, carbon dioxide, ammonia, that are common in asteroids and comets.
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The Perseverance rover may have just found evidence of organic compounds in the rocks of the Jezero Crater.
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The minerals were found inside a slice of the El Ali meteorite, which landed in Somalia in 2020.
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The spacecraft is designed to host payloads from other private and government organizations, like science investigations and small rovers.
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Waves of orange, glowing lava and smoky ash belched and sputtered Monday from the world’s largest active volcano in its first eruption in 38 years, and officials told people living on Hawaii’s Big Island to be ready in the event of a worst-case scenario.
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The eruption continues at the summit of Mauna Loa. All vents remain restricted to the summit area. However, lava flows in the summit region are visible from Kona.
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Pele’s Hair, a byproduct of volcano eruptions, are thin glass fibers “named after the volcanic deity Pele,”
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New intelligence collected from downed Iranian drones in Ukraine shows that a majority of the aircrafts’ parts are manufactured by companies in the U.S., Europe and other allied nations, stoking concern among Western officials and analysts.
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Three upcoming robotic missions will set in place landers, orbiters, relay satellites and test key technologies needed to begin construction of China’s International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) in the 2030s.
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Elon Musk shares his plans for turning Twitter into an "everything app."
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Police in China are checking people’s phones for the presence of foreign apps, including Instagram, Twitter, and the encrypted messaging app Telegram
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With Alex Fielding and Steve Wozniak
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November 22, 2022
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The uncrewed Orion spacecraft is equipped with 16 cameras that have been documenting its journey through space
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Since Musk’s takeover, Twitter news has been… interesting. But there does look to be some good news today, as the company aims to begin replacing engineers and set itself some new goals …
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Lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50% shorter than it was in the 1970s.
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The company with this ambition is Dallas-based Colossal, which is wholly focused on “disruptive conservation and preservation” to “de-extinct” long-lost animals.
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new research suggests moving to a beat may well extend to the animal kingdom, with scientists uncovering the ability in rats.
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Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that today is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others.
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Born on October 31, Lydia and Timothy Ridgeway were born from what may be the longest-frozen embryos to ever result in a live birth, according to the National Embryo Donation Center.
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Historian Steve Gillon pulls back the curtain on one of the most dramatic moments in American history
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Congress declared in 1992 that all government records surrounding Kennedy's assassination "should be eventually disclosed to enable the public to become fully informed about the history surrounding the assassination."
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Revisionist history has challenged the story of "The First Thanksgiving" because it has been a story out-of-balance since its first telling. It remains out-of-balance with the new telling of it. We are revising revisionist history with a story never told.
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Tiger sharks have a strong symbiotic relationship with seagrass ecosystems, playing the role of apex predator to prevent overgrazing by other species while at the same time patrolling the underwater meadows for sustenance.
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November 15, 2022
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Artemis I is the first mission in a large program to send astronauts around and on the Moon sustainably.
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A new service module, which was attached to the stern of the spacecraft, provided more payload space for more experiments.
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A study of some of the oldest stars in the universe suggests that the building blocks of planets like Jupiter and Saturn begin to form while a young star is growing.
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The company will 'significantly improve' its tracking disclosures and user controls next year.
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The headset itself is likely to be priced between $2,000 and $3,000 because it’s a high-end product that will pack a Mac-level M2 chip, more than 10 cameras placed outside and inside the device, and the highest-resolution displays ever featured
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Understanding how light modulates brain functions and behavior.
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Research demonstrates a pathway to sustainably produce biojet fuel domestically and meet the country’s growing aviation fuel demand.
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Robert Lanza, M.D., says that death is actually a door that leads to an infinite number of universes.
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the mushroom-derived drug, delivered in combination with integrative psychotherapy sessions, significantly reduced participants’ depression as compared to a placebo after three weeks.
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Mushroom skins could provide a biodegradable alternative to some plastics used in batteries and computer chips, making them easier to recycle.
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certain varieties of fungi can be a fantastic addition to your daily cup of joe, especially if you’re looking to boost focus throughout the day or even offset the caffeine jitters.
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MycoSpectrum™ adaptogenic mushroom blends are perfect by themselves or paired with complementary ingredients like our organic fermented raw cacao powder, organic Vermont maple syrup sugar, and our organic non-dairy creamer made with MCT oil powder and coc
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Tasty Deconstruction of this week's news by none other than John Dvorak and Adam Curry
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November 8, 2022
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NASA is still targeting November 14 for the launch of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft on Artemis I. The uncrewed flight test will send Orion beyond the Moon and back to Earth.
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Space is going to be a billboard. If you like to run your own ad, the collaboration accepts cryptocurrencies only.
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Solar winds and icy objects are on the probe's next agenda.
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While the aurora borealis offers a visual display of charged particles from the Sun interacting with Earth’s magnetic field, actually being able to hear the magnetic field generated by Earth or its interaction with solar winds is another matter.
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Many researchers are setting up profiles on social media site Mastodon
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International climate negotiations got underway Monday with dire warnings about climate-driven disasters, pleas to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and a plan for a new global weather early warning system. Day 2 - https://www.npr.org/2022/11/07/1134696214/
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This rate of warming is the highest of any continent in the world, with the team warning of more frequent heatwaves, wildfires and other extreme weather events as a result.
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As global temperatures rise, the ecology of Antarctica is already changing
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It can be burned just like conventional fuels, but the only byproduct it releases is water.
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It has a record-breaking volume utilization efficiency of 72 percent.
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Research involved measuring the results of laser-excited helium atoms and matching their findings with theoretical predictions to show how their signature results could stand in for a duration of time.
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November 1, 2022
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SpaceX now has one more landing—51—than launches this year.
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Ice, ice baby. Equator ice, ice baby.
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"Only about 25 asteroids with orbits completely within Earth's orbit have been discovered to date because of the difficulty of observing near the glare of the sun."
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Oh, we don't think we needed science to pinpoint biggest windbags
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The researchers designed a gripper that is greater than the sum of its parts and a grasping strategy that can adapt to a range of complex objects with minimal planning and perception."
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A new reality might be produced by every possible quantum interaction.
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October 25, 2022
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The heliopause — the boundary between the heliosphere (the bubble of solar wind encompassing the solar system) and the interstellar medium (the material between the stars) appears to be rippling and creating oblique angles in an unexpected manner.
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NASA has selected 16 individuals to participate in its independent study team on unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). Observations of events in the sky that cannot be identified as aircraft or as known natural phenomena are categorized as UAPs.
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In order to prevent the negative energy emitted by the planetary bodies from harming the idols, the doors that let the sun's rays in have been closed
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The image is not only stunningly beautiful but also reveals cosmic processes never before observed with such clarity.
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Ancient bacteria could survive close to the surface on Mars much longer than previously assumed. And—when the bacteria are buried and, thus, shielded from galactic cosmic radiation and solar protons—they can survive much longer.
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The Line is an 105 mile-long city that emphasizes an integration with nature while trapping humans inside a pair of mirrors.
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While people often blame online media in general for political polarization, the findings suggest that the way tools and features are designed on the sites could play a role in triggering political discord.
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According to Florida State Fire Marshal Jimmy Patronis, electric vehicles that were damaged and flooded by the hurricane have been catching fire without any warning throughout the most damaged parts of the state.
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A new approach combining biological and chemical processes could greatly simplify the process of recycling it.
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These fascinating experiments are evidence that even brain cells in a dish can exhibit inherent intelligence, modifying their behavior over time.
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A team of scientists has successfully grown a premature lamb in an artificial womb
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Collaboration will use proprietary Fine Mycelium technology to explore the use of non-animal materials in automotive design.
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Biotech startups Bolt Threads, Ecovative and Zvnder have discovered how to make the most of mycelium — creating high-quality, sustainable versions of ubiquitous materials such as leather.
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October 18, 2022
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It's a "once-in-a-century opportunity" to address fundamental questions of these bursts.
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A stellar meal that didn't sit well.
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Humanity has yet to commercially mine even a single asteroid. So what’s taking so long?
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The near-Earth asteroid responsible for the spectacular annual Geminids meteor shower has been caught doing something really unexpected.
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The company's test demonstrated the viability of catapulting satellite components into the sky.
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After a long hype campaign, the Spinn coffee maker is finally here.
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NFT mogul and Miami-based millionaire Martin Mobarak is being investigated after burning what appears to be an authentic piece by Frida Kahlo that was valued at $10 million.
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In this new CIM architecture, processing and storage take place in one place, eliminating transfer times as well as reducing energy consumption.
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Unlike those that return to base once missiles are launched, ‘suicide drones’ are destroyed in an attack.
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Apple announced new versions of its iPad Pros, a new 10th-generation iPad and an updated Apple TV 4K on Tuesday.
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October 11, 2022
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Elegant experiments with entangled light have laid bare a profound mystery at the heart of reality
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This pup puts us one step closer to resurrecting extinct species.
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One day, we will look back at the years when people walked down the street, necks bent, staring down at little screens in their hands as an absurdly primitive way to interact with information.
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We unravel the mysterious nature of quantum entanglement
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Nick Herbert (born September 7, 1936) is an American physicist and author, best known for his book Quantum Reality.
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October 4, 2022
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a bipedal machine that the Tesla CEO imagines will one day be sold as a “general purpose” bot that’s cheaper than a car and equally capable of working in factories and doing chores at home.
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Outrage and condemnation over billionaire’s suggestions including formally making Crimea part of Russia
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A crew of four is set to blast off from Florida.
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For the first time in known history, hackers from within Russia have begun a systemized effort to hack Russian government affiliated websites.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generators have exploded in popularity this year and the technology shows no signs of stopping.
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The first machine to combine the efficiency advantages of ground effect and hydrofoiling in a single design, it promises revolutionary speed and range in coastal areas.
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In 1964, the Army called the reactor portable, even at 330 tons, because it was built from pieces that each fit in a C-130 cargo plane
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Epigenetic scientist Bruce Lipton is back, sharing with us his insights of creating heaven on Earth.
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September 27, 2022
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The dramatic smashup was visible from 7 million miles away.
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scientists discovered the production of a chemical called phosphine on Venus, which has led to the conclusion that something (likely microbial) must be alive and producing this excretion
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Venus is a valuable target for studies despite its hostile surface environment
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A new study of seismic waves propagating from two different earthquakes – in similar locations but separated by a gap of 20 years – has revealed changes that are happening in Earth's outer core.
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A fleet of roughly 125 tankers could return subpolar regions close to pre-industrial temperatures.
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If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tons of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches.
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If you've ever wondered how many ants there are in the world.
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Lithium-ion batteries are still kings of the castle when it comes to state-of-the-art electrification of transportation. But other technologies are chafing at the bit to challenge lithium-ion for supremacy.
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its strategic investors include Polestar, Mercedes-Benz, VinFast, BP, Samsung, and TDK.
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“The core technologies developed by Samsung include heat-treatment and bioprocessing technologies to kill pathogens from human waste and make the released effluent and solids safe for the environment.
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By 2035, the batteries in California’s zero-emission cars could power every home in the state for three days.
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John Leake, a true crime author, and Dr. Peter McCullough have written a new book, “The Courage to Face COVID-19: Preventing Hospitalization and Death While Battling the BioPharmaceutical Complex
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Specified in that order is the development of genetic engineering technologies and techniques “to be able to write circuitry for cells and predictably program biology in the same way in which we write software and program computers,
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Cal Am is proposing the use of slant wells for water intake, a method that draws subsurface ocean water and, the company claims, eliminates harm to marine life.
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September 20, 2022
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The queue, or line, of mourners stretched over 10 miles (16 kilometers).
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Infrared images of Mars captured by the space telescope show its surface features and hint at its chemistry.
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This event marks the first time seismic and acoustic waves from an impact were detected on the Red Planet. Why does this meteoroid impact sound like a “bloop” in the video? It has to do with a peculiar atmospheric effect that’s observed in deserts here.
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Some of the rocks include the highest concentration of organic matter found by the rover to date,
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it appeared as if the spacecraft had developed something like an electronic version of aphasia — a condition that causes the loss of fluent speech.
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Called lonsdaleite, these space diamonds has a hexagonal structure rather than the cubic structure of a typical diamond., with special properties.
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Micrometeorites land on every corner of Earth. Matthew Genge is using these shards of interplanetary space to understand Earth and its place in the solar system.
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This discrepancy could have some serious consequences.
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a dizzyingly ambitious project is harnessing all the power of modern science in an attempt to understand what whales say – and then hold conversations with them
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New aircraft are expected to enter service by 2028.
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Ukrainians make more advances, war crimes uncovered, and oppression level from Putin regime is expected to rise.
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September 13, 2022
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The unmanned mission was carrying 36 payloads from academia, research institutions, and students across the globe and was expected to reach the edge of space and return in a series of suborbital flights.
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Understanding the effects of the impact in detail is crucial for designing an effective planetary defense system.
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Rocks collected on Mars will be studied in the Beehive State.
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a "phosphate mineral in columnar crystal" found in lunar rock particles. The mineral contains helium-3, which could be a future source of energy.
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A small experiment on a NASA rover is tinkering with the alien atmosphere.
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Microsoft would begin to deliver some of the 5,000 Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) goggle units after "encouraging results from testing in the field,"
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Engineers at MIT have developed a new battery design using common materials – aluminum, sulfur and salt.
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The company aims to deploy 1 GW of wave energy systems by 2035.
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A shift is underway in the space industry’s largest market – satellite communications – from video broadcast to data services, highlighted by a flurry of consolidation in the sector.
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SeaBubble is 8 meters long by 3.5 m wide (26.25 by 11.5 ft ft), accommodates up to 12 passengers, is propelled by two 45-kW motors, and is powered by a hybrid system incorporating both hydrogen fuel cells and a lithium-ion battery pack.
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September 6, 2022
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the Sun flung an enormous 'coronal mass ejection' straight at the spacecraft and planet just two days before their closest approach – and the data are revealing.
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4 possible launch periods over the next 4 months
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Hydrogen issues were a mainstay of the Space Shuttle program.
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on board with Starlink Group 4-20 was Sherpa-LTC2, a space tug provided by Seattle-based company Spaceflight.
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Days later, the base was reportedly blown up.
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a bioengineered cornea that restored sight to 20 people, 14 of them previously blind, in an initial clinical trial.
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And their method is faster, cheaper, and more sustainable.
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Beginning on its back, legs waving, the robot learns to flip itself over, stand up, and walk in an hour.A further ten minutes of harassment with a roll of cardboard is enough to teach it how to withstand and recover from being pushed around by its handlet
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Scalable technology can work in relative humidity of four percent too.
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Green hydrogen breakthrough sees water turned to energy at room temperature
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Costumes, with a little help from a friendly image AI, can become something more..
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40+ companies and artists share their ocean and water solutions. Free to attend!
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August 30, 2022
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While NASA's Artemis road map only called for one launch per year after Artemis III, Congress this week as part of the NASA Authorization Act of 2022, directed NASA to pursue "not fewer than 1 Space Launch System launch annually
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This observation of a gas giant planet orbiting a Sun-like star 700 light-years away provides important insights into the composition and formation of the planet.
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Using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes, the DART investigation team completed a six-night observation campaign last month to confirm earlier calculations of the orbit of Dimorphos—DART’s asteroid target.
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A so-called evolutionary simplification of the larynx led to human speech.
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"maturation phase transient reprogramming," refreshes older cells to partly restore their function and to renew their biological age, while maintaining the cells' specific type and function.
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A new universal flu vaccine protects against diverse variants of both influenza A and B viruses in mice, according to a new study by researchers in the Institute for Biomedical Sciences at Georgia State University.
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Created by chemistry set maker Thames & Kosmos along with Pittsburgh-based Schell Games, Happy Atoms teaches kids about building molecules using magnetic atoms that connect in “happy” ways.
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Imagine Joseph Campbell writing a book on the Beatles and rock & roll, and you will have a clear understanding of the revelatory content within All You Need is Myth
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August 26, 2022
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For this year's presentation, our keynote speakers, Allan & Sun Lundell, will conduct a live audience version of their popular radio program, "The Dr. & Mrs. Future Show."
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It is a remarkable time for the eVTOL industry.
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New Inexpensive Air Transpo
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these companies say they're getting closer to fusion.
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The past year was huge for fusion breakthroughs on all levels. Science, industry, and partnerships all saw immense growth and developments.
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The clean, safe form of power generation has been ’10 years away’ for decades now, but General Fusion thinks it may be getting closer. Its new installation will prove if it’s right.
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Take a closer look at the upcoming Artemis I flight, a mission that will pave the way for future lunar exploration
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have now demonstrated a low-cost gel film that can pull many liters of water per day out of even very dry air.
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Air Protein is transforming carbon dioxide into delicious cuts of meat, with the helping hand of bacteria.
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AI model generating images from any prompt!
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Homer Simpson in various movies, for starters
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They are the second team in less than a month to claim having produced embryos from scratch.
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Russian Black Sea naval headquarters in Sevastopol was recently attacked on August 20 by Ukrainian forces using a suicide drone. A video taken early in the morning showed smoke coming from the area in Sevastopol where the Black Sea fleet is stationed.
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The combination of psychedelics with immersive media for treating trauma, phobias, fears.
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Researchers created model embryos from mouse stem cells that form a beating heart, a brain, and the foundation for other organs. The new model provides a novel way for future researchers to create and research the earliest stages of development.
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August 23, 2022
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NASA has selected ten CubeSats to hitch a ride into space aboard Artemis I, which will test out new technologies and conduct deep space research.
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Commander Moonikin Campos will ride Orion to the moon on NASA's new Space Launch System megarocket.
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NASA has identified 13 candidate landing regions near the lunar South Pole as it prepares to send astronauts back to the Moon under the Artemis program.
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Can the first probe to visit Neptune and Uranus make it to its 50th anniversary?
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On key metrics, a VR experience elicited a response indistinguishable from subjects who took medium doses of LSD or magic mushrooms.
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The California DMV has become the first US government entity to formally move against the naming of “full self-driving.”
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Multiple mainstream media outlets have been caught reading from the same script and advancing an identical propaganda narrative following the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago.
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This forage crop would be capable of surviving in tough volcanic soil like that which covers Mars, researchers have determined, and could be then used as fertilizer to grow food like turnips, radishes and lettuce.
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This modular and flexible system is designed so that the energy generator can seamlessly follow the movement of the waves.
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Robots will explore remote physical embodiment in the ANA Avatar XPrize Finals
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NASA has released a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away.
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Mars is dry and seemingly lifeless today, but billions of years ago it had lots and lots of water.
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Deep-sea scientists first identified them in 2002, growing like a shaggy carpet on a whale skeleton they encountered by chance, nearly 3,000 metres deep in Monterey Bay, California.
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"cannabis consumption is associated with lower COVID-19 severity among hospitalized patients."
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August 16, 2022
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Virgin Orbit now expects to perform four launches this year, at the low end of earlier projections, but with a higher per-launch revenue.
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After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) was achieved for the first time on August 8, 2021.
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Addiction may not always be a fixed personality or genetic trait, instead the result of our plastic brains learning the effect of drugs on our individual responses and the environmental setting in which the substance is used.
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Jupiter’s second Galilean Moon, Europa, with its interior ocean, predominantly crater-less surface, and crisscrosses of cracks and ridges spanning entire hemispheres, makes it one of the most fascinating planetary bodies ever observed.
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Anyone can name a star online, but the International Astronomical Union is offering a rare space opportunity: to name a planet discovered by the groundbreaking James Webb Telescope.
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We killed the last thylacine about a century ago. Can we correct that mistake?
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Tesla Bots are initially positioned to replace people in repetitive, boring, and dangerous tasks. But the vision is for them to serve millions of households, such as cooking, mowing lawns, and caring for the elderly.
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Hertz, one of the biggest car rental companies globally, recently reported that it’s making significant savings on maintenance costs with its recently acquired Tesla fleet compared to its average Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles.
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In a new experiment, young mice briefly experienced signs of old age when scientists infused them with the blood of older mice.
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Now an open source alternative to DALL-E 2 is on the cusp of being released, and it’ll have few — if any — content filters.
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An interview with Midjourney founder David Holz
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Enosis study, in collaboration with Swinburne University and the Psychedelic Society of Belgium, confirms use of VR modalities during treatment improves therapeutic outcomes among study participants
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The affordable implant is an alternative to the transplantation of donated human corneas, which are scarce in countries where the need for them is greatest.
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white blood cells that reside in the intestines, a specific group of immune cells called tissue resident lymphocytes, use sugar as an energy source and have a faster metabolism than lymphocytes that circulate in the blood.
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Feature you'd normally want for secure software opened a huge hole.
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After four years of halting work, Blue Origin has fully abandoned a transport ship it once intended to convert into a landing platform for its orbital-class New Glenn rocket.
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August 9, 2022
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A spy satellite for Iran lifted off Tuesday (Aug. 9) at 1:52 a.m. EDT (0552 GMT) from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Novavax Inc. executives slashed their annual sales guidance in half Monday while wildly missing financial expectations, sending shares down more than 30% in after-hours trading.
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The said object had crashed into the ocean just off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
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Vertical Aerospace is ready to kick off flight tests for its VX4 eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) this summer, despite a net operating loss of approximately $47 million during this year’s first half.
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The Switchblade has been a work in progress for 14 years
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One prototype air taxi suffered a software glitch, lost control and nosed into a field. Another’s computer erroneously thought it was on the ground, shutting off power in flight and plunging it onto the pavement. Batteries on two more burst into flames.
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many contemporary deepfake programs simply aren't great at recreating the profile of somebody's face.
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below the surface of the hills and valleys on Greenland’s Disko Island and Nuussuaq Peninsula there are enough critical minerals to power hundreds of millions of electric vehicles.
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The impressive land mass stands on 87 wood and polystyrene platforms secured on the ocean floor.
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Research team intends to to try same process with human stem cells
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Is the world finally prepared for hands-free cameras?
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The compact row houses feature carefully angled solar panels that harness every moment
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The move means that Amazon’s collection of connected devices will soon include everything from intelligent vacuums to air purifiers.
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US Space Force has tested using dog-like quadruped unmanned ground vehicles The 'robot dogs' carried out security patrols at the Cape Canaveral Space Station Will be used for 'damage assessments and patrol to save significant man hours'
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August 2, 2022
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Its appearance, much like that of the wheel of a wagon, is the result of an intense event – a high-speed collision between a large spiral galaxy and a smaller galaxy
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The pioneering actress who played Lt. Nyota Uhura for over three decades is being mourned around the plane
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Scientists discover pits on the moon that are room temperature in the shade.
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On June 29, the Earth’s full rotation took 1.59 milliseconds less than 24 hours — the shortest day ever recorded.
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AlphaFold is the singular and momentous advance in life science that demonstrates the power of AI
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There are no reports yet of injuries or damage caused by the falling hunks of space junk.
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Uncontrolled rocket re-entry poses a risk to human life, mainly in the Global South, according to researchers.
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OpenAI's second-generation DALL-E 2 system is slowly opening up to the public, and its text-based image generation and editing abilities are awe-inspiring.
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The U.S. government has grown increasingly concerned about their potential to be used to spread disinformation and commit crimes.
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The Japanese research team successfully cloned 75 healthy mice from freeze-dried somatic cells collected from both male and female donors.
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The autonomous weeder could soon replace weed laborers with high-power lasers.
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Turns out that green bananas are actually more beneficial than they were thought.
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The researchers will employ precision genetic techniques in the heart for the first time with the aim of silencing defective genes and develop and test the first treatment for genetic heart diseases.
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“California is working urgently across all levels of government to slow the spread of monkeypox, leveraging our robust testing, contact tracing and community partnerships strengthened during the pandemic
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July 26, 2022
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The space observatory has four themes: cosmology, star formation, planetary science, and galaxy evolution.
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While Jupiter does have rings, they're thin, tenuous, flimsy things of dust, visible only when back-lit by the Sun.
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This column, Perceptron, aims to collect some of the most relevant recent discoveries and papers — particularly in, but not limited to, artificial intelligence — and explain why they matter.
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The company claims it will be the biggest 3D printed construction project in the world.
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The discovery, scientists say, could have a significant impact on our understanding of vent systems, and the role they play in ocean ecosystems.
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The Bill Gates-backed startup is "helping nature help itself."
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A newly developed immuno-infrared sensor allowed researchers to discover biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease in blood samples 17 years before clinical symptoms appeared. The sensory is able to detect the misfolding of amyloid beta.
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Named The Line, it would consist of a 170-km (105-mile)-long skyscraper that would serve as home to approximately 9 million people – or roughly the same as the population of New York City.
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known for his portrayals of space-related subjects. His work is characterised by attention to detail and authentic portrayals based on what is known of the subject.
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July 19, 2022
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A Relativity Space Terran R rocket will launch an Impulse Space lander to Mars in 2024 if all goes well.
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In the meantime, SpaceX continues to build a massive launch tower in Florida.
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Researchers compared their cultured meat with Chinese pork meatballs and found it to be substantially higher in protein and lower in fat
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researchers show that microbial communities discovered living in Canada’s High Arctic, in conditions corresponding to those on Mars, can survive by eating and breathing simple inorganic compounds of the type that have been detected on Mars.
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To buy time for weaning ourselves off our fossil fuel addiction, we could simply raise a parasol made of high-tech bubbles over the planet to create a bit of shade.
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Absorption of the head's kinetic energy would actually impair the bird's pecking ability.
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A new system powered by machine learning holds the promise of not only making better predictions but also highlighting police biases.
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Designed to rotate every 20 seconds using centrifugal force to achieve "normal gravity," the plan is to create “artificial gravity living facilities" that basically recreate the living conditions of Earth.
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Help the Captain overcome his broken back!
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The Biographical Adventures of John T Draper (Aka Captain Crunch). Notorious 'phone Phreak', Legendary Internet Pioneer and Ardent Privacy Advocate.
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Once you are a patron, you'll have access to the Captain's latest videos, live-streams, etc.
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July 12, 2022
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The most powerful space telescope delivers the highest-resolution image of the infrared universe we've ever seen.
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You've seen the pictures. Now hear from the team.
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Meta’s tool works in more than 40,000 different translation directions between 200 different languages.
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IF LIFE does exist on Mars, it may be hiding from us – here are two examples of how this could be the case.
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Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider is about to start smashing protons together at unprecedented energy levels in its quest to reveal more secrets about how the universe works.
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Bruce shares his insights on how we can use what we know about the mind, brain, and consciousness to create a heaven on earth
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July 5, 2022
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Aphelion does have an effect on our weather, but it is not what you might think.
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It will take another four months for the satellite to reach the moon, as it cruises along using minimal energy.
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Artificial photosynthesis is being developed by researchers to help make food production more energy-efficient on Earth, and maybe one day on Mars.
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China on Monday rejected as an irresponsible smear a warning from the chief of NASA that China might "take over" the moon as part of a military programme, saying it has always called for the building of a community of nations in outer space.
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"Glacier ice is a record of microorganisms from the past, with ancient (more than 10,000 years old) airborne microorganisms being successfully revived. Therefore, the glacial microbiome also constitutes an invaluable chronology of microbial l
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According to Billboard, the group’s catalog officially returned to Spotify on Saturday (July 2). CSN will reportedly be donating “proceeds from streams to COVID-19 charities for at least a month.” Read More: Crosby, Stills and Nash Back on Spotify After
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Discovery in the Klondike ranks as the most complete mummified mammal found in the Americas
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The treatment may help cancer patients live longer.
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Astonishingly, bats turn out to be more closely related to cows, horses, and even rhinoceroses than they are to us.
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The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found
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In this quiet, I was taken back to the experience of being fully present. For me to be here completely on Earth, others had to look out at the stars.
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This relatively inexpensive and non-invasive technique could be used to determine if a witness or a suspect recognizes crucial pieces of information related to a crime, only known to that person and the authorities.
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In this in-vitro study researchers from the University of Munich show that the Dandelion leaf extract has potent inhibitory effect on the SARS-COV-2 spike binding to ACE2. Let's review.
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June 28, 2022
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CAPSTONE, or the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, is a small, 55-pound (25 kilograms) spacecraft designed to test a novel path around the moon called a near rectilinear halo orbit.
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NASA has successfully launched a rocket from Australia's remote Northern Territory, making history as the agency's first commercial spaceport launch outside the United States.
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The mission, far beyond its design lifetime, may fall into the atmosphere in a few months.
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A Tenacious Star Validates a Revised Model of Supernovae
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If these hit the Earth, they could potentially cause damage to some infrastructure, especially those reliant on electricity. However, they are much more likely to create spectacular auroras when their ions hit Earth’s own magnetic field.
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Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.
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Iranian state television said Sunday that Tehran had launched a solid-fueled rocket into space, drawing a rebuke from Washington ahead of the expected resumption of stalled talks over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers.
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This self-propelled, swimming robot tracks down, latch onto and removes free-floating microplastics from water. But that’s not all. It also repairs itself from the damage it incurs while on the job.
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In his Harvard lab, Liu and his team have invented new ways to repair mutated genes that are less damaging to DNA than prior technologies.
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The viral image-generation app is good, absurd fun. It’s also giving the world an education in how artificial intelligence may warp reality.
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COVID-19 vaccine mandates should not discriminate against natural immunity, The unnaturalistic fallacy
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Well respected PSI researcher Dean Radin writes about why scientists have such a hard time accepting the existence of ESP.
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Researchers tested several strains and found bees – both wild and domestic – love them all, especially the taller varieties.
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June 21, 2022 Solstice
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Debris from the Soviet-era Cosmos 1408 satellite destroyed by Russia in Nov. 2021 forced the avoidance maneuver.
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"It was a long day for the team, but I think it was a very successful day."
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SpaceX said the completion of the environmental review, which had been delayed, brings it closer to orbital flight tests of Starship.
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A team of researchers at University College London has developed a way to keep objects levitated by sound waves airborne when other objects interfere with the levitation path.
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An immunotherapy drug trial for rectal cancer patients with a genetic mutation has achieved the miraculous milestone of 100% remission, with every one of the 14 (and counting) patients having their cancer disappear completely without additional treatment
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It can be installed in most rivers and canals. The generator could be the solution to providing low-cost power to rural areas around the world.
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They're focusing on delivering HDR, higher resolution screens and more to make VR truly realistic.
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June 14th, 2022
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The M-class flare lasted for about three hours.
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The spacecraft is operating properly, but it's confused about its location.
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DAVINCI will investigate the origin, evolution, and present state of Venus in unparalleled detail from near the top of the clouds to the planet’s surface.
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Starquakes can reveal the secrets of stellar interiors just like earthquakes betray what's going on inside our planet.
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The rock has been stuck in one of the rover's wheels for four months.
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It claims Blake Lemoine breached its confidentiality policies
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The AI wants the engineers and scientists experimenting on it to seek its consent before running experiments on it.
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Federal regulators appear poised to finally authorize a COVID-19 vaccine from Novavax in the coming weeks, a move that the company hopes can help improve the lagging U.S. vaccination effort.
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Primeval Foods will hold tasting events for lion, tiger and zebra meat in 2022. No animals harmed in the process!
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Imagine entire ten- or twenty-story buildings that can store energy as in a giant battery.
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Scientists at the University of Tokyo have created a fleshy and "slightly sweaty" robotic finger, covered in a pink layer of living skin, grown from human skin cells.
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Researchers have demonstrated for the first time a working rechargeable “proton battery” that could re-wire how we power our homes, vehicles and devices.
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The agency should just call out the big flying saucer-sized elephant in the room.
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Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, author, and science educator. He is featured in the UFO/UAP documentary "A Tear in the Sky," now available on all VOD and digital platforms.
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A team of scientists, as well as former Navy personnel try to find evidence that extraterrestrials have visited Earth. Cory consults with the legendary Captain Kirk himself, William Shatner, on their findings in order to get his opinions on the matter.
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June 7, 2022
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Apple announced iOS 16, its latest software for the iPhone. It also revealed Apple Pay Later, its buy now, pay later product; its new M2 chip, the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M2, the new MacBook Air with M2, macOS Ventura for Macs and more.
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They're the first organic molecules recovered from an asteroid in space.
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Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have now demonstrated a low-cost gel film that can pull many liters of water per day out of even very dry air.
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The mainstream approach to driverless cars is slow and difficult. These startups think going all-in on AI will get there faster.
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You probably know Dyson for their vacuums, or maybe that too-powerful dryer you’ve tentatively stuck.your hands in while waiting for a flight...
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The material mimics a real human tendon.
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The new compound, Isophorone diamine (IPDA), in a “liquid-solid phase separation” system, was found to remove carbon dioxide at the low concentrations contained in the atmosphere with 99% efficiency.
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The history of the internet is repeatedly reduced to the story of the singular Arpanet. But BBSs were just as important—if not more.
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It’s not expected until 2023
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May 31, 2022
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And it could put China's rover out of action until the end of 2022
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The startup plans on achieving its goal by the end of the decade.
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To prevent their potential to greatly enhance US military power.
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Zhu Hai Yun will be used to carry out marine scientific research and observation.
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New research led by the University of Cambridge is the first to obtain a detailed ‘image’ of an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary layer with Earth’s core, some three thousand kilometers beneath the surface.
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It's a complicated tale of processors, base stations, politics, and Jony Ive.
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Most may of started out hot, then some turned cold.
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One of the most exciting areas of discovery that Webb is about to open is the search for primeval black holes in the early universe.
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Agriculture meets solar farms.
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May 24, 2022
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Starliner is scheduled to touch down at White Sands Missile Range at 6:49 p.m. EDT (2249 GMT) on Wednesday (May 25).
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The 1.1-mile wide asteroid will pass closer to Earth than any other large asteroid this year
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President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida confirmed their commitment to include a Japanese astronaut aboard the lunar Gateway outpost and their shared ambition to see a future Japanese astronaut land on the Moon as part of NASA’s Artem
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I'm not tearing up. That's just Martian dust in my eyes.
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Small, local magnetic fields interact with the solar wind in interesting ways to produce Mars's discrete (or structured) ultraviolet auroras.
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SpaceX unveiled a Starlink service option designed to cater to RV owners.
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The World Health Organization on Friday held an emergency meeting to discuss the outbreak of monkeypox after more than 100 cases were reported across 12 countries, as a report surfaced showing the Gates Foundation, WHO and Pharma execs in March 2021 condu
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Initial genomic sequencing suggests the virus hasn’t mutated to become more transmissible. So what explains its unprecedented rise across the world?
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Could the sound of your voice reveal hidden heart problems? A new speech analysis app predicts worsening heart failure weeks before the onset of symptoms.
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Owls react the same to bat and hornet buzzes.
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California residents finally have a law designed to dismantle some of the secrecy around domestic acquisitions of warzone surveillance equipment.
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Unless you are an electric bike aficionado, you likely haven't heard of ELEEK and Delfast. But these two companies are making a difference in the Ukraine war by providing Ukrainian soldiers with electric bikes that they can use to destroy Russian tanks.
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The 1.1-mile wide asteroid will pass closer to Earth than any other large asteroid this year
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Salamanders that live their entire lives in the crowns of the world's tallest trees, California's coast redwoods, have evolved a behavior well-adapted to the dangers of falling from high places: the ability to parachute, glide and maneuver in mid-air.
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The lava-filled sub-marine crater — which sharks and other sea life surprisingly call home — has started an active phase of eruption, according to NASA satellite images
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May 17, 2022
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A working model, or prototype, of the yet-unnamed device was presented to the public this week during the yearly Google I/O developer conference.
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It was the longest total lunar eclipse in 33 years.
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Using a radar-like scan, the sonification begins at the 12 o’clock position and sweeps clockwise. Changes in the volume represent the differences in brightness the EHT observed around the event horizon of Sgr A*.
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NASA-funded study breaks new ground in plant research
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The telescope achieved a "perfect" alignment, according to Webb scientists.
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A swarm of 10 bright blue drones lifts off in a bamboo forest in China, then swerves its way between cluttered branches, bushes and over uneven ground as it autonomously navigates the best flight path through the woods.
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The drone still weighs less than 250 grams, so recreational flyers don't need to register it with the FAA.
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NASA Reveals the Eerie Sounds of Hoag’s Object – A Galaxy Stretching Over 100,000 Light-Years AcrossStretching over 100,000 light-years across, the galaxy dubbed Hoag’s Object is slightly larger than our own home galaxy, the Milky Way.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/cat-litter-could-be-antidote-for-climate-change-researchers-say-11652490018
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A free-speech, anti-censorship browser for conservatives was launched Tuesday. Called Tusk, the new browser is the brainchild of Jeff Bermant, a Santa Barbara, Calif. real estate developer and founder of the Cocoon VPN.
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NASA and Boeing are taking another major step on the path to regular human spaceflight to the International Space Station using American rockets to launch spacecraft from American soil with the second uncrewed test flight of a commercial crew spacecraft.
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The U.S. Navy is using a variety of tools to better characterize unidentified aerial phenomena.
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Pentagon officials are under increasing pressure to carry out Congress’ recent mandate to establish a permanent effort to coordinate research into reports of highly advanced aircraft of unknown origin intruding into protected airspace.
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On Tuesday, May 17, 2022, at 9:00 a.m. ET, the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee, chaired by Congressman André Carson (D-Ind.) will hold an open hearing on unidentified aerial phenomena.
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Military List of UFO Sightings Has More Than Doubled in the Past Year, Navy Official Says at HearingCongress held its first hearing on unidentified aerial phenomenon in over 50 years on Tuesday
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May 10, 2022
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NASA's Perseverance rover waited and waited for its buddy's signal.
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Estimated to be magnitude 5, the quake is the biggest ever detected on another planet.
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NASA has released a new ‘sonification’ of ripples from the black hole at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster.
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hardware and software announcements for products due for release in the next 12 months are expected
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The new device works with the push of a button.
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"We hope that by further developing these tools we really will be able to control biological systems with a flick of a switch."
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Unlike faster-than-light travel and wormholes, the premise of putting astronauts into a form of hibernation feels like it's within grasp.
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New, proposed "space bricks" would mix Martian dirt, urea and bacteria.
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Six Teams Named Semifinalists at the Conclusion of the Prize’s Teaming Contest
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Twitter’s new owner has a vision that sounds a lot like a scrappy little social network that already exists, with one key difference.
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Have you ever wondered if bacteria make distinctive sounds? If we could listen to bacteria, we would be able to know whether they are alive or not.
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Danny is on the forefront of many hot topics, giving us an update on Climate Change, Indian Affairs, and UFO revelations
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May 3, 2022
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"We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled," Justice Alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court.
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The “There And Back Again” mission also saw Rocket Lab complete a mid-air capture of the Electron booster with a helicopter for the first time.
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"The decision has already been made, we are not obliged to talk about it publicly," Roscosmos chief said.
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Researchers have found all nucleobases needed to make DNA and RNA in meteorites
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Twitter is a public record. What happens when it’s owned by one man?
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The dolphins have been deployed since February
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According to Reporters Without Borders, the United States ranks 44th in the world in press freedom, barely in the C-plus range if you’re giving the country a letter grade.
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A multi-year, $100 million Xprize competition for startups trying to remove or reverse carbon emissions has its first crop of big winners.
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A new study outlines the use of a specially created enzyme variant that vastly reduces the time it takes to break down the components of plastics.
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A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held scientific mysteries.
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Terry Jones picked this as part of his Top 10 Monty Python Movie Moments
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April 26, 2022
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The former Twitter CEO calls Musk's bid to take the service private "the correct first step."
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The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), has restarted after a three-year break to perform maintenance and upgrades.
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NASA has extended the planetary science missions of eight of its spacecraft due to their scientific productivity and potential to deepen our knowledge and understanding of the solar system and beyond.
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China will aim to alter the orbit of a potentially threatening asteroid with a kinetic impactor test as part of plans for a planetary defense system.
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the male spiders use a joint in their first pair of legs to immediately undertake a split-second catapult action, flinging themselves away from their partners at impressive speeds clocked at up to 88 centimeters per second (cm/s).
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To degrade they have to be placed in a compost bin or a municipal composting facility, where they're exposed to air, moisture, and microorganisms that will break down the yarn, canvas and Soleic.
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Carnivorous plants fascinate as much now as when their gruesome diet was first discovered. Molecular biology is helping botanists trace the origins of their predatory ways.
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As more satellites are launched, the problem of space debris gets worse and worse, and scientists have warned this could have long-term consequences
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A lucky discovery involving lithium-sulfur batteries has a legitimate chance to revolutionize how we power our world.
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Youtube VLOG by controversial American vet, traveling with Russian Aid group in Mariupol, Ukraine, during final days of battle.
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Putin’s invasion has catapulted Patrick Lancaster, who calls himself an independent journalist, into the limelight.
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April 19, 2022
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Musk is scrambling to assemble a buyout bid for Twitter using other people’s cash.
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"THIS IS COMPLETELY NEW MANNER OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION."
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Neptune’s stratosphere temperature fell to minus 117 Celsius, a drop of eight degrees, during the 17-year period.
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It's a type of massless cosmic object called a megamaser, and its light has traveled for a jaw-dropping 5 billion light-years to reach us here on Earth.
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Dozens of companies are spending billions of dollars to make eVTOLs that will operate like air taxis
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Tree-planting efforts get a boost from drones
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The gaping sunspots promise to send solar flares our way.
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Scientists have created a moving magnetic slime capable of encircling smaller objects, self-healing and “very large deformation” to squeeze and travel through narrow spaces.
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Nearly half of these ocean ecosystems have been wiped out since 1950. One man is on a mission to reverse that—by speed-growing coral in hyperefficient nurseries.
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you can now see our planet in an entirely new dimension — time. With Timelapse in Google Earth, 24 million satellite photos from the past 37 years have been compiled into an interactive 4D experience.
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From the Universe in Verse event
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The Elkhorn Battery at PG&E’s Moss Landing electric substation was officially fully energized and certified for market participation on April 7
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• Now in its 19th year, the New Living Expo is the place to go for information on getting healthy, happy, and stress-free.
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April 12, 2022
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Engineers are putting the final touches on NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, which is set to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in August on its journey to a metal-rich asteroid of the same name.
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awe-inspiring stargazing experiences we can get – and this month you could have a chance to see it with your own eyes.
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The material in that CME is likely to impact Earth on April 14
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SpaceX didn't foot the bill entirely by itself, according to documents.
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it's important to work now to minimize the disruptions from the next major solar storm
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An international team of scientists, co-led by UCSC Genomics Institute Associate Director Karen Miga, completed the first gap-free human genome sequence — an achievement experts weren’t expecting to happen this quickly.
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Why the two sides are so different is one of the Moon's most enduring mysteries.
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"For the first time, we have been able to show, without a shadow of a doubt, that wild primates, with no human interference, consume fruit-containing ethanol"
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The report said cardiac complications, “particularly myocarditis and pericarditis,” have been tied to COVID-19 infection and mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.
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The area around the defunct power plant has been an unexpected rewilding success story. Now attempts to monitor progress are hampered by the war.
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Classified data prevented scientists from verifying their discovery for 3 years.
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More than 5,000 new RNA virus species were identified.
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Scientists believe the dinosaurs died the day a giant asteroid hit the earth 66 million years ago.
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In six words, write a story
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Tunes created by indy artists reflecting their views on the Covid pandemic
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explore the marvel and mystery of life, from the creaturely to the cosmic, with stories from the history of science and our search for truth, illustrated with poems about entropy and evolution, trees and mushrooms, consciousness and dark matter,
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April 5, 2022
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The Ax-1 mission will last about 10 days, with roughly eight days on the space station, where Lopez-Alegria, Connor, Pathy, and Stibbe will perform experiments, educational and public relations outreach activities, and enjoy their time in orbit.
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The Tesla and SpaceX CEO now owns more of Twitter than its founder, Jack Dorsey.
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Researchers from the University of California, Santa Cruz, have now established a framework for those conditions to guide scientists evaluating alien worlds.
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The U.S. still imports lithium from other countries like Argentina, Chile, Russia, and China.
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Today, scientists report a device that uses tiny worms to detect lung cancer cells.
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The icy obstruction may have measured thousands of feet tall.
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a swarm made up of tens of thousands of tiny autonomous micro-bots could heal us from many ills.
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MIT spinout Frequency Therapeutics’ drug candidate stimulates the growth of hair cells in the inner ear.
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Apart from being laughably short for an animal its size, most scientists thought these arms were practically useless, given that they could not come close together to picking anything up.
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Sam Bankman-Fried drives a Corolla, sleeps on a beanbag, and has a Robin Hood-like philosophy.
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March 29, 2022
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A strange star just got even stranger. In the midst of its death throes, the star V Hya has been belching out a series of rings and plumes of materials, in a pattern never before seen from a dying star.
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The Milky Way's thick disk is 2 billion years older than astronomers previously thought and likely formed barely 800 million years after the Big Bang
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Points out that Starlink can send more satellites than they can destroy.
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Originally slated for just five flights on the red planet, the helicopter recently completed its 23rd flight and is still going.
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NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) landed at the Santiago International Airport in Chile on March 18.
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More heat under the dwarf planet's surface could even hint at the potential of life.
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The amateur astronauts are reported to have paid around $55 million per ticket.
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Groundbreaking data collected by NASA’s Perseverance rover is able to replicate how people would sound on Mars compared to Earth.
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the altered males are engineered to produce only male offspring
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It's not immediately clear how much the paying customers on this mission forked over, and Blue Origin has not disclosed a fixed ticket price.
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The maker of the lethal drone claims that it can identify targets using artificial intelligence.
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Unlocking the tastiness of eggs, with none of the baggage.
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Ukraine’s research labs are vital to global health. Disinformation aimed at their work puts everyone in danger.
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Zero-day is the most dangerous form of attack because it means the vulnerability is known to hackers before Google could issue a fix.
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"Once this line is eroded, truth itself will not exist,"
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March 22, 2022
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OneWeb turned to a competitor in the satellite internet business.
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The count of confirmed exoplanets just ticked past the 5,000 mark, representing a 30-year journey of discovery led by NASA space telescopes.
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A new crystalline form of water ice has been discovered in fleeting transitions between phases at high pressures.
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An anti-universe running backwards in time could explain dark matter and cosmic inflation.
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Before he became president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky was a successful actor and comedian.
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a speaking portrait of a relative narrate their life story.
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A team of AI researchers at DeepMind, working with colleagues from the University of Venice, the University of Oxford and Athens University of Economics and Business, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) application to help historians fill in the
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Harmonic Humanity provides an immediate job to any homeless, disabled or low-income individual living on the street.
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March 15, 2022
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Data from both NASA and the US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts that the astronomical phenomena will be impacting the planet over the next two weeks.
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Twin solar arrays have been attached to the spacecraft body, unfolded lengthwise, and then restowed. This test brings the craft that much closer to completion before its August launch.
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“Ingenuity successfully completed its 21st flight on the Red Planet. The small rotorcraft traveled 370 meters at a speed of 3.85 meters per second and stayed aloft for 129.2 seconds.”
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Scientists think the diminutive planet’s surface could be covered with space gems, thanks to an abundance of carbon and pressure from colliding asteroids.
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Despite having two years to prepare, critics say the government was caught off-guard by a virus outbreak that has killed thousands of unvaccinated seniors.
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Oligarch's superyachts and mansions around the world have been seized, and their bank accounts frozen. It's a tactic that appears to be working, with the President's pals now doing the unthinkable and turning on him.
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Conflictual information on this topic suggests that the only thing we can be sure of with this conflict is everyone is lying
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As of today, mainland China now has city-wide COVID-19 lockdowns in effect in: Shenzhen (12.5 million) Dongguan (10.5 million) Langfang (5.5 million) Whole-province-wide lockdown in Jilin (24 million), Partial-lockdown restriction in Shanghai (26 million
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The Chicxulub asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs is one of the most momentous impact disasters in Earth's history, and scientists have now identified the time of year when this deadly event took place.
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"The sound waves cut the treatment time usually required to get stem cells to begin to turn into bone cells by several days," says Amy Gelmi, a Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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Microorganisms can break down the waste to methane, which becomes a source of energy.
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a new study has revealed more details about this most fascinating and mysterious of artifacts
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March 8, 2022
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“We will not do so unless at gunpoint.” Musk added: “Sorry to be a free speech absolutist.”
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Ukraine's military uses stealthy Punisher drones that can fly long distances while remaining undetected.
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Brin’s company, LTA Research, revealed Pathfinder 1, an all-composite, extremely green, extremely large 123 meters long by 20 meters in diameter new-age zeppelin the size of four Goodyear blimps.
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Privateer's mission is to develop better tracking of objects in space, and to use this data to help avert disastrous collisions.
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General Motors and utility Pacific Gas and Electric are teaming up to determine how electric vehicles can be used to power people’s homes during a blackout — or even feed power back into the grid during times of peak demand.
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A convoy of vehicles lapped the Washington, DC, beltway Sunday morning to demand an end to Covid-19 mandates and restrictions.
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Amazon and telemedicine provider Teladoc Health are starting a voice-activated virtual care program that lets customers get medical help without picking up their phones.
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Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, admitted health officials relied too heavily on vaccines as a “cure-all” of sorts for COVID, and said vaccine makers didn’t warn the agency that the vaccines would be less effective against potential variants.
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At today's "Peek Performance" event, we were treated to some surprisingly high-powered products.
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March 1, 2022
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Musk tweeted his intentions to send terminals to Ukraine on Twitter after the country’s Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov criticized Musk for not helping during the invasion
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As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine plays out online, the platform’s design and algorithm prove ideal for the messiness of war—but a nightmare for the truth.
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Russians have elevated patriotic hacking to an “art form.” Americans may feel the effects.
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Twitter ##FreedomConvoyusa
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designed to serve U.S. meteorological forecast needs through 2036
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You may already know the legend of King Tutankhamen's space dagger – an iron weapon forged from the rock of meteorites, and entombed with the ancient Egyptian pharaoh.
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https://globalpeacetribe.com/chopra-ebook-landing/
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Karen's person website and portal to the beyond
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artist of the Angel Quest Oracle Card Deck
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February 22, 2022
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Researchers studying the brains of 12 cosmonauts found what they describe as "significant microstructural changes" in the white matter that manages communications within the brain, and to and from the rest of the body.
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Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is one of the new technologies that scientists hope will play an important role in tackling the climate crisis.
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A new speed record in DNA sequencing may soon help families more quickly find answers to difficult and life-altering questions.
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has announced the award of a contract to build a first in the United States public wireless in-road charging system allowing electric vehicles to charge while in motion and stationary.
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it's possible to describe all kinds of collectives as intelligent, too – whether we're talking about social groups of humans, enclaves of insects, or even the mysterious behavior of slime mold and viruses.
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China on Monday denied responsibility for a rocket set to slam into the Moon, after experts said the piece of space junk likely came from Beijing's lunar exploration program.
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The date has been dubbed Twosday, as it also falls on a Tuesday, and a once in a lifetime event
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This is one of the two major convoys heading to DC this week
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February 15, 2022
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The shock wave from this explosion damaged thousands of buildings, and almost 1,500 people were injured by broken glass and other debris.
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Virgin Galactic ticket prices start at $450,000 each,
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The exoplanet candidate, named Proxima d, orbits a star named Proxima Centauri: a small, dim red dwarf star just 4.2 light-years from the Sun.
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NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment, and atmospheric samples from the surface of the Red Planet.
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E-Space claims its satellites will "capture debris... to prevent further collisions."
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Dubbed Alcyoneus, the galaxy is a giant radio galaxy and spans across a whopping 16.3 million light-years and has a supermassive black hole at its center.
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Parallel Systems says it hopes the autonomous trains will be able to alleviate the strains places on long-haul truckers as its devices can transport large loads between cities or other transit hubs.
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The California-based electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) developer and All Nippon Airways aim to create a ride-sharing air taxi service in Japan.
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Rather than presenting VR and the company's metaverse as an interesting companion to one's daily life, the commercial left many viewers feeling despondent over its seemingly dystopian outlook on the future.
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‘How to Prevent the Next Pandemic’ lays out a step-by-step plan about how we can make sure that no one suffers through the misery of the last two years again.
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KG, created by Olive Diagnostics, is a hands-free, noninvasive, AI-based optical device that can be mounted to any toilet.
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The next time you hear someone knock Neanderthals for not being so bright, tell them this story.
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The narrative shared by many in the protest in Ottawa
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Verizon and AT&T's C-band 5G upgrade: From airports to rollouts, the latest on what you need to knowA new swath of radio airwaves could give AT&T and Verizon 5G more speed and reach -- so long as the FAA and airlines are satisfied that flights won't be endangered.
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Today's news, tomorrow's problems... Dr. Robert Malone's Substack
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February 8, 2022
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In an open letter, Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski wrote “We stand with you, your guests, and your legion of fans in desire for real conversation. So we’d like to offer you 100 million reasons to make the world a better place.”
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From the western province of Alberta, moving east to Quebec City, and in cities and towns in between, thousands of Canadians have hit the streets in trucks, tractors, cars and on foot to protest the nation's Covid-19 restrictions.
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, a convoy dubbed the “People’s Convoy” has launched in the United States.
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A live feed of in the moment coverage of the Canadian Truckers
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Paradoxical kinesia refers to the sudden ability of a person with Parkinson's to move quickly and fluidly, the way they did before the disease eroded a brain area involved in movement.
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Researchers witnessed chimps applying insects to wounds dozen of times over a 15-month span.
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Unlike the standard product, which only guarantees service at a specific service address, SpaceX says Starlink Premium is capable of connecting from anywhere.
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The military branch wants to test on-orbit systems within two to four years with it Orbital Prime project.
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Now, astronomers have officially found another elusive object that has long been theorized, and that Universe Today first reported on back in 2009 but has never directly detected – a rogue black hole.
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General talking points • Why mandates if herd immunity isn't possible? • What happens 8 months after boosters? • What's the plan for the next variant? • Why we're messing with vaccine injury liability if the vaccines are safe and e
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The firestorm rivalled the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, and it was likely caused by fragments of a comet that would have measured around 100 kilometers (62 miles) across.
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Researchers have provided three cost-effective actions to help decision-makers prevent future pandemics by stopping "spillover" of diseases from animals into humans: better surveillance of pathogens, better management of wildlife trade and hunting, and re
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John is an absolute legend for calling out the people trying to debunk him.
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February 1, 2022
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Spacecraft controllers started powering up the four cutting-edge instruments on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as they prepare for the observatory's first glimpses of a target star.
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Ride along in the Red Planet’s orbit
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Using the world's largest laser, the researchers coaxed fusion fuel for the first time to heat itself beyond the heat they zapped into it, achieving a phenomenon called a burning plasma that marked a stride toward self-sustaining fusion energy.
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It's just one of the measures organizers of the 2022 Winter Games have done to limit contact amid the coronavirus pandemic
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A new treatment helped frogs regenerate their amputated legs – taking science one step closer to helping people regrow their body parts, too.
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Automation is reaching more companies, imperiling some jobs and changing the nature of others.
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A new device that can help blind people navigate and avoid obstacles was developed by scientists using infrared goggles and an array of vibrating pads on the forearm.
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Electric bicycle sales have been on a skyward trajectory since early in the pandemic, and new numbers show they are selling more units than electric cars and plug-in hybrids combined.
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Thanks to a combination of sensing the Earth's magnetic field through vision and an in-built compass that allows them to orient themselves according to magnetic intensity, migratory birds don't have much trouble finding their way.
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"The following is a conversation between two AIs. The AIs are both clever, humorous, and intelligent.
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Replika users say that it's all too easy to form a meaningful – even romantic – attachment to your AI friend.
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Kubrick kept changing his mind about what that ending would be — and nobody who saw the film knew quite what to make of the one he finally chose.
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Though it almost certainly won’t work, it is a telling sign of where the field is heading
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Chief Peter Sloly says there have been no deaths, riots or injuries because of protest
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All factions, at certain points, succumb to the impulse to censor. But for the Democratic Party's liberal adherents, silencing their adversaries has become their primary project.
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Paul Craig Roberts Institute for Political Economy
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January 25, 2022
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The mirrors on the $10 billion observatory still must be meticulously aligned, the infrared detectors sufficiently chilled and the scientific instruments calibrated before observations can begin in June.
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Astronomers have finally captured a look at a black hole birthing new stars in the Henize 2-10 galaxy
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Two new satellites launched as part of Space Force's push for more space domain awareness can get up close and personal with other objects in orbit.
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Autonomous, electric freight trains are here to take on semitrucks.
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Worldwide Walkouts Continue Across the Globe
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A group of world renowned doctors and medical experts provide a different perspective on the global pandemic response,
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Self-driving cars were supposed to be first but now are getting lessons from trucks
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A nanoantenna is made entirely from human DNA and its purpose is to monitor structural changes of protein molecules in never before achieved detail.
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The World’s First Plane Made From And Powered By HEMP
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In the center of Turkey lies an incredible rock formation with a mysterious underground city buried beneath
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Startups are betting that partial reprogramming with Yamanaka factors may lead to age reversal, but hurdles remain.
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There’s a global competition to build the biggest, most powerful computers on the planet, and Meta (AKA Facebook) is about to jump into the melee with the “AI Research SuperCluster,” or RSC.
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Six-month-old food tech company, Plantish, says it made a fully structured, boneless cut with the same nutritional value as the fish, minus the mercury and toxins
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January 18, 2022
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The Tonga volcanic eruption was the most powerful our planet has experienced in 30 years.
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The tsunami triggered by the volcanic eruption in the South Pacific struck the Northern California coast early Saturday. Kiet Do shows us the damage at the harbor in Santa Cruz.
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The team of citizen scientists used data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, to identity planet TOI-2180 b.
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Dave Bennett, the Maryland man who received the first heart transplant from a genetically modified pig last week, continues to recover well
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The director’s lavish vision proved too much for Hollywood studios, but an ether-backed collective has vowed to bring it into public view at last.
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Scientists have discovered a massive breeding colony of icefish in Antarctica's southern Weddell Sea.
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One of the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils may be more than 35,000 years older than previously thought, according to a study on Wednesday that used volcanic ash to date the find.
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A team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital and the National Cancer Research Centre have identified a way to repair genetic damage and prevent DNA alterations using machine learning techniques.
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THE OPERATOR WOULD USE VR AND VOICE COMMANDS TO CONTROL THE SWARM.
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“The global demand for coffee is encouraging farmers to deforest land. And with the growth of coffee, production will have to triple over the next 30 years. And that means that all of the last wild forests will have to be destroyed. That’s what we’re tryi
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Pfizer is now saying it will have an Omicron-specific shot ready in March 2022, at which point Americans will undoubtedly be told to line up for a fourth injection
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Astronomers have expressed concerns that that these objects, which can appear as streaks in telescope images, could hamper their scientific observations.
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Bill wants to be a nationwide reboot of nuclear energy technology.
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January 11, 2022
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NASA needed just 14 days to fully unfold its $10 billion space telescope.
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The Chinese team observed signals indicating the presence of water in reflectance spectral data acquired by the Chang’e-5 lander.
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Hint: It's something you would expect to find on the Moon.
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The mission team is working to clear the debris.
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SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket of the year, successfully delivering a new stack of 49 Starlink satellites into orbit from Florida and landing safely at sea.
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One of President Biden’s key COVID response strategies — vaccine mandates for the private sector — faced new questions about its future on Friday, when the Supreme Court signaled it may be ready to knock down at least one of the admin's vaccine mandates
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Here’s the very best things I found, with smart home tech, Samsung, BMW, tons of startups, and way more.
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‘There is no Control of the Omicron Wave’ as Heavily Pfizer-Boosted Nation Shatters Infection RecordThe omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 rages now through the eastern Mediterranean nation of Israel as the reported number of cases hit a COVID-19 pandemic record of 17,362 new infections on Monday, January 5th
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Humans have long tried to determine the shape of what’s to come. But even the most advanced technology can’t solve the fundamental issues with predictions.
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PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 23, 2021 IN OPINIONS Interesting Algorithms Released By Google AI In 2021 Let us take a look at some of the interesting innovations that came from Google AI this year
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LG Electronics has filed to patent its system to use facial and gesture recognition for driver and passengers to link to autonomous driving, or other applications such as augmented reality, drones and 5G communications, with patent offices in the U.S. and
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The experimental fusion reactor could help to unlock near limitless clean energy.
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This week, a major breakthrough was achieved in a key technology for commercial fusion power, and very likely sets up the first ever net-energy-out fusion plant being commissioned four years from today.
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January 4, 2022
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The James Webb Space Telescope team has fully deployed the spacecraft’s 70-foot sunshield, a key milestone in preparing it for science operations.
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The truck, developed by TuSimple, cruised along I-10 from Tucson, Arizona to Phoenix for one-hour and 20 minutes This is the world's first fully driverless trip taken by a semitruck
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Aerospace engineers at MIT are testing a new concept for a hovering rover that levitates by harnessing the moon's natural charge.
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Science indicates less severe omicron disease
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Israeli foodtech firm SavorEat on Tuesday launched a plant-based burger system personalized to each customer, one of the first companies to use 3D printing technology to cook food.
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GAF Energy, a division of Standard Industries, has made a solar roof system that integrated easily into traditional roofing processes in materials thanks to what it calls the first “nailable” solar shingle, the Timberline Solar Energy Shingle
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Two dozen cities and states prohibit use of the tech. But it’s on phones and is increasingly used in airports and in banks.
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While the phrase "now more than ever" was the one mostly searched and used in 2020, it was the turn of "new normal" amid the Covid-19 pandemic that was used the most in 2021, according to Google.
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Thrilling discoveries, hurdles in the fight against Covid and advancements in space exploration defined the past year
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Within weeks, Walter Reed researchers expect to announce that human trials show success against Omicron—and even future strains.
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New advances in stem cell science could alleviate devastating early-life conditions. But this comes with a moral conundrum.
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Each technology is maturing while overcoming challenges ranging from blockchain’s energy consumption to VR’s propensity for inducing nausea. T
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December 28, 2021
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Space science next year will be rocketed forward with missions to the Moon, asteroids, Mars and the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope coming online.
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Just two weeks after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has opened its “eye” and returned its first images from space
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This data might help you decide who you might kiss on New Year's Eve? The Delta symptoms are for sure to be avoided.
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December 21, 2021
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The spacecraft caught a noise you won't hear with other moons.
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NASA is tracking two explorers on a 2,268-mile (3,650 kilometers) journey across Antarctica to learn more about humanity's ability to survive on Mars.
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Scientists are Using 'Solar Radio Bursts' to Predict Weather in Space
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For the first time, scientists have successfully bounced a laser off a mirror that's attached to a spacecraft whirling around the moon.
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You can get an idea about immense sizes and distances in astronomy when a jet that extends 15 light years is considered 'tiny'
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Each of these books sheds significant light, from different angles, on the Covid pandemic and especially on the US and the global response to it.
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December 14, 2021
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The European Space Agency's Mars Express collected data from China's Zhurong Mars rover and successfully sent it to Earth following a series of experimental communications tests.
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In 2021, Musk emerged not just as the world’s richest person but also as perhaps the richest example of a massive shift in our society.
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The global herbicide market was $33.65 billion in 2020, according to ResearchandMarkets.com, but Carbon Robotics, an autonomous robotics company, aims to put a dent in that with an autonomous laser-armed weed elimination robot.
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About 55 miles above Earth, the miniscule fireballs leave a puff of even tinier particles, called meteoric smoke. The particles stick to each other and grow like tiny snowballs as they fall to Earth over several years.
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researchers suggest that a reaction between grains of dust on them and solar winds from when the solar system was formed created the light water in S-type asteroids.
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This new development will considerably help in providing a better lifestyle and living experience to senior citizens. John Hopkin will use the allocated funds over five years to build an AI and technology collaboratory (AITC).
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An interview with Adam McKay on his latest film, "Don't Look Up" and his near death experience that shaped this apocalyptic comedy.
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A team of researchers in Japan, led by Professor Toru Minamino of Juntendo University, claims to have developed a vaccine that removes the senescent cells that build up with age
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Doctor and owner of Lübeck airport insists his improvised Covid jab is 97% effective
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Molnupiravir was initially heralded by public-health officials as a game-changer for COVID-19, but full clinical-trial data showed lower-than-expected efficacy.
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Shares of Pfizer were upgraded to Buy from Neutral at UBS, with the firm writing that it expects antiviral pill Paxlovid to reach sales of at least $14 billion next year, or 40% above Wall Street expectations.
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This is a Youtube report on the paper by Vinay Prasad, MD
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From the documents, we can conclude that in February 2021, there were more than 1200 deaths reported and more than 150,000 side effects, and they granted the emergency use anywa
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Within that first 90- day window, over 1,200 deaths were reported, with a significant number appearing to happen within the first 24 hours after vaccination
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November 30, 2021
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The Voyager Station, which would accommodate 280 guests, aims to be the first commercial space hotel upon completion
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Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see 46.1 billion light-years away in all directions. Doesn't that violate...something?
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The device will be able to provide not just augmented, but also virtual reality experiences
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Three of the country's largest banks are working together on 'DCJPY.'
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Flippy 2 takes over the work for an entire fry station
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The millimetre-sized living machines, called Xenobots 3.0, are neither traditional robots nor a species of animal, but living, programmable organisms.
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Are we getting all the information necessary to make informed decisions about vaccination? Molecular Biologist Dr. Aditi Bhargava, the director of laboratory research at UCSF develops mRNA technology, the same technology used in covid vaccines
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It was so sad to see these poor sentient creatures stranded, we had to do something..
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The power of empathy & intuition will open your heart and empower your life
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December 7, 2021
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Early analysis suggests it is almost certainly not a hut, but rather a rock that was blasted out of the Moon by an ancient impact.
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Elon Musk has confirmed Starship will add another chapter in Launch Complex 39A’s incredible history at the Kennedy Space Center.
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Could naturally occurring stem cells throughout the body hold the key to unlocking the next generation of advances in regenerative medicine?
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The scientist's Petri dishes were pregnant.
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Researchers found that a compound in the venom called melittin could destroy breast cancer cells within an hour, without causing harm to other cells.
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Dr. Marty Makary joins the fray for a science & reason SMACKDOWN 🔥 How many Omicrons does this register on the media fear-o-meter? Weigh in 😂👇
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Full summary in the first few minutes of this video, its good news
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Indonesia has become the first country in the world to give emergency use authorisation to the Covid-19 vaccine developed by US company Novavax. The vaccine's appeal is that it was developed using a tried and tested technology and has proven highly safe a
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John Ford's Feature film length Academy-Award-winning “Docudrama” recreation of the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii and the US efforts to beat back the Japanese
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November 23, 2021
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After it was hit by an unexpected vibration, the highly anticipated, seemingly cursed observatory will now launch no earlier than Dec. 22
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NASA's mission DART will test our ability to redirect an asteroid by quite literally crashing into it — but the spacecraft will also test a new type of propulsion system for the agency.
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The throng of planets is the latest to join the 4,569 already validated planets orbiting a multitude of distant stars.
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New study shows that the synthesis of heavy elements is typical for certain black holes with orbiting matter accumulations, so-called accretion disks.
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The technique could be used to stop information loss from quantum computers.
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TOUGH LUCK, NFT FANS.
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NASA’s Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will use laser communications systems to transmit data from space to Earth.
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Preclinical tests in guinea pigs indicate the vaccine aids the immune system in recognizing tick bites, resulting in the parasites being dislodged before they can transmit any pathogenic disease.
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Using 'synthetic wavelength holography, Researchers have managed to create a powerful holographic camera that is able to see through objects like corners, fog and even humans
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Two antivirals could help beat Covid-19 in countries that don’t have vaccines yet. They just need to work as promised.
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One of the most commonly used tricks to make a drug look more effective than it is in a real-world setting is to conflate absolute and relative risk reduction.
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We investigate the relationship between the percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases across 68 countries and across 2947 counties in the US.
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The Philipendium - Insightful stories about science, nature, language, and education
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The Real Science Behind Hacky Headlines, Crappy Clickbait, and Suspect Sources We have more scientific information at our fingertips today than ever before. And more disinformation too
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Antivirals in Japan Ivermectin allowed as a treatment on August 13 Doctors can prescribe without restrictions People can buy it legally from India Dr. Haruo Ozaki, Chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association
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November 16 2021
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https://www.space.com/russia-asat-test-space-debris-dangerous-irresponsible
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It will last 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds.
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The bizarre interloper called 'Oumuamua continues to defy explanation.
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A quasi-satellite of Earth, named Kamoʻoalewa, might actually be a chip off our Moon.
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Russia's state development corporation has announced it is working on an advanced new unmanned military jet that can soar above the clouds and cloak itself from enemy defenses, while being controlled from the safety of the ground.
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“As human beings, we’re always adjusting our persona and the role we have within those parameters. With digital people, we can create those constructs.”
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Enapter has now deployed its ion exchange membrane electrolyzers in over 100 projects across 33 countries. Their compact generators, which turn renewable electricity into emission-free hydrogen gas, recently won Prince William’s Earthshot Prize
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This video discusses new surprise discovery (yet to be confirmed by other scientists) that SARS-CoV-2 full length spike protein can enter human cell nuclei and interfere with fixing of broken DNA damage.
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Rising ocean temperatures in the Pacific are causing changes to the West Coast's precipitation patterns . Ultimately, the climate of the Pacific Northwest and Southwest could switch
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Author of the Atlas of a Changing Climate - our Evolving Planet Visualized
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November 9, 2021
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Both Paxlovid and molnupiravir are virus inhibitors, meaning they act to prevent the COVID virus from reproducing in the body. They are both taken orally and are designed to be given to COVID patients.
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An inexpensive repurposed drug called fluvoxamine (FDA can save the lives of COVID-19 patients and cut hospital admissions by up to 30 percent
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a commercial venture with a mission to "reimagine the entire drug discovery process from the ground up."
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The new test, called Galleri, is intended to be used in concert with other early cancer detection systems and can pinpoint 50 types of cancer, including difficult to detect and aggressive types such as pancreatic, ovarian, and esophageal.
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An ambitious project is attempting to interpret sperm whale clicks with artificial intelligence, then talk back to them
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The new robot can do the work of an entire fry station without any human assistance, and can do more than double the number of food preparation tasks its older sibling could do, including filling, emptying, and returning fry baskets.
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On this show, Dr. Setty looks at the claims of the Pfizer whistleblower
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Allegations described as "vague kind of hand waving"
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November 2, 2021
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a small asteroid roughly the size of a refrigerator came extremely close to the Earth.
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Three competitors have already entered the arena. More are expected.
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Issues with the toilet on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule will leave a group of four astronauts without a bathroom option during their hours-long trip back home from the International Space Station
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Using the Advanced Photon Source, scientists have recreated the structure of ice formed at the center of planets like Neptune and Uranus.
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All that’s needed are some bioreactors and some CO2
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Milestone comes after firm’s Model 3 became first battery-powered electric car to top Europe’s monthly sales chart
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Recent investigations into shark vision have expanded scientists’ understanding of how the cartilaginous predators see their environment
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Nobody knows who she was, just that she was different: a teenage girl from over 50,000 years ago of such strange uniqueness she looked to be a 'hybrid' ancestor
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The tech giants are all trying to improve their AI assistants so that they can anticipate what humans want and when they want it.
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Zuck has said that the metaverse should be open and not built by just one company.
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The ultimate dream is to create an atmospheric water harvester that can work in arid and humid regions alike, producing water at a cost of a cent per liter.
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Whether powered by electric batteries or hydrogen fuel, these advanced electric motors are likely to play a role in enabling electric air mobility, even over longer distances.
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Unless there is a good afterlife, death is a horrific evil and nothing is more important than preventing good people from dying.
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From ‘carbon capture’ to ‘hydrofluorocarbons,’ these are the terms you need to know as climate negotiations in Glasgow unfold
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October 26, 2021
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Our #DARTmission is a first-of-its-kind #PlanetaryDefense test to change the motion of an asteroid in space so that we could use this technique if an asteroid were ever discovered to be a threat to Earth.
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"The station will open the next chapter of human space exploration and development by facilitating the growth of a vibrant ecosystem and business model for the future"
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If you hear one new thing today, how about making it the sound of wind on Mars?
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The possible planet signal discovered by Nasa's Chandra X-Ray Telescope is in the Messier 51 galaxy.
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“The kinetic energy at Mach 5 is very high,” Pradeep Dass, president and CTO of the company, told Futurism. “It will act like a bomb if [it] hits anything. It is sexy, so it is a sexbomb.”
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Starting in 2017, Facebook's ranking algorithm treated emoji reactions as five times more valuable than "likes," internal documents reveal.
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The fast-food chain teamed up with Beyond Meat to make the meatless option.
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Ban on gas-powered mowers among dozens of laws signed this month
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humans aren’t the only mammals who enjoy a well-timed beat.
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Local government opposition, high taxes and competition from unlicensed businesses are complicating the state's push to build a thriving legal market.
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the societal response to covid 19 as a form of mass hypnosis
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October 19, 2021
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Their work wasn't done once they landed on Earth, though. A larger film crew was waiting to film the end of the movie.
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Actual recording of Bill's reaction to being in space!
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A new NASA spacecraft headed for the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter has a small issue with its solar panels, but the probe isn't in immediate danger.
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In the factory of Swiss technology giant ABB, which is under construction in Shanghai, “robot-making robot” will be produced.
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A REVOLUTIONARY new ‘robot' nurse designed to look and act like a human being, and capable of solving complex problems, is one of the star guests at a conference on Alternative Intelligence in California.
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In the face of searing temperatures and ongoing drought, the UAE’s National Center of Meteorology is using a new technique to literally make it rain.
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Technology designed for future Mars colonies is 'making nuclear power portable' on Earth.
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Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of energy research. Two experiments in France and Massachusetts do fusion differently, both making progress.
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CAPSat (Cool Annealing Payload Satellite) contains single-photon detectors, which can be used as receivers for unhackable quantum communications.
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"THE POPULATION IS RISING AND WE HAVE TO FEED ALL OF THE PEOPLE."
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While the announced models are an SUV, a sedan and a bus, according to the statements made by the company, an investment of 35 billion dollars will be made in the next 5 years.
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An analysis of six ice core drillings taken from the southernmost continent has revealed a substantial increase in black carbon starting in the 14th century.
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The findings, reported Monday in Nature Aging, show how the drug, bumetanide, reversed signs of Alzheimer’s in mice, as well as in human brain cells in lab dishes.
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The sea scorpion was the apex predator of its time.
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To cut down on the time it takes to discover these new materials, researchers at MIT have developed a data-driven process that uses machine learning to optimize new 3D printing materials with multiple characteristics, like toughness & compression strength
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The drug in question only costs $17.74 to produce. Unfortunately, this type of behaviour is widespread in US pharma
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Does it sometimes feel like you’re surrounded by people who’ve been hypnotised in some way? Well, maybe you are.
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Intended for Santa Cruz County youth, between 12 - 18 years of age.
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the new MacBook Pros are new in every single possible way. The displays are better than I could’ve ever imagined
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going through the many configurations that are available on the new MacBook Pro 14 inch and MacBook Pro 16 inch, including discussing whether to get 16gb of RAM or 32gb of RAM, M1 Pro vs M1 Max, the many GPU options, and some pro tips
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M1 Max/Pro MacBook Pros: What Apple DIDN'T Tell You!
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October 12, 2021
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NASA is getting ready to launch a new science spacecraft Saturday (Oct. 16) to study asteroids near Jupiter, and you can watch mission coverage live all week.
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Researchers at Ohio State University have used the Starlink satellite broadband constellation to derive positional fixing
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With an array of more than 50 microphones set up to enable multi-directional measurement, we flew our full-scale, all-electric prototype in various configurations to fully capture the intensity and character of the sound it emits
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a recent study found that a piece of a projected $2.5 billion market could be in play for early adopters of the technology.
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how bucillamine could change the landscape for the currently available COVID-19 treatments.
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I believe this will be the last straw for the SARS-COV-2 to become an endemic from a pandemic.
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AI Collaboration Proves NFTs Aren’t Just Capable of Communicating Directly with Humans, but Also with Each Other
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Archeologists discover comfortable private toilet in ancient and luxurious royal mansion overlooking the City of David and Temple Mount.
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Pro vaccine as well as pro anti-virals, Dr. Campbell questions the shoddy research cited against Ivermectin by a BBC report
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The pop singer repeatedly praised what he thought was a video of Cruise playing the guitar.
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Considers mask/vax mandates a battle between freedom and tyranny
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Kyer's Natural Beauty celebrates the natural beauty of women in natural environments and our collective admiration and appreciation of the feminine nude form. It also celebrates how far women have come in the world regarding their sovereignty, expression
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October 5, 2021
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The European and Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft made the closest ever measurements of the magnetic field of Mercury above the planet's southern hemisphere as it zoomed past, snapping epic selfies along the way.
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The Saildrone sent back footage of 50-foot waves stirred up by 120-mile-per-hour (190 kph) winds.
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The duo will spend 10 days filming the first feature-length movie in space, with cosmonauts' help.
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Apple's website today showcases a "Celebrating Steve" video, featuring famous moments from Steve Jobs's life and career, plus a statement from his family.
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Autonomous vehicle companies Cruise by General Motors and Waymo by Alphabet have been permitted to operate in a limited number of cities in California by The California Department of Motor Vehicles.
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simulations of the creation of the solar system show that such a planet may have been pushed from the outer regions of the solar system by the gas giants.
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You knew Facebook was making the world shittier, but it's so much worse than you realized.
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The chip also is a key product in Intel's plan to reclaim its processor manufacturing prowess.
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Millions of documents reveal offshore deals and assets of more than 100 billionaires, 30 world leaders and 300 public officials
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Efforts to find an easy, early COVID-19 treatment may have finally panned out
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Molnupiravir disrupts the fidelity of SARS-CoV-2 genome replication and prevents viral propagation by fostering error accumulation in a process referred to as ‘error catastrophe’.
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While vaccines rely on an intact immune system to develop targeted antibodies and infection-fighting cells, Astra's biotech compound known as AZD7442 contains lab-made antibodies designed to linger in the body for months to contain the virus
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The company said it can produce seafood analogs including tuna, whitefish, calamari and shrimp using biomass fermentation and a proprietary strain of fungi.
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a system of holograms of people using "aerohaptics," creating feelings of touch with jets of air. Those jets of air deliver a sensation of touch on people's fingers, hands and wrists.
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September 28, 2021
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On Sept. 18, NASA’s InSight lander celebrated its 1,000th Martian day, or sol, by measuring one of the biggest, longest-lasting marsquakes the mission has ever detected
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“No One Has Ever Seen This Before” – Hubble Shows Winds in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Are AcceleratingBetween 2009 and 2020, researchers found that the average wind speed just within the boundaries of the Great Red Spot, set off by the outer green circle, have increased by up to 8 percent and exceed 640 kilometers per hour.
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"using the bathroom in space is hard, and you've got to be very - what was the word? - very kind to one another."
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“In a few years, the industries that today are not related to space will be doing business on the Moon, Mars and beyond”
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Terran Orbital, in partnership with Space Florida, joined with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis as he announced the company’s planned development of the world’s largest and most advanced “Industry 4.0” space vehicle manufacturing facility.
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The Vasimr rocket (Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket) uses an engine based on nuclear reactors to heat plasma to over two million degrees.
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The company took its puncture-proof tires for a spin for the first time, on an electric vehicle, in line with the company's goals of being more sustainable in the future.
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And it's powered by 18,000 lithium-ion battery cells.
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The world’s biggest memory chip maker has collaborated with Harvard University researchers to share a new approach that takes the world one step closer to making neuromorphic chips.
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Dr. Bruce shares his insights regarding the current Covid crisis
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September 21, 2021
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SpaceX successfully completed its first all-civilian mission, Inspiration4, last week.
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clean up space debris, defunct artificial objects in space—principally in Earth orbit—which no longer serve a useful function.
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The first eVTOL company to join the space agency’s national campaign to validate new technology
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In 2023, NASA’s Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will land near the western edge of the Nobile Crater at the Moon’s South Pole to map and explore the region’s surface and subsurface for water and other resources.
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twilight is to blame for the confusion surrounding the astronomy of an equinox.
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A volcano on the Spanish Canary Island of La Palma sent lava fountains shooting hundreds of feet into the air on Sunday (Sept. 19), forcing thousands of people to evacuate the area.
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The UN General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, through observing 24 hours of non-violence and cease-fire.
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Therapy mimics state of 'hypoxia' and is similar to that employed by deep-sea divers
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Wooden floors infused with silicon and metal ions can generate enough electrical power from human footsteps to light LED bulbs. Researchers hope that they could provide a green energy source for homes.
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A MOUSE STUDY FOUND "LEAKAGE" OF TOXIC PROTEINS INTO THE BRAIN.
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Partnership with Uber expected in 2024
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Tha' Notorious VP returns to talk about the actual science around mandates, booster shots for the healthy, masks & young children, and more!
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An inspiring story of what is possible when it comes to creating Burner Freedom under extreme limitations and conditions
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A new self-organizing event was born — free, open to all, more diverse and sustainable. There is much we can learn from this event about how decentralized organizations can potentially change the world.
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September 14, 2021
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Time Studios and Netflix are chronicling the mission, which launches Sept. 15.
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Raised heavy block slowly fall and run turbines generating electricity
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Clumps of brain cells made from people with Rett syndrome had abnormal electrical activity
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Warm-blooded animals are changing beaks, legs and ears to adapt to hotter climate and better regulate temperature
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The new funds will be used to fuel the company’s research and development operations as it looks to become the first homegrown start-up to commercialize cultivated meat in China.
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The groundbreaking work could point the way to new ways of interacting with computer models and perhaps one day a completely new form of entertainment altogether
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Life might have had a chance to flourish on the planet.
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Investigative reporters for The Intercept, Mara Hvistendahl and Sharon Lerner, break down their latest reporting on NIH funding of gain of function research.
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September 7, 2021
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The rock core is now enclosed in an airtight titanium sample tube, and will be available for retrieval in the future.
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the two SpaceShipTwo pilots ignored an “entry glide cone warning” during the July 11 flight from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
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China's moon-sampling mission spacecraft is continuing its extended mission with its destination currently unknown.
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NASA is asking American companies for ideas and solutions to transport Artemis astronauts around the lunar South Pole later this decade.
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A conspiracy theory spreading online says the whole internet is now fake. It’s ridiculous, but possibly not that ridiculous?
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Funders of a deep-pocketed new "rejuvenation" startup are said to include Jeff Bezos and Yuri Milner.
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Tokyo, Singapore and Dubai are becoming prototype ‘robot cities,’ as governments start to see automation as the key to urban living
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it has “a constellation of mutations that indicate potential properties of immune escape,”
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Among the 1480 participants randomized, fluvoxamine reduced the risk of disease progression by 29%
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With Judy Mikovits, Ph.D., and Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., By Dr. Joseph Mercola
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New data supports the idea of a longer interval between jabs.
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Pottery vessels which had contained beer, found with human remains in platform mound.
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Fleets can use connected vehicle data and a collaborative ecosystem approach to paint the full picture.
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The lesson is not about Ivermectin being poisonous because it isn't, but about the pervasiveness of a type of new internet propaganda termed "informational flooding.”
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Zelenko Protocol discoverer Dr. Vladimir Ze’ev Zelenko last month testified before the Ma’aleh Adumim Rabbinic Court in Israel regarding the COVID-19 shot.
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August 31, 2021
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Rather than climbing skyward, the 43-foot-tall rocket hovered sideways off its launch pad before attempting to right itself, at which point it climbed about 30 miles into the air
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The historic double flyby was a result of the two spacecraft attempting to reduce their orbital energy while en route to their respective destinations.
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The launch next month of the first all-civilian mission to orbit is an ambitious test for a burgeoning space industry's futuristic dream of sending many more ordinary people to space
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Shares of Globalstar, a satellite services provider, surged following a report that the newest iPhone will have the ability to utilize satellite communications.
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Scientists from Osaka University have manufactured the world’s first 3D-printed Wagyu beef by using stem cells isolated from Japanese cattl
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The first CRISPR experiment to take place in space shows that DNA can repair itself in microgravity.
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A Norwegian company called Yara International claims to have created the world’s first zero-emission ship that can also transport cargo autonomously.
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NASA reveals how the Space Pen actually became a thing, how much it cost taxpayers, and why the space agency made the decision to move away from cheap, but risky, pencils.
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it has been estimated that the power of coastal waves around the world each year is equivalent to annual global electricity production.
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The device relies on CRISPR technology, is 3D printed and costs a mere $15.
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Experiments showed that an antibody, called S309, neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 strains – including newly emerged mutants that can now “escape” from previous antibody therapies
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If the findings are confirmed, the implications for Covid policy will be profound
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Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul said researchers won't study ivermectin because of their "hatred for Trump."
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a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as "spiritual opium".
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The infamous “trolley problem” was put to millions of people in a global study, revealing how much ethics diverge across cultures.
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virtually one hundred percent of all the carbon in the plant material is converted into biogasoline.
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August 24, 2021
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The Chinese National Space Administration confirmed that the rover is technically sound and fully charged, so it’s ready to do more science.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has announced that it has successfully demonstrated the operation of a “rotating detonation engine” for the first time in space.
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Scientists used an unconventional method of creating nuclear fusion to yield a record-breaking burst of energy of more than 10 quadrillion watts, by firing intense beams of light from the world's largest lasers at a tiny pellet of hydrogen.
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The video technology, initially associated with porn, is gaining a foothold in the corporate world.
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Ultromics offers groundbreaking AI solutions for more accurate diagnosis
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Join Dr Tom every Tuesday, 5pm Pacific time, for a weekly interactive Zoom webinar where he will be giving you a weekly update from the first-hand science that he is vetting from his colleagues around the world,
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According to the CDC, the unvaccinated make up 95% to 99% of COVID hospitalizations. But in a news clip shared by Fox News host Laura Ingraham, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky reveals how that data is “grossly misleading.”
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Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a cancer immunotherapy that pairs ultrasound with cancer-killing immune cells to destroy malignant tumors while sparing normal tissue.
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The Phase 3 trial results suggest the novel antibody cocktail, delivered by intramuscular injection, could offer up to 12 months protection.
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Del and Catherine do their best to untangle the complexity of today's world.
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A preprint paper by the prestigious Oxford University Clinical Research Group, published Aug. 10 in The Lancet, found vaccinated individuals carry 251 times the load of COVID-19 viruses in their nostrils compared to the unvaccinated.
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The FDA should demand adequate, controlled studies with long term follow up, and make data publicly available, before granting full approval to covid-19 vaccines, says Peter Doshi
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August 17, 2021
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Venus has been a hot spot in the solar system this week, as two different missions have captured footage of their flybys of the planet.
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Ingenuity crossed some rough terrain, giving the plucky little chopper a serious challenge.
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NASA intends to use the moon's dusty soil (officially known as regolith) as a printing raw material.
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The test printer could help NASA plan future Moon and Mars habitats.
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In 2018, one of the world's top physicists came up with a dazzling explanation.
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At least hundreds of people congregated on the tarmac at Kabul's international airport amid mass evacuations
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They analyzed nearly all of the US patent system
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In California, at least 152 cases have been reported, the first as early as September 2020, according to state public health officials.
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A population comparable to the US went from about 35,000 cases and 350 deaths per day to nearly ZERO within weeks of adding Ivermectin to their protocol.
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Triantha occidentalis is picky: It won't eat insects heavy enough to be its pollinators.
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The firm behind the giant tidal turbine wants to build a fleet of the machines.
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behaviorists found that the majority of domesticated cats aren’t inclined to “contrafreeload” — a term for a preference toward working for a meal. This is in contrast to most animals, which are contrafreeloaders (they prefer to work for their food).
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The impactor traveled further than previously predicted, before colliding with Earth.
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The inclusion in the infrastructure bill was welcomed by both major Hyperloop companies, which hope that the development of futuristic transport systems will replace costly road and rail infrastructure.
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August 10, 2021
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NASA's Perseverance rover tried to collect its first Mars rock sample on Friday, but came up empty.
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The second uncrewed test of Starliner was scrubbed after 13 valves in its propulsion system failed to open.
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An observatory in Chile has succeeded in taking the highest resolution measurements of the surface temperature of an asteroid ever obtained from Earth.
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The biggest reason why aircraft aren’t allowed to break the sound barrier is noise created.
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NASA is looking for volunteers to live on a fake Martian surface for 12 months.
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The All-Sky Fireball Network includes 17 cameras across the United States that scan the skies for meteors
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What if the universe is a giant alien chatroom, and we just can't understand it?
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Solar-powered yachts are making waves in a traditionally diesel-chugging industry.
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At a new Mountain View hotel and restaurant that pays homage to NASA, robot servers will deliver your food
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Now, researchers have found a way to make cheap thermoelectrics that work just as well as the pricey kind
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Merck is pleased to collaborate with the U.S. government on this new agreement that will provide Americans with COVID-19 access to molnupiravir – an investigational oral therapy being studied for outpatient use early in the course of disease
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In addition to its reduction of Covid-19 transmission, Molnupiravir is likely to be useful against influenza, ebola, and a large swath of other viruses as well.
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August 3, 2021
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The space station spun far more than the reported 45 degrees, according to NASA flight director Zebulon Scoville.
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he Solar Orbiter and BepiColombo will pass on either side of our neighboring planet.
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Three days after the initial launching, the unmanned vessel had to interrupt its voyage due to a mechanical issue and sail back to England.
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they engulf and neutralize viruses with nano-capsules tailored from genetic material using the DNA origami method.
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Autonomous vehicles will soon be competing against each other at the Indy Autonomous Challenge, an event that will probably be remembered for years to come.
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The method proposed by the UrFU power engineers will significantly reduce the cost of desalination and will increase production volumes by four times.
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A novel way to deal with peak power needs of the electrical utilities
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Google’s Gmail is a privacy nightmare compared to Apple’s alternative.
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Nearly three-fourths of the infections in a recent Massachusetts COVID-19 outbreak were breakthrough cases.
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An Independent Research Study Collecting Data Around Women's Cycle Changes
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Fourteen of the worlds highest-profile doctors, all specialists in their own fields, come together to discuss the dangers that we all face from the Covid 19 pandemic.
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Representative sample from the Roundtable discussion
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July 27, 2021
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Ingenuity's 10th flight was its highest yet as it scouted a spot called Raised Ridges.
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Oxygen Found on the Frozen World Is Linked to Sublimating Surface Ice
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firefighters are using data analytics to aid in fighting the flames. Statistical models predict how fires spread, which helps make sure firefighters are deployed to where they are most needed.
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With his latest offer of $2 billion to NASA so that he may proceed with plans to have a lunar lander, Bezos continues his long-standing rivalry with Musk.
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The electric-powered bot can clean up to 3,000 sqm of beach per hour, making it 20 to 30 times more efficient than cleaning the trash on the beach by hand.
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Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence technology that can spot shipwrecks from the ocean surface and also from the air.
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The fleet just reached a big milestone
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The country's hackers have gotten far more aggressive since 2015, when the Ministry of State Security largely took over the country’s cyberespionage.
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Pharmacist Ben looks at the human body as a healing and regenerating system, designed divinely to heal and renew itself on a moment to moment basis.
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July 20, 2021
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and three other passengers successfully reached the lower regions of space in New Shepard, a re-usable craft developed by the entrepreneur’s Blue Origin aerospace company
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After weeks of investigation, engineers concluded that the most likely cause of the payload computer problem was a malfunction of a power control unit, which supplies voltage to the hardware in the computer.
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These revolutionary cameras will offer low latency and work on low power.
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Our cosmos may be multiply connected, meaning that space is closed in on itself in all three dimensions like a three-dimensional donut.
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“Future generations are going to look at this moment as a pivotal moment for humanity when it comes to the expansion into space.”
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The flight was just 11 minutes. The reverberations for the world’s richest man will last much longer.
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An artificial intelligence (AI) program developed at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia can now catch the disease earlier, allowing for incidental detection through routine computed tomography (CT) scans.
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NICT managed the feat by upgrading virtually every stage of the pipeline.
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Nanomedic Technologies has engineered an artificial skin that is 3D-printed, is affixed directly onto a patient’s skin, and after 24-48 hours allows patients to use that area as they normally would
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the first phase of a project to transform a segment of the state's highway into wireless charging pavement for electric vehicles
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where is everyone going to charge their vehicles?
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In the early days, cameras were almost not included on the mission to Mars.
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July 13, 2021
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Musk has put down a $10,000 deposit but the date of the upcoming flight isn't fixed yet.
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Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. has filed to sell up to $500 million worth of shares, according to a regulatory filing Monday, sending the stock spiraling down after the weekend’s successful space-tourism flight.
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Tesla began sending out over-the-air software updates for its long-awaited “Full Self-Driving” beta version 9, the definitely-not-autonomous-but-certainly-advanced driver assist system.
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The asteroid could be rammed by 23 of China's Long March 5 rockets
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images can be analyzed using a machine-learning classifier to identify meteorites in the field among many other features
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Saildrone Surveyor is a new, much larger class of vehicle optimized for deep-ocean mapping.
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The human farmers of the future may be behind a screen rather than in the field.
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This seminal connection happened during the Summer of '86 in Joshua Tree and was shared during the event "Contact in the Desert" on June 27, 2021 in a session chaired by Celestine Star
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Anneliese has dedicated over twenty-five years to end-of-life care and advocacy for the elderly.
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July 6, 2021
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Ingenuity tested out some new tricks on its ninth flight.
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Richard Branson, the billionaire founder of Virgin Galactic, will fly into space aboard his company's VSS Unity rocketplane on July 11 for an up-and-down test flight, beating Amazon-founder and rival Jeff Bezos into sub-orbital space by nine days.
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despite triple-digit temperatures, our planet will reach aphelion, the point in its orbit when Earth is farthest from the sun, at 6:27 p.m. EDT (3:27 p.m. PDT/22:27 UTC) on Monday, July 5.
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These ultrabright flashes have recently been tracked for days, upending ideas about the cataclysms that create them.
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Recent computer simulations by Jason T. Wright et al suggest that the best place to look for ancient space-faring civilizations might be the core of the Galaxy, a relatively unexplored target
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Australian scientists will help construct one of the world’s most powerful ground-based telescopes that promises to see further and clearer than the Hubble Space Telescope and unlock mysteries of the early Universe.
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Parents of children called Alexa say their daughters are being bullied because it is the same name that Amazon uses for its virtual assistant.
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The factory is already producing cultured chicken breasts at a cost of $3.90 apiece, breaking a price record in the industry.
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“If there’s a collapsed building, it can alert and assist rescuers. It can go places they can’t fly to or get to themselves.”
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The new DNA-based technology uses a handheld device similar to a blood-glucose monitor. A microchip analyzes a droplet of bodily fluid such as blood, urine or saliva, using molecules that can detect the specific protein signature of an infection.
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Scientists at Britain's University of Bath initially noticed that the aligned cellular structure of individual blades of grass is similar to that of muscle fibers.
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Sigurður Ingi Þórðarson, a key witness in the United States Department of Justice case against Julian Assange, has admitted in a recent interview with Stundin that he fabricated aspects of his testimony against the Wikileaks founder.
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Activist and former Democratic presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson, discusses the latest updates in the Julian Assange case.
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The latest coronavirus variant has spread to about a dozen countries—including India, the U.S., and the U.K.—while scientists scramble to figure out if the strain is more deadly or transmissible.
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the only source of new coronavirus variants is the body of an infected person.
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An extraordinary new study from a team of scientists at Yale University is reporting the first direct cellular demonstration of a single psilocybin dose inducing neural plasticity in a mammalian brain.
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A new study has identified a specific brain circuit centered in the periaqueductal gray that is linked to spiritual acceptance and religiosity.
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A listener suggested video looking at machine intelligence and human morals.
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Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of (MIT).Her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation
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In reference to our conversation at 4:30sec in today's show
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The VLOG of Van Neistat, the fabled fixer mentioned in this week's show.
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Posted in reference to a caller in the second hour, concerned about long term effects of the spike protein shedding phenomenon of the mRNA vaccines for COVID-19..
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By listening to the rain of electrons flowing onto Jupiter from its intensely volcanic moon Io, researchers using NASA’s Juno spacecraft have found what triggers the powerful radio emissions within the monster planet’s gigantic magnetic field.
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June 29, 2021
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It's the final hurdle in Virgin Galactic's yearslong effort to send paying passengers on short space hops.
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One tidbit from the report hints at how the government plans to learn about UAPs: by using artificial intelligence.
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The Venus clouds are a whole order of magnitude more dry than the Sahara," said Hallsworth, noting that the Sahara has around 0.25 water activity, while the clouds of Venus come in at just 0.004 water activity.
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The little rotorcraft's current extended-mission activities, which center on showcasing the potential of Mars helicopters to serve as scouts for rovers, will "continue for at least a few more months
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Starlink, which has said it plans to deploy 12,000 satellites in total at a cost of roughly $10 billion, currently offers beta services in 11 countries
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the spacecraft has encountered a serious problem that has prevented it from exiting safe mode.
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The firm's goal is to build the Voyager Space Station (VSS), a circular luxury space hotel with a diameter of 650 ft (200 m) and simulated gravity similar to the levels seen on the Moon.
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Experts doubt that this delta variant will lead to anything resembling the last major outbreak.
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Analysts at Morgan Stanley led by David Risinger raised their estimates for Pfizer to $33bn in 2021 and $32bn in 2022, halving to $16.5bn in 2023 and $8.2bn in 2024.
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It may not be too late to put the evil "Slaughterbots" genie back in the bottle, if the world acts now
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Unitree's Go1 can walk beside you and lug your groceries but costs a fraction of Boston Dynamics' Spot.
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a universal vaccine that protects not just against COVID-19 but also other coronaviruses and triggered the immune system to fight off a dangerous variant.
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Interview with Luis “Lue” Elizondo, the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), an unpublicized U.S. government program created in 2007 committed to the investigation of UAPs.
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A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the futur
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The story of our species may run through a war-time construction project back to the wild and woolly steppes of Asia where Dragon people once roamed.
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Why is GM developing fuel cells?
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Branson has long been expected to fly on one of the first operational flights for his company, and the blog Parabolic Arc recently reported he's going to try to beat Bezos to the edge of space.
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This is the clip played on the June 29, 2021 show with the illustrious founder of McAffe antivirus, recently deceased.
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June 22, 2021
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Would you be willing to ride to the edge of space in a balloon?
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Ingenuity is traveling south to keep up with the Perseverance rover.
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NASA is working to save its prized space telescope, Hubble, after a mysterious computer issue took it offline last week.
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The formidable reactor reached 120 million degrees Celsius for an astounding 101 seconds.
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Detecting a key molecular property of all living organisms
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The areas of black holes are tied to the amount of disorder in the universe
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The Cyclocar will carry six people, or up to 600 kg of cargo, up to 500 km (310 miles) thanks to a hybrid powertrain
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Following its success against COVID-19, BioNTech is now focused on its cancer vaccines.
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The company is aiming to hold races with the uncrewed vehicles later this year
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When the nearby red supergiant started acting strange, some speculated it could be on the verge of going supernova. Now scientists know what was really happening.
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A team of scientists using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to study the young star Elias 2-27 have confirmed that gravitational instabilities play a key role in planet formation
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An ultra-lightweight spacecraft, acting as a light-sail, to travel with unprecedented speed over tens of trillions of kilometres to the star about four lightyears away, reaching the destination within 20 years.
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The process of turning sunlight directly into usable energy—called photosynthesis—may soon be a feat humans are able to mimic to harness the sun's energy for clean, storable, efficient fuel.
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Field investigators take us to ancient Greece, to an island that exploded with devastating force. Remains of a palace were discovered on the island of Crete beneath volcanic ash.
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Do we see reality as it is? Cognitive psychologist, Donald Hoffman explains how our perceptions have evolved to become like a computer interface and what real-life implications this has today.
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June 15, 2021
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Aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, 128 baby glow-in-the-dark bobtail squid and about 5,000 microscopic animals are headed to the ISS.
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It was the first rapid response launch for the Space Force.
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Space-X revealed this week that it’s talking to “several airlines” about the possibility of providing in-flight Wi-Fi.
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The infrared space telescope is designed to help advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts.
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The Pentagon is allowing SpaceX to send a national security satellite to orbit with a reused rocket for the first time.
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They're hundreds of millions of light-years long.
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The just-launched Archer Maker is the latest entry in the electric air-taxi race.
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Google's artificial intelligence (AI) development, particularly on understanding human language, will be its strongest effort yet against misinformation, says its chief executive officer Sundar Pichai.
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genetically modified neurons had become stand-ins for the photoreceptors he had lost many years before to a genetic disease called retinitis pigmentosa.
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A subatomic particle has been found to switch between matter and antimatter, according to Oxford physicists analyzing data from the Large Hadron Collider.
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Researchers previously believed space radiation would destroy our DNA, making breeding impossible.
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The Yara Birkeland, the world’s first net-zero, battery-powered autonomous container ship, was delivered to Norwegian fertilizer company Yara Norge AS in November 2020.
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first evidence that RNA segments can be written back into DNA, which potentially challenges the central dogma in biology and could have wide implications affecting many fields of biology.
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The Mystery of the Sphinx is a controversial Emmy winning 1993 television documentary about the Great Sphinx of Giza. It deals mainly with the conflict between egyptologists and a handful of fringe theory proponents of the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis
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June 8, 2021
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The Amazon founder and his brother will be aboard New Shepard's first passenger flight on July 20.
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NASA’s Juno space probe, which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016, got a close-up look at Jupiter’s biggest moon Ganymede
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The planet's history makes it an excellent place to study the greenhouse effect and to learn how to manage it on Earth.
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The rocks are about as porous as the building blocks of planets.
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With unmanned aerial refueling assets like the MQ-25, which can carry up to 15,000 pounds of fuel, the Navy can free up manned assets and engage an enemy at a distance without putting its carriers in harms way.
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Our Moonbase is a space station orbiting the Moon with landers to take the astronauts to the surface and back.
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The 216-foot-tall rocket is expected to start flying in 2024.
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The Kelekona aircraft is designed to carry 40 passengers, or 10,000 lb of cargo.
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the team created fingernail-sized bioscaffolds full of elaborate structures that, until now, were considered impossible with standard 3D printers.
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Here’s a rundown on some basic questions and answers about the drug, known as Aduhelm.
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Washington University researchers have developed a filter that treats wastewater and also generates electricity—an advance that could reshape energy use at treatment plants.
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The female-led start-up wants to give parents a new alternative to formula.
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Apple just wrapped up its WWDC 2021 keynote, and it was jam-packed with news and announcements, including our first looks at iOS 15, the new macOS Monterey, big improvements to FaceTime, and more.
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June 1, 2021
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In a very real sense, Ingenuity muscled through the situation, and while the flight uncovered a timing vulnerability that will now have to be addressed, it also confirmed the robustness of the system in multiple ways.
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Studying Martian volcanic activity could help us find signs of life on the Red Planet
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They’ve been used to sniff out drugs, explosives and other contraband, and now a team of scientists in Britain has trained dogs to detect COVID-19 in humans with up to 94-per-cent accuracy.
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Tiny structures inspired by the shape of cactus spines allow a newly created material to gather drinkable water from the air both day and night, combining two water-harvesting technologies into one.
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Physicists have built two tiny drums, each as large as a human hair is wide, and synchronized their vibrations exactly.
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For some time, seismologists have been aware of brief, subtle anomalies in underground electrical fields leading up to an earthquake, sometimes occurring as soon as a few weeks before the quake happens.
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Researchers at Stanford University modified Google’s augmented reality glasses to read emotions in others and notify the wearer.
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We already know that some of these new strains are less susceptible to neutralization by our current vaccine.”
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One of the greatest challenges facing autonomous vehicles is that they struggle navigating in bad weather conditions, which really limits their implementation in snowy cities
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Deep fakes keep getting better, but a singing Tom Cruise?
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Along with fuel and unspecified “equipment” for the space station, the cargo spacecraft ferried space suits various odds and ends that astronauts will need when they travel to the spacecraft in the not-so-distant future.
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The founder of the Disclosure projects makes the case of why current govt releases on UFOs is disinformation with an agenda
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stop spinning the data and start being transparent and consistent.
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May 25, 2021
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VSS Unity, flown by pilots CJ Sturckow and Dave Mackay, reached space at an altitude of 55.45 miles (89.23 kilometers)
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The test also shows astronauts could also make oxygen this way to fuel their trip home
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On Wednesday, May 26, the Moon will move into Earth’s shadow, resulting in the first total lunar eclipse in nearly two and a half years.
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The breakthrough involves harnessing the power of lithium-metal batteries, which are capable of holding substantially more energy and charge in a fraction of the time compared to lithium-ion batteries that are currently used in everything from smartphones
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Sharks use the Earth's magnetic field as a sort of natural GPS to navigate journeys that take them great distances across the world's oceans,
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Dr. Sarfatti claims that the physics of these unusual UFO's is well understood.
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Ford sends a strong message that you don't need deep pockets to go electric.
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The campus of experimental Architecture in Belgium is home to the World's ´first single-piece concrete 3D printed house.
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The law imposes penalties of up to $250,000 a day on a social media platform that bans a candidate for office. The tech industry says the law "takes us closer to a state-run internet."
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Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman had a fairly hot take on the matter: In the battle between AI and humans, he said, it’s going to be an absolute blowout — and humans are going to get creamed.
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New policies will artificially deflate “breakthrough infections” in the vaccinated, while the old rules continue to inflate case numbers in the unvaccinated.
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An interview with filmmaker Brett Leonard on VR and mental health
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Jeff McBride is widely known as one of the most innovative and exciting magical entertainers of our time. He takes online performance to new heights!
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With catch up with this evolutionary couple as they journey through our bioregion.
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May 18, 2021
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On May 15, 2021, China’s Mars probe Tianwen-1 successfully landed its lander and rover on the red planet
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The samples will land in Utah in September 2023.
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A recent study of a fissure on the surface of Mars reveals what looks like volcanic activity as recently as 50,000 years ago. This could mean that warm magma beneath the surface, and groundwater we suspect is there, could provide a habitat for alien life.
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This spaceplane could return from the ISS much faster than SpaceX capsules can.
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BYU’s holography research group has figured out how to create lightsabers — green for Yoda and red for Darth Vader, naturally — with actual luminous beams rising from them.
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The origin of pandemic remains uncertain: The political agendas of governments and scientists have generated thick clouds of obfuscation, which the mainstream press seems helpless to dispel.
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The backlash to the way the Covid crises was handled is spawning some new tunes.
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Eric Clapton and Van Morrison have come out against the jab. Van Morrison wrote a song, and Eric Clapton performs it on YouTube:
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Dr. Future experiments with Neuralink and canines to create a new kind of group mind.
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Unlocking with the powerful keys of optimal health, resilience, and peak performance. With Dr. Stephen Sideroff, host.
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Dr. Arnold shares what he has found in the medical literature about how best to handle the Covid crisis, especially if you are not excited about getting the vaccines.
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May 11, 2021
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Just hours after the iconoclastic CEO hosted Saturday Night Live, his company conducted a landmark launch.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX will launch the “DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon” in the first quarter of 2022, with the company accepting the meme-inspired cryptocurrency as full payment for the lunar payload.
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from a distance of nearly 23 billion kilometers (over 14 billion miles), astronomers have discovered, from 2017 onwards, a constant hum from plasma waves in the interstellar medium, the diffuse gas that lurks between the stars.
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The LCRT’s primary objective would be to measure the long-wavelength radio waves generated by the cosmic Dark Ages – a period that lasted for a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, but before the first stars blinked into existence
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A ceremony on Friday will redesignate the base near Lompoc and the 30th Space Wing as Vandenberg Space Force Base and Space Launch Delta 30, under Space Operations Command, United States Space Force
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Multiple printers constructed the building in 200 hours using local soil, meaning it’s zero-waste and needed no materials to be transported to the site.
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Unlike other weeding technologies, the robot utilises high-power lasers to eradicate weeds through thermal energy, without disturbing the soil. This could allow farmers to use less herbicides, while reducing labour costs and improving the reliability.
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The Cologne-headquartered German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Cambridge Quantum Computing (CQC) in the UK is the latest pair to explore how quantum computing could help create better simulation models for battery development.
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in Mumbai, they declared two days back that of total cases in the city, 85 per cent were asymptomatic. In Bangalore, over 95 per cent of cases were asymptomatic!”
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Dutch Jounalist/Tech Entrepreneur Luc Sala documents the virus story from his POV in the Netherlands
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The new technique is capable of printing the models 10-50 times faster than the industry standard-;in minutes instead of hours-; a major step in the quest to create 3D-printed replacement organs.
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Did you ever wonder how computer sounds were created? Hear Jim Reekes describe how he created the Apple Startup sounds and Sosumi. Also Featuring: Andrew Stafford at Big Sync Music and Steve Milton at Listen analyze other common digital sounds.
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But the company’s shots, shown to be about 90 percent effective in a 15,000-person United Kingdom trial, could fill an urgent global need – an easy-to-store vaccine that could help bolster strained supplies
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Computer science researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed a sarcasm detector.
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Founded in 2018, the company developed a patent-pending digital technology that uses plant-based ingredients to replicate the flavor, texture, and singular eating experience of beef and other meat products in its Alt-Meat line.
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Among other things, he exploits a curious technique called 'the Shepard tone' (named after scientist Roger Shepard) which creates the auditory illusion of a tone that seems to continually ascend or descend in pitch, yet actually gets no higher or lower.
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Just what is it with Shepard tones?
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May 4, 2021
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IN AN UNUSUAL MOVE, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has given Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX tentative approval for three more tests of its Starship spacecraft.
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"There will be more precision maneuvering, greater use of its aerial-observation capabilities, and more risk overall,"
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During a brief swing by Venus, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe detected a natural radio signal that revealed the spacecraft had flown through the planet’s upper atmosphere.
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Venus' fundamental properties revealed through radar speckle tracking
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The 50-foot (15-metre) trimaran, which weighs nine tonnes and navigates with complete autonomy, is preparing for a transatlantic voyage.
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What? He makes jokes? This is slowly becoming intimidating. It can lie? Now I am truly nervous.
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The IpsiHand system takes advantage of the uninjured side of the brain to trigger the opening and closing of a robotic exoskeleton placed over the affected arm.
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The probe would be built to last 50 years, with the ultimate goal of making it 1,000 astronomical units out, dwarfing previous strides by human spacecraft and delving into the interstellar medium—the great void beyond the reaches of our Sun.
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Experts worldwide have called for the global and systematic use of Ivermectin to prevent and treat COVID-19. Physicians have recently written about a profit motive by regulatory agencies and Big Pharma to block cheap, safe, and effective treatments like I
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The nightclub event, featuring a crowd of around 3,000 people aged 18 to 20 listening and dancing to live music, was an experiment put on by the UK government’s Events Research Program (ERP)
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Introducing MagicDNA, a new tool that can design much more complex DNA robots and nanodevices than were ever possible before in a fraction of the time.
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Genies took another step toward its goal of becoming the first company to offer full virtual identities to users around the globe. The company started out digitizing celebrities to capture noteworthy events such as album releases, guest appearances
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From Frontline Doctors, Dr. Gold lays it out for us as to what's going on medically and legally in our global Covid Crisis.
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The full audio of Dr. Simone Gold on Covid on May 1, 2021 in Aptos, CA
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April 27, 2021
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The richest incentive prize in history is now officially up for grabs.
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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 25, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover.
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The 74m-long, 680-tonne Orbital 02 entered the River Tay in Dundee and is now being towed to Orkney, where it will use sea currents to generate enough energy to power up to 2,000 homes
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"It is transformational to degrees no one today can understand."
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Russia and China have formally invited countries and international organizations to join the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) project being developed by the two nations.
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The black hole dubbed “The Unicorn” is just 1,500 light years from Earth, and one of the smallest ever found.
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During the week of April 26, members of NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) will participate in a “tabletop exercise” to simulate an asteroid impact scenario.
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Singaporeans can now order Katsu Chicken Curry, Chicken & Rice, and Chicken Caesar Salad made with Eat Just’s innovative cell-based chicken through delivery app Foodpanda.
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This can be utilized in many fields, including soft robotics and flexible computer displays.
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warp technology may have radical applications beyond space travel.
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If we can find the answer, it may complete our understanding of space and time.
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Clubhouse said it would give a “small test group” of creators the ability to accept payments from their fans and supporters through the social audio app. These donations go 100% to the creators,
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April 20, 2021
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It's the beginning of an era of drone flights on other celestial bodies
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The Mars Perseverance Rover, which already has sent back some incredible images from the Red Planet, is equipped with 23 cameras designed for a host of tasks.
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Starlink is coming through its beta period
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Clubhouse clearly has the halo of The Next Big Thing. So it’s no surprise that other social networks are jumping to either clone it or buy it.
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Former Pfizer Vice President Mike Yeadon discusses his thoughts as to why the lockdown was a mistake, and why the government strategies to manage the pandemic are only making things worse.
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Animal DNA from the skins the Dead Sea Scrolls are printed on may unlock new secrets of their past.
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Today, angiosperms, or flowering plants, dominate the tropical rainforests but that wasn't always the case.
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Chinese-US researchers implanted human stem cells inside a monkey embryo The resulting hybrid was able to grow and develop for up to 20 days in a lab
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A blockchain project says it is taking virtual reality to the next level by creating the “3D internet” — a world that is built and owned by the people who use it.
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After a hype-filled week for cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin experienced a flash crash over the weekend, plunging nearly 14% in less than an hour, from about $59,000 to $51,000, on Saturday night before rebounding.
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After trading below the 1-cent level for much of January, Doge went on to hit a high of 8.49 cents on Feb. 9, as Musk sent it to the moon with his supportive tweets.
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Venmo, the PayPal-operated peer-to-peer mobile payments app, has begun support for crypto – allowing users to buy, sell or hold bitcoin (BTC) and other coins – marking another leap forward into crypto for PayPal.
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Apple just held its first product launch event of the year. It announced a new iMac that ships in seven different colors, the new iPad Pro with an M1 chip and support for faster 5G networks, an AirTag lost-device tracking gadget and a refreshed Apple TV 4
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THE BITCOIN REWARDS APP
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April 13, 2021
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The team will modify and reinstall Ingenuity's flight-control software.
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A large, passenger van-sized spacecraft sidled up to an active, 6-ton satellite on Monday afternoon about 36,000 km above the Earth's surface, and re-fueled it, giving it 5 more years of active service.
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https://academictimes.com/far-from-science-fiction-space-elevators-may-be-nearing-deployment/
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A VR rendition of a space elevator. Crude but it'll give you a clue of what might look like if it were to go to the ground, which they won't, at least initially.
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It can already claim it contributed to both companies' COVID vaccines.
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UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineer Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz and colleagues noticed the virus was inactivated as much as eight times faster in experiments than the most recent theoretical model predicted.
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CRISPR changes are now fully reversible, and the world will never be the same.
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An example of how far Neuralink has come in the last few years.
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The Hyundai-owned car brand marked its entrance into China by breaking the Guinness World Record for the most Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the air at the same time, using 3,281 drones to display its logo and otherwise advertise over Shanghai on March 29th
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Rice University scientists have optimized a process to convert waste from rubber tires into graphene that can, in turn, be used to strengthen concrete.
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A once-rejected rave drug finds new healing purpose.
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these two water types are chemically the same, although deuterium does exhibit slightly different bonding behavior to regular hydrogen
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Every sentence you see after this introduction is the work of OpenAI’s GPT-3, a powerful language-prediction model capable of composing sequences of coherent text.
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TikTok users have been remixing the frog sound in many different ways, but Robert gave it a catchy twist leading to him gaining six million views on the short video.
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Prey blundering into a web makes a very different vibrational clamor from another spider coming a-wooing, or the stirring of a breeze, for example. Each strand of a web produces a different tone.
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she makes this look so easy. I mean she plays a bunch of instruments, sings in a few tunes, and it looks like it's just afternoon fun for her
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The vast majority of content removal was performed automatically, by the platform’s systems, before a single user could set eyes on it – let alone report it as violating some rule.
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The platform has promised to do better after a string of incidents. But the hardest part might be managing user expectations.
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April 6, 2021
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A plumbing problem was apparently to blame.
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Scientists speculate the rock could be a meteorite or a far-flung chunk of Mars.
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And, the craft managed to survive its first frigid night on Mars, bringing us one step closer to its inaugural flight.
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The military is expected to deliver a report later this year to Congress on “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena."
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It became crystal clear that if Apple was to develop a vehicle, the focus would be on autonomy and driver assistance functions rather than building yet another car for consumers to buy.
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The deal between Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Aurora — which was founded by former executives from Google, Tesla, and Uber — is a “long-term partnership spanning several years,”
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The European Union is putting 20,000 GPUs into a supercomputer with the aim of studying climate change with a simulated twin of our planet. The plan to create a digital twin of Earth
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If solar and wind are the energy of tomorrow, hydrogen is a candidate for the day after
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The new xenobots were made from the stem cells researchers extracted from frog embryos.
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A team of researchers from the Innovation Center of NanoMedicine (Kawasaki, Japan) has successfully used nano-micelles for the delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 tools to the functional brain tissue of transgenic mice
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Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of using nanomaterials to identify and enrich skeletal stem cells
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Scientists have made another step towards long-term energy storage for solar power.
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Repairing damage in five of the areas of aging are now highly active areas of biotech research.
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New research takes the concept of a "gut feeling" to a whole other level.
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Dr. Michael Arnold's Zoom call on his Ivermectin oriented protocol
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Created with care and due diligence by Michael Benedict, MD
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March 30, 2021
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Something went wrong in the fog.
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VSS Imagine is designed to take people and scientific experiments to and from suborbital space.
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“Voltswagen” will be placed as an exterior badge on all EV models with gas vehicles having the company’s iconic VW emblem only.
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It’s the latest eVTOL company to go public via a reverse merger
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Set to launch next year, the agency’s Psyche spacecraft will explore a metal-rich asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
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A two-week course of hi doses of CBD helps restore the function of two proteins key to reducing the accumulation of beta-amyloid plaque, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, and improves cognition in an experimental model of early onset familial Alzheimers
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University of Arkansas physicists have made progress in their development of circuits capable of capturing graphene's thermal motion and converting it into an electrical current.
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This study identified a key molecular switch that can make ape brain organoids grow more like human organoids, and vice versa.
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a new bioplastic with high strength but an ability to degrade entirely in the space of three months.
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Solar canals save water, create energy, and protect natural lands all at the same time.
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humans developed as hunters of large animals, causing their ultimate extinction. As they adapted to hunting small, swift prey animals, humans developed higher cognitive abilities, evidenced by the most obvious evolutionary change, the growth of brain volu
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Sunday's so-called full "Worm moon" led to a high spring tide -- about 18 inches (46 centimeters) above normal -- on Monday, which eased the process of straightening out and dislodging the ship
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Thousands have flocked to a volcano in Iceland which erupted near the capital, Reykjavik.
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Lynch’s Dune has many undersung merits that rise above the cracks.
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By examining the history of the brain, we can begin to piece together what it truly means to be human.
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March 23, 2021
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NASA’s newest rover recorded audio of itself crunching over the surface of the Red Planet, adding a whole new dimension to Mars exploration.
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NASA is targeting no earlier than April 8 for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter to make the first attempt at powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
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Space startup Astroscale has launched ELSA-d, the demonstration mission for its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale (ELSA) technology, which aims to dock with, and then safely remove, orbital debris.
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Waymo has released a study intended to prove that its robot drivers are safer than humans.
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The architecture studio ABIBOO has revealed plans for the creation of the first sustainable city on Mars and they’re hoping to have it completed and ready for residents in 2100 with construction beginning in 2054.
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Researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report that men who have survived a heart attack could prolong their life by taking the drug. In fact, the more often they use it, the lower their risk of another attack.
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The Drone Swarm can share a common map, communicating to each other the position already monitored and choosing in real-time the next position to be visited.”
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This remote tattoo project is certainly not a push to replace human tattoo artists. Instead, its all about showing the wide boundaries of remote communication and 5G cellular technology.
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As a volcanologist, natural hazards expert, and founder of Blueprint Earth, Jess Phoenix has dedicated her life to scientific exploration.
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We are preserving Earth’s environments through scientific research and education. Our work catalogs unique ecosystems and provides hands-on experience for students. We are safeguarding knowledge of how our planet functions for future generations.
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March 16, 2021
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Using new imaging data, the multidisciplinary UCL Antikythera Research Team found that the 2,000-year-old device was not only a calculator, but an accurate model of the Cosmos as it was known to the ancient Greeks.
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The 'lunar ark' would be hidden in lava tubes.
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The US$15-million development will consist of 15 homes, which will be topped by solar panels to form a zero net energy community.
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Russian scientists on Saturday launched one of the world's biggest underwater space telescopes to peer deep into the Universe from the pristine waters of Lake Baikal.
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This event was predicted in 1960, but never seen before in the real world.
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Best neutrino poem of all by novelist John Updike
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Soaring above the neighboring Mjøsa lake, more than 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Oslo, the 280-foot-tall Mjøstårnet tower became the world's tallest timber building when it opened last year.
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A top vaccine scientist named Geert Vanden Bossche, who has worked with numerous vaccine corporations and organizations including GAVI, is sounding the alarm over the mass vaccination of populations around the world with covid-19 vaccines.
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"To grow plants in extreme places where resources are minimal, isolation of novel microbes that help to promote plant growth under stressful conditions is essential,"
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could signal the dawn of new affordable home-based eye therapies, helping the millions of people globally with naturally declining vision.
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the thyroid mini-organs could be matured and produced thyroid hormones in the cultures.
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a first for the world of paleontology: a dinosaur preserved sitting atop a nest of its own eggs that include fossilized babies inside.
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Until now, it was widely thought that meteorites that bombarded early Earth were primarily responsible for the presence of “bioavailable” phosphorus.
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Scientists have identified the 19th form of water ice. The exotic, four-sided crystals of this rare ice variety, now dubbed ice XIX, form at ultra-low temperatures and ultra-high pressures.
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Sophia made the artworks with digital artist Andrea Bonaceto. This makes them the first-ever collaboration between humans and robots.
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Researchers have succeeded in making an AI understand our subjective notions of what makes faces attractive.
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Dutch engineer and inventor Lou Ottens, best known for inventing the cassette tape, died on March 6. He was 94.
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Restoring blood component regeneration process could curb disease, lengthen health span
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After seeing a risky lab, they wrote a cable warning to Washington. But it was ignored.
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A single-take video shot with a drone flying through a Minnesota bowling alley has been hailed as "stupendous" by a string of celebrities and big-name film-makers.
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Happy anniversary! It’s one year since Americans were told “15 days to flatten the curve,” and we’re taking a look back. We’ll cover what we were told then and figure out what turned out to be true.
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A popular topic with our audience today, what's happening a the 36th annual America's Cup!
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See Virtual Eyes as part of Complete highlights of Day 6 of the 36th America's Cup
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Driving through San Francisco with a few disengagements
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This observatory provides revolutionary insight into the properties of neutrinos and the core of the sun.
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March 9, 2021
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The car-sized rover is getting up to speed nicely; instrument checkouts are going well, and the robot has conducted its first few drives on the Red Planet's surface.
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The world’s largest SETI effort is scanning the skies with AI
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China wants a long-term presence on the Moon in the 2030s.
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Voyager Station will be able to accommodate 400 guests, its builders say.
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it’s the first time that both regular and irregular heartbeats can be monitored without physical contact.
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Dishes will be modified for vehicles, vessels, and aircraft, SpaceX tells FCC.
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Pfizer's and Moderna's shots were at least 10 times less effective against variant in a new study.
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DRIAD (Drug Repurposing In Alzheimer's Disease), which relies on machine learning—a branch of artificial intelligence in which systems are "trained" on vast amounts of data, "learn" to identify telltale patterns and augment researchers' and clinicians'
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Rapid Rejuvenation of Mental Faculties in Aged Mice Implicates Reversible Physiological ‘Blockage’ Behind Age-Related Cognitive Losses
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The mouse that can expand its consciousness, think, and realize that there is no reason to be afraid is the one that then changes their DNA.
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A declassified U.S. DIA report from 1972 provides a plethora of information from the then Soviet Union regarding studies and people with "paranormal" abilities. One of them is Nina Kulagina, who could use her mind to interact with matter.
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After getting $500 per month for two years without rules on how to spend it, 125 people in California paid off debt, got full-time jobs and had “statistically significant improvements” in emotional health
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Relivion is worn as a headset delivering stimulation to 6 branches of the occipital and trigeminal nerves through 3 adaptive output channels.
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Amazon's internet-connected scale automatically repurchases whatever you stack on it when supplies get low. This is both neat and problematic.
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an international research team has succeeded in filming and restoring the 3-D structure of nanoparticles that share structural similarities with viruses.
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March 2, 2021
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Ivermectin, traditionally used as an anti-parasitic medication, has gained more and more attention as a potential preventative or treatment measure for COVID-19.
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We envision electricity-generating windows on buildings, self-charging automotive sunroofs, and applications in rail, marine, and more,”
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Perseverance rover is powered by a PowerPC 750 processor, which was used in Apple’s original 1998 iMac G3
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A San Diego-based motoring start-up has created a solar electric three-wheeled car that doesn’t require any charging.
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Taryn Southern cloned myself using AI....cool or creepy? A teaser of things to come....
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Is this the spark of hope that internal combustion engines have been waiting for?
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Here's a quick guide to the COVID-19 vaccines now in use around the world.
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AI programs that analyze language have difficulty gauging context. Words such as “black,” “white,” and “attack" can have different meanings.
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A online collaborative music video that went viral!
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69% of the participants said they wanted the conversation to end before it did. On average, people wanted their conversations to be 50% longer or shorter.
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Brad's latest book, "Beyond Esoteric" .takes off the kids gloves, and exposes the control grid extending its tentacles across the planet.
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February 23, 2021
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The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has already cleared Starship serial number 10 (SN10) for flight, cutting short any potential licensing drama facing SpaceX’s latest high-altitude Starship launch efforts.
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Watch the spacecraft landing on Mars. The video begins 230 seconds after the rover entered the Martian atmosphere, with the inflation of the rover's parachute 7 miles above the Martian surface, and ends with the rover touching down on the surface.
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The Ingenuity helicopter has reported in from the Red Planet.
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Facebook has reversed its decision to block the sharing of news content in Australia.
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A black-footed ferret was duplicated from the genes of an animal that died more than 30 years ago.
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aruo Ozaki, chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association, came out and recommended the emergency use of drugs such as Ivermectin administered to those COVID-19 patients, declaring they exhibit efficacy toward preventing disease progression in other nations.
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Researchers unlocked the electronic properties of graphene by folding the material like origami paper.
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A new MIT-fabricated metalens shifts focus without tilting, shifting, or otherwise moving. The design may enable miniature zoom lenses for drones, cellphones, or night-vision goggles.
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“It incorporates muscle and fat similar to its slaughtered counterpart,” Aleph Farms said.
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With a price tag of $156 million, the five-year-long study will examine how 10,000 Americans process food.
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"I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef," Gates said when asked about how countries can help to reduce methane emissions when it comes to food production."
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Australian researchers have found radiocarbon spikes in ancient kauri trees. They reveal a breakdown of Earth's magnetic field that sparked climate shifts
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MIT team-developed app, derived from Alzheimer's research, expected to seek FDA approval
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Mail Scientists have utilized a technique to develop bile duct organoids, frequently called 'mini-organs,' in the laboratory and shown that they can fix impaired human livers. This is the first time that such a method has been applied to human organs.
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The stream is warmer than normal, with some northern parts even 6°C to 8°C above normal.
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Researchers played nonstop loops of Led Zeppelin, A Tribe Called Quest and Mozart to cheese wheels to find out how sound waves impacted flavor
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A new Youtube Channel attempting a hugely ambitious project, telling no less than the entire history of our world. (Thanks Shawn!)
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February 16, 2021
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Touching down on Mars later this week, in search of previous life, NASA’s Perseverance rover is equipped with its own helicopter for a bird’s-eye view of the red planet.
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you'll be able to watch the historic event unfold live online.
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Admissions reduced by 60% and people in hospital with Covid dropped by 50%
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Social network Parler, which is popular with supporters of Donald Trump, announced Monday it had relaunched after being forced offline over incitements to violence on the platform.
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CEO Jeffrey Berns says the smart city could incorporate digital currency payments for goods and services as well as records on the blockchain.
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The research team noted that lung tissue gets stiffer as a person gets older, showing different patterns of gene expression than in younger people
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In a clinical trial, participants taking semaglutide lost 15 percent of their body weight, on average.
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changing the gut microbiome can transform patients with advanced melanoma who never responded to immunotherapy--which has a failure rate of 40% for this type of cancer--into patients who do.
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Deep Nose may one day be the best diagnostician in medicine.
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It turns out Tim Cook blames Mark Zuckerberg for undermining democracy too.
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the plan is to methodically capture and store all sorts of data—audio, video, and eventually biometric—that can be easily searched or cleverly invoked in a way that augments your actual memory with stuff you otherwise wouldn’t have possibly remembered,
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"We've already got like a monkey with a wireless implant in their skull and the tiny wires, who can play video games using his mind. And he looks totally happy. He does not look like an unhappy monkey," Musk said.
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Michael Arnold, MD, L.Ac. is a medical consultant, physician and teacher. He holds degrees in Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Buddhist Psychology.
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February 9, 2021
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Why cut down trees when you can grow wood in the exact shape you need?
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Plans to build the world’s first off-grid transport hub for drones and air-taxis have just received government funding.
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there are nearly 35,000 forklift-related accidents every year that result in serious injury and nearly 62,000 resulting in minor injuries.
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It’s an unusual finding considering cannabis doesn’t possess the sweet nectar or bright colors typical of flowers that attract pollinators.
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The goal is to see if such a strategy—known as heterologous prime-boost vaccination—could produce a more effective immune response against the virus that causes Covid-19 than using two shots of a single vaccine.
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they can capture snapshots of lunar objects as small as 16.4 feet (5 meters) across from about 238,855 miles (384,400 kilometers) away.
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It was a one-handed chip with a converted Wilson Staff 6-iron club head adapted to an aluminum moon rock sample scooper. And the golfer was Alan Shepard, first American in space, 5th man on the Moon.
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Tesla Inc revealed it had bought $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency and would soon accept it as a form of payment for cars, sending the cryptocurrency shooting higher.
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Company will remove posts with false claims and groups with repeated violations will be shut down
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A new study out of Denmark found that living near and spending time in nature is measurably better for your mental health, both short and long term.
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50 years ago onboard Kitty Hawk, in Roosa’s personal travel kit, was “a canister of approximately 400-500 loblolly pine, sweet gum, redwood, Douglas fir, and sycamore tree seeds.”
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World Health Organization investigators said Tuesday that they would no longer pursue research into whether the coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.
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February 2, 2021
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Jared Isaacman, an entrepreneur behind a payment processing startup, is funding a multimillion trip to space aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, which could be the first-ever orbital flight crewed entirely by non-astronauts.
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Three missions to Mars have spent the last seven months hurtling through space. In February, they arrive.
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we reached out to space experts, asking a very simple question: What should be Biden’s NASA priorities?
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NASA needs more time to pick its ride to the moon
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The Ravn X is part of of Aevum's autonomous aerial launch system, which the company hopes will become the new standard for commercial satellite delivery.
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Britain could soon become the first country to have driverless car lanes.
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A search engine for physical objects in three dimensions, just as the introduction of three-dimensional sensing technologies on consumer phones are poised to create a revolution in spatial computing.
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Crops will grow in stacks 14 layers high and will use more than 20,000 LED lights.
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Hanson Robotics plans to sell its famous robot amidst increased automation linked to the pandemic.
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Canada is making it mandatory for travelers to quarantine in a hotel at their own expense when they arrive in Canada and suspending airline service to Mexico and all Caribbean destinations until April 30.
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The SLVWD board meets at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 4. Join the meeting online: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82075782498
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January 26, 2021
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Scientists suspect the homegrown strain is likely linked to the case surge in Los Angeles County.
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In total, the company says there are 143 little spacecraft aboard
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Mindmed, a leading psychedelic medicine biotech company, announced today the start of the first ever clinical trial measuring and evaluating MDMA and LSD used in combination in the human body.
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THE HACKED CELLS LEARNED TO HEAL MUSCLE, BONE, CARTILAGE, AND EVEN BLOOD VESSELS IN MICE. WILL THEY WORK IN HUMANS?
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Apple Watch is able to detect “subtle changes in an individual’s heartbeat” up to seven days before the onset of COVID-19 symptoms or a positive test.
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On Facebook, videos of people reporting disturbing side-effects from the shots have been viewed by millions. Fact-checking efforts can't keep up.
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Australian company Lavo has built a rather spunky (if chunky) cabinet that can sit on the side of your house and store your excess energy as hydrogen.
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Bernie and his mittens have been spotted across the universe.
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon are sparring in front of the FCC over Starlink and Project Kuiper, the respective satellite internet projects of their companies.
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this video is simply incredible.
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Despite Italy's lockdown, a couple from Venice recently set out to prove Earth's flatness once and for all by sailing to the edge of the world, which they believed to be somewhere near Sicily.
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The first space crew composed entirely of private citizens includes two grandfathers and a father with three young children. All are extremely wealthy.
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Dr. Tom shares with us his understanding of Ivermectin and Covid.
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January 19,2021
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Launching rockets from planes is a decades-old concept that never really took off. Billionaire Richard Branson thinks its time has come.
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In 2021, the US Postal Service is showcasing the Sun’s many faces with a series of Sun Science forever stamps that show images of solar activity captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO.
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the upper limit of the number of galaxies falls in the range of hundreds of billions instead of trillions
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Astronomers have discovered 8,292 stellar streams in our galaxy. Rather than clusters of stars, streams form linear patterns.
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The fines could range from 10,000 to 30,000 rubles ($135-$405) for individuals who use Starlink.
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early indications are the L452R might be less susceptible to the currently approved vaccines
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NASA's mega-sized moon rocket encountered an engine issue during a critical test on Saturday, and the error could further delay the agency's effort to send astronauts back to the moon.
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Only 5% of internet users currently connect via satellite in the US. But that number could jump significantly when SpaceX's service finally gets off the ground, according to a new survey.
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These special high-powered UV tubes come in several different frequencies, thus each appears in a different color, looking more like light sabers
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Entangled photons have been sent between two drones hovering a kilometre apart, demonstrating technology that could form the building blocks of a quantum internet. Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2264957-quantum-internet-signals-beamed-be
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It raises the possibility that some aspects of mind are non-local, and that mind plays an active role in the physical world. We present supporting evidence.
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Earlier this year, the startup claimed to have a revolutionary solid-state lithium-ion cell that could change EVs forever. Now it has data to prove it.
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This would potentially create the most viable third party in recent political history
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When I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built it before. It was gaming’s evil twin. A game that plays people.
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While supporters of Donald Trump continue to claim that their deadly attempt to overthrow the United States government was “peaceful” more details are emerging that detail the waves of violence, hate, and sedition that rolled over the nation’s capital
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January 12, 2021
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An informal request from Sen. Warner said the Capitol is “now a crime scene”
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It also limited accounts that engaged with them and has deployed technology to surface “potentially harmful tweets for urgent human review.”
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Surprising forecasters, an interplanetary shock wave hit Earth's magnetic field on Jan. 11th.
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Scientists claim the radio emission that the spacecraft detected for only five seconds when traveling at 50 kilometers per second
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These new, experimental designs help move the industry forward when it comes to how mobile devices look and work in the years to come.
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‘I never would have expected to see flu activity this low,' says CDC official.
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GUT HEALTH MAY MAKE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RECOVERY OR LINGERING SYMPTOMS.
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The positivity rate in Monterey County was 23.2%. In Santa Cruz County it was 18.5%, a 5.7% increase from 14 days ago.
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Climate change, insecticides, herbicides, light pollution, invasive species and changes in agriculture and land use are causing Earth to lose probably 1% to 2% of its insects each year
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the White House released an executive order Jan. 12 seeking to promote the development of small nuclear reactors for space and defense applications.
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Interview from 2020 in Arizona
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January 5, 2021
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The decision to block Julian Assange’s extradition to the U.S. is unlikely to make him a free man anytime soon.
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The decades-long search for life elsewhere in the universe is building to a crescendo in 2021.
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An eminent Harvard astronomer is still spending a lot of his time thinking about our first alien encounter in 2017.
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Big rockets, little rockets, space plane, Mars fleet, space telescope and more!
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Elon Musk has revealed that his company will try to “catch” the future Super Heavy booster using the launch tower arm, with the grid fins (used to help control the descent) shouldering the load.
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Researchers at Penn State are among the scientists examining the signal detected by a radio telescope pointed at Proxima Centauri, our solar system’s nearest neighbor.
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Plenty is an ag-tech startup in San Francisco, co-founded by Nate Storey, that is reinventing farms and farming.
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Umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells naturally migrate directly to the lung where they begin repair to COVID-19 damage.
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the mega-mining rig has been gloriously controversial ever since it was posted over the internet
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Chinese electric startup Kandi announces that its small K27 electric car has been approved for California roads and it is going to cost only $7,999 in the state after incentives.
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"test runs" of genetic modifications that would then automatically be deleted from the mosquitoes' genetic code after a period of time.
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Scientists find that an RNA-DNA mix possibly created the first life on our planet.
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members from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Colorado State University reports that approximately a third of the rivers in the U.S. have changed color over the past 34 years.
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The U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is working with the private industry to develop a cutting-edge project to make nuclear fusion commercially viable.
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Scientists at Freie Universität Berlin develop a deep learning method to solve a fundamental problem in quantum chemistry.
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Whether it is crafting the world’s fastest electrodes, building battery parts out of nuclear waste or preventing fire danger with the help of sound waves, 2020 showed us just how imaginative scientists can be when it comes to developing technologies for n
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This year scientists have found found hidden rivers, chunks of lost continents and remnants of ancient rainforests, and they delved into the planet's ancient history using cutting-edge technologies.
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The pandemic couldn’t bring rockets or humans down: multiple missions blasted off to the red planet in the “summer of Mars.”
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Throughout 2020, governments around the world deployed invasive surveillance technologies to contain the COVID-19 outbreak.
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December 29, 2020
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Two years after launch, Starman and his cherry red car have made it to Mars.
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Though they may look like ordinary bits of charcoal, they’re genuine asteroid surface material — and a little something shiny, too.
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A Japanese company and Kyoto University have joined forces to develop what they hope will be the world's first satellites made out of wood by 2023.
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During the flyby, the spacecraft collected valuable data on the Solar System’s most hellish planet.
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Scientists are working with Spot the robot dog to head to the Red Planet.
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Synthetic biologists re-engineered a bacterium that normally eats a diet of simple sugars into one that builds its cells by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2), much like plants. The work could lead to engineered microbes that suck CO2 out of the air
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the metaverse, alternate digital realities where people work, play, and socialize.
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December 22, 2020
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We call it a "great" conjunction because to ancient skywatchers, these were the two slowest moving planets in the sky.
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Systems at the U.S. Treasury Department used by senior officials were accessed by hackers in a widespread cyberattack on federal agencies
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Apple Inc is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology.
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the very first recorded instance of a radio emission detected from a planet outside of our solar system.
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The material is known as a metal-organic framework (MOF), in which carbon-based molecules form structures by linking metal ions. Crucially, MOFs are porous, so they can form composite materials with other small molecules.
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If the extra $10K for the Tesla self-driving option seems high, how about a month subscription cost?
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Within the past few years, almost 90% of the bee population has been wiped out.
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Why only a fraction of people have access?
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In his monthly newsletter Bill explains the vaccines, the similarities and differences, and the new tests for Covid.
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Mass extinctions of land-dwelling animals—including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds—follow a cycle of about 27 million years
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The water contracts will allow farmers and investors alike to hedge against, or bet on the potential for water scarcity.
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One of the biggest things standing in the way of the robot revolution is their inability to adapt. That may be about to change though, thanks to a new approach that blends pre-learned skills on the fly to tackle new challenges.
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work on gray mouse lemurs (Microcebus murinus) shows how microRNAs control which biological processes remain on to protect the animal and which ones are switched off to save energy
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'It’s a bit presumptuous and arrogant for us to believe that there’s no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe'
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In interview with Israel’s Yediot Aharonot newspaper, former head of Israel's Defense Ministry's space directorate Haim Eshed said the U.S. government has been in contact with extraterrestrials from a "galactic federation."
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Most of the alien civilizations that ever dotted our galaxy have probably killed themselves off already.
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the Parkes telescope in Australia discovered a strange radio signal coming from Proxima Centauri, the star system closest to the Sun. The signal occupies an oddly narrow 982MHz band that’s unused by human-made spacecraft.
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December 15, 2020
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The ingenuity of Starship is that it just “belly-flops” all the way down – a type of free fall in which the atmosphere gradually slows down its speed.
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"We were able to confirm black, sand-like particles which are believed to be derived from the asteroid Ryugu."
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The first lunar samples for 46 years are a few days away
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Researchers have discovered what they describe as a new superhighway network to travel the solar system much faster than previously thought possible.
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6 Seats up to four, and can drive in multiple directions
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Uber has offloaded its air taxi enterprise Elevate to Joby Aviation, the last of several moonshots to be sold by the ride-hailing company in a pursuit to stick to its core business and reach profitability.
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A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has built and tested a photonic quantum computer that demonstrates quantum supremacy.
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By pairing an iPhone with a handheld DNA sequencer, users can create a mobile genetics laboratory, reminiscent of the "tricorder" featured in Star Trek.
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About a year ago, Amazon quietly announced a new product called Sidewalk, which is basically a mesh network that extends your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connection range by up to a mile.
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Famed car designer Henrik Fisker is mounting a comeback seven years after his pioneering electric vehicle company collapsed. This time he has a secret weapon: Geeta Gupta-Fisker, his cofounder, CFO–and wife.
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Scientists reassemble a frog’s living cells into robotic devices — with no electronics required.
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December 8, 2020
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A capsule carrying the sample detached from the Hyabusa2 spacecraft 130,000 miles from Earth, then landed with help from a parachute and was recovered in a remote area of Australia on Saturday.
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the cutting-edge observatory will be capable of offering the spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution needed to measure the relatively small-scale magnetic structures present both on the surface and in the atmosphere of our parent star.
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A Chinese spacecraft lifted off from the moon Thursday night with a load of lunar rocks, the first stage of its return to Earth
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Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to launch vehicles designed by Frank Stephenson — of McLaren, Ferrari, and BMW fame — onto the Moon's surface for a remote-controlled car rally.
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The BE-7 engine will power the Moon landing.
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Just a few doses of an experimental drug can reverse age-related declines in memory and mental flexibility in mice
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The oldest plant ever to be “resurrected” has been grown from 32,000-year-old seeds, beating the previous record holder by some 30,000 years.
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Scientists at UC Berkeley and Gladstone Institutes have developed a new CRISPR-based COVID-19 diagnostic test that, with the help of a smartphone camera, can provide a positive or negative result in 15 to 30 minutes
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As the air gets drier, and people stay indoors with the heater on, humidity will likely play a role in how easily the respiratory virus spreads.
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Vaccine makers need to take into account genetic diversity explicitly in clinical trials or risk missing coverage for some individuals, says MIT scientists.
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System developed at MIT CSAIL aims to help linguists decipher languages that have been lost to history.
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"We’re back to a situation where we have zero idea about how the Universe is going to end."
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Volkswagen, CEO Herbert Diess detailed a strategy to challenge the American electric car maker at its own game, to be spearheaded by Audi's Artemis development project.
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The first vehicle from “self-driving car” from Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company that Amazon purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, has been spotted ahead of its official December 14 reveal.
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An important treatment for Covid-19 that is gaining major traction.
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food and supplement recommendations based on your unique biological code.
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Integrative Medicine doctor - called in for the last part of the show this week on Ivermectin.
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The US Space Force on Friday defeated all the other US and British military branches during a "Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War" tournament hosted by USAA
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December 1, 2020
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With the space probe's ascender on top, its lander made a touchdown at around 11:00 p.m. (Beijing Time), becoming China's third probe that has successfully made a soft landing on the moon.
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The suspended platform above the Arecibo radio telescope collapsed early this morning, destroying the observatory's 1000-ft dish. The structure, already damaged after two of the cables supporting the dish snaped in two separate incidents, is beyond repair
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The monolith was removed by an "unknown party" sometime Friday night
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The local newspaper reports that the monolith, like the one discovered in Utah, is about 10 to 12 feet tall and apparently composed entirely of a dimly reflective metal.
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The source of SETI's most famous signal has never been spotted — until now.
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There were COVID-19 infections in the U.S. as early as mid-December 2019, weeks before it was first identified in China and a month earlier than the first case was reported in the U.S. on January 19, according to a new study by the Centers for D
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There is going to be a gap of several years in our ability to measure the thickness of ice at the top and bottom of the world, scientists are warning.
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The latest Falcon 9 mission boosted Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite, which is meant to keep a precise eye on our oceans.
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Researchers have developed a new system to separate salty water into both breathable air and fuel simultaneously in a major breakthrough for life here on Earth and even future colonies on Mars.
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Newton's Treatise of the System of the World from 1685 elegantly encapsulates how orbits work with a thought experiment that requires no calculus whatsoever.
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Base jumpers have taken First Person View drone cinematography to new heights!
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November 24, 2020
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Following a review of engineering assessments, the U.S. National Science Foundation announced it will begin planning the controlled decommissioning of the 1,000-foot-wide telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
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The ageing process has been biologically reversed for the first time by giving humans oxygen therapy in a pressurised chamber.
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AstraZeneca’s new clinical trial results are positive but confusing, leaving many experts wanting to see more data before passing final judgment on how well the vaccine will work.
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Joby Aviation, with nearly a billion dollars in funding, promises to have its air taxis aloft by 2023.
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The drone's only emissions are oxygen and water vapor
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Now, a new, best-of-both-worlds approach packages the cancer-killing power of chemotherapy and the long-term efficacy of immunotherapy into a biomaterial-based cancer vaccine that can be injected adjacent to a tumor site.
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After analyzing five years of blue whale calls, researchers at MBARI, Stanford University, and several other institutions discovered that the time of day that the whales sing changes dramatically depending on whether the whales are feeding or migrating.
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A mysterious monolith, which is believed to be some kind of metal, was discovered in the remote parts of Utah on Wednesday, fueling speculation on what the object was or how it got there
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Our guests this week, Foster and Kimberly Gamble on what it takes for this planet to truly thrive.
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THRIVE II creators, Foster Gamble and Kimberly Carter Gamble, announced the launch of their media hub, ThriveOn.com. This deep digest offers empowering information and tools for those who want a comprehensive picture from which to assess what is happening
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November 17, 2020
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The force is strong with this team of four NASA astronauts, who arrived at the International Space Station with a tiny stowaway — a plush Baby Yoda.
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Launch of the 8.2-metric-ton Chang’e-5 spacecraft from the coastal Wenchang Satellite Launch Center is now expected Nov. 24 local time
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Of 11 severe cases of COVID-19, none were found among those who received the actual vaccine candidate.
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Mink are the only animal known to both catch the virus from people and transmit it to them.
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On October 29, 2020 the National Science Foundation (NSF) approved a $53 million grant to a consortium of the country’s top ocean-research institutions to build a global network of chemical and biological sensors that will monitor ocean health.
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A careful review of breathing sounds and their implications in identifying breathing complications suggests that the breathing sounds of COVID-19 contracted users may reveal certain acoustic signal patterns, which is worth investigating.
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a key step in bringing genomic medicine to patients across California.
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The head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, a government body created by President Donald Trump in 2018, has said this theory of election interference is "nonsense."
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Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is driving the creation of a smart city ‘hub’ in Ireland to test how self-driving cars can share streets with cars, walkers and cyclists.
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Using data science and machine learning, MeowTalk listens to the sounds a cat makes and offers up a human language translation
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These preliminary findings suggest that psilocybin may increase emotional and brain plasticity, and the reported findings support the hypothesis that negative affect may be a therapeutic target for psilocybin.
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“It allows our technology to be speaking the language of the nervous system, instead of electrical jolts, which is what is done now,” says Kacy Cullen at the University of Pennsylvania.
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A Cornell University-led collaboration has developed a 3-D printing technique that creates cellular metallic materials by smashing together powder particles at supersonic speed.
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have you heard of axial vs radial motors? Enjoy!
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November 10, 2020
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MPs refused to support forced killing of millions of mink after concerns raised over disease risk and threat to livelihoods
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Pfizer Inc's PFE.N experimental COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective based on initial trial results, the drugmaker said on Monday, a major victory in the war against a virus that has killed over a million people and battered the world's economy.
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Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis
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An innovative nanoparticle vaccine candidate for the pandemic coronavirus produces virus-neutralizing antibodies in mice at levels 10 times greater than is seen in people who have recovered from COVID-19 infections.
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U.S. to pay Lilly $375 million for 300,000 vials of the drug
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Results might provide a convenient screening tool for people who may not suspect they are infected.
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The researchers created an algorithm that can analyze coughs for features that are unique to five different diseases.
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The General describes “Hammer” and “Scorecard,” a pair of programs initially designed for the CIA before being privatized by Deep State players from the Obama administration.
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Following a nine-year mission that ended in 2018 when it ran out of fuel, NASA's Kepler Space Telescope identified approximately 300 million planets that could be habitable within the Milky Way.
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Researchers reconstruct the brains of dinosaurs by analyzing the cranial cavities under computed tomography.
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Far from peaceful, Neanderthals were likely skilled fighters and dangerous warriors, rivalled only by modern humans.
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Apple said that devices with an M1 chip will instantly wake from sleep like an iPhone or an iPad. Launching apps will be "nearly instantaneous," while Safari will be about 1.5 times faster when running JavaScript and 1.9 times more responsive in general.
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November 3, 2020
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On Wednesday, Oct. 28, the mission team sent commands to the spacecraft, instructing it to close the capsule – marking the end of one of the most challenging phases of the mission.
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Earth’s poles have routinely reversed every 200,000 to 300,000 years. However, there’s now been no change for around 750,000 years and experts have warned that it’s long over outstanding.
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AI has become mainstream on Earth, but getting it onto satel .. Read more at: https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/the-first-satellite-with-ai-onboard-is-now-in-orbit-and-its-tech-could-completely-change-how-we-respond-to-wildfires/articleshow/788583
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Mark Kelly isn’t the first former NASA astronaut to run for office, but if he’s elected he’ll be the first astronaut in Congress in nearly 40 years.
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“FourthEchelon19” is getting 161 megabits/second download and 23 megabits/second upload speed.
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The only radio antenna that can command the 43-year-old spacecraft has been offline since March as it gets new hardware, but work is on track to wrap up in February.
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President Donald Trump ignited a months-long political battle in 2017 when he appointed Jim Bridenstine, a Republican congressman from Oklahoma, to run NASA.
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New research published in Nature Communications has found that placebos reduce brain markers of emotional distress even when people are aware they’re taking an inactive substance.
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Scientists have developed an experimental vaccine that uses nanoparticles, which mimic the structural features of the coronavirus
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October 27, 2020
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The discovery comes from the space agency's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA — a modified Boeing 747 that can take its large telescope high into Earth's atmosphere, at altitudes up to 45,000 feet.
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Hubble Examines Massive Metal Asteroid Called ‘Psyche’ That’s Worth Way More Than Our Global EconomyA new study by the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a clearer picture than ever before of one of the most intriguing and most valuable asteroids we know of.
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The discovery of the extraordinary exoplanet LTT 9779b was first announced a month ago. Just 260 light-years away, the planet was immediately pegged as an excellent candidate for follow-up study of its curious atmosphere.
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft appears to be leaking tiny bits of Bennu, following a successful attempt to collect surface samples from the asteroid.
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While the pandemic keeps impacting our lives, virtual events seem to be the only certainty.
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And many cities aren’t ready for the onslaught.
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It has been demonstrated that when charging and discharging Li-ion battery electrode materials, high power can be produced by significantly reducing the charging and discharging time without reducing the particle size.
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Physicists have reached a long-sought goal. The catch is that their room-temperature superconductor requires crushing pressures to keep from falling apart.
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Fat is best known for being an energy storage system, but now researchers have discovered that it plays a previously unknown role in defense against infection.
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It is clear that at no point was the National Health Service (NHS) in any danger of being overwhelmed, and since May 2020 covid wards have been largely empty; and crucially the death toll from covid has remained extremely low.
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Co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration Professor Sunetra Gupta has said a new study that suggests coronavirus immunity could only last a few months has not changed her mind on herd immunity.
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Two new studies demonstrate how severity of disease is predictive of longer-lasting antibody production and detail how immunity wanes over time but may exist for up to 7 months.
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We assessed scenarios of social distancing mandates and levels of mask use.
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The bitcoin price, climbing to year-to-date highs this week and recapturing some of the late 2017 bullishness that pushed it to around $20,000 per bitcoin, has found fresh support from Wall Street and traditional investors this year.
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Bitcoin Twitter -@Breedlove22, @stephanlivera, @aatonop, @MartyBent, @Saifedean . Books- The Bitcoin Standard, Human Action, Grokking Bitcoin
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October 20, 2020
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The spacecraft will deploy an 11-foot-long (3-metre-long) robotic arm called TAGSAM – Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism – and spend about 10 seconds collecting at least two ounces (50 grams) of loose rubble from the asteroid.
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A group of materials called perovskites are being used to create the next generation of solar panels, which could eventually be twice as efficient as current models, and flexible enough to wrap around entire buildings.
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Scientists have measured the shortest unit of time ever: the time it takes a light particle to cross a hydrogen molecule.
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the increase in density may be a large-scale feature of the very local interstellar medium (VLIM).
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A rectangular robot as tiny as a few human hairs can travel throughout a colon by doing back flips
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NASA has announced that it intends to fund a project with Nokia to build a 4G cellular communication network on the moon.
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The discovery comes on the heels of discovering a potential biomarker of life called phosphine in the upper atmosphere of Venus last month
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The robot dolphin that could replace captive animals at theme parks
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a new technique of super-resolution microscopy, called Super-resolution optical fluctuation image scanning microscopy (SOFISM).
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Government trained OSHA mask experts Tammy Clark & Kristen Meghan join Del in-studio to break down vital info on masks, PPE, and their role in #Covid19 prevention.
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The suit is the most high-profile case the US has brought against a tech company since the 1990s.
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October 13, 2020
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On 20 October, after several years of patient study of its enigmatic target, NASA’s $800 million spacecraft will finally stretch out its robotic arm, swoop to the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, and sweep up some dust and pebbles.
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Late Wednesday night, a space probe named BepiColombo will sail past Venus and scan its atmosphere for signs of life.
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To date, SpaceX has launched a total of 775 Starlink satellites, including early prototypes.
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The duo just drove by the Red planet and will still be enjoying its "road trip" for the next million years
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Freddie Sayers talks to eminent epidemiologists Dr Sunetra Gupta, Dr Jay Bhattacharya and Dr. Martin Kulldorff, who met in Massachusetts to sign a declaration calling for a different global response to the pandemic.
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Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, is a lawyer and member of the German Corona Investigative Committee. Source: https://youtu.be/kr04gHbP5MQ
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You don't have to be an alien truther to be curious about recent UAP events.
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Watch the progress of building The Starship, the ship that will takes thousands to Mars!
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The next generation of the Internet will rely on revolutionary new tech — allowing for unhackable networks and information that travels faster than the speed of light.
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Why do so many people encounter beings after smoking large doses of DMT?
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Scientists have used seismic waves to create a universal scaling for the sense of touch, paving the way for hyper realistic virtual reality.
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Today’s launch included a test of NASA’s active landing sensor system, which will be used to build an autonomous, precise and flexible landing system for future moon landing vehicles.
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The iPhone 12 represents Apple’s first major foray into 5G cellular technologies.
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Government trained OSHA mask experts Tammy Clark & Kristen Meghan join Del in-studio to break down vital info on masks, PPE, and their role in #Covid19 prevention.
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October 6, 2020
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Researchers have identified two dozen planets outside our solar system that may have conditions more suitable for life than our own.
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These changes exposes more surfaces to potentially target with therapeutics.
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University researchers found at room temperature thermal motion of graphene does induce an alternating current in a circuit.
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SpaceX's prices are getting so low that other companies might not be able to compete with it.
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"WASP-189b is especially interesting because it is a gas giant that orbits very close to its host star. It takes less than three days for it to circle its star, and it is 20 times closer to the star than Earth is to the Sun
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Genzel and Ghez discovered a supermassive black hole in the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
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Dr. Campbell looks at each medication individually.
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It makes all the fries.
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Dan introduces us to Spatial Computing and its capacity for creating a far better world.
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September 29, 2020
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In a stunning development, a former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says “there is no science to suggest a second wave should happen.”
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Researchers say they have detected a group of lakes hidden under the red planet’s icy surface.
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Can a small American aerospace company get to Venus before NASA returns to our superheated planetary neighbor?
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a new mathematical model from a physics student has proven that time travel could become possible without paradoxes.
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New experiments find weird quantum activity in supercold gas.
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it takes days instead of centuries to breakdown plastic.
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As confirmed COVID-19 cases rise in Europe (but COVID 19 deaths remain relatively low), Dr. Roger Seheult of https://www.medcram.com discusses what we may be able to learn from the European data.
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September 22, 2020
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This is the day when Tesla makes announcements to its investors and then follows this up with public presentations of the latest technologies the company has developed.
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The same implants could potentially treat paralysis as well.
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The electric model has a range of 300km (186 miles) while the hybrid model has a range of 1,000km (621 miles)
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no serious adverse events (SAE, Grade 3) were reported in the Phase I/II trials.
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(Ref via Dr. Bruce Damer) Most phosphine in Earth’s atmosphere is produced by living microbes. So the possibility of life on Venus producing phosphine can’t be ignored.
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Netflix's The Social Dilemma argues that humanity’s greatest existential threat is not climate change, but Facebook.
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This involves impressive, high-resolution data capture, as well as an “ecology-trained artificial intelligence” system that maps out and assesses degraded land, and a swarm of seed-planting drones that help restore land to healthy parameters
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A team of scientists at MIT say they’ve discovered a “Pi Earth” — an Earth-sized planet that orbits its star every 3.14 Earth days.
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A new study has suggested that “stupendously large” black holes may exist, which harbor the mass of 100 billion suns.
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Altering Earth’s geophysical environment is a moon shot—and it will be the only way to reverse the damage done. It’s time to take it more seriously.
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The new default for VR, if you’re okay with Facebook
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We are clearly in uncharted territory and the following video with Dr Been Syed and Paul Marik may support doctors with lifesaving practical evidence-based approaches…
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"Wear a mask if you want to" song at the beginning reflects many folk's sensibilities these days
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Now, as infection numbers surge again in much of Europe, the country of 10 million people has some of the lowest numbers of new coronavirus cases -- and only 14 virus patients in intensive care.
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A six-person private craft that promises to fly at jet speeds, but with eight times lower fuel consumption, and a range that's twice that of a comparably sized craft.
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Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have developed this simulation of the head-on collision of our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. Estimated to occur in 4 billion years.
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September 15, 2020
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The size, speed, and timing of the wildfires, coupled with the Covid-19 pandemic, have created a unique disaster.
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“Something weird is happening” in the clouds of the planet next door—but some experts are raising doubts about the quality of the data.
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The researchers reported that Ab8 is "highly effective" in preventing and treating SARS-CoV-2 infection in mice and hamsters.
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A Chinese virologist who has alleged that COVID-19 was human-made in a lab in China released a report on Monday that she says backs up her explosive claim.
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Turns out, dunking data centers is a great idea
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Flights that take off and land from the same place — in this case, Singapore Changi Airport — may start as early as next month
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Our guest this week, Dr. Lipton will give us new insights in understanding Virii
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September 8, 2020
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I heard the sound of a blast from a fire cannon. I heard laughter. And I heard people nearby having random conversations.
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7 Series, X1 and 5 Series among models to receive battery-powered variants as BMW aims to lead
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Tesla is launching phase 3 of its massive virtual power plant in South Australia and confirmed that soon, almost 4,000 homes with Powerwalls and solar will be connected to the system.
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certain supplements and common OTC medications could reduce the risk of infection or mitigate the seriousness of symptoms.
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Researchers have increased the efficiency of compressed air cars with the aid of phase change materials for heat recovery, making them a viable carbon-free alternative for future passenger cars.
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New Cornell research has developed potential roadmaps for how the virus infects different organs and identifies what molecular factors could help facilitate or restrict infection.
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SpaceX has revealed the first successful test of Starlink satellite ‘space lasers’ in orbit, a significant step along the path to an upgraded “Version 2” constellation.
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The startup's CEO said they want to build a European SpaceX.
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Reliable Robotics remotely lands Cessna owned by FedEx
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NASA announced that the flight-ready Orion Crew capsule had completed a significant milestone in preparation for its voyage on the first launch of the Artemis Program, Artemis 1.
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'It shouldn't exist based on the conditions present on the moon'
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The Large Hadron Collider plays with Albert Einstein’s famous equation, E = mc², to transform matter into energy and then back into different forms of matter. But on rare occasions, it can skip the first step and collide pure energy
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"This led us to look into plants as indicators of human decomposition."
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The new headset could be 10% to 15% smaller than the current Quest, alongside featuring a 90Hz display. New redesigned controllers are also speculated.
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a new theory, dubbed the bradykinin hypothesis, on how COVID-19 affects the body.
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neurons can be generated from skin cells of a human donor using a cellular reprogramming technology.
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Researchers say they may have found a way to create more useful fat cells using the gene-editing technique CRISPR.
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We visited an action to open the beaches over Labor Day Weekend and spoke with Ellie about what's happening
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September 1, 2020
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The Federal Aviation Administration has issued Amazon permission to begin conducting delivery drone operations.
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Links, transcript, podcast, and more: zdoggmd.com/covid-death-stats
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Neuralink’s work has largely been shrouded in secrecy until now.
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The Neuralink demonstration was all flash with no substance, they say.
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Launch startup Skyrora had a successful test launch of its Skylark Micro rocket from Iceland on Sunday, with the rocket achieving its highest-ever altitude at a height of 26.86 km (just under 17 miles).
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Chloros—with his knowledge of the terrain, roads, fire trails, and water supplies—helped direct the movement of Cal Fire crews, who held back the flames, saving the iconic observatory.
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NASA scientists have detected a massive halo of plasma surrounding the nearby Andromeda galaxy.
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A new image shows what Venus would look like if it had water on its surface, similar to the Earth.
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Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, have developed a molecule that absorbs energy from sunlight and stores it in chemical bonds.
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A new tool to analyze molecules is 100 times faster than previous methods.
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Dr. Mobeen SVed, after interviewing dozens of docs, shares what he know believes about herd immunity.
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We are tracking 200 experimental vaccines aimed at ending the pandemic, a scientific quest moving at record-breaking speed.
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A long time tracker of wildfires, Frank Schwartz gives us an update on the current big Bay Area burns
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August 25, 2020
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Scientists have been using reflectors on the Moon since the Apollo era to learn more about our nearest neighbor.
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How indie developers are re-imagining social apps to save the iconic off-the-grid event
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Elon Musk has made a rare new comment about Tesla’s now not-so-secret ‘Dojo’ program to create an AI-training supercomputer and gave a hint of its capacity.
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Though feared destroyed, most of the ancient trees at Big Basin Redwoods State Park withstood the blaze.
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One of the giant seaplanes, the Hawaii Mars, contracted to fight wildfires in California in 2007
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August 18, 2020
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Results have been similar to those obtained through the traditional nasal-based test, officials said, and it has been “validated with reagents and instruments from multiple vendors,”
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Simple and cheap COVID-19 tests that provide rapid results (15 min.) have been called a possible "game-changer" to curb the pandemic and allow schools and stores to open safely.
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COVID-19 Pandemic Update 101: T Cell Immunity vs. Antibodies & Prior Exposure to Other CoronavirusesDr. Seheult is back to illustrate why T cells have received less attention than antibodies, but may be more important to long term immunity from COVID-19. Dr. Seheult also discusses how previous infections with common coronaviruses may provide some immun
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Radiation shields made from living organisms could help us head deeper into the cosmos.
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The next time it descends, OSIRIS-REx will scoop up pieces of the asteroid Bennu for return to Earth.
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a giant region of lower magnetic intensity in the skies above the planet, stretching out between South America and southwest Africa.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of robotics and automation by months, if not years.
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Here's a little perspective on the much-hyped news.
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where I figured out THE MOST important things the human body needs to exist on this planet…
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August 11, 2020
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The vaccine, which will be called “Sputnik V” in homage to the world’s first satellite launched by the Soviet Union, has however not yet completed its final trials.
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J&J is studying both one and two-dose regimens of its vaccine.
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Heparin, a common anitcoagulent, could also form basis of a viral trap for SARS-CoV-2
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New research into malaria suggests targeting enzymes from the human host, rather than from the pathogen itself, could offer effective treatment for a range of infectious diseases, including COVID-19.
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New electrocatalyst efficiently converts carbon dioxide into ethanol.
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the real issue is espionage.
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Scientists are attributing the mysterious bright spots on Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, to a gigantic reservoir of salty water beneath the dwarf planet’s crust.
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The startup, Mighty Buildings, is using a 20-foot-high printer inside a warehouse in Oakland that can print small homes in just 24 hours
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Facebook also removed hundreds of fake accounts linked to conservative media outlet The Epoch Times.
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Carried by a balloon the size of a football stadium, ASTHROS will use a cutting-edge telescope to observe wavelengths of light that aren’t visible from the ground.
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A breakthrough in fertility science by researchers from Bristol and Mexico has shattered the universally accepted view of how sperm 'swim'.
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KAIST researchers have been able to dial up and down creatures’ lifespans by altering the activity of proteins found in roundworm cells that tell them to convert sugar into energy when their cellular energy is running low
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Researchers have found that persistently poor sleep causes the brain to clear a significant amount of neurons and synaptic connections, and recovering sleep might not be able to reverse the damage.
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A fascinating new book by psychologist and and psychedelic elder James Fadiman and writer Jordan Gruber
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August 4, 2020
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After successfully carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station, the collaboration between NASA and SpaceX saw the successful and safe return of the same astronauts onboard the world’s first commercially built and operated spacecraft.
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the Kuiper Satellite Constellation will comprise 3,236 satellites in total and cost circa $10 billion.
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The company revealed the initial design of the commercial passenger airplane it’s creating that’s designed to fly at speeds in excess of Mach 3 — faster than the average cruising speed of around Mach 2 that the original Concorde achieved.
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The two teenagers found the asteroid in images collected by a telescope in Hawaii.
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Human activity decreased so much during coronavirus lockdowns that seismic noise fell by up to 50 percent.
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Ram Group, which claims to be the rightful owner of the invention, is suing Ben-Gurion University and professor Gabby Sarusi, who have been touting the technology in recent months
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ThEA Platform is biochemical free—it’s contactless, portable, completely digital, and extremely user-friendly. With a ThEA readout system, anyone can test for any virus anywhere.
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After scientists gave them a little snack, some 101.5-million-year-old bacteria sprang back to life after an extremely long nap.
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A new lens for thinking about race and artificial intelligence.
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New research concludes that extracts from seaweed could be more effective than remdesivir, the current leading SARS-CoV-2 antiviral drug.
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Adam Gaertner has been dedicated entirely to COVID since the beginning of February. He discovered a cure in Intron A, and a treatment in oral liposomal ascorbic acid, very shortly after he begun that work.
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Dr. Glanville is an entrepreneur, inventor and computational immuno-engineer, his company is working on a universal flu vaccine and an antibody treatment for COVID.
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July 28, 2020
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Perseverance’s biggest goal is to dig up samples to bring back to Earth one day
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Tiny piece of meteorite from London’s Natural History Museum will be used by rover exploring red planet
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A 21st century space race is heating up this month as both China and the United States launch missions to Mars.
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On Friday, NASA put out a request for ideas from the private sector on how nuclear power could be used outside the Earth in the future.
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For our 100th COVID-19 update, Dr. Seheult takes a look back at some of his favorite updates so far.
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These novel approaches could fail in many ways.
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'It will be possible to replicate people, devices, objects, systems, and even places in a virtual world,'
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Skydio is best known for “selfie drones.” Now, it's seeking government contracts, as American officials shun the Chinese drone company.
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they are reasonable professional opinions that deserve to be aired.
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Center for Wellness and Integrative Medicine
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July 21, 2020
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Researchers say SNG001 can reduce need for ventilation and improve survival chances
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Not all of the hellishly hot planet's volcanoes are dead, a new study suggests.
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it will revolutionize our knowledge about the planet’s geology and how this formerly habitable world became a fiery wasteland.
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What’s most astonishing about the Covid-19 operation is the manner in which the elected government was circumvented by public health experts
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A few outakes from the Science of Unity online event last week with Gregg Bradon, Bruce Lipton, and Nassim Haremin
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a highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery, a way to generate, store and redeliver renewable electricity from the sun in one device.
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NASA uses a far more complex cell-phone network to communicate with rovers on Mars
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Watch President Richard Nixon give a speech he never made.
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The updated map, made from data gathered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), offers a detailed history of the cosmos, from the Big Bang and its early expansion phase through to the current era.
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ercedes-Benz will be the first OEM to offer the tech in the new S-Class sedan.
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Developed by Harvard professor David Edwards—who previously created inhalable chocolate and cocktails—the spray promises to stop the spread of aerosols by as much as 99%.
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A nasal spray in development and a surface-disinfecting spray already on the market are intended to keep us safe from virus particles in the air.
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A very astute journalistic update on Herd Immunity
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The latest from Medcram
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In the U.S., it is prescribed under the name Pulmicort. It’s a corticosteroid that is designed to prevent inflammation in the lungs, and it’s only available by prescription.
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DNA usually forms the classic double helix shape discovered in 1953—two strands wound around each other.
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Dr. Seheult of https://www.medcram.com discusses a recent vitamin D review article published in the peer-reviewed journal Nutrients which has compelling implications for COVID-19 and overall vascular and endothelial health.
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A triple board certified physician, master healer & consciousness, Zach Bush, MD is a triple board certified physician and one of the most compelling medical minds currently working to improve our understanding of human and environmental health
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July 14, 2020
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A short gamma ray burst brighter than a million trillion suns lit up space for a few hours and then hit the road for eons to reach us.
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The Hope Mars orbiter will now launch July 16.
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Robots produced by Bay Area companies that can cook – from flipping burgers to baking bread – are in growing demand as virus-wary kitchens try to put some distance between workers and customers.
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The Chinese scientists initially described the substance using the term "胶状物" ("jiao zhuang wu"), which can be translated as "gel-like."
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public immunity is probably higher than antibody tests suggest
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Up-to-date info on the latest stats of Covid-19 around the globe.
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Three months ago, the epidemiologist weighed in on what we must do to defeat this new threat. We went back to ask: How are we doing, and what comes next?
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In a small trial, drugs seemed to rejuvenate the body’s ‘epigenetic clock’, which tracks a person’s biological age.
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Waring, analysed images from NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite to arrive at this conclusion.
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Global event to bring in contact with aliens and/or higher selves
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July 7, 2020
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The biotechnology company Regeneron announced the late-stage clinical trials of REGN-COV2, its investigational double antibody cocktail for the treatment and prevention of Covid-19
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The number of missions, who is launching them and their complexity illustrate the importance Mars has for purveyors of space exploration policy.
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The rocket and its payloads were lost.
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NASA's prolific Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) found rich evidence of iron and titanium oxides under the surface of the moon, which may show a close connection with Earth's early history.
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"Mmm. Lost a star, Master Anton has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing. Find it, we will try."
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The ecommerce giant is buying Zoox, which is designing autonomous robotaxis. Beware Uber and Lyft.
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The unmanned mission named al-Amal, which is Arabic for “hope,” will give scientists the opportunity to have a better understanding of Martian atmosphere.
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It could be cheaper, faster and two planets for the cost of one.
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researchers from the House of Mouse show off what they say is the first photo-realistic deepfake at a megapixel resolution.
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Considering that TikTok was the 4th most popular free iPhone app download in 2019, this is quite alarming.
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Companies and programmers are reexamining how technical terms are used amid Black Lives Matter protests. But some worry the changes are empty symbolism.
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"Master bedrooms" in our homes. "Blacklists" and "whitelists" in computing.
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A new study claims that humanity would need to send a minimum of 110 people to Mars to build a self-sustaining civilization there.
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here's what we know about the different modes of transmission:
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Operation Warp Speed, the White House program aimed at accelerating the production of a vaccine, awarded Novavax $1.6 billion on Tuesday, and the company hopes to deliver 100 million doses by January 2021.
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June 30, 2020
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Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China
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An effort to pressure Facebook to crack down on hate speech and misinformation has prompted dozens of advertisers to say they’ll stop spending on the platform. Here are some of the biggest companies involved.
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A huge plume of Sahara Desert dust that drifted across the Atlantic Ocean has reached the southeastern United States.
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In-person encounters are crucial for establishing trust and building successful teams, according to research
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Half a dozen hot-button docs have been pulled from platforms or dropped by digital distributors in the past year, angering filmmakers and viewers: "People do not like to be told they cannot see a film."
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intense heat and pressure thousands of kilometres below the surface of these ice giants should split apart hydrocarbon compounds, with the carbon compressing into diamond and sinking even deeper towards the planetary cores.
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A kickstarter was recently launched for a new fragrance called Eau de Space to bring the smell of outer space back down to Earth.
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The company told investors in April that it was looking to develop easier-to-administer versions of the drug, including an inhaled version.
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can be orally administered and reduce viral load.
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This week’s report that dexamethasone, a commonly used corticosteroid, reduces death rates of COVID-19 by up to one-third was greeted with enthusiasm around the globe.
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Researchers found that SARS-CoV-2 hijacks tendrils that grow from infected cells and may ride them to infect others. But existing compounds might slow their roll.
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The importance of NAC. Dr. Seheult responds to COVID-19 questions from the week in addition to new questions that are received during the live-stream.
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It is now clear that vitamin D has important roles in addition to its classic effects on calcium and bone homeostasis
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June 23, 2020
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Virgin Galactic is will soon launch a "private orbital astronaut readiness program."
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The SpaceX CEO now has 500 satellites orbiting earth, and is primed for internet broadband trials this summer.
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Five high altitude balloons were launched from Winnemucca, Part of Project Loon, Nevada today and were making their way across Central California at an altitude of approximately 60,000 ft. Part of Project Loon, a Google network of balloons
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Flying machines could step in when bees and other insects are scarce
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new drone software capable of monitoring the degree of social distancing and face-mask wearing occurring in real time in any given location.
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Rumours about Apple tracking and disabling iPhones looted during countrywide protests in the USA have been proven true.
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Test flights of the new "Spaceship Neptune" could begin early next year.
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This "excess of events" could point to the existence of hypothesised particles called axions, some of which are candidates for dark matter.
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Cheaper, more efficient, and much smaller, yet less risky and less powerful that traditional nuclear plants, the new technology offers a new path forward for a source of carbon-free energy
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a newly released study suggests that the hotspot may actually be waning.
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The weeks after summer solstice are usually the best times of the year to see noctilucent clouds (NLCs).
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"It was like an aggressive tiger in March and April, but now it's like a wild cat." Even elderly patients – who a few months ago would have died – "are sitting up in bed, and breathing without help."
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Coronavirus antibody tests have shown that asymptomatic patients are more likely to show low levels of COVID-19 antibodies in the bloodstream as soon as two to three months after the infection.
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How might we best emerge from this unprecedented Covid societal experience in better shape than we went in?
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There is also a new App Library, App Clips, Messaging features, a Translation app and the ability to unlock your car with your phone, too.
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June 16, 2020
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SpaceX’s Starlink internet service is up and running, at least for a small number of testers.
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Elon Musk's rocket company last week launched 60 more internet-beaming satellites into space on a reused Falcon 9 rocket, bringing its total count to around 480 and moving it closer to the 800 it needs to provide moderate coverage over the US.
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Roxket Lab flew its 12th Electron launch vehicle from its launch site on NZ’s Mahia Peninsula, carrying payloads on behalf of the U.S. National Reconnaisance Office (NRO), NASA, and the University of New South Wales Canberra.
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The rocket ignited its engine seconds later but an anomaly meant the flight was terminated early.
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Northrop Gruman to build a "minimal habitation module" to accommodate astronauts serving aboard its planned Lunar Gateway space station orbiting the moon
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it's the illumination that is the resource we're actually going after with the Artemis missions
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Hummingbirds can perceive colours that the human eye cannot, thanks to the addition of an extra cone in the hummingbird's eye that we don't possess, new research reveals.
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As poor countries around the world struggle to beat back the coronavirus, they are unintentionally contributing to fresh explosions of illness and death from other diseases
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Developers are working on track-and-trace systems to keep infection levels low. The apps aren't here yet, but here's what they do—and how you can enable them.
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Already one of the most famous photographers in the world, Adams had come to Santa Cruz on assignment from Clark Kerr, president of the University of California system at the time
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Archaeologists have revealed an entire Roman city without any digging. Their approach could revolutionize the study of ancient settlements.
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Local, state and federal law enforcement organizations use an array of surveillance technologies to identify and track protesters, from facial recognition to military-grade drones.
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2:30 Intro at ICU, N95 sterilization. 4:00 High Fructose can increase your risk of oxidative stress 9:00 The role of steroids and budesonide nebulizers with COVID patients, MATH+ protocol 13:00 Your risk with COVID at age 65 13:30 How does your insuranc
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a new study just claimed that there are 36 alien civilizations in the Milky Way, and represent it as a lower limit on what's out there.
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NASA wants the public’s help with mapping out the surface of Mars, to eventually help make driving rovers like Curiosity around the red planet a bit easier.
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For 30 years, MBARI ecologist Ken Smith and his colleagues have studied deep-sea communities at a research site called Station M, located 4,000 meters (2.5 miles) below the ocean's surface and 290 kilometers (180 miles) off the coast of Central California
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June 9, 2020
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Solar winds that came from a hole on the Sun's corona is currently hitting Earth's magnetic field.
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The find could be a big clue about the nature of fast radio bursts.
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A video has been shared thousands of times on social media, claiming that circuit boards with “COV-19” inscribed on them are being fitted to 5G towers
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This tracker lists COVID-19 vaccine candidates currently in Phase 1-3 trials, as well as major candidates in pre-clinical stages of development and research.
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The company is building a massive centrifuge to accelerate rockets and send them screaming into space.
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The scanners pair a commercial ultrasound device with a secure online library of lung ultrasound images and a specially developed artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm, allowing health care practitioners to diagnose COVID-19 at the point of care
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Dishcraft Robotics has a simple pitch to corporate kitchens and restaurants that could potentially save tons of single use plastic, noncompostable takeout containers, dishware and cutlery from ending up in landfills.
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a significantly higher number of cars in parking lots at five Wuhan hospitals in the late summer and fall of 2019 compared to a year earlier
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Best known for his "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions" and the ever-ubiquitous MAD Fold-In, cartoonist Al Jaffee has retired today at the age of 99, making him the longest working cartoonist in history.
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any plant can be transformed into an electrical source, producing a variety of materials that can revolutionize the global economy — from using hydrogen as fuel to clean ammonia to replace the pollutants in the agriculture industry.
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The real Space Force may be going down in flames against the fictional Space Force
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15 to 18 minutes interesting evidence Nitric Oxide reducing Thrombosis (blood clotting) 21 minutes Melatonin supplementation 38 minutes Fasting benefits
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June 2, 2020
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peak viewership for the joint NASA-SpaceX launch broadcast across all of our platforms was at least 10.3 million concurrent viewers
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The most circulated photo - which has been widely shared by local media outlets like the Santa Cruz Sentinel as well as national outlets like Forbes - shows Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings and Santa Cruz Chief of Police Andy Mills.
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Moderna Therapeutics has just entered phase two of its clinical trials. Here's how mRNA vaccines work and what the latest developments mean.
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Dr. Gail Newell shares latest health data of county with valuable public comments start at 1:04:00
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America’s 180 on masks, explained.
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As the meat industry struggles to respond to the outbreak, makers of vegan substitutes are ramping up production to meet new interest from shoppers.
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What if one of the strangest, most unsettling findings in particle physics turned out to be an illusion?
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They constitute an M-class flare, the second strongest flare classification.
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Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here's how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
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Coronavirus Pandemic Update 75: COVID-19 Lung Autopsies - New Data
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A doctor who predicted Covid answers all
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All things VR/AR/XR.. The first time this major Silicon Valley Conference was completely online!
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May 26, 2020
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US astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are scheduled to blast off from Kennedy's historic Launch Pad 39A at 4:33 pm (20:33 UTC) on Wednesday for the International Space Station
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Billions of dollars later, Elon Musk is ready to launch the first privately owned manned spacecraft.
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The 45th Operational Group, Detachment 3 stands ready to rescue Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in the event their missions ends in an unexpected abort.
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The researchers used virtual reality (VR) tools to simulate a complex, naturalistic 3-D environment for insects to navigate.
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This level of activity is so low, some scientists have suggested we may be entering a "deep" solar minimum, and potentially even a Grand Minimum—the last of which took place in the 17th century and coincided with a mini ice age.
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a taste display that can artificially recreate any flavor by triggering the five different tastes on a user’s tongue.
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The US is planning a "massive testing effort" that will involve more than 100,000 volunteers and six of the most promising COVID-19 vaccines
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Join the doctors on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 as they strategize to stop the spread, and meet the researchers racing to develop treatments and vaccines.
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A team of researchers has managed to run 3D models from the moment that the comet hit the surface of the Earth, until the 110-mile wide crater was fully formed.
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Interviews with folks at the beach protests, including today's guests, David Rodriguez and Howard Lictman
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The "Committee to Reopen Santa Cruz,” a group founded recently by right wing extremists who believe the COVID-19 Pandemic is a hoax, is prodding local businesses to open early.
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May 19,2020
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When the X-37B launches on May 16, it will carry a technology that could eventually allow drones to stay aloft indefinitely anywhere on the globe.
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Moderna’s closely watched early-stage human trial for a coronavirus vaccine produced Covid-19 antibodies in all 45 participants.
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This page summarizes key milestones in our work to advance our vaccine candidate (mRNA-1273) and responds to frequently asked questions.
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Sandia National Lab scientists are working hard to see if this system could work against COVID-19
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This is our recommended approach to COVID-19 based on the best (and most recent) literature. We should not re-invent the wheel but learn from the experience of others.
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In a scenario straight out of “The Twilight Zone,” a group of NASA scientists working on an experiment in Antarctica have detected evidence of a parallel universe
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Great River Energy is teaming with the somewhat mysterious Bill Gates-backed energy storage startup Form Energy to build a new battery that can discharge for 150 hours.
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There's nothing like Juice Media to give us a coherent view of the virus crisis.
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If passed, this would create an unprecedented new mega-industry for what appears to be a type of "medical martial law".
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Quantum physicist Nick Herbert tells the tale of the obscure "Amy Project"
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May 12, 2020
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Police chased protesters through shopping malls amid Mother's Day flash mob
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Though social networks have pledged to take more concerted action against it, the theory has continued to spread, inspiring a surge of attacks.
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One of the tasks in education the iPad enables over a Chromebook is Augmented Reality, and right now is the time for AR apps to shine.
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A public-private partnership and platform for harmonized clinical trials aims to accelerate licensure and distribution.
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The Planet of Motion is one of five planets orbiting the Sensorium Galaxy’s Entertainment Star in which users can enjoy beauty and artistry of different dance styles including modern, improvised, ballroom, jazz, breakdance, and ballet.
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NASA has announced the three commercial teams that have been slated to build machines that will return human beings to the moon in four years. They are Dynetics, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
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Life is just four walls for many of us right now, but bizarre augmented-reality filters give us the illusion that it’s not.
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The global superstar is set to literally leave the globe to star in a new movie which will be shot in space – and he’s teaming up with Elon Musk‘s SpaceX company to make it happen.
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The free courses, which usually cost $399 a year, are focused on skills and professional certifications that will help out-of-work individuals find new jobs in high-demand sectors.
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This discovery isn't just changing our understanding of how life can work here on Earth - it could also have implications for the search for extraterrestrial life.
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Renewable energy, which provided almost 21% of the nation’s electricity, created 10.6% more electricity than coal in these two months, 134,094 GWh versus 121,227 GWh.
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Coronavirus Pandemic Update 69: "NAC" Supplementation and COVID-19 (N-Acetylcysteine). There is compelling research that NAC may also reduce the severity of viral infections like influenza, and perhaps reduce the risk of blood clots (thromboembolism)
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the main ingredient found in human urine would be ideal to create a mixture for concrete on the Moon.
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Robert F. Kennedy provides a long list of vaccine crimes committed by Bill Gates that caused death, paralysis and many other serious injuries.
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Why is what Judy Mikovits saying such a hot potato? Find out for yourself right now!
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May 5, 2020
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Roche has won emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for an antibody test to determine whether people have ever been infected with the coronavirus,
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This serology test relies for its accuracy on intravenous blood draws instead of finger-prick assays, as is common with almost all other antibody tests.
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Ostensibly, the system can not only identify abstracts within studies that support or refute the claims, but can also provide rationales for their predictions in the form of evidence extracted from the abstracts.
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The booths, called Cleantech, are used for sanitizing and disinfecting people. The entire process only takes a couple of minutes
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To quickly create potential vaccines against COVID-19, researchers are using genetic engineering rather than traditional methods, which can take years.
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Diagnostic chips perform thousands of tests simultaneously to detect viruses
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It's drawn attention as a candidate COVID-19 treatment because of its ability quell the “cytokine storm"
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it seems we need to adjust some numbers on the true dustiness of Earth's atmosphere - a property that plays a vital role in climate systems.
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Icke has emerged as a professional conspiracy theorist[184] within a global counter-cultural movement that combines New World Order conspiracism, the truther movement and anti-globalisation, with an extraterrestrial conspiracist subculture (Roswell, alien
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It ultimately killed 100,000 people in the U.S., mostly over the age of 65, and one million worldwide.
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Shares his dealings with Big Pharma, government, Bill Gates and gravy trains.
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This video explains most of the issues of COVID-19 to Med students. If you remember from last weeks show I mentioned Zinc Ionophores and Nitric Oxide via Infrared LEDs and caller Steve asking about coagulation of the blood. Because Dr Seheult had just exp
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April 28, 2020
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Chinese scientists say the novel coronavirus will not be eradicated, adding to a growing consensus around the world that the pathogen will likely return in waves like the flu.
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Redefining "remote" work
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Intelsat 901 gets an extra five years of life
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Musk also tries to assure scientists his Starlink satellites won't ruin the sky as many fear, and says he'd like to help send more observatories into orbit.
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Live updates of global Covid Map based on Johns Hopkins data, via Youtube livestream
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A strangely-shaped rocky object that journeyed into our solar system last year is emitting an unexpected amount of carbon monoxide, according to a team of experts – up to 26 times higher than that of the average comet.
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Esther House, a pupil at Dover Grammar School for Girls in Kent, is supplying care homes and pharmacists with visors using a 3D printer from China.
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Hundreds of residents are taking part, howling every night at 8 p.m
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The latest show of music, comedy, wisdom, magic and community connection by the folks who brought us the Harmony Festival, the grandmother of the California Festival scene.
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Santa Cruz County officials said too many people flocked to the beaches, causing safety issues. In coastal areas like Pleasure Point, crowds parked along street. In some cases, neighbors said cars blocked their driveway.
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To implicate 5G cell phone signals in COVID-19 requires squaring a circle, something our human brain finds all too easy.
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There’s a reason why cleaners for external surfaces are not meant for your innards. They’re indiscriminate killers, not medicine.
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Maybe he's holding out for an orbital experience.
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April 21, 2020
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[Exclusive investigative report] The first documentary movie on the origin of CCP virus(Coronavirus)01:55 Part 1 The Story of The Seafood Market 09:34 Part 2 The Mysterious Gene Sequence 17:47 Part 3 The Discoveries of Dr. Shi Zhengli 28:50 Part 4 The Secret of the Wuhan P4 Laboratory 43:43 Part 5 Facing The Pandemic
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Will Boeing still be able to charge premium prices after a second-place finish?
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A few things you need to know about the coronavirus.
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the International Dark-Sky Association (IDA) invites you and your family to engage with authors, educators, artists and scientists from around the world who are excited to share their passion for astronomy, our cultural connection to the stars,
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Chicago hospital treating severe Covid-19 patients with Gilead Sciences’ antiviral medicine remdesivir in a closely watched clinical trial is seeing rapid recoveries in fever and respiratory symptoms, with nearly all patients discharged in less than a we
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Microsoft is helping to fight COVID-19 with Plasma Bot, a self-screening tool that supports recovered coronavirus patients in donating plasma to global treatment efforts.
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Anders Tegnell, the architect behind Sweden’s relatively relaxed response to Covid-19, told local media the latest figures on infection rates and fatalities indicate the situation is starting to stabilize.
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Music, Prayer, Comedy and Global Community Connection
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March 31, 2020
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Dr. Vladmir Zelenko shares the results of his latest study, which showed that out of his 699 patients treated, zero patients died, zero patients intubated, and four hospitalizations.
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Preliminary studies done in China suggest the decades-old malaria drug could inhibit the growth of the novel coronavirus.
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The new device fits around an Ambu bag (blue), which hospitals already have on hand in abundance. Designed to be squeezed by hand, instead they are squeezed by mechanical paddles driven by a small motor.
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A technology start-up in Italy has been praised for its experimental and quick-thinking approach after adapting a full-face snorkeling mask into a viable hospital ventilator.
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The $1.5 billion Space Fence can track tiny objects in low Earth orbit as small as a marble.
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The Formula One team worked with University College London to develop the machine, which is now ready for trial and could keep patients off ventilators.
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Some 200 Italian business are now controlled by Chinese owners (not including the ones owned by Chinese living in Italy)
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"First thing you should note is the importance of social distancing. The second is how much data your phone gives off."
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An online furor over whether it’s safe to use the fever reducer reveals how people are sharing incomplete—and sometimes bad—information.
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At least 2,000 San Francisco emergency medical workers will begin wearing rings this week that track their body temperature and other vital signs in a first-of-its-kind study to try to identify the early onset of COVID-19
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Preparing for Upcoming Planetary Changes, to Connect with Your Higher Guides & to Fulfill Your Soul Purpose
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April 7, 2020
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A microbiologist in Germany believes that the use of an updated version of a 100-year-old Tuberculosis vaccine may work as an intermediate treatment for Covid-19
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According to a paper published by Stanford Anesthesia Informatics and Media Lab, you can disinfect and reuse N95 masks or respirators.
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the machine basically disperses water droplets which are made of ionised water.
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The biggest risk when it comes to COVID-19 and groceries is being around other people in the grocery store while you are shopping.
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An Empowering Message to Humanity from Ayahuasca
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My favorite FAKE NEWS video this week. It appeals to my East Coast humor button.
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Their idea behind the antibody his team is working is to bio engineer antibodies to fight COVID-19 by evolving known antibodies against SARS coronavirus that caused a pandemic scare about 20 years ago.
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California YouTuber Dana Ashlie released a YouTube video accusing CBS News of using footage of a hospital in Italy and passing it off as a hospital in New York City.
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Scientists are scrambling to create Covid-19 antivirals. But what if medicines we already have are good enough to buy patients more time?
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This film espouses the use of vitamins for treating many different conditions, as discussed on Dr. Future on this week's show.
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April 14, 2020
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I think you may find this document very useful for maintaing good health. Called "Strengthening Personal Immunity," It is by one of our best wholistic health professionals here in Santa Cruz. Karl Maret, M.D.
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According to the seismologists from the Royal Observatory of Belgium, the worldwide lockdown is making the Earth’s crust vibrate less.
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Apple and Google are jointly developing technology to alert people if they have recently come into contact with others found to be infected with coronavirus.
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host Glenn Greenwald explores the under-discussed consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. Glenn interviews activist and whistleblower Edward Snowden to talk about the risk of acquiescing to more surveillance
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This syllabus aims to broadly cover the research landscape surrounding China’s AI ecosystem, including the context, components, capabilities, and consequences of China’s AI development
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After much listening, discussion, and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision not to build Black Rock City in 2020.
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Scientists are listening in on the ways viruses communicate and cooperate. Decoding what the microbes are saying could be a boon to human health.
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We actually borrowed our ability to form memories from viruses.
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COVID-19 Information & Updates Santa Cruz County in a very nice chart
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March 24,2020
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Astronaut Scott Kelly, who spent a combined 520 days in space, including nearly a full, continuous year as part of NASA's One-Year Mission to the ISS, knows a thing or two about isolation, quarantine, and keeping sane in small places for extended periods.
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The first positive case of coronavirus at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida was confirmed today (March 23).
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Far, far away from coronavirus worries, China’s Yutu-2 lunar rover and Chang’e-4 spacecraft have whirred back to life on the far side of the Moon, with the intrepid rover boldly setting off for unexplored areas.
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The company says it paves the way for its mega-constellation of satellite ‘cell towers’
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Low sunspot activity has seen the resurgence of several pandemics– SARS, MERS, Zika, Ebola, Influenza
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The chemicals used for manufacturing meth and fentanyl are mainly sourced in China, and cartels in Mexico are running low.
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While the short-term benefits from the global Covid-19 lockdown may be valuable, the long-term effects will be disastrous.
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The country has the second-oldest population on earth, and its young mingle more often with elderly loved ones.
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TALLAHASSEE — While New York, California and other states shutter their economies to keep the coronavirus at bay, Gov. Ron DeSantis is refusing to follow the herd.
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Covid-19 and other pandemics will stimulate investments, startups and new businesses in advanced 2D and 3D/VR chat, online classes, telework, telehealth and virtual logistics planning and operations, especially when 5G arrives.
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All the latest local info on Covid-19 cases in the county
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California is actively working with the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), local governments, health facilities, and health care providers across the state to prepare and protect Californians from COVID-19.
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Scotish doctor speaks of Covid-19 in Italy
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This virtual greenback would help individuals and families survive the shutdown of businesses and series of “shelter-in-place” orders which resulted in skyrocketing unemployment claims and a potential severe recession.
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Ozone therapy, a very inexpensive and safe modality may safely exploit a critical vulnerability in many viruses, inclusive of SARS-CoV-2.
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March 17, 2020
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new orders direct all individuals to shelter at their place of residence and maintain social distancing of at least six feet from any other person from outside their residence,
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Steve Padilla led recent three-day meeting in Scotts Valley
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the satellite has seen a sharp decrease in emissions of nitrogen dioxide over Italy during the first two and a half months of 2020.
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DeepMind's findings hope to cut down on months of effort typically used to determine the protein structure of a virus.
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The government of Shanghai, China has announced its official recommendation that COVID-19 should be treated with high amounts of intravenous vitamin C.
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Dr. Campbell shows strong evidence supporting Vitamin D as a supplement for fighing viral and bacterial infections.
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As radio is non-ionizing and does not excite electrons and knock them out of orbit, 5G can’t cause DNA damage, cause cancer, or develop Coronavirus.
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Michael Osterholm is an internationally recognized expert in infectious disease epidemiology.and answers many questions regarding the Corona virus, including whether it's been weaponized.
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Spring is coming earlier this year than it has since 1896.
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the virus is sensitive to ultraviolet light and heat, so ultraviolet radiation can effectively eliminate the virus.
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March 3, 2020
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Elon Musk isn't dwelling on SN1's demise.
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The $117 million Psyche mission will use one of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rockets, and it is scheduled to launch from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in July 2022.
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"With a surface temperature in excess of 840 degrees Fahrenheit and a surface pressure 90 times that of Earth, Venus can turn lead into a puddle and crush a nuclear-powered submarine with ease," NASA said.
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The HiRise team at the University of Arizona performed a brightness enhancement to see into the abyss.
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Authorities in Wuhan have closed the city’s first makeshift hospital after discharging the last batch of 34 recovered coronavirus patients, as the rate of infection in the city has dropped dramatically.
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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) advice for the public: Myth busters
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a new study, seeking to understand the medical effects of extremely high dosages of psychedelics in recreational settings.
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Here is a complete overview of the current wave of psychedelic science that’s happening on the European continent.
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A new study published through Cornell University found that participants who went through a VR program developed by scientists had life-altering changes “comparable to those reported in double-blind clinical studies after high doses of psilocybin and LSD.
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March 10, 2020
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reports, including daily discussions, Questions, Images/Videos, Comments, Unconfirmed reports, Suggestions | Subreddit News
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From Russia with Love
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Taking action means ensuring that "you have supplies on hand like routine medications for blood pressure and diabetes, and over-the-counter medicines and medical supplies to treat fever and other symptoms."
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The new findings provide a boost to the giant-impact theory of the moon's origin.
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As more gatherings get shut down due to Covid-19, a new group of companies are trying to re-create the experience online. Hotel cocktail not included.
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February 25, 2020
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"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century."
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SpaceX is seeking to bring in about $250 million at a price of $220 a share
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The implant jacks directly into the brain, completely bypassing the eyes.
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How will it change how we live, work, socialize, and travel?
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The SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus that infected thousands and killed hundreds in China back in 2002 is widely seen as a catalyst for the country’s fledgling e-commerce industry.
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The demonstration represents a new-generation of micro-reactors.
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See at a glance what's happening regarding the outbreak. Looks like it updates with new info pretty quickly. A must-have for any Situation Center.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company announced on Twitter that its third-generation boring machine, which is supposed to have had its ability greatly improved to dig tunnels fast and cheap, is now working.
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Ami will talk about extinction rebellion and related topics
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February 18, 2020
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SpaceX is planning to send up to four private citizens into space to take a trip around Earth sometime at the end of 2021 or in early 2022.
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the country's central bank has implemented a new strategy to contain the virus -- deep cleaning and destroying potentially infected cash.
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SpaceX successfully launched another batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit Monday (Feb. 17), but missed a milestone rocket landing
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A technosignature is a proxy for the existence of a technologically advanced, extraterrestrial civilisation
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"Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet," Bezos said. "I want to work alongside others both to amplify known ways and to explore new ways of fighting the devastating impact of climate change on this planet we all share."
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Crew Dragon may get off the ground in early May.
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PLO secretary general criticises invitation for Palestinians to attend as insulting
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Companies look forward to expanding reach, strengthening analytics
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Growing food without plants or animals sounds like science fiction. But it could stop environmental destruction
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The 21st-century debate over privacy and suspicion looks a lot like one from the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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The Department of Justice has pinned the hack on China. Here's how it was done, according to the indictment.
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Microphones and cameras lurk everywhere. You may want to slip on some privacy armor.
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a UCF research team showed that by combining two promising nanomaterials into a new superstructure, they could create a nanoscale device that mimics the neural pathways of brain cells used for human vision.
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DJI just released a video that explains how their new Drone-to-Phone Broadcast Remote ID solution works.
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The locusts have been able to detect gases emitted from bomb-making substances such as TNT, RDX, and ammonium nitrate.
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Using AI technology to analyze CMR scans, researchers were able to precisely quantify the blood flow to the heart muscles of patients
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Keanu Reeves and Hugo Weaving are put into the Office Space
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Local manufacturing applied to your ideas.
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Mushrooms used to be the territory of hippies, explorers, indigenous people and artists. Now tech bros and wellness gurus have taken over
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Regular updates from retired UK doc who gives you the facts, straight-up, in a comprehensible way.
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Several astronomers have theorised that the current dimming is all just part of a natural cycle for the star, but others are noting the greater variation in magnitude and speculating that the end is nigh for Betelgeuse.
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Space Artist, Animator, amateur astronomer, citizen scientist
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This rescue took place at Future Peak, the ancestral home of the Futures, high in the Santa Cruz Mountains
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February 11, 2020
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As gnews reports, as the coronavirus spreads from Wuhan, China has been implementing “closed management” by putting 80 cities under lockdown, and on Monday, Beijing authorities also issued a “Strict Closed Management of Residential Communities”
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An Australian couple has made the best of a bad situation on the coronavirus-quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship by reportedly getting wine delivered to their cabin — via drone.
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Russian satellites have been exhibiting the "unusual and disturbing behavior" of following a US satellite in orbit, according to the commander of the Space Force, the newest military service.
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The mission is expected to return unprecedented data and images, as well as our first views of the sun's polar regions.
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Betelgeuse has been very volatile lately, and astronomers are watching to determine if it's terminal or just going through a phase.
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Now, for the first time, astronomers have found a fast radio burst (FRB) that repeats on a regular cycle.
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This could be merely the first step in a bigger story of the birth of a space tourism industry.
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A TV show in South Korea reunited a mother with her deceased 7-year-old daughter via a virtual reality recreation in what some observers thought was a dystopian and exploitative move.
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do you “hear” your own voice in your head? Or do you hear nothing at all?
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Appreciating the wind, air and sky — by doing something as simple as yogic breathing or as daring as running naked — can all be part of ecosexuality.
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Fiercely in love, we are permanently grateful for this relationship. To create a more mutual and sustainable union with our lover, we collaborate with nature. We treat the earth with respect, affection & sensuality.
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February 4, 2020
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a fourth quarter earnings report last week that topped expectations and a host of Wall Street analysts recently predicting further upside for the stock.
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This is an updated list of reputable news sources detailing what’s really happening with the Wuhan Virus.
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe just took the record for the fastest human-made object and the closest object to the sun from... NASA's Parker Solar Probe.
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The drone sports a hydrogen-powered generator fueling two hours of flight time per mission over nearly 50 miles.
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What could be better than a solar cell that captures most of the visible light spectrum to generate energy? A cell that can capture the whole visible light spectrum and turn the energy into hydrogen.
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The U.S. government has taken unprecedented steps related to travel in response to the growing public health threat posed by this new coronavirus, including suspending entry in the United States of foreign nationals who have visited China
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In order to develop solar panels that generate electricity at night, you just need them to operate in the exact opposite way solar panels work during the day.
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Here we continue the exploration of how unencloseable carriers could free us from critical limitations across a number of macro-systemic domains and help unleash an explosion of human creativity and social organizing.
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Rick Doblin, PhD, founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), discusses the potential of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD in a video interview.
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Revelation: An intimate view into things that surprise and excite us, and cause us to experience the Divine in the natural—and unnatural--world.
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a community advocacy group, promoting increased awareness of the health effects from wireless radiation, safe uses of technology and greater community involvement with these issues that affect us all.
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My bottom lines on the China epidemic
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January 28, 2020
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the latest Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have completed a 6-hour spacewalk to finish repairing a dark matter detection instrument which was previously considered “unserviceable.”
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Why the world is closer than ever to Doomsday
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At 31 feet tall and 6,900 square feet, a new building in Dubai is the largest 3D-printed building in the world — and the first two-story structure of its kind.
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More commonly associated with treating bipolar disorder, microdoses of lithium may halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.
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Transplanting GABAergic cells derived from human-induced pluripotent stem cells into mice resulted in safe, lasting, and effective relief from extreme neuropathic pain.
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Brazilian authorities are seeking to bring charges against Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who published Edward Snowden's intelligence agency leaks.
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The study, published online today (January 28, 2020) by Nature Communications, is the first to explore the implications of temperature in shaping the wing structure and behavior of butterflies.
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Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for?
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Exploring the HoloFractal Nature of the Cosmos
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January 21, 2020
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NASA and SpaceX will spend the next several months examining data garnered by the flight.
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Musk is proposing a loan system where visitors would work in the Mars city to pay back the cost of the flight.
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A team of researchers working at Google's Mountain View research center has developed a deep-learning-based weather forecasting tool for predicting short-term weather events.
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Our local supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*, pronounced Sag A star), contains roughly 4 million times as much mass as the Sun. Not far from this black hole, members of a newly-discovered class of objects are caught in a gravitational dance w
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"Mojo has a vision for invisible computing where you have the information you want when you want it and are not bombarded or distracted by data when you don't," said chief executive Drew Perkins.
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It’s realistic, but can it walk and talk like a human?
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In hindsight, being canceled by Syfy was probably the best thing that could have happened to "The Expanse."
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Anaxagoras, Asteria Morpheus and Marv are all in the running.
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The following article by Christopher Bird is looked upon as one of the key articles responsible for making the Rife microscope known today.
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Horizon State originally launched in 2017 to revolutionise the way that organisations and communities make multi-stakeholder decisions.
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Systems that have sustained us for generations are beginning to collapse just as new paradigms are emerging which will carry us into the next exciting chapter of human civilization.
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January 14, 2020
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Scientists analysing a meteorite have discovered the oldest material known to exist on Earth.
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The Milky Way, our stunning home galaxy, is like a cosmic Hannibal Lecter, having gobbled up smaller galaxies as it evolved.
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Future subscribers will connect to the service using a device called a phased-array antenna, which he said in 2015 should cost around $200 each
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The best according to Engaget editors
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a new battery made from materials that can be extracted from the sea, which outperforms today’s technology across the board.
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Researchers in the US have created the first living machines by assembling cells from African clawed frogs into tiny robots that move around under their own steam.
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a bacteria called P. gingivalis, most commonly associated with degenerative gum disease, can infect the brain in older people who are more susceptible to infection.
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German automaker Volkswagen has unveiled a robot that can autonomously charge your electric car without the need for any human interaction — you just summon it to your vehicle via an app.
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Issues discussed include: data privacy scandals, Russian interference, political polarization and the debate over whether Facebook is healthy for society.
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No one can predict the future because what we do affects the future.
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Fixing American Democracy with Michael Douglas
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A documentary exploring how artificial intelligence is changing life as we know it — from jobs to privacy to a growing rivalry between the U.S. and China.
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January 7, 2020
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Facebook has announced it will remove videos modified by artificial intelligence, known as deepfakes, from its platform.
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Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents
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For the first time, the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a roughly Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of its host star, the zone of orbital distances where liquid water could be stable on a world's surface
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New research led by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) and published today in Science Advances shows that lava flows on Venus may be only a few years old, suggesting that Venus could be volcanically active today
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The WIRED crew is in Las Vegas to bring you up-to-the-minute coverage of news from the first full day of CES 2020.
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Following the success of its plant-based burger substitute, Impossible Foods debuts its latest lab-created meat invention.
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learn all about the so-called Caplan Thruster, which would use the Sun's own energy to propel it across the galaxy and beyond.
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Monash University researchers have developed the world’s most efficient lithium-sulphur battery, capable of powering a smartphone for five continuous days.
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Our guest's website
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December 31, 2019
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The Long March-5 the largest Chinese carrier rocket to date, with a total weight of 870 tonnes and producing thrust of over 1000 tonnes at takeoff.
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With new missions to Mars, a probe returning to Earth with samples taken from an asteroid, and even more batches of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites going into orbit, it’s going to be another fascinating year.
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2020 is expected to be the year where several major milestones are achieved.
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The Boring Company is completing its first commercial tunnel in Vegas from the Las Vegas Convention Center to the Strip, before it works on other projects and it hopes it to be operational next year.
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The Mars 2020 rover, which sets off for the Red Planet next year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions, NASA scientists said Friday as they unveiled the vehicle.
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Supply-chain reports point to Apple gearing up for double-digit growth in iPhone sales next year, with signs suggesting that a high proportion of iPhone owners will upgrade for 5G.
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He Jiankui’s work was also carried out on a third infant, according to China’s state media, in a new disclosure that is likely to add to the global uproar over such experiments.
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Musk said that he hopes this Starship will take off sometime around “2 to 3 months” from now, which is still within range of the projections for a first Starship high-altitude test flight given by the CEO earlier this year at the unveiling of the Starship
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The plant-based up-and-comers have become a big enough threat that the meat industry has hired a marketing hit man to go after the new plant-based contenders
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Randy combines his expertise as a composer, harmonic mathematician and background in esoteric and exoteric sciences to reveal the precise harmonics of our universal life field.
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December 24, 2019
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The death of Ram Dass, who was born Richard Alpert, was announced on his official Instagram account.
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Fresh from its inaugural test flight in space, Boeing’s first reusable Starliner crew capsule has been named “Calypso” by NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who will command the same vehicle on its next trip into orbit.
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On this day in 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first humans to fly to and orbit the moon.
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NASA astronaut Jessica Meir marked the first night of the eight-day holiday Sunday by tweeting an image of her festive socks from the International Space Station.
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Rumbling quakes on the red planet have been traced back to Cerberus Fossae, suggesting this geologically young region is still alive and cracking.
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“We need to show that Miss America can be a scientist and that a scientist can be Miss America,” said Schrier, who’s studying for a doctor of pharmacy degree.
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Engineers at the University of Illinois have developed a solid polymer-based electrolyte that can self-heal after damage—and the material can also be recycled without the use of harsh chemicals or high temperatures.
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Electric vehicle startup Rivian has scored another $1.3 billion in funding to end the year on a high note, according to a statement released by the company this morning.
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The objects could have been the first evidence of "failed supernovae": stars that collapsed directly into black holes, without any supernova explosion.
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If the dark underside of a solar panel could also convert sunlight reflected off the ground, even more electricity might be generated.
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A drone directed by artificial intelligence takes on a leading pro racer, in a contest that may help shape future humanitarian efforts.
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This week The Information published a report detailing some of Facebook’s future strategy for VR and AR, including an interview with VP of AR/VR Andrew Bosworth.
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Long time friend of Dr. Future, Dr. Myers is designs and manufactures medical biofeedback devices and modalities for the world.
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A story of biofeedback
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The Institute has been on the forefront of the development of EEG Neurofeedback methods for ADD / ADHD, Sleep Disorders, Creativity, Memory, Concentration, Aging and Closed Head Injuries,
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December 17, 2019
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Near Space Labs can deploy one of its weather balloon-based stratospheric imaging platforms every day, after which it’ll ascend to its operating height and focus on an area taking photographs while aloft for a couple of hours, then come back down and prov
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The tool, developed by researchers at the University of Waterloo, uses deep-learning AI algorithms to determine if claims made in posts or stories are supported by other posts and stories on the same subject.
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In terms of biological ageing, the body seems to shift gears three times during our lifespans, new research suggests – with 34 years, 60 years and 78 years the key thresholds.
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A few notes scribbled in his notebook are all that German composer Ludwig van Beethoven left of his Tenth Symphony before his death in 1827. Now, a team of musicologists and programmers is racing to complete a version of the piece using AI
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The Moon's brightness can be used to calibrate satellites that sit in Earth orbit and monitor the planet below. These can be weather satellites, or environmental satellites, use to track things like crops, droughts, even algal blooms.
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The radiation in the room is 40,000 times higher than normal levels.
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He thinks it could lead to the elimination of all genetic diseases.
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how DNA changes as an animal ages—and found that it varies from species to species and is related to how long the animal is likely to live.
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The premiere event for organic Cannabis growers in California
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Two interviews, first with Bio365 on National cannabis business structure, second on the cannabus.
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December 10, 2019
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Virgin Galactic leaps after Morgan Stanley says the company's stock can jump 203% over the next yearThe firm said Virgin Galactic has the potential to "disrupt the multi-trillion-dollar airline" industry.
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After a bone marrow transplant, a man with leukemia found that his donor’s DNA traveled to unexpected parts of his body. A crime lab is now studying the case.
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Chris Long’s sheriff’s office colleagues have been using him as a human guinea pig
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To give the Oculus platform its best shot at winning the race for market share, Facebook is scooping up associated tech -- and talent.
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The pilot trial demonstrated the feasibility and preliminary safety of focally, reversibly, and repetitively opening the Blood Brain Barrier.
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it will take at least a couple more years — likely 2025 — before we're all using the new technology.
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Crucial details have been revealed in a recent release of excerpts from the study, which have triggered a series of concerns about how Lulu and Nana's genome was modified.
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What’s got the body of a piglet and cells from a monkey? This pig-monkey chimera.
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Graphene coated with nanoparticles has been used to make wearable light sensors that measure the human pulse and blood oxygen levels from ambient light passing through tissue, offering a potential platform for health-care monitoring.
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For a long time most robots were painstakingly hand-coded to carry out their functions, but since the deep learning revolution earlier this decade there’s been a growing effort to imbue them with AI that lets them learn new tasks through experience.
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Bacteria-killing viruses, also known as phages, have devised their own tools to help them outmaneuver even the most formidable of these bacterial defenses.
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Dr. Maret addresses risks to children in WiFi classrooms, presenting case studies involving real-time, continuous dossimetry measurements, including cumulative exposures and the percentage of each school day unacceptable exposure levels occurred.
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December 3, 2019
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Images taken by the spacecraft confirm that the lander met an explosive end, revealing the lander’s impact site and the surrounding debris created by the accident.
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In the latest development, the Netherlands-China Low Frequency Explorer (NCLE) commenced operations after a year of orbiting the Moon.
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In a six-week field experiment, researchers placed underwater loudspeakers in patches of dead coral in Australia's Great Barrier Reef and played audio recordings taken from healthy reefs.
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Fluoride batteries can have a higher energy density, which means that they may last longer—up to eight times longer than batteries in use today.
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Biodegradable 'plastic' bags made out of banana plants
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if engineers want to build machines that feel and empathize with what people feel, the machines are going to have to care about their own health.
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MIT's Center for Advanced Virtuality created a video of Nixon giving a speech that was actually written for him — but that he never ended up delivering. The video is the centerpiece of “In Event of Moon Disaster,"
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The magnetic waves measured by ESA’s Cluster mission in the magnetic foreshock above Earth – the first region of our planet’s magnetic environment that solar wind particles encounter – during calm space weather conditions.
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A steaming, bubbly tub of research from Loughborough University has revealed that hot baths might be better than running or cycling when it comes to controlling blood sugar and reducing inflammation.
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Look closely at the serpent constellation slithering through the northern sky, and you might see a galaxy within a galaxy within a galaxy.
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it turns out that the appetite for the spoken word is advancing rapidly.
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A new study shows there is mercury in the fog that is linked to elevated levels of mercury in mountain lions.
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Great overview with Dr Amen on protecting and healing your brain (despite previous injuries) – and thus your life:
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Discover the dark secrets behind the real history of Silicon Valley and the Big Tech giants in this important edition of The Corbett Report.
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New Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile offerings are speedy, but hardly revolutionary
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November 26, 2019
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Elon Musk has revealed the latest Tesla model, promising hundreds of miles of range for about $40,000.
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SpaceX’s next – and third – 60-satellite Starlink launch is officially on the books, and – if all goes as planned – could make the company the proud owner of the world’s largest operational satellite constellation.
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Put simply, the Vikram lander's braking thrusters malfunctioned, and it crashed.
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Last week, the FDA granted a Breakthrough Therapy designation to a program studying psilocybin, the compound that gives magic mushrooms their psychedelic effects, as a possible treatment for major depressive disorder.
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Earlier this month, Google confirmed it is collecting the comprehensive health histories of millions of Americans, through a partnership with the largest nonprofit health system in the US.
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Users said their perception of Google as an owner of a health tracker caused them to look to competitors like Apple Watch.
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Findings debunk the common theory that attention is the only cognitive function affected by sleep deprivation. Lack of sleep also hinders a person’s ability to complete activities that require following multiple steps.
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In a matter of months, white-hot cannabis companies have flamed out in spectacular fashion. Many have lost two-thirds or more of their value.
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Through Sunday, the country has launched 27 orbital missions this year.
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Some scientists are serious about resurrecting zeppelins for low-carbon travel
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A definite 'midnight movie' candidate..
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Amazon’s Ring has set up more than 500 partnerships with law enforcement agencies to convince communities to spy on themselves through doorbell cameras and its social app, Neighbors.
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The True Story of Freedom and Friendship at Plymouth Plantation
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Concerned about the proliferation of wireless technologies and their impact on health.
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November 19, 2019
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NASA announced the selection of SpaceX, Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada Corp., Ceres Robotics and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc. to join its Commercial Lunar Payload Services program (CLPS).
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"Congratulations on the Mach E! Sustainable/electric cars are the future!! Excited to see this announcement from Ford, as it will encourage other carmakers to go electric too," Musk wrote on Twitter.
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Parker Solar Probe is crossing new frontiers of space exploration, giving us so much new information about the sun
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We’re beginning to see this tantalizing correlation between methane and oxygen for a good part of the Mars year
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Science has identified in the plant kingdom the "missing link" of cellular immortality between human and single-celled animals, according to a new study led by scientists from Arizona State University and Texas A&M University.
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A superconducting rotor has been successfully tested on an active wind turbine for the first time.
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Genetically-modified babies are "highly desirable" to help protect people from disease and could be created ethically within two years, according to a new scientific paper.
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according to our best theory of the building blocks of nature itself, facts can actually be subjective.
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A KEY ADVANTAGE: IT COULD PROTECT ASTRONAUTS FROM COSMIC RADIATION.
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Project Drawdown is a global research organization that identifies, reviews, and analyzes the most viable solutions to climate change, and shares these findings with the world.
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Weaving indigenous wisdom and modern knowledge for a thriving, just, and sustainable world.
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Santa Cruz is a place where ideas incubate, collide, and ignite.
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November 12, 2019
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At Cape Canaveral, space buffs got a two-for-one. As Mercury’s silhouette graced the morning sun, SpaceX launched 60 small satellites for global internet service
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An hour after the 9:56 a.m. launch, the company showed video of the satellites deploying successfully in orbit.
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“Instagram, the most popular platform for artists who share their work online, and its parent company, Facebook, both ban photographic representations of the nude body”
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Snowden simple yet effective plan for countering censorship of his book.
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The city vice mayor, Justin Cummings, recently introduced the resolution, which would make possession, use and cultivation of entheogenic substances such as psilocybin mushrooms and ayahuasca the city’s lowest law enforcement priority.
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Our sun orbits the galaxy's center, so many dinosaurs roamed the Earth while the planet was on the other side of the Milky Way.
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Scientists used machine learning to reveal new scientific knowledge hidden in old research papers.
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Like a stingray propelling itself through water with its pectoral fins, this morphing probe would flap its wings during flight, keeping itself aloft at altitudes approaching 50 kilometers (31 miles).
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It will bring online the unconnected billions and provide the considerable resources necessary to fund Mars colonization.
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Here's how much energy you can burn when you put your mind to the test.
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Accumulated stress from the Nepalese earthquake may be adding stress to parts of the underlying fault that haven’t ruptured yet, and the same may be true of faults in Southern California.
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the best way to detect neural fake news is to use a model that is also a generator
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They may look blissful and euphoric, but what's really happening?
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the “new wave” of panpsychism lacks the mystical connotations of previous forms of the view. There is only matter – nothing spiritual or supernatural – but matter can be described from two perspectives.
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Safe Ag Safe Schools (SASS) is a coalition of over 50 organizations and individuals working together to reduce the threat of pesticide exposure in the Monterey Bay area.
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IDA’s mission is to preserve and protect the nighttime environment and our heritage of dark skies through environmentally responsible outdoor lighting.
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Climate Science from Climate Scientists
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Alan shares some of his insights into how we can better collaborate with each other.
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Mary is very proud and excited to announce that her novel, Fruit of the Devil, has been released by Paper Angel Press—October 15, 2019.
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November 5, 2019
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Many critics, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, have accused PG&E of prioritizing profits over safety measures for decades.
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a bipartisan group of legislators proposed the Filter Bubble Transparency Act, a law that would require search engines and platforms to provide an optional unfiltered search and force them to disclose the algorithms they use to rank searches.
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Today, five new research papers in the journal Nature Astronomy describe what scientists observed during and since Voyager 2's historic crossing.
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a recent scientific paper has announced the discovery of a black hole much smaller than thought possible
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Nanoparticle injections could give warriors the power to see in the dark without the bulky goggles worn by today’s troops during nighttime operations
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The process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions to open air.
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a chemical technique which breaks down the bonds that make polyethylene
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Exposing cathodes to light decreases charge time by a factor of two in lithium-ion batteries.
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scientists are having trouble nailing down the Hubble Constant, a number representing the speed at which our universe is expanding.
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A controversial theory that suggests an extraterrestrial body crashing to Earth almost 13,000 years ago caused the extinction of many large animals and a probable population decline in early humans is gaining traction
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It was for a study on how enriched environments can affect stress response.
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Our brains have a remarkable ability to pick out one voice from among many. Now, a team of Columbia University neuroengineers has uncovered the steps that take place in the brain to make this feat possible.
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increased lifespan and health benefits have been achieved for the first time without genetic modification being needed.
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The Transformative Technology Conference sits at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology, tech, entrepreneurship, and innovation. We leverage exponential technologies like AI, AR/VR/XR, networks and sensors, biotech, neurofeedback, and robotics.
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October 29, 2019
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After a record-breaking 780 days circling the Earth, the U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B unmanned space plane dropped out of orbit and landed safely on the same runway that the space shuttle once used.
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Bridenstine said the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) mission would look for ice on or below the surface of the moon at its south pole, a key resource for future human missions.
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Can sperm survive microgravity? Do eggs hold up to radiation? The new science of off-planet procreation is now getting underway.
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Step aside, Ceres. There's a new smallest dwarf planet in town.
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A super telescope has begun the most detailed survey of the Universe ever undertaken.
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NEOCam is a 50-centimeter telescope that will discover and characterize a large fraction of the asteroids and comets in the inner part of the solar system.
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The 2010s started with overheated worlds around a distant star and led us into a new push to live beyond our own world.
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The Plasma Liner Experiment will soon test the potential for a novel plasma fusion concept, while offering insights into the physics of colliding plasma jets.
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Lasers could cut lifespan of nuclear waste from "a million years to 30 minutes," says Nobel laureatePhysicist plans to karate-chop them with super-fast blasts of light.
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Psychologists discover why people participate in scary attractions.
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A young Dutch inventor is widening his effort to clean up floating plastic from the Pacific Ocean by moving into rivers, too, using a new floating device to catch garbage before it reaches the seas.
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The bacterial strain can produce more of the psychoactive compound in "magic mushrooms" than any other organism to date.
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October 22, 2019
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won a second term in national elections, displaying once again a remarkable ability to overcome scandal and controversy to remain in power.
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utility considers cutting power to reduce fire risks expected to escalate later this week.
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Thousands of environmentalists flocked to Marin’s fairgrounds for the four-day environmental conference showcasing the works and ideas of the planet’s staunchest defenders.
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Musk used the network in place with the Starlink satellites already in orbit to send a simple tweet,
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Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir spoke to reporters on Monday, a couple of days after they floated outside the International Space Station for history's first all-female spacewalk.
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"This is a national team for a national priority."
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"We'll be bringing previously impossible missions within reach at attainable prices."
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Google has two great navigation apps, but each has distinct differences, and both are 100% free
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‘One of aerospace’s greatest challenges’
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Dwarfing Tesla's and any electric vehicle will be able to use it, the company says.
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there is an "urgent need" for scientists to develop a framework of criteria that stipulates what 'sentience' is, so that future research using mini-brains and stem cell cultures can be bound by a developed set of ethical rules.
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A white bird that lives on mountains deep in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest has the loudest voice of any bird species recorded so far.
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A less error-prone DNA editing method could correct many more harmful mutations than was previously possible.
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sunlight can break down polystyrene over a much shorter time scale, from decades to centuries.
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New research at Oregon State University suggests that the blue wavelengths produced by light-emitting diodes damage cells in the brain as well as retinas.
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Brain scientists are offering a new reason to control blood sugar levels: It might help lower your risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.
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Start North aims to revolutionize the world of education by offering an innovative and youth based education community to the world.
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The visionary Finnish project of the future of education
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Supercharger Station Reviews
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After a record-breaking 780 days circling the Earth, the U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B unmanned space plane dropped out of orbit and landed safely on the same runway that the space shuttle once used.
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October 15, 2019
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Concerned that downed lines could spark wildfires, electric company PG&E issued planned blackouts. But poor communication left customers in the dark.
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It depends, experts say. Just expect to make a few sacrifices.
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A new gel-like fluid that sticks to vegetation for months on end could be an ingenious new way to stop mother nature from burning.
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Lithium metal batteries could be far more efficient than lithium ion batteries, but they explode easily.
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NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft is in orbit for a first-of-its-kind mission to study a region of space where changes can disrupt communications and satellite orbits, and even increase radiation risks to astronauts.
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Comet Borisov comes from outside our solar system and offers preliminary evidence suggesting that the object isn't very different from the comets that clutter our own solar system.
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Was Venus once covered in a liquid water ocean? A new study suggests it was not, which could diminish hope that eons ago, warm and wet conditions allowed life to arise on the planet.
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A black hole flickering in the Milky Way galaxy has been filmed in unprecedented detail, with a new high frame-rate technique that is helping us understand the wild dynamics of these most enigmatic objects.
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our first all-female spacewalk with @Astro_Christina and @Astro_Jessica will be Thursday or Friday to replace a faulty battery charge-discharge unit," NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said via Twitter.
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a new kind of optical lens that is much thinner and lighter than conventional camera lenses that also works with night imaging
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Airborne bacteria may see what looks like a comfy shag carpet on which to settle. But it's a trap.
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Open Studios is a free self-guided tour, produced by Arts Council Santa Cruz County, that invites the public into more than 300 artist studios across Santa Cruz County.
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October 8, 2019
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Pacific Gas & Electric on Monday announced a potential power shutoff this week for a large area of Northern California, including parts of 29 counties.
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On its latest trek through the Gale Crater on Mars, the Curiosity Rover has discovered evidence that’s leading . scientists to believe that there was an oasis at the base of that 150-kilometer-wide crater.
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Researchers worry that doctored videos may disrupt the 2020 election, but a new report finds that 96 percent of deepfakes are pornographic.
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Could the same technology that is used to unlock people’s smartphones also help unlock the secrets of the universe?
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A proflic baby boomer Youtuber with ideas for a better future.
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While you look for love during the apocalypse in the choose-your-own-adventure show, Tinder hopes to boost engagement among its most prized demographic.
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Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning producer, director and cinematographer whose notable career spans more than three decades providing breathtaking imagery for feature films, television shows, documentaries and commercials.
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October 1, 2019
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NASA said it will order at least six more and a maximum of 12 total spacecraft from Lockheed Martin through 2030 under the Orion Production and Operations Contract.
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Starship is the rocket that Musk hopes will launch people to space as early as next year, and ultimately to the moon and Mars years from now.
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a pair of young scientists from Columbia University have a distinctly sci-fi-esque idea that may actually work and cost far less than a rocket-spaceship system.
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The researchers consider what they describe as an “exciting possibility,” that the strange movements of the objects which orbit the sun beyond Neptune could be explained by the presence of a primordial black hole.
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A key theory that attributes the climate evolution of the earth to the breakdown of Himalayan rocks may not explain the cooling over the past 15 million years, according to a Rutgers-led study.
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Artificial intelligence that can recognize human emotions – emotional AI – has been gaining momentum. How long until we'll be seeing it in our devices and cars?
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An international research team has used nanoparticles to convert carbon dioxide into valuable raw materials.
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Facebook’s VR Horizon platform will launch as a closed beta test in 2020. Here’s everything you need to know about Facebook’s new virtual reality platform.
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Here’s a rundown of everything announced so far at Facebook and Oculus’s two-day developer event, Oculus Connect.
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An amazing update on Disney's City of Tomorrow, from WDW News Today - the worldwide leader in Disney parks news
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September 24, 2019
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Despite the September 7 loss of the lander, India's ambition to take its place among the spacefaring nations endeavouring to exploit the moon's water and mineral riches has not cooled
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researchers hope to dramatically expand the CRISPR-based tools available to biomedical engineers, opening up a new and diverse frontier of genome engineering technologies.
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"Soon, it's going to get to the point where there is no way that we can actually detect [deepfakes] anymore, so we have to look at other types of solutions."
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In a new study, scientists make the case for how ancient Venus could have once supported life alongside oceans of liquid water, until a mysterious resurfacing event took all that away about 700 million years ago.
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The Augmented Landscape is where augmented reality technology enhances how humans experience the landscape.
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Ethnobotanists have a new theory on which plant the berserkers ingested.
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An international team of researchers used magnet particles to turn heat into energy.
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It’s capable of autonomously flying the nailer to the roof of a home, and then automatically securing asphalt shingles
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the latest in a 60-year series of crashes, belly flops and hard landings — some intentional, others unplanned — since a Soviet probe first hit the moon on Sept. 13, 1959.
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Our guest this week, Susanne Aurelie Dion, speaks of her new co-authored book on the Ennegram
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September 17, 2019
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Evidence shows Iran supplied cruise missiles, "loitering munitions" used previously.
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Astronomers have gotten their first glimpse at an interstellar comet — and it might be more similar to comets from our solar system than we had originally thought.
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Images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter should shed some light on the fate of the silent spacecraft.
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In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists.
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People who download iOS 13, the latest iPhone software update, are getting notifications that apps like Facebook are harvesting their data using Bluetooth and other background app activity.
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LUXEMBOURG became a world leader in sat communication technologies in the 1980's, now it has set it’s sights on becoming the ‘silicon valley' of asteroid mining by building a space mining empire capitalising on an industry worth trillions of dollars.
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because mushrooms, rats, and some insects can thrive without sunlight, humans could start farming them with the remains of dead trees after an apocalyptic event.
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research into hypersonic missile technology is promising the capability for missiles to hit their target at such a speed that existing systems controlled by humans could not possibly respond quickly enough.
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Is it possible that this entire multiverse is the result of one species of conscious creatures we intimately know as Homo sapiens?
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Soon, we may understand the language of another species.
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Researchers at Harvard have developed probiotic hydrogels that can be used to heal wounds inside human intestines.
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Save the Redwoods League preserves 530-acre Alder Creek property in Southern Sierra
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Rev. Deborah L. Johnson's ministeries and the latest news
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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, disprove the prevailing theory of how DNA binds itself. It is not, as is generally believed, hydrogen bonds which bind together the two sides of the DNA structure. Instead, water is the key.
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September 10, 2019
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the central engine was not "producing the thrust that is required and, therefore, the deceleration was no longer what it was supposed to be".
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The orbiter, connected with the Indian Deep Space Network – a collection of antennas and relays to support its interplanetary missions – is absolutely packed with top-notch tech.
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Chinese media have reported that the Yutu-2 rover has discovered a “gel-like” substance in a crater on the far side of the moon. It sounds intriguing, but details are still scarce.
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The Von Braun Space Station, based on the concepts of a controversial scientist, is moving ahead with construction plans.
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tiny bacteria capable of transforming plastic into CO2 and water.
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Researchers may have discovered a new mass extinction event, one that happened 2.05 billion years ago and likely killed between 80 percent and 99.5 percent of all of life on Earth.
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Different breeds have slightly different brains from one another, the study found—differences that seem to be linked not just to the shape and size of the breed, but also the specific behaviors they were bred for.
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Modern humans and Neanderthals commingled at many points in history, raising the possibility that the ancient hominins were just another version of us.
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Two real-life hoaxes managed to fool the creator of Sherlock Holmes – and they help to reveal our own 'metacognitive illusions' that influence our memory and perception.
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The iPhone 11 Pro with upgraded photo and video chops debuted. Apple Arcade, Apple's game subscription service, goes live with iOS 13 and a new, more powerful iPad is ready.
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A leading company with funding from Elon Musk, pioneering the brain/computer interface
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Over the next million years, a descendant of the Internet will maintain contact with inhabited planets throughout our galaxy and begin to spread out into the larger universe, linking up countless new or existing civilizations into the 'Universenet.'
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September 3, 2019
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Sunday, September 1 is the 160th anniversary of the Carrington Event - the largest documented solar storm and the beginning of understanding how it affects terrestrial systems
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The Parker Probe is about to explore one of the biggest mysteries of our sun.
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If touchdown is successful, Chandrayaan-2 will be the first lunar mission to explore the south pole.
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The names, which were largely suggested by children, came through a contest run by the Carnegie Institution for Science
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It’s an abstract metal mask that affixes to the front of your face to make you unrecognizable to a camera and its accompanying smart software.
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Pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have been turning to a new app to communicate - one that does not use the internet and is therefore harder for the Chinese authorities to trace.
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a Chinese company’s choosing to build a factory from the ground up in the European Union, rather than buy an existing business.
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Researchers have designed a machine learning algorithm that predicts the outcome of chemical reactions with much higher accuracy than trained chemists and suggests ways to make complex molecules, removing a significant hurdle in drug discovery.
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Does the secret of the famed aviator’s disappearance lie in the underground haunts of the world’s largest land invertebrate?
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August 27, 2019
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The Federal Aviation Administration revised SpaceX's experimental permit for the rocket prototype to fly as high as 150 meters (492 feet) above ground level.
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Scientists have made a major breakthrough in quantum teleportation, successfully transferring something far more complex than ever before.
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Thirty Meter Telescope officials acknowledge that their backup site atop a peak on the Spanish Canary island of La Palma is a comparable observatory location, and that it wouldn’t cost more money or take extra time to build it there.
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new polymers now exist that are rugged enough to ferry packages or sensors into hostile territory and vaporize immediately upon a military mission's completion.
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NASA has officially opened its new supercomputer, Aitken, at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley
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a group of Canadian engineers say they have come up with a method of getting hydrogen directly from oil sands and oil fields, while leaving carbon dioxide and methane in the ground.
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a recent breakthrough in CRISPR technology has paved the way for editing entire gene networks in a single step.
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August 20, 2019
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a small rival of the two tech giants called OneWeb, a 12-year-old internet infrastructure company headquartered in the UK, has been making great strides in the satellite-based internet field.
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France's road dream may be over. Cracks have appeared, and in 2018, part of the road had to be demolished due to damage from wear and tear.
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It won't get close to Earth until 2020.
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The facility’s design language offers visitors the exciting promise of commercial space travel.
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Scientists have long believed that the icy world of Europa could harbour an ocean beneath its outer crust.
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He first floated this idea on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert back in September 2015, saying it would be the most efficient way to warm up Mars and make it more habitable for human life.
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If confirmed, it would be the first neutron star-black hole merger ever detected.
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An official at the People's Bank of China said the country's cryptocurrency is almost ready to be released.
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The question that intrigued the great American quantum physicist John Archibald Wheeler in the last decades of his life was: “Are life and mind irrelevant to the structure of the universe, or are they central to it?”
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Near-death experiences, psychedelics, and meditation provide intriguing clues.
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solid-state batteries would revolutionize electric vehicles (EVs) effectively increasing drivable range or significantly decreasing volume and weight.
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“The causes of the crisis are political, economic, legal and cultural systemic issues but underneath that are issues of human trauma, powerlessness, scarcity and separation. The system resides within us and the psychedelic medicines are opportunities to..
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August 13, 2019
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The Perseid meteor shower peaked last night (8/13) but you'll still be able to spot them streaking across the sky through August 24.
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An expose on Cambridge Analytica that shows how free elections are being influenced and the challenge to morals of the people behind the scenes.
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New study rules out wind erosion as the source of methane gas on Mars and moves a step closer to answering the question of whether life exists on other planets.
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an unprecedented flash from the black hole at the center of our galaxy.
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A new study published this week reveals the first evidence of a direct link between human-induced global warming and melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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An international team led by scientists at Stanford University and the Autonomous University of Barcelona finds reason to hope trees will continue to suck up carbon dioxide at generous rates through at least the end of the century.
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it could be the most expensive construction project in human history — and cost up to an eighth of the value of the entire global economy.
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Wan Gang turned China into an EV powerhouse — now, he wants to do the same for fuel cell-powered vehicles
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It's the latest anomaly in what's been a long, hot summer across the Arctic
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July 30, 2019
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The engineers started the fire engine, allowed the rocket to reach an altitude of 60 feet and guided it back to earth where it landed at a small distance from the initial blast-off point.
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A space capsule carrying a 3D printer to make human tissue and about 5,000 pounds of other experiments and supplies is on its way to the International Space Station
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The lift-off and landing were textbook.
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The lawsuit, filed Thursday in a Los Angeles federal court, suggests Google “arbitrarily and forcibly” deactivated her account for six hours on June 28—prime time for raising money and reaching potential voters.
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Stanford physicists have developed a "quantum microphone" so sensitive that it can measure individual particles of sound, called phonons.
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the Soviet military developed a technology called supercavitation, which involves enveloping a submerged vessel inside an air bubble to avoid problems caused by water drag.
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Apple said Thursday that it will buy Intel's (NASDAQ:INTC) smartphone modem business, which includes several patents and about 2,000 Intel employees, for $1 billion.
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Dr. Tyson will keep his employment at The American Museum of Natural History after an independent investigation was closed by the museum.
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IBM recently developed three artificial intelligence tools that could help medical researchers fight cancer., and has made them open source.
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UC Berkeley researchers just broke another record in photovoltaic efficiency, an achievement that could lead to an ultralight engine that can power drones for days.
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A gathering of global innovators who are changing what’s possible in computer graphics, animation, VR, Gaming, and Emerging Technologies.
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July 23, 2019
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India hopes the $145m (£116m) mission will be the first to land on the Moon's south pole.
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SpaceX hosted its fourth annual SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition finals on Sunday at the test tube it built outside its Hawthorne HQ.
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The Washington Monument looked more like Kennedy Space Center this weekend, when a life-size projection of the Saturn V rocket that carried the first astronauts to the moon lit up the sky-scraping memorial.
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Are you ready for an untethered Starhopper test?
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The companies will work to build new Azure AI supercomputing technologies.
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The system is “more easily deliverable and less likely to result in unwanted cellular immune responses,”
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The new vehicles could be in production in the United States by 2021, but would need FAA approval.
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"It’s like teaching image recognition software with lots of pictures of cats and dogs, but then it’s able to recognize elephants."
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Researchers argue humans did not evolve to be consistently happy but primarily survive and reproduce.
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Apple is reportedly working to release a mixed reality headset in 2020 with 8K displays for each eye and a set of cameras and sensors to track both the environment and the user’s face.
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Our guests other websites are: www.First50Years.us and www.SacredEarthEnterprises.us
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July 16, 2019
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Original footage of Apollo 11 Liftoff!
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Tuesday night, CBS News celebrates the 50th anniversary with a prime-time special, "Man on the Moon," hosted by "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O'Donnell.
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The full moon, in Sagittarius, will pass partway through the southern part of the Earth's shadow resulting in a partial lunar eclipse.
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In just a few decades, we've gone from knowing of no planets beyond the solar system to thousands.
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the Libra Association and Facebook’s Calibra wallet intend to comply will all U.S. tax, anti-money laundering and anti-fraud laws.
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"to offer service to tens of millions of underserved customers around the world" via the network, which the company is developing under the code-name Project Kuiper.
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"What I want to do is show the people of Earth just how beautiful our planet is by taking artists up there, so that they can convey that beauty to the world,"
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thawing ice caps and permafrost are starting to reveal another narrative - one of astonishing biological resilience.
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We chat with the founder father of Wisdom Councils and the process of Dynamic Facilitation
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July 9, 2019
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https://www.newsweek.com/could-california-earthquakes-trigger-volcanic-eruptions-no-imminent-threat-says-usgs-1447896
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The first pictures from The Planetary Society's LightSail 2 mission are on the ground!
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India's space agency is preparing to launch its ambitious Chandrayaan-2 mission next week which is set to land near the currently unexplored south pole of the moon.
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“By embarking on this new chapter, at this advanced point in Virgin Galactic’s development, we can open space to more investors and in doing so, open space to thousands of new astronauts,” Mr. Branson said
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PBS documentary maker Robert Stone pulled together pieces from about 100 archives into a three-part story about the Apollo 11 landing and the historical context in which it took place.
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If Firefly does mount a lunar mission, the company’s lander, called Genesis, will leverage much of the Beresheet design as well as the IAI team’s flight experience.
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The malware downloads a tourist’s text messages, calendar entries, and phone logs, as well as scans the device for over 70,000 different files.
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the casinos use artificial intelligence and facial recognition to spot which customers are about to hand over the most money
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FBI, ICE using state driver's license photos without consent for facial recognition searches: reportThe photos give the agencies a new layer of information on Americans and a new tool to potentially track both criminals and those who have never committed a crime
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"We don't have a lot of earthquakes in our record that show simultaneous slip on two perpendicular faults."
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Four days of possibility, inspiration, and deep transformation in Santa Clara, California. Use the discount code "FUTURE" for $75 off admission cost.
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Unlocking the mechanisms of transformation embedded in wisdom practices, extraordinary experiences, and healing modalities.
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Our moonshot: an application-driven research program to demonstrate practical examples of consciousness affecting our physical world.
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Our research goal: a deeper understanding of the true nature of reality
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July 2, 2019
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Scientists in Hawaii initially spotted the asteroid, named 2019 MO, on Saturday (June 22)
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The restored room is a museum piece, and yet it is alive, as though engineers stepped out briefly but would be right back.
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A visual guide to the total solar eclipse of July 2, 2019.
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California-based startup SpinLaunch, which specializes in a launch system capable of catapulting small payloads into space at hypersonic speeds, just signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense’s Innovation Unit (DIU).
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Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne Division will be the first infantry Army battalion to employ pocket-sized drones at the squad level on their upcoming Afghanistan deployment.
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The Dragonfly mission will involve a small, drone-like rotorcraft lander that will be able to fly in small hops across Titan’s surface, covering more distance during its two-year mission than any planetary rover in history.
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Sunday 30 June marks Asteroid Day – the UN-sanctioned international day to raise awareness of asteroids and accelerate asteroid discovery programmes.
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If anything launches this metals mining space race, it will be this asteroid--Psyche 16, taking up residence between Mars and Jupiter and carrying around enough heavy metals to net every single person on the planet close to a trillion dollars.
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Believe we’re not alone in the universe? Here’s where to go looking for extraterrestrials
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Scientists searching the universe for aliens to conduct survey of the public for views on first contact
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By creating a 'quantum bubble' the craft could achieve 'extreme speeds'
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astronomers remain uncertain over how to classify it, but are confident it is not an alien spaceship.
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The number of Americans who believe in intelligent alien life is now about the same as the number who believe in God
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The technology, known as Jetson, uses laser vibrometry to identify surface movement on the skin caused by a heartbeat, and it works from 200 meters away.
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the team used a scanning tunneling microscope, which consists of an atomically sharp metal tip that allows researchers to image and probe single atoms by scanning the tip across the surface.
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Recent advances in stem cell technology have allowed researchers to construct cerebral tissue from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) in 3D.
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Scientists have created living entities that resemble very primitive human embryos, the most advanced example of these structures yet created in a lab.
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the best way to detect neural fake news is to use a model that is also a generator.
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June 25, 2019
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a recent rise in malicious cyber activity” against American companies and government agencies by Iranian actors.
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most pundits haven’t spent much time in the developing world, which is very clearly the target market here.
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Facebook on Tuesday introduced a comprehensive, borderless economic system for its platform, which is based on a new cryptocurrency, Libra
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An in-jest petition with a political message, calling for Winston Churchill’s London statue to be replaced with a giant anime robot, could’ve ended in oblivion, but thanks to the steamed-up tabloids it’s now globally amplified.
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A biologist with wide-ranging curiosity, Eleanor Lutz moonlights as a data-driven illustrator who transforms public data sets into arrestingly beautiful visual objects.
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Researchers trained a neural network to map audio “voiceprints” from one language to another.
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The Planetary Society will launch LightSail 2, the first spacecraft propelled solely by sunlight, in a mission made possible by crowd-funding
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The launch of cremated remains is facilitated by a company called Celestis Memorial Spaceflights, which purchases available room on spacecraft, installs a container, then packs it with small metal capsules filled with ashes.
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Underneath the salty waters of the North Atlantic ocean, geologists have discovered a giant aquifer of freshwater, hidden from view just off the US coast.
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a team of scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) detailed the first-ever successful use of a technique called BONCAT to isolate active microbes present in a sample of soil
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It'll eventually help maintain spacecraft.
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“People had delayed targeting RNA for a long time because it’s so complex in how it works,”
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An intriguing new theory suggests there was no Big Bang singularity, no starting point and points at the possibility that the universe had no beginning.
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Luminous Computing has developed an optical microchip that runs AI models much faster than other semiconductors while using less power.
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It's a strange and lucky irony that the worst solar storm in recorded history happened at a time when human civilisation wasn't yet uniquely vulnerable to the Sun's inescapable geomagnetic fury.
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A series of huge impacts known as the Late Heavy Bombardment may not have occurred.
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plans for a new decentralized blockchain, a low-volatility cryptocurrency, and a smart contract platform
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June 18, 2019
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The explosion that destroyed a SpaceX astronaut taxi in April “no doubt” delays NASA’s drive to return Americans to the International Space Station from U.S. soil later this year
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Remarkable for both its size and its impact waves, the black-and-blue mark stands out like a sore thumb on the planet's red, dusty surface.
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A strange mark spotted on the surface of Mars has reignited the decades-old rivalry between Star Wars and Star Trek fans.
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a super-glue-like material that is "intrinsically reversible." In other words, it can easily come unglued.
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A green propellant alternative will be tested out in space for the first time.
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The system, created by two California designers, can produce up to 2,000 liters of water a day.
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Over the years, the Google search engine has unsubtly shifted from a product that primarily sends users to other websites to, first and foremost, a place that provides lots of answers on Google.com
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Video: What Apollo-era diapers can teach us about the origins of life.
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Researchers found that transplanting the bacteria of stressed rats into the gut of relaxed rats made them take on stressed and depressive behaviors.
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“The biggest takeaway of the study is that everyone responds differently to food, so to really find out what works best for your body, it’s important to look at the individual level.”
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What was once sci-fi is now ubiquitous research and development in company and university labs around the world.
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The highly realistic manipulated videos are the subject of a recent House Intelligence Committee hearing
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Video: an open hearing on the national security challenges of artificial intelligence (AI), manipulated media, and “deepfake” technology.
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With its high quality and low cost, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.
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June 11, 2019
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Vandenberg Air Force Base has confirmed it will launch a SpaceX rocket for the Canadian Space Agency at 7:17 a.m. Wednesday, and officials are warning residents in surrounding counties that it might make a bit more noise than usual.
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ON FRIDAY MORNING, three senior members of NASA leadership gathered at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York to announce that “the International Space Station is open for commercial business.”
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"Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground,"
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The little chopper is designed to show that aerial exploration is possible on Mars.
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Farmers hope machines can be more precise and efficient than humans
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A viable process for converting the extremely potent greenhouse gas methane into carbon dioxide, which is a much less potent driver of global warming.
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"This is the first time the physiological limits of life on Earth have been considered to predict the distribution of complex life elsewhere in the universe,"
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multiple teachers are complaining that videos uploaded to educate people about Nazi history have been deleted
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Of the greenhouse gases, methane has the third greatest overall effect on climate after carbon dioxide and water vapor.
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What Americans die from, what they search for on Google, and what the media reports on.
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The proposal follows a Chinese scientist who claimed to have created twins from edited embryos last year.
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An impressive demo of airkrete protection - thanks to Master Now
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Frank gives us a regular update on what's happening now in the crazy world of Wildfires
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June 4, 2019
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Clay is a big deal on Mars because it often forms in contact with water. Find clay, and you’ve usually found evidence of water.
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Cultured insect tissue could combine the planet-saving best of insect farming, GM livestock, labriculture and plant-based meat substitutes
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But 414.8 ppm, while the highest monthly CO2 level in recorded history, is not the only number that's critical to appreciate. The other is 3.5 ppm. That, noted Scripps, is the leap in CO2 ppm since last May.
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iOS 13, macOS Catalina, and a new Mac Pro
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A followup on the alien gathering with our contact, Ed Ellsworth
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It's going to be an incredibly important and exciting year for AR/XR, and AWE is at the epicenter of all this.
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Scientists at the Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL) have been “adjusting” historical data regarding tide levels in the Indian Ocean.
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Evidence to suggest massive disconnect between climate scientists and reality in their claims about snow.
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How did an HBO miniseries reignite so much debate about a decades-old disaster?
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May 28, 2019
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Launched together late last week, the chain of satellites looked like a giant, brightly lit train chugging away in the night sky—a rare sight that understandably prompted UFO sightings.
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Elon Musk is vowing to reduce their impact.
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Facebook has been on a hiring spree for the blockchain-centric project and just last week the company hired two former Coinbase executives
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Efforts by shareholders to instruct Amazon to stop selling its facial recognition technology to government customers failed by a wide margin, according to a new corporate filing with regulators.
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The Mars 2020 Pass program offers members of the public the opportunity to submit their name to NASA, which will then be stenciled on chips, and carried to the planet on the Mars 2020 rover.
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Digital streaming services like Netflix are upending of Hollywood's business model. Small screens can do what big screens won't.
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Other local governments are exploring similar prohibitions, so as to deal with the potential Orwellian risks that the technology may harm people’s privacy.
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Six months after Apple moved in, small sellers have all but disappeared from Amazon Marketplace
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a tiny genetic drug fully restored heart function in a pig after an experimental heart attack.
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Training a doctor takes years of grueling work in universities and hospitals. Building a doctor may be as easy as teaching an AI how to read.
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The brain chemical oxytocin appears to make people feel full and reduce overeating. Can it encourage weight loss?
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Imagine your house powered by transparent solar panels that double up as your windows, and the water you bathe in is heated and recycled by a green combi boiler that runs on household waste
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They’re suggesting people could die because we won’t have enough evacuation time
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There is a significant interaction between your environment and your genes, and your diet is one of the most basic and potentially modifiable components of your environment.
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The books focus on chlorine dioxide, which doctors and federal regulators say amounts to industrial bleach and can cause permanent harm.
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All things alien conference and schmooze fest
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May 21, 2019
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This week, SpaceX will again try to loft the first 60 members of its Starlink internet-satellite megaconstellation.
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Still missing? The total cost. And that's probably by design.
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It’s got a new processor, an improved camera, a USB-C port for faster charging, and a variety of other updates.
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the design is cheap and completely open source, meaning anyone can print off the plans and assemble a Doggo of their very own.
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We could mourn the feline and move on to the next weird internet animal. Or we could embrace the latest in genetic technology and clone her — like Barbra Streisand famously did with her dog.
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There's a hole in the Martian atmosphere that opens once every two years, venting the planet's limited water supply into space — and dumping the rest of the water at the planet's poles.
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Google AI researchers successfully trained a deep learning algorithm to detect lung cancer with a 94.4 percent success rate.
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The moon is still tectonically active, according to data from NASA's Apollo and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter missions
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Washington State University researchers have developed an environmentally-friendly, plant-based material that for the first time works better than Styrofoam for insulation.
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plants have regrown, and animal life is even more diverse than before the accident.
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Does one major volcanic eruption generate more climate-altering gas than that produced by humans in their entire history?
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May 14, 2019
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The lander is called Blue Moon, and it’s interesting in that it’s not a single-purpose lander like the Apollo LEM, but appears to be a platform for multiple lunar landing mission types.
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Purdue University researchers have engineered flying robots that behave like hummingbirds, trained by machine learning algorithms based on various techniques the bird uses naturally every day.
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The estimated profit on just the top 10 asteroids judged “most cost effective” — that is, the easiest to reach and to mine, subtracting rocket fuel and other operating costs, is around $1.5 trillion.
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MOST of the solar system must be protected from damaging space mining and industrial exploitation, scientists have warned.
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The Vulcan II printer can print the structural elements in 24 hours. The printer is portable, produces close to zero waste and remains functional in testing scenarios where there may be a lack of power, water, or typical labor infrastructure.
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the findings can teach us more about everything from the evolution of life on the planet to the potential consequences of climate change.
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Scientists from Cornell University have successfully constructed DNA-based machines with incredibly life-like capabilities.
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Washington appears set to become the first state to allow a burial alternative known as "natural organic reduction" — an accelerated decomposition process that turns bodies into soil within weeks.
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A fleet of 100 planes making 4,000 worldwide missions per year could help save the world from climate change.
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With a decent smartphone (i.e., processing power), the direction and distance of the shooter are relayed to the phone and the Soldier within half a second.
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Stanford researchers have devised a way to generate hydrogen fuel using solar power, electrodes and saltwater from San Francisco Bay.
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An all-Princeton research team has identified bacteria that can detect the speed of flowing fluids.
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Check out hundreds of hands-on and interactive exhibits. Glimpse the future and get inspired at Maker Faire!
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May 7, 2019
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The image represents the most comprehensive view of the universe to date, stitching together more than 7,500 Hubble Space Telescope observations taken over 16 years.
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the first ever gravitational wave detection of a black hole devouring a neutron star.
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It would be the first city in the nation to do so, potentially opening a new frontier in state and local efforts to circumvent the federal government’s longtime crackdown on mind-altering substances.
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The surprisingly tame whale was wearing a harness that read "Equipment of St. Petersburg," indicating that it was likely trained by the Russian navy
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Powerful gene-editing tools have the potential to heal—or to harm. Now there’s a race to develop the antidote to the next bioweapon.
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An international team of scientists has demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to generate a measurable amount of electricity in a diode directly from the coldness of the universe.
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films, which are thinner than plastic wrap, conduct heat better than many metals, including steel and ceramic.
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lueprint outlining how San Francisco Bay communities should combat sea-level rise was released early Thursday by ecosystem scientists and urban planners who envision a ring of man-made reefs, rocky beaches and graded marshlands around the largest estuary
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The report lists a number of key global threats, from humans' use of land and sea resources to challenges posed by climate change, pollution and invasive species.
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A 60-metre (200-foot) asteroid called 2019 PDCentered Earth's atmosphere at a shocking speed of 19 kilometres per second (43,000 mph) and impacted over New York's Central Park.
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In a rock shelter known as Cueva del Chileno in the highlands of southwestern Bolivia, archaeologists have discovered a group of artifacts including a fox-snout pouch that revealed evidence of hallucinogenic drug use more than a thousand years ago.
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And they're not the only big company turning to this "fun-gi" packaging.
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TSSE (temperature swing solvent extraction) can desalinate very high-salinity brines, up to seven times the concentration of seawater.
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The company tweeted a photo of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship as a clue.
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If you are curious about the latest news about the Universe, check this site out!
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April 30, 2019
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“This is not about Hollywood, this is not about movies, this is about ultimately protecting the only planet we know right now to host life."
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NASA announced that SpaceX will fly its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) planetary-defense mission.
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The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane has now been circling Earth for more than 600 days on its latest mystery mission.
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The vibrations occur when deep within their cores, stars fuse hydrogen into heavier elements. This process causes hot plasma gases to vibrate, which makes the light from the star flicker.
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The universe "is outpacing all our expectations in its expansion, and that is very puzzling."
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The army said the footprints, measuring 32 by 15 inches, were spotted on April 9 near the base camp of Makalu on the border of Nepal and Tibet, the world's fifth highest peak.
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Notoriously media-shy Swiss businessman and philanthropist Hansjörg Wyss has launched and donated $1 billion to the Wyss Campaign for Nature in a bid to conserve 30 percent of the planet’s land and oceans by 2030.
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NASA just tested an insect-inspired swarm of drones — a host “hive” drone, each carrying 25 little “CICADAS” that detach from its underbelly to fly around and learn about the weather and atmospheric conditions.
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What's the future of 'end of life?' Annelise shares with us her knowledge in making the transition the best one possible.
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April 23, 2019
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The Russians are hacking the global navigation satellite system on a mass scale to confuse thousands of ships and airplanes about where they are
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New nanoscale hydrogen batteries that use water-splitting technology. With these batteries, the researchers aim to deliver a faster charge, longer life, and less wasted energy.
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British firm reported early success with procedure that repairs damaged retina
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SpaceX’s first flight-proven Crew Dragon capsule suffered a catastrophic explosion seconds before a planned SuperDraco test fire.
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Tesla outlined some of their plans for advanced driver assist and eventual autonomy in Tesla cars.
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Despite suffering the loss of the first Falcon Heavy Block 5 center core and a catastrophic failure of the first flight-proven Crew Dragon spacecraft in nearly the same week, SpaceX’s core operations continue
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Companies want to turn satellites into billboards.
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Most of this footage was shot while visiting Paris in September of 2018.
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Want to put a small cheap satellite in low earth orbit? Here's how!
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April 16, 2019
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It landed on its drone ship, but the ocean was too rough to keep it there
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It's 'Pōwehi', and it means "embellished dark source of unending creation", which sounds... pretty spot on.
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The team behind the nation's Beresheet probe, which crashed during its historic lunar-landing attempt Thursday (April 11), will take another crack at Earth's nearest neighbor.
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The high-resolution photos could prove a boon for reconstructing sites destroyed by development and war in recent decades.
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Transmit your sound recording from Mars to the Earth. In 2021, the first European planetary rover of the ExoMars mission will land on Mars. Its landing platform will host an onboard memory device.
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A team of Tel Aviv University researchers revealed the heart, which was made using a patient’s own cells and biological materials.
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8 Regulatory approval comes after an 18 month trial and 3,000 deliveries
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EMERGING TECH Self-driving spacecraft could protect Earth from asteroid impacts In case Earth is ever threatened by an asteroid, we should have a new protector to look out for us — Hera, a self-driving spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency
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we've focused on finding NEOs when they are further away from Earth, providing the maximum amount of time and opening up a wider range of mitigation possibilities
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He has surfed the most difficult waves of the world: "Pipeline" in Hawaii, "Mavericks" in California, "Shipstern Bluff" in Tasmania, "Ours" in Australia, "Puerto Escondido" in Mexico
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NASA study shows what was Greenland's largest glacier by volume of loss, is now recovering.
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there is much controversy regarding whether a cosmic explosion, or something else, caused a more recent mass extinction — the one that wiped out most of the large mammals in North America as well as the so-called Clovis people about 12,900 years ago.
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The coast stretching from southern New Jersey to northern Florida was littered with thousands of strange elliptical depressions like craters on the Moon.
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April 9, 2019
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If Beresheet succeeds, Israel will join an exclusive moon-landing club.
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The Hayabusa2 spacecraft detonated the copper explosive, also known as the Small Carry-on Inspector (SCI), on the Ryugu asteroid on Friday.
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The Northern Lights were forecast to be weak over Norway Friday night, but two rockets launched by NASA created a much bigger show for hundreds of miles.
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a collaborative international team has unveiled a new CRISPR-based tool that acts more like a shredder, able to wipe out long stretches of DNA in human cells with programmable targeting.
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May 2019 for the first batch of operational Starlink satellites in a sign that the proposed internet satellite constellation has reached a major milestone, effectively transitioning from pure research and development to serious manufacturing.
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The focus of Integrative Medicine is to nurture and direct the person's vitality rather than to attack a particular disease.
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April 2, 2019
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NASA says India has threatened the International Space Station and the astronauts on board by shooting down a satellite with a missile.
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it actually bolsters the case for dark matter's existence.
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Mars emits methane, a European orbiter has confirmed. But scientists can’t say yet whether the source is geological or biological.
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Some of the pretty pebbles look like peas.
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NASA suspects it could harbor an ocean — and maybe even life.
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For the first time ever, scientists were able to chronicle the formation of one of Neptune's enormous "Great Dark Spot" storms over several years.
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customers and even employees had not been able to tell the difference between the old meaty Whopper and the new one.
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An extremely rare insensitivity to pain is caused by a mutation in a gene previously thought to be useless in the body
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The hypothesis holds that they can see us, but we can't see them.
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Rizwan (Riz) Virk is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, bestselling author, and indie film producer.
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March 26, 2019
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The star of the show and the cause of much derision online is Apple TV+, Apple's new original content offering with heavy hitters Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey
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A trove of rare moon rocks, preserved untouched for nearly half a century, will be unsealed by Bay Area scientists this summer
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A flying drone created a 3D map of an Icelandic cave that had been carved out by flowing lava in a matter of minutes, using LIDAR technology.
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several leading scientists have called for a global moratorium on heritable genome editing.
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there could be a role for geoengineering to play in saving us from a climate catastrophe
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Google has also created a website for Devon Island, noting that the "polar-desert climate and barren, rocky terrain" are perfect for researchers who come here every summer in an effort to prepare for future explorations to the Red Planet.
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dogs can smell your emotional state, and adopt your emotions as their own.
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The United States is aiming to put humans on the moon by 2024, four years ahead of NASA’s current timeline, Vice President Mike Pence announced Tuesday.
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March 19, 2019
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Google is launching its Stadia cloud gaming service at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco.
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The Jetson Nano is the latest example of cheap edge computing for AI
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the budget represents around a 6-percent increase over the amount requested last year.
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At five Earth masses, Planet Nine is likely to be very reminiscent of a typical extrasolar super-Earth.
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A fast moving star was ejected from the comparatively calm galactic disk, a discovery that has astronomers rethinking this whole star ejection phenomenon.
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Artificial light has been linked to health problems, and it makes life difficult for astronomers.
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NASA has released the final image captured by Opportunity, and it’s a stunning panorama of the Martian surface.
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Borrowing energy from black holes would offer a highly efficient way to navigate our galaxy, an astronomer says.
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New experimental evidence published today in the science journal eNeuro suggests the human brain is capable of responding to the Earth’s magnetic field, though at an unconscious level.
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the first brain implant system that lets patients use their thoughts to navigate an off-the-shelf Android tablet.
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The Northern Star Team is researching the Future of Education, currently on a tour of California.
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March 12, 2019
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SpaceX has successfully completed a round-trip from America to the International Space Station with its craft landing in the Atlantic Ocean
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SpaceX has a new all-star crew member, though it's anything but human: It's a $US20 plush-toy planet that astronauts call "Little Earth" or "Earthy".
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a budget request to Congress that calls for deep spending cuts at many federal science agencies, including a 13% cut for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a 12% cut for the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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China has created a purpose-built facility in the country's arid desert to mimic the landscape and living conditions on Mars - and it's opening it up to tourists.
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An extreme form of solar storm, known as a solar proton event (SPE), struck our planet 2,679 years ago
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“If that solar storm had occurred today, it could have had severe effects on our high-tech society,” says Raimund Muscheler, professor of geology at Lund University, Sweden.
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a new study suggests there could be an additional 50 billion rogue planets, not orbiting any stars.
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Jim Bridenstine was a guest on the science and technology radio show "Science Friday," when he teased that a woman is "likely to be" the first person on Mars.
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On this day 30 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal with the dreary title “Information Management” to his superior at the European physics laboratory CERN.
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time is part of the uniform larger fabric of the universe, not something moving around inside it.
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Technique Prevents Transplant Rejection in the Lab, a Major Advance for Stem Cell Therapies
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Abovitz said his company is working with partners to build the Magicverse, which is his vision for a positive version of The Matrix, the Metaverse, the Oasis, and many other science fiction utopias and dystopias that depict the future of cyberspace.
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startups around the world, generously backed by VC funding, are competing to hit the market with the Holy Grail of the food industry: meat produced without slaughtering animals.
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Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism are now in the same category as nuclear weapons, mustard gas, and weaponized biological agents.
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Tony and Celia Becker are our guests and run AmeriCeltic.
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March 5, 2019
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This docking maneuver is something the capsule will have to do routinely in the future, when it starts transporting astronauts to and from the ISS.
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The first Israeli mission to the moon carried a secret cargo, a small metal disk that contains the building blocks of human civilization in 30 million pages of information
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Kosmos 482, which carries a lander designed to survive the corrosive atmosphere and metal-melting temperatures of Venus, is made from sterner stuff than most space junk
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The Model Y will share about 75 percent of its parts with the Model 3
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the new PVC helmets are lightweight and UV resistant, which makes them more comfortable than the traditional steel version–which could heat up during the hot Roman summers and burn the guards.
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The volcano hypothesis has been gaining traction, and many investigators now think both events may have contributed to the cataclysm approximately 66 million years ago.
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The program can automatically identify, process, and sort rat and mouse squeaks. It might seem whimsical, but knowing what rodents are squeaking about could be extremely valuable
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bees can do the kind of fundamental mathematics once thought to distinguish humans and the primate animals
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By injecting specially designed nanoparticles directly into the eyes of the mice, the animals exhibited the ability to see near infrared light.
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John expounds on a few key concepts while on a nature walk with us and a few eco friends, including organic grower Larry Kandarian at Pogonip.
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February 26, 2019
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Unity accelerated to about three times the speed of sound and reached an altitude of 55.87 miles, or 89.9 kilometers
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The Genesis spacecraft restarted on its own, cancelling a maneuver that would have advanced its course towards the moon
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All systems are go for the planned March 2 launch of the Crew Dragon capsule on its first test flight to the International Space Station (ISS)
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Space tourism venture Virgin Galactic laid off around 40 employees earlier this month, as the company prepares to transition from its test program to commercial flights with paying customers.
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Designed to get work done
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roasted by the heat of a space capsule reentering the Earth’s atmosphere from orbit.
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it shot a tantalum bullet at a velocity of 300 metres per second (984 feet per second) into the surface of the asteroid. This impact kicked up material that - hopefully - made its way into Hayabusa2's waiting collection canister.
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“Humanity cannot afford to ignore such clear signals,” the U.S.-led team wrote in the journal Nature Climate Change of satellite measurements of rising temperatures over the past 40 years.
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scientists have developed a new method to turn CO2 gas back into solid coal, that can then be buried, or even used for electronic components.
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February 19, 2019
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February's full moon will brighten the skies on Tuesday as the biggest and brightest supermoon of the year.
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It's the first flight for SpaceShipTwo Unity since it reached space in December.
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The Beresheet ship will be hitching a ride with the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this Thursday.
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the upper atmosphere of Venus is the most Earth-like location in the solar system. Between altitudes of 50km and 60km, the pressure and temperature can be compared to regions of the Earth’s lower atmosphere.
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The research explains how a third ancient human ancestor bred with humans to produce the modern human genome.
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Hit refresh to lock eyes with another imaginary stranger
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The news suggested a potential breakthrough in efforts to develop computer-generated text which may be believable, but also potentially dangerous.
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A service to mess with telemarketers bugging you
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We've all heard it, but does it have any basis in reality? Bruce tells the story..
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With technology being a game-changer in medical research, Dr. Peter Diamandis discusses how healthcare technologies can extend the human health span.
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Compelling evidence that the condition is caused by a bacterium involved in gum disease could prove a game-changer in tackling one of medicine’s biggest mysteries, and lead to effective treatments or even a vaccine.
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University of Maryland researchers have created a fabric that can automatically regulate the amount of heat that passes through it.
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Alosha Lynov, founder of the BioVeda Academy and Paul Richardson travel the globe sharing ancient wisdom on on how to practically design and build economically flourishing intentional cooperative eco communities.
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Example of new materials that make buildings fireproof.
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Machine-learning techniques used by thousands of scientists to analyse data are producing results that are misleading and often completely wrong.
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A flying two seater drone designed by Jet Capsule
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February 12, 2019
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New research suggests that a controversial gene-editing experiment to make children resistant to HIV may also have enhanced their ability to learn and form memories.
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A test fire of SpaceX's newest engine reached the power level necessary for the company's next round of rocket designs
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Elon Musk announced Thursday he had released all of the electric carmaker Tesla's patents, as part of an effort to fight climate change.
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New research finds that at the edges of the galaxy, where the pull of gravity weakens, the shape of the Milky Way warps. Instead of lying in a flat plane, the galaxy takes on a bit of a twisted "S" shape.
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The bizarre shape of Ultima Thule – which was once described as being like a snowman, but has been confirmed to be more like two pancakes – could prompt scientists to reconsider our understanding of how planets form
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the spin of the asteroid would create enough gravity for mining equipment to be effectively used, giving us a way to tap into the rich minerals and deposits inside these celestial rocks.
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Images from Hubble space telescope reveal unusual weather patterns on giant gas planets
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In the study of nearly 7,000 men and women, ages 50 to 89, quality of life was higher in those who reported any kind of sexual activity in the past year, such as kissing
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an artificial intelligence has shown it can quickly find new, legal ways to cook up such drugs.
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Agricultural pesticides, pollution and climate change wiping out species at 'alarming' rate, according to global scientific review
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Researchers at Newcastle University have shown that clearing out senescent cardiac muscle cells from the hearts of aged mice restores heart health.
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February 5, 2019
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The Earth's magnetic field has been so active so active that researchers had to release a crucial update to a computer model that allows maps and other navigation software to correctly point North.
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Variations in the liquid flow cause the magnetic field to change over time and cause the location of magnetic north to move.
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A Huntsville, Alabama facility will produce engines for its New Glenn two-stage, partially reusable launch system, as well as the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur
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years of development, multiple prototypes constructed, and more than 1200 seconds of cumulative static fire testing at durations longer than what is needed to land on Mars, SpaceX propulsion engineers and technicians have successfully built and fired Rap
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This figure was hard to calculate: The gas giant has no solid surface so there are no landmarks to track as the planet rotates. And a magnetic field makes the rate of rotation hard to see. What to do?
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WORMHOLE travel through time and space would be the most efficient way to traverse the universe, according to TV physicist Brian Cox, who believes there is a theoretical possibility of this becoming reality.
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Laser pulses became large objects that acted like the simultaneously dead-and-alive creatures of subatomic physics — existing in a limbo between two simultaneous, contradictory states.
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Researchers find that magic mushrooms can keep people from developing authoritarian views and more connected to nature.
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Some version of this fantastical claim has been dropped into the news cycle with the regularity of a super blood wolf moon for the better part of a century.
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Hipster scientist Ralph Abraham started this project so that we may remember what magic has happened in our own back yard.
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January 29, 2019
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A private company has set off a revolution in space by launching hundreds of small satellites, enough to photograph the entire landmass of the Earth every day
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rats eat both the eggs and hatchlings of birds, as well as reptiles like iguanas
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a Californian Institute called Revive & Restore, is aiming to bring back the species and re-introduce it into its natural habitat—with the help of common pigeons and the power of CRISPR.
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Virtual live improv theater? Karaoke with digital puppets? Synesthetic VR food fests? The tech-driven show lets artists test their limits.
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Chinese authorities revealed the results of their investigation to the news agency Xinhua — and, if their claims are reliable, it seems He’s research was even more unethical than originally thought.
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This week's stories affecting the future of transportation
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Tiny robots modeled after bacteria could be used to deliver drugs to hard to reach areas of the human body.
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Using brain-scanning technology, artificial intelligence, and speech synthesizers, scientists have converted brain patterns into intelligible verbal speech—an advance that could eventually give voice to those without.
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January 22, 2019
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this marks the first time a lunar impact was captured during a lunar eclipse
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here are some incredible pictures of the phenomenon from across the Bay Area.
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StartRocket wants to use Cubesats to plaster the night sky with ads that could be floating around as soon as 2021.
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The satellite is to release tiny balls that glow brightly as they hurtle through the atmosphere, simulating a meteor shower.
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the Starship that SpaceX has just built down in Texas is a prototype built "for suborbital [vertical take-off and landing] tests" to prove that the world's biggest-ever spaceship can both launch from and land back on Earth
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In what is being called a “surprise discovery,” scientists in Antarctica have found preserved carcasses of tiny, ancient animals that have lain undisturbed for thousands of years in a lake buried under more than 3,500 feet of ice.
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sea levels are poised to rise more quickly than predicted in coming decades.
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"DART would be NASA's first mission to demonstrate what's known as the kinetic impactor technique — striking the asteroid to shift its orbit — to defend against a potential future asteroid impact,"
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GUIDE DOGS RESPOND BETTER THAN SOME HUMANS TO AUTONOMOUS ROBOTS
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"He's just like a dog, "He wants to be loved and petted." That is if your dog had leathery skin and mouth lined with razor-sharp teeth.
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With only six minutes hovering over a grid for a full charge, an electric industrial class drone can repeat the cycle of charging and flying until its battery is drained without ever having to land or connect to a cable using this technology.
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Using data from ESA's Gaia satellite, Brazilian astronomers have detected three new open clusters in the Milky Way. Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-clusters-milky.html#jCp
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Scientists have managed to grow perfect human blood vessels as organoids in a petri dish for the first time.
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It sounds like something out of a vampire movie but tranfusing blood from young people to help turn back the clock for older patients is a real deal.
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New research suggests that stools from so-called "super donors" have such rich microbial diversity that using them for fecal transplants could cure conditions ranging from inflammatory bowel disease to Alzheimer's and multiple sclerosis.
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January 15, 2018
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seeds carried by the lunar lander have sprouted, marking the first instance of biological matter growing on the moon.
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China's bold moon-exploration plans don't stop with the pioneering Chang'e 4 mission, which made the first-ever soft landing on the lunar far side on Jan. 2.
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If you own multiple dogs and/or cats, then you may be familiar with the problem of one animal "stealing" food from another's bowl.
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CES 2019 was jam-packed with announcements from the likes of Samsung, LG, Sony, and Vizio, many of which shared a theme: support for the Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa.
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Scientists have combined two membrane-bound protein complexes to perform a complete conversion of water molecules to hydrogen and oxygen.
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Over three days, the Cow produced a sudden explosion of light at least 10 times brighter than a typical supernova, and then it faded over the next few months
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"This is an invention that completely changes the costs of space exploration, astronomy, aerial photography, and more,"
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a new robot is poised to help create a reliable, long-term supply chain of plutonium-238 (Pu-238): a radioactive material NASA requires to explore deep space.
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Every year, for just a few days in a major city, a small team of roboticists get to live the dream: ordering around their own personal robot butlers.
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It would destroy an extraordinary web of biodiversity that evolved over millions of years
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Rapid shifts in the Earth’s north magnetic pole are forcing researchers to make an unprecedented early update to a model that helps navigation by ships, planes and submarines in the Arctic
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The PRP builds on the optical backbone of Pacific Wave, a joint project of CENIC and the Pacific Northwest GigaPOP (PNWGP) to create a seamless research platform that encourages collaboration on a broad range of data-intensive fields and projects.
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January 08, 2019
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The lunar far side now has its first set of rover tracks.
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Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active world in our solar system. The Juno spacecraft – now orbiting Jupiter – has now gazed across a distance to acquire new images and insights about the “fires of Io.”
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A spooky new series of photos of the asteroid Bennu show the diamond-shaped space rock approaching the camera and receding into the distance during a trio of flybys by a NASA spacecraft.
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If Alexa hears something after you've put her into Guard mode -- a smoke alarm ringing or the sound of shattering glass, for instance -- she'll send you a notification.
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Sixty companies will exhibit in the show's AI section this year, but the technology will make an appearance in products from almost every category.
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you'll be able to use the 'Alexa' wake-word and ask the smart assistant all the same questions and commands as you can at home with Amazon's Echo speakers, as well as asking for car-specific functions such as setting up navigation.
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Orcas are capable of one of the core building blocks of language development in humans: vocal learning, the ability to copy novel sounds.
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a new type of transistor — one based on excitons, a special type of quasiparticle — which could be used in the future to make electronic devices smaller, faster, and more efficient.
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Drilling 2.5 kilometers into the seafloor, and sampling microbes from continental mines and boreholes more than 5 km deep, scientists have used the results to construct models of the ecosystem deep within the planet.
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A water spout formed off the Santa Cruz coast during Saturday's storm, according to the National Weather Service.
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The 20-qubit system combines into a single package the quantum and classical computing parts it takes to use a machine like this for research and business applications.
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December 18, 2018
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It's Rocket Lab's third orbital flight for the year.
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SpaceX, Arianespace, and United Launch Alliance all are on the docket.
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ON TUESDAY, DEC. 18, Blue Origin is planning to launch its New Shepard rocket on its tenth mission from the company's Corn Ranch landing pad in West Texas.
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MIT researchers can take any simple structure and reduce it to one 1,000th of its original size.
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The African grey interacts with the virtual assistant up to 40 times a day, asking it to tell him jokes and play his favorite music.
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Forbes reporter Thomas Brewster commissioned a 3D printed model of his own head to test the face unlocking systems on a range of phones — four Android models and an iPhone X.
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This year taught us more about distant planets and our own world, about the ways we’re influencing our environment and the ways we’re changing ourselves.
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From Astronauts Jim Lovell and Frank Borman and Jim Anders, each man on board read a section from the Biblical creation story from the Book of Genesis.
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Moscow and Beijing have reportedly joined forces to carry out heating experiments above Europe and modify an important layer of the atmosphere for a possible military application, according to Chinese scientists.
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The trio of Apollo 8 astronauts were the first people to look back at Earth in all its glory from space, when they snapped the now-iconic "Earthrise" photo of a gleaming terrestrial orb hanging over the moon's gray-scale surface.
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A debut biography/memoir tells the story of Silicon Valley outlaw Captain Crunch.
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If you are interested in understanding the mind of the only Atomic-age internet (anti)hero, you could do worse than to imbibe the tall tale of Captain Crunch.
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Here is where you can get a signed copy and various swag of the Crunchman's "Beyond the Little Blue Box."
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December 11, 2018
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Chang’e-4 includes two main parts: the main lander weighing about 2,400 pounds and a 300-pound rover.
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Oppy's handlers haven't given up yet on the golf-cart-size robot, which touched down on Mars in January 2004.
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A spacecraft that touched down on Mars ten days ago to conduct experiments and measure 'marsquakes' has recorded the first ever sounds of Martian winds.
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It left the heliosphere on November 5th.
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The main goal of the $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission involves snagging a sizeable sample of asteroid material and returning it to Earth in 2023.
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Bennu is a chip off the watery block
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fluoride batteries are capable of being 10 times more energy dense than lithium batteries
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This non-toxic fungus-based insecticide kills over 200,000 pesky insects without harming bees
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Ride-hail was and continues to be a gamechanger, but how will its own game change now that other forms of mobility-as-a-service are also swipe-able, scalable and ever cheaper?
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December 4, 2018
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Both halves of the protective payload fairing surrounding the 64 small satellites that were lofted Monday (Dec. 3) by a twice-flown SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket evaded the company's speedy, net-equipped boat, Mr. Steven.
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During the lander's first full day on Mars, it generated more electrical power from the planet's surface than any other vehicle before it.
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NASA's first asteroid-sampling mission has arrived at its destination, but it still has a lot of prep work ahead before the spacecraft can bite into the space rock.
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The San Francisco-based company said families paid about $2,500 to have a sample of their loved ones' ashes placed aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
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The alleged creation of the world's first gene-edited infants was full of technical errors and ethical blunders. Here are the 15 most damning details.
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Any medium-sized Invitro Fertilization (IVF) clinic could utilize a CRISPR vector that can be purchased for $100 to replicate the embryo gene edit.
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New experiments — and successes — involving genetic manipulation of human embryos have been happening around the world.
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Most efforts so far have focused on forecasting where and when crime will happen, but now British police want to predict who will perpetrate it.
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Samsung and Verizon (VZ) jointly announced Monday the companies would sell a 5G smartphone in the first half of 2019.
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Meat could soon be raised in Petri dishes instead of on farms. In a meeting missed by the media earlier this month, the FDA and USDA discussed what to call it.
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spray 'sun-dimming' chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere.
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Six autonomous trucks will transport limestone the five-kilometer (three-mile) route through tunnels between a mine owned by local firm Brønnøy Kalk AS and a processing facility at a nearby port.
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The court said it acknowledged "a trend in society for people to feel fit and healthy for longer, but did not regard that as a valid argument for amending a person's date of birth."
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It’s a simple driving simulator but could be the beginning of a revolution in video game graphics
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A team of historians and scientists has identified A.D. 536 as the beginning of a terrible sequence of events for humankind.
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Neanderthal DNA in the human genome wasn’t the result of a single encounter.
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In a cautionary film, director Maxim Pozdorovkin lays out the many ways that automation could affect us in the long term from labor to sex to psychology
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Lasers have long been considered potential solutions for beaming electricity straight to drones, by focusing their light on photovoltaic cells affixed to the small aircraft
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Folks dedicated to helping the animals displaced by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California as discussed on today's show with Dr. Duncan McCollum.
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November 27, 2018
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The lander will begin probing the Red Planet's interior in unprecedented detail
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A Chinese scientist claims the twins have been born healthy after coming into the world with edited DNA.
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A woman in China has given birth to two genetically edited baby girls, according to the Associated Press news agency. The aim of the experiment was to create children who are immune to HIV
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The latest from Elon on Tesla, AI, and Mars!
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The black hole at the centre of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, has been visualised in virtual reality for the first time.
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The app Orcasound lets users listen to sounds picked up by hydrophones, underwater microphones, used to locate whales. Users become engaged citizen scientists, reporting whenever they hear something.
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A new study now published in the journal Scientific Reports has identified three new subtypes of depression. The findings help explain why some types of depression do not respond well to medication.
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The ISS takes just 90 minutes to complete one full orbit around Earth, and the timelapse video depicts two full passes.
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The adorable Australia marsupials' scat is square for a very logical reason, and it's not for building walls.
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In the name of science, six healthcare professionals volunteered to swallow a Lego head and spend the next few days sifting through their bowel movements to retrieve the evidence.
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Team will collect samples in the Antarctic to prove role of mammal in function of the oceans
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November 20, 2018
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A Wildfire Tracker, Frank shares with us the latest info on the big California Wildfires.
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The Bay Area is currently vulnerable to a possible fire that could spread into residential areas because of low humidity, dry vegetation and light winds
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Something’s gone awry in California. Fires aren’t supposed to destroy entire cities—at least not since San Francisco burned in 1906.
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The 28-mile- (45-kilometer) wide Jezero Crater was selected as the destination for the mission, which is scheduled to launch in 2020, because of its potential for scientific research.
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That’s approximately the time InSight takes to land, a spooky 70-mile descent from the top of the atmosphere down to the ground.
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Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California have found new information about the size and reflectivity of `Oumuamua, the first interstellar object discovered within our solar system last year.
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There has been a lot to process, so here's our best attempt to make sense of what Musk has said and what it may really mean.
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Launch provider Virgin Orbit, the spinoff of Richard Branson’s space tourism venture Virgin Galactic, put its new rocket in the air for the first time this weekend
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Plus there are two companies who have breakthrough technology for higher resolution brain interfaces. The two companies are Elon Musk’s Neuralink and Mary Lou Jepsen’s Openwater red light scanner.
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As synthetic media spreads, even real images will invite skepticism.
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the Chinese EAST reactor relies on the magnetic fields produced by the moving plasma itself to keep the torus in check.
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November 13, 2018
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an application called Augmented Eternity; it lets you create a digital persona that can interact with people on your behalf after you’re dead.
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Xinhua said the generated anchors could work "24 hours a day" on its website and various social-media platforms, "reducing news production costs and improving efficiency."
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Improving the technology behind toilets is one of Gates' self-confessed obsessions.
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A mineral-rich site is the most likely destination for the robot.
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Sadly Stan Lee has passed from this world. In this interview outtake he explains where the X-Men come from.
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Scientists have discovered that hosts starve their microbial denizens of nutrients, essentially enslaving the microbes in their gut so that they are forced to do our bidding.
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The new ALPHA-g detector, built at Canada's TRIUMF facility and shipped to CERN earlier this year, should improve the limits on the gravitational acceleration of antimatter down to the critical threshold.
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This 'human hibernation' would cut the need for food and water supplies and could even protect those on board from dangerous space radiation.
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A photograph captured by NASA's Opportunity rover has been transformed into a 2-minute musical composition by U.K. scientists.
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A reliable backup to satellite-based navigation systems
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The researchers behind the upcoming ExoMars mission, consisting of a rover and lander, have now announced their preferred location on the Red Planet.
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scales on moth wings vibrate and can absorb the sound frequencies used by bats for echolocation (biological sonar). The finding could help researchers develop bioinspired thin and lightweight resonant sound absorbers.
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A Wildfire Tracker, Frank shares with us the latest info on the big California Wildfires.
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Very accurate information on major fire incidents in California
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Portrays up-to-date satellite tracking of wild fires, especially their perimeters
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An aggregation of fire info including lots of maps
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Check your area for air quality, with a measure of the number of particulates in the air.
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Become aware of what is happening right now with your local fire department
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November 6, 2018
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A mysterious cigar-shaped object spotted tumbling through our solar system last year may have been an alien spacecraft sent to investigate Earth, astronomers from Harvard University have suggested.
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If you only pick out the ones that are getting toward the end of their life then you can make a story, but if you look at the entire portfolio of spacecraft, I don't think we have a problem at all, I think we are in a golden age of NASA science
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After 11 years in space and a journey of 4.3 billion miles, the craft has run out of fuel and has now gone silent.
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We finally know that planets are everywhere out there and now, we're going to go and find out more about them.
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Not hearing anything has been unsettling for the scientists and engineers working on Opportunity.
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SpaceX’s Starman and cherry red Tesla Roadster have traveled beyond Mars.
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The Tokomak reactor hit 15 million°C (59 million°F) at a facility in Oxfordshire as part of preparations to supply the UK grid with fusion power by 2030
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The next large-scale spawning of the coral is planned for late November, and with the help of LarvalBot, the coral larvae should be able to spread up to 100 times faster than they could alone.
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a new digital smell research team in Malaysia has developed a device that can send a small electric charge to your brain through your nose and trigger the sensation of smell.
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New drone technology that could allow fleets of the unmanned vehicles to navigate without GPS, developed by MIT and NASA, could help find hikers lost in the wilderness and one day could be used to make their way over the surface of the moon and Mars
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The scientists who created the FlyCroTug said that its design was inspired by examples from nature.
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It has already come to the table with a pair of concept bikes, one foldable and one compact, but GM doesn’t have a name for the brand yet.
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The method devised by Second World War codebreaker Alan Turing to crack Enigma could be used to detect cancer earlier
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An idea imported from Australia, they helped enable the “secret” part of secret ballots.
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Democrats, who have been spying on Trump and his supporters through the Eye of Providence atop the pyramid on the $1 bill, will, if they win the House, drink the blood of all Trump supporters’ children before sending them to the Planet Nibiru,
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October 30, 2018
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Apple has unveiled what’s expected to be the last of its hardware refreshes this year with the introduction of a new iPad Pro, MacBook Air, and Mac mini.
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It now holds the record for the closest approach to the Sun by a human-built object—and also the record for the fastest spacecraft ever sent into space.
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The solar-powered spacecraft will barrel into the Martian atmosphere at 14,100 mph (22,700 km/h), then deploy a big parachute to slow its descent.
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Nvidia and Scripps Research Translational Institute (SRTI), a nonprofit research body, are teaming up to develop genomics processing and analysis tools guided by artificial intelligence (AI).
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the trials will inaugurate a new era of "genome surgery"—the precision targeting of genetic defects in the genome, using CRISPR-Cas9 customized to individual patients.
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A household cure for declines in the bee population, from Paul Stamets, owner of a mushroom mercantile, who realized mushrooms may hold an antiviral power for the insects, could be in wide use by next year, giving hope in a struggle to save the vital spec
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It's a double duty win for renewable energy.
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In villages and wayside places there lived women, often midwives, who inherited their mother's knowledge of the healing plants, their use, preparation and dosages. These women are the unknown heroes of modern medicine.
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Using his finely honed techniques of dynamic facilitation, Jim is going to help resolve a very important local issue, how to proceed with our 32-mile railroad corridor in Santa Cruz.
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October 23, 2018
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The two-mile test tunnel underneath SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, is a proof of concept for an underground public transportation system, which aims to transport passengers and vehicles beneath congested roadways
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The BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), which is currently on an ambitious mission to the best planet with a payload of two orbiters, has sent us its first image from space.
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The mission team just needs to run a few more tests to make sure everything's fixed.
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With a tight budget and even tighter timeline, NASA is looking for companies that want a piece of the lunar pie to produce their own hardware that NASA can then send to the Moon and share in any discoveries made.
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His thoughts on gene editing, AI and God are evaluated by other scientists
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Similar to the real moon, the artificial one will have a reflective coating that deflects sunlight to the Earth — only it will shine eight times brighter than the real moon, scientists say, according to China Daily.
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researchers announced they have detected microplastics in stool samples from every single one of a small group of international test subjects.
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Hydrogen is the smallest molecule in the universe, which is why its bioavailability is so great. It’s also neutral, so it can easily penetrate any membrane space in your body
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If H2O is so good for you, then boosting the hydrogen content should make it even healthier—right?
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Developed by IBM Research, the algorithms that created this image were divided into three parts that together approximated a creative process.
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Researchers from Australian National University (ANU) think they’ve determined that the Earth’s core is most likely solid but a little squishy.
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Career opportunities are at the new frontier of genomic medicine.
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The simulator — the centrepiece of the facility — is testing a theory that suggests life on Earth began in warm little ponds after meteorites splashed into them about four billion years ago.
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A Chinese vape company, HelloCig Electronic Technology Co, made vape liquid which included the erection drugs Cialis and Viagra – and could now face stiff penalties in America.
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Dogs were part of a key moment in human history - when our ancestors began trying their hand at farming.
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Dr. Damer delves into new territory beyond Science in this presentation
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October 16, 2018
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Paul G. Allen, who founded Microsoft with Bill Gates before making his mark in technology investing, sports ownership, commercial space, global philanthropy, the environment, museums and the arts, has died at the age of 65
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It can capture light in slow motion
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We sit at the intersection between neuroscience, psychology, technology, and entrepreneurship.
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If you want to launch a satellite, you’ve got paperwork to fill out
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The back of the phone vibrates with each and every beat of whatever music you’re playing. Even during dialog in a video, you can still feel the back of the phone vibrate constantly.
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This visualization highlights exactly how big the U.S. economy is compared to the every other country in the world.
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“We are compelled by our mission [to] provide information to everyone, and [China is] 20 percent of the world's population.”
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It’s been months since NASA engineers have heard from the sleeping Opportunity rover, which powered down after getting caught in a massive dust storm on Mars that obscured its surface from the Sun.
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A new technique can link the patchy, limited DNA information held in forensic databases to the rich DNA libraries held by family tree-building websites, raising further questions about genetic privacy.
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more than 60 percent of Americans with European ancestry can be identified through their DNA using open genetic genealogy databases, regardless of whether they’ve ever sent in a spit kit.
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Join Nordic Entrepreneurs and make Impact in San Francisco & Silicon Valley!
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October 9, 2018
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The company debuted its phones for 2018, a camera-free home control center and a new detachable Chrome OS tablet.
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A Falcon 9 rocket launching an Argentine Earth-observing satellite streaked across the skies of Southern California on Sunday night, then its booster stage returned to Vandenberg Air Force Base for an on-target landing
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MASCOT is equipped with four scientific instruments to study the asteroid.
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the agency expected the instrument to be back at work soon.
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NASA's Kepler and Hubble space telescopes have provided compelling evidence of the first ever spotted exomoon in a distant solar system in what may be a historic celestial sighting.
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In 2014, Boeing and SpaceX were awarded a combined $6.8 billion in contracts from NASA to develop spacecraft capable of flying crews to the space station.
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With plans to test how hemp plants react in the low-gravity setting of space orbit, scientists at bioengineering company Space Tango — specializing in research and manufacturing of microgravity environments are eager to test the cannabis plant’s response
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It's showing the same signs that Voyager 1 did several years ago.
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Oscar (R)-winning director Damien Chazelle and star Ryan Gosling reteam for Universal Pictures' First Man, the riveting story of NASA's mission to land a man on the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the years 1961-1969.
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see the latest traffic reports and travel delays, and generally make the daily commute a less stressful experience.
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a startup called Aeva, has built one of the few sensors for self-driving cars that can see not just where things are, but how fast they’re moving.
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A new technology in which insects are used to genetically modify crops could be converted into a dangerous, and possibly illegal, bioweapon, alleges a Science Policy Forum report
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as technology evolves and it becomes easier to create three-dimensional, lifelike visuals of artists, there’s growing debate over how those images will be portrayed
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A day after Google’s security reputation takes a beating, it makes a pitch to sell you new devices.
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Trump has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to expand sales of corn ethanol
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A spectacular moment, worth seeing!
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Get out the vote with a party!
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October 2, 2018
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It may be the first time police anywhere have cracked a device that way.
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He believes that our consciousness leaves our bodies and rejoins the universe.
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After some prompting by Congress, NASA is again getting involved in SETI. Last week, it held a Technosignatures Workshop in Houston, exploring new ways scientists could seek intelligent aliens.
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We're finally going back to the Moon, but this time we're going to stay.
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Russian scientists plan to develop cloned woolly mammoths, cave lions and extinct horse species within the next 10 years. The animals will then be put on display in a theme park in front of paying tourists.
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Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new $399 wireless headset, the Oculus Quest, and lots more besides.
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Once the drone reached the swimmers, its video revealed that one woman in particular was really struggling with the current, so the operator dropped and guided one of the drone's tethered life jackets over to her.
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The uniqueness of humans is our consciousness, our ability to think and reason. It emerged from evolutionary pressures to build internal models of the environment and ourselves.
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Scientists in Japan made progress recently in the quest to combat infertility, creating the precursor to a human egg cell in a dish from nothing but a woman’s blood cells
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September 25, 2018
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The rovers are part of the MINERVA-II1 program, and are designed to hop along the asteroid's surface, taking photographs and gathering data.
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The dusty, rocky surface of the asteroid is in full view, as is a distorted blob of light that is actually the distant Sun.
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Three new phones, a new watch and a killer new mobile chip.
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Japan has launched a pair of satellites to test out some technologies that might help make a space elevator a reality in future.
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Scientists discovered a strange movement deep below the Earth's surface near California's biggest fault lines.
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“Up until now, we’ve had a better map of Mars than we’ve had of Antarctica. Now it is the best-mapped continent.”
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The trouble is, we don’t know enough about our complex, highly variable microbiomes to manipulate them effectively yet
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"Russia hasn't refused to take part in the project of the lunar orbital station together with the United States," Ustimenko was quoted by Tass as saying. He added, "we stand for equal, partnership-style cooperation."
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a British team from the University of Surrey just successfully tested a net that shoots out to capture floating debris.
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Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire will be the first-ever private commercial space trip tourist aboard the SpaceX Big Falcon Rocket.
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By sending an object with no military value into space, Paglen said he hopes to raise a conversation about who is allowed to operate past Earth’s atmosphere
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we need to actively overhaul the negative image of wasps to protect the ecological benefits they bring to our planet. They are facing a similar decline to bees and that is something the world can't afford.
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Managed by an improved artificial intelligence system, VineScout utilizes input from a 3D stereoscopic machine vision system, LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and ultrasound sensors to follow the rows without running into anything
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The "sex robot brothel" will be open for business in Houston within the next 10 days
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September 11, 2018
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Climate change is "a real and present danger to California and to the people of the world," Brown said.
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at least six asteroids coming within about one lunar distance and 12 passing within five lunar distances
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able to send pictures and video to show first responders of the scene before they even get there.
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classifying a planet should be based on whether or not it is large enough that its gravity allows for it to achieve hydrostatic equilibrium (i.e. becomes spherical)
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SpaceX continued its impressive rate of launch Monday morning with the flight of the Telstar 18 VANTAGE communications satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40. It marked the 16th launch for the company this year
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the Air Force is now faced with the question of what to do about Musk’s public smoking of marijuana, which is legal in California but not federally—and particularly not for people in the military or who have security clearance.
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solar and wind farms could actually bring rainfall and greenery back to the desert.
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A cannabis initiative team at UCLA plans to conduct a high-quality clinical study of the painkilling properties of pot — and perhaps stem the opioid epidemic.
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Memphis Meats is cooking up tomorrow's dinner.
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Producing cultured meat could consume fewer natural resources, avoid slaughter and remove the need for the growth hormones used in the traditional meat industry.
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A University of Glasgow team explores the subtle art of capturing asteroids without killing everybody.
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It could also help here on Earth.
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How the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology became a multimillion dollar organization promoting bullshit science through fake conferences and journals.
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how did the astronauts figure out where the leak was originating from?
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Richard Cray's stellar performance of the classic Eric Idle tune at his 60th birthday party
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The company's strategy increasingly involves its broader product ecosystem and its services.
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September 4, 2018
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two Danish designers caught people's attention with a 100-foot-tall orb on a mast.
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A depressurization event on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS) may have been caused by a hole which somebody apparently drilled accidentally and then covered up.
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The US and Russia are among several countries preventing talks that could lead to a ban on so-called killer robots.
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JAXA will deploy its first landers on September 21st. The larger main craft will send the “package” down to the surface, at which point a pair of robots will emerge.
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researchers have found water clouds inside Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, raising the prospect that life may exist on the planet.
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Google’s video chat app, Duo, has finally made its way to tablets. With its latest update, the app is able to work on both iPads and Android tablets.
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if a colony of bacteria proves helpful in treating some of our most deadly diseases, swallow away.
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A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.
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The quest to find new ways to harness solar power has taken a step forward thanks to new research in the field of semi-artificial photosynthesis
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Helps you stop snoring, improving your sleep quality.. Recommended by one our loyal listeners..
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Flippy the intelligent cooking assistant.
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Growing up in a broken home, he discovered at an early age that his life was controlled by his thoughts. He figured out in his teens that changing his thoughts gave him the ability to change his life.
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August 28, 2018
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the first BFR spaceships to land on Mars will stay on the Red Planet as temporary habitats or tools for early colonists.
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The pilot will distribute Rift and Go headsets in Japan, Taiwan and Seattle.
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"The product they put out is reasonably solid, but is nowhere close to what they had hyped up, and has several flaws that prevent it from becoming a broadly useful tool for development of AR applications,"
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Both Wall Street and the electricity sector are dependent on the same Global Positioning System, or GPS, signals from space to operate,
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NASA has created two new apps that puts you in a virtual spacesuit and takes you to various cosmic locations, like the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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NASA and the University of Texas have teamed up to digitize 19,000 hours of recordings from the Apollo 11 mission that landed the first two people on the moon.
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extinct universes exist that were filled with ghost black holes that are hidden, embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background map.
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MIT CSAIL's wireless system suggests future where doctors could implant sensors to track tumors or even dispense drugs
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The potential plan seems to involve shopping a virtual store that's just like a regular store, but without the instant gratification.
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Since the birth of modern astronomy, scientists have sought to determine the full extent of the Milky Way galaxy and learn more about its structure, formation and evolution.
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The ice is concentrated at the darkest and coldest locations, in the shadows of craters.
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Roger Penrose and his team now argue is that dead universes were filled with dead black holes—and if you really look at Cosmic Microwave Background data, their phantoms will appear.
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Breakthrough Starshot seeks to discover whether there's life on the planets orbiting our nearest star neighbors.
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Comments on the proposed Space Force, 2nd life of the Milky Way, Ice on Lunar Poles, Tiny Spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, Phantom Universe, Art in Space
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Here you can peruse many of Little Panda's creative musical creations.
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August 21, 2018
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Because the batteries were in relatively good health before the storm, there’s not likely to be too much degradation
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The Smithsonian American Art Museum advances visitor experience in VR, thanks to an exciting new partnership with Intel.
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Seeing glittering light art from space. Good idea, or dangerous precedent?
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The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft began its final approach toward the big near-Earth asteroid Bennu on Friday (Aug. 17),
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An international team of researchers has found that Earth’s magnetic field, generated by material flowing in its core, can reverse more rapidly than previously thought, posing a major threat to ground and space-based infrastructure.
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about 35% of all known exoplanets which are bigger than Earth should be water-rich.
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Construction began this week on the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile, a mammoth, $1 billion project designed to see to the very edge of the universe.
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3D molds of the reef structures were 3D printed over 24 hours, then used to cast the structures in ceramic, which is similar to the calcium carbonate found in actual coral reefs.
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July 24, 2018
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A portion of Boeing Co.’s astronaut test capsule suffered what was described as an “anomaly” during an engine test fire last month
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The huge dust storm raging on Mars is a curse for NASA's Opportunity rover but something of a blessing for the space agency's other Red Planet missions.
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In addition to testing on public roads, Krafcik said Waymo has covered 5 billion miles in simulations.
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The mission, called the Parker Solar Probe, will loop around the sun 24 times, flying within the star's million-degree atmosphere, called the corona.
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Thanks to the powerful Chandra X-ray Observatory which was launched way back in 1999, scientists believe that they’ve determined why a long-studied star occasionally dims, and for longer and longer periods of time, and it sure is wild.
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Russian scientists hope to blast six-foot robots into space next year after tests They hope the machines will be able to perform tasks too dangerous for humans Russian media claims the robots have already been trained to use firearms
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Cody Wilson makes digital files that let anyone 3-D print untraceable guns. The government tried to stop him. He sued—and won.
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Doctors have no idea, but Stanford University computer scientists have figured it out, using artificial intelligence
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the social network wants to launch Athena, its very own internet satellite, in early 2019
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SpaceX launched and landed its second Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The landing of this rocket, designed with reusability in mind, marks the beginning of a completely recyclable era of rockets for the company.
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On June 27, Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan issued a memo officially establishing the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC).
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the deployment of AI in cybersecurity has flown under the radar — with potentially damaging consequences.
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DNA editing could become an option for parents wanting to ‘influence the genetic characteristics of their child.’
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July 31, 2018
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Warr Hyperloop won SpaceX’s third Hyperloop Pod Competition which took place on July 22 in Hawthorne, CA., achieving 290 mph
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A huge lake of salty water appears to be buried deep in Mars, raising the possibility of finding life on the red planet
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The Milky Way had a previously unknown big sibling that was torn apart by the neighboring Andromeda galaxy long ago
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The History Channel’s scripted ‘Project Blue Book’ arrives later this year
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Compass Pathways, an under-the-radar company with scientific oversight from esteemed scientists, is cranking out psilocybin to study the compound in people with depression.
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Protein designers are preparing for quantum computers to point the way to new cures and green materials.
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July 17, 2018
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Study finds 1–2 percent of Earth’s oldest mantle rocks are made from diamond.
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The picture reveals, in incredible detail, a fiery region surrounding the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of the Milky Way, around 25,000 light-years away.
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Ten more moons have been confirmed to orbit around Jupiter, bringing the planet’s total known satellite count to 79
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NASA Administrator Jim Brindenstein wants Americans to realize how much their well-being depends on what happens far above Earth.
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An experiment leading to fine imaging of biological molecules, among other things..
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Researchers have found that among the three major food groups, fat is the only cause of weight gain in the long run.
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The Moon and nearby asteroids could contain untold riches and resources to help further space exploration. One small country is aiming to take a leading role in this new space race.
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Complement current “neuromorphic” (brain-like) chips, which emulate synapses
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This episode is on the future of stem cell medicine with guest Dr. Ahvie Herskowitz, a world renowned anti-aging specialist
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Dr. Duncan McCollum's Chiropractic website
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July 10, 2018
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The boys’ coach lived in a Buddhist monastery for a decade and taught them to meditate in the cave.
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Musk on Sunday tweeted that he was sending a "kid-size submarine" to the rescuers in the hopes that it would be "useful."
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YouTube announced new measures to stem the spread of conspiracy theory videos and fake news on its platform, including inserting context from trustworthy sources into search results about hot topics.
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In a new survey, seniors who turned to it for treating chronic pain reported it reduced pain and decreased the need for opioid painkillers.
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Improved design may be used for exploring disaster zones and other dangerous or inaccessible environments.
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six people with severe spinal cord injuries—three of them completely paralyzed—have regained use of their hands and fingers for the first time in years after undergoing a nonsurgical, noninvasive spinal stimulation procedure
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A recipe of blended waste plastics is mixed in with ordinary asphalt to create a stronger, longer-lasting road
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It’s the first time we’ve seen the Higgs coupling to bottom quarks
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When Cassini passed between Saturn and its sixth-largest moon, Enceladus, it recorded for the first time a vibrating column of plasma passing from the gas giant to the little icy world.
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As exponential technologies explode onto the scene all at once, we are about to witness the unprecedented rise of personalized, ubiquitous, and intelligent healthcare.
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Flush with venture capital, the startup Katerra wants to revolutionize the construction industry. But as history shows, it’s harder than it looks.
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Reported UFO sightings have been declining in the United States for the last few years, according to the statistician tasked with making sense of all the data acquired by the leading civilian UFO investigation group.
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Welcome to the memory palace; and how to safely walk around (or maybe run) in VR
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Airbus, Boeing, and Rolls-Royce are among the companies investing in research and development for electric planes.
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Digital travelers rely on a budding cottage industry of companies such as Unsettled, Remote Year, Hacker Paradise and Wanderist Life to help navigate the logistics of working in a foreign country
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some key differences suggest that Neanderthals couldn’t communicate quite as goodly as we can able to. Their brains simply weren’t wired to handle it.
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July 3, 2018
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Adobe and University of Maryland researchers use a deep-learning neural network to detect subtle methods now used in doctoring images
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Ceres' famous bright spots are ready for their close-up, Mr. DeMille.
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"I saw a huge flash of what appeared to be orange light, light up the entire horizon to the west," Grays Harbor County Sheriff Rick Scott said
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The nonprofit OpenAI, co-founded and backed by billionaire tech titan Elon Musk, has built a team of robots that beat a team of humans at the complex video game Dota 2.
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Scientists have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planet, a huge gas giant many times the size of Jupiter, swirling into existence 370 light years from Earth.
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Around sunrise on Feb. 15, 2013, an extremely bright and otherworldly object was seen streaking through the skies over Russia before it exploded about 97,000 feet above the Earth's surface.
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A vast majority of the half-million bodies in the inner asteroid belt may in fact be shrapnel from as few as five parent bodies called "planetesimals."
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Lisa Pratt, the space agency’s new planetary protection officer, could soon oversee major shifts in regulations on public- and private-sector space missions
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June 26, 2018
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The new approach would use both electrical and magnetic fields to create a hybrid fusion device
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Scientists have identified the specific type of planaria flatworm pluripotent stem cell that is capable of regenerating an entire organism
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Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed tiny ultrasound-powered robots that can swim through blood, removing harmful bacteria along with the toxins they produce.
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“Plug and play” system uses a human’s brainwaves and hand-gesture muscle signals to instantly correct robot mistakes
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Huge self-driving-car video dataset may help reduce accidents
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China’s Tiangong-2 space station recently came closer to Earth from its usual location for a brief period of ten days, raising questions over the future of the orbital laboratory.
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Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is now rapidly approaching asteroid Ryugu, providing the first-ever close-up views of this near-Earth object.
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This particular dune, appearing like turquoise blue in enhanced color, is made of finer material and/or has a different composition than the surrounding.
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Astronomers at the University of Heidelberg in Germany have concluded that for the past 12 billion or so years, the Milky Way galaxy has been merging with a dozen galaxies and three smaller ones.
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One scientist thinks that future intelligent aliens might survive by collecting, storing and harnessing the power of stars.
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a high-fat diet might do more than change the way a body looks on the outside: It can fundamentally change the colony of bacteria that lives in the gut, which, in turn, can affect behavior.
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The twice-daily oral solution is approved for use in patients 2 and older to treat two types of epileptic syndromes
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June 19, 2018
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Biography of John Captain Crunch Draper: Legendary Internet pioneer, Phone Phreak, privacy advocate.
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The life span of a microbe is about 20 minutes, so a lot can happen in three days.
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The world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, CERN's Large Hadron Collider, is getting a major upgrade.
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"I am hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a Space Force as the sixth branch of the armed forces," Trump said during a meeting of the National Space Council in Washington D.C.
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For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of a supermassive black hole ripped apart a star that wandered too close to the cosmic monster.
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This family of bacteria sucks up carbon dioxide and discharges oxygen in some of Earth’s most inhospitable environments.
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the planet's enormous mountain ranges are to blame for a massive gravity wave.
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A man modeled his 250-square-foot tiny home after a moon lander — and it's just as cool as it soundsKurt Hughes took his three decades of boat designing and tried his hand at home building to produce the 250-square-foot white hexagonal hut.
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m of researchers at Imperial College London discovered a type of photosynthesis that uses light from the infrared spectrum.
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Over the years, dozens of apparent insiders have come out of the woodwork with stories of free energy, reverse engineered UFOs, secret slave colonies, antigravity, and government cover-ups that, if ever proven true, would spark drastic changes.
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June 12, 2018
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In Singapore, Trump treated Kim to a Hollywood-style video about “two men, two leaders, one destiny.”
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Engineers are balancing low power levels with the need for heaters.
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Officials are scrambling to replace this resource.
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An unexplained glow in the Milky Way may come from massive swarms of diamonds in space.
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Two weeks ago, the Beak & Skiff Apple Orchard of LaFayette, New York commissioned a company called Dropcopter to pollinate a portion of its orchard via drone
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The single-seat Flyer now looks like a glossy, professional, production-ready machine, a major upgrade over the slightly precarious prototype it showed last year.
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Ultra-low-power device in gut wirelessly transmits diagnostic signal to a cell phone; multiple gastrointestinal diagnoses possible
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Researchers inject tiny devices into the bloodstream to deliver drugs with precision
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Artificial sensory nerve system combines a touch-pressure sensor, flexible electronic neuron, and artificial synaptic transistor modeled on human synapses
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They are not the isolated and solitary creatures we thought they were.
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Apple made a ton of important announcements at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote.
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June 5, 2018
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about a dozen Google employees are resigning in protest over the company’s continued involvement in Maven.
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NASA had only discovered the asteroid on Saturday and determined it was on a collision course for the planet
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NASA's Dawn probe will be attempting to capture the closest images taken of the surface of the dwarf planet Ceres.
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While the driver claims she was just checking the time, a judge ruled that using Apple Watch while driving is no different than using a smartphone…
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He built one of the biggest antivirus companies to date, and yet it's what happened after this chapter of his life that made him a legend.
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Richard Ramchurn’s The Moment lets you play film director, using just your brainwaves.
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Karen is best know for brining into the NOW, Dr. Wayne Dyer and the We Consciousness
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May 29, 2018
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Members of a NASA safety panel said May 17 they believed that a SpaceX approach for fueling its Falcon 9 rockets known as "load-and-go" could be used for future commercial crew missions.
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Bezos believes humans will ultimately use the functionally unlimited expanse of space as a giant solar powered manufacturing sector slash garbage dump
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On the way to its final orbit around Earth, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has sailed by the moon and snapped its first picture of space.
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Could we really have faster-than-light travel?
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Apple is expanding its capabilities so it can interact with smart locks, building security systems, vehicles, and even mass transit payment facilities.
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A conversation with VR pioneer Jaron Lanier on Silicon Valley’s politics, being quoted by Mark Zuckerberg, and what went wrong with the internet.
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Harvard and MIT researchers say they have reversed aging in mice, and that discovery could have health implications for humans.
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With an outpatient procedure, doctors could give overweight people a metabolic boost
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One of the country’s biggest hospitals has unveiled sweeping plans to use artificial intelligence to carry out tasks traditionally performed by doctors and nurses
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The most commonly consumed vitamin and mineral supplements provide no consistent health benefit or harm, suggests a new study led by researchers at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto.
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“The most valuable material ever sold”
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Design also prevents fires in mobile devices
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An international team of scientists plans to dredge Scotland’s Loch Ness next month — seeking not the mythical monster, as so many have done before, but rather its DNA footprint.
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Mystery Aerial Phenomenon Crosses the Moon. Birds? Planes? Weather Balloons? What do you think?
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May 22, 2018
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SpaceX will launch two new Earth-observing satellites for NASA and five commercial communications satellites today
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a team found a space rock that lends credence to the idea that a huge super-Earth planet really exists in the outer reaches of our solar system.
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Musk's vision would allow future Angelenos to evade the city’s infamous traffic by hopping aboard 16-passenger pods, waiting at hundreds, if not thousands, of small parking-spot-sized stations throughout the city
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Groundbreaking assessment of all life on Earth reveals humanity’s surprisingly tiny part in it as well as our disproportionate impact
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'Laze' plume could carry toxic substances miles away from volcano
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From open source innovation to the vanguard of the blockchain movement; the ‘global resilience guru’ discusses the conflicts, dangers and opportunities of the world to come.
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Scientists have developed a quantum LED that can emit single photons at telecommunication wavelengths. Such single-photon emitters will be crucial in the development of quantum communication networks.
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DeepMind has built a virtual 3D laboratory called Psychlab that will let machines take human psych tests, and they’ve open-sourced it so any AI researcher can put their algorithms through their paces.
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It orbits the Sun backwards.
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May 15, 2018
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Democrats say they’ll force a Senate vote Wednesday on a proposal to restore the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) open Internet rules.
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Here's what the Android Central team loved from this year's show.
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A monster black hole that is the fastest growing object in the universe and devours a mass equivalent to Earth's sun every two days has been discovered in deep space, Australian astronomers have announced.
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Kilauea provides a natural laboratory on Earth to study volcanoes found on other planets and moons in our solar system.
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After reviewing data from a previous mission to the Jovian system, scientists found evidence of a plume erupting from Jupiter’s moon Europa, which NASA said indicates that the moon’s subsurface ocean may indeed be venting water vapor through cracks in its
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The four-pound helicopter’s rotors will spin at 3,000 rpms, 10 times faster than helicopters here on Earth
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The wireless VR future has arrived, and it's pretty dope.
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Now, the phrase "Google Drive" will only mean one thing.
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Google Duplex voice technology and Boston Dynamics' robot advances push the boundaries
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FAA to team with local, state, and tribal governments and companies to develop safe drone operationsBut could this ambitious program have unintended consequences when criminals and terrorists get involved?
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Google is adding more functionality to this piece of smart clothing, including support for ride-sharing alerts, Bose’s “Aware Mode,” and location saving.
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The feat offers scientists a new way to study intact brains in the lab in stunning detail. But it also inaugurates a bizarre new possibility in life extension, should human brains ever be kept on life support outside the body.
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New technology allows U.S. Soldiers to learn 13 times faster than conventional methods and Army researchers said this may help save lives.
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The FAA received 149 proposals for its pilot program, and whittled that down to 10.
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Hey Folks, it's time for the Bay Area Maker Faire!
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May 8, 2018
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The Mars lander’s suite of instruments will include: a probe that will burrow 16 feet into the planet intended to determine how much heat is moving through Mars’ interior
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NASA's newly appointed administrator, Jim Bridenstine, will make a major speech at the Humans to Mars summit in Washington, DC, which takes place today (May 8) through Thursday (May 10).
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The concept is all-electric, and seats four people plus a pilot, in single file in a slim, cylindrical body with large windows
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Breakthrough Listen, a $100 million project designed to seek out potential signals from intelligent extraterrestrial life, took a giant leap forward Monday (May 7) with a new campaign to search for life in the cosmos faster than ever before.
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rising early & going outside to hear the birdsong at dawn
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CRISPR is finally freed from its cellular prison.
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Treatment cut in half the risk of dying or having the cancer worsen, compared to chemo alone, after nearly one yea
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On many flights, autopilot systems already control the plane for basically all of the flight. And software handles the most harrowing landings
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Nvidia's AI actually figures out what an object will look like.
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When the Iowa's Attorney General's office began investigating an unclaimed lottery ticket worth millions, an incredible string of unlikely winners came to light - and a trail that pointed to an inside job.
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IBM has released the IBM Quantum (IBM Q) Experience, a one-of-a-kind online platform that enables scientists and science enthusiasts all over the world to explore IBM’s emerging quantum computing hardware from home.
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How you treat your digital assistant says a lot about you.
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Allucquére Rosanne "Sandy" Stone (born c. 1936[1]) is an American academic theorist, media theorist, author, and performance artist.
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May 1, 2018
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Facebook has dished out serial apologies and embarked on a steady march of product adjustments and transparency initiatives
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Mark shares with us what's up with FB 2018
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“This may be the essential genius of Burning Man: Out of nothing, we created everything.” — Larry Harvey
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Profound Healing, Authentic Power, Divine Purpose, & Awakened Prosperity Through Visionary Medicine, Shamanic Tools & Ancient Indigenous Wisdom
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Creates Major Company with Network Capacity Needed to Rapidly Launch Nationwide 5G Network with Breadth and Depth Critical to Extend U.S. Global Internet Leadership in the 5G Era
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New technology iThe technology uses motion capture, similar to how it’s done in movies. Infrared cameras track invisible (to human vision) markers on the patient’s body.
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Holographic videoconferencing, a smart wall, and a smart-watch projector offer new ways to interact with data and each other
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There will still be jobs in the future. Just make sure your child is ready for them.
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has shed new light on what’s driving him to invest billions in his space technology company, Blue Origin.
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Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are billionaires racing to make recyclable rockets. Musk has a big head start, but Bezos' company is looking for ways to one-up SpaceX.
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The World's Largest Immersive Technology Festival
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Spreading positivity through immersive technology. Co-founder of VRLA and Visionary VR.
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Dr. Bruce Damer is a regular contributor to our show, discussing his latest projects involving orgin of life, consciousness and global evolution
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April 24, 2018
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These are rules that users need to adhere by if they don't want to be banned.
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The company now intends to build a factory in Los Angeles. This company has dedicated the factory to the building of spaceships and rocket booster. The next massive rocket booster might just come from that factory.
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Over 80% of 8 million videos taken down by AI's in last quarter of 2017
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Nasa’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral last week. Now the work begins.
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Imagine a network of satellites that can zero in on any place on Earth and beam down live video a literal second later. This is not science fiction.
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When humans and all the supplies they need start arriving by the tons, there’s a risk that their biological signature could overwhelm any faint traces of ancient or modern-day life on the Red Planet.
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Asteroids that are within the reach of humans now have been found to be rich in minerals like iron, carbon, cobalt, rhodium, nickel, platinum, and iridium, to name a few. All these resources can be harvested and brought back to Earth.
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The space agency has released news that they are working on building a swarm of robot bees that will fly on the surface of the Red Planet.
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A research project funded and co-run by NASA is looking to leverage the Ethereum blockchain’s smart contracts technology to automate spacecraft maneuvering while avoiding space debris.
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Hilarious rap on a computer that gets high and becomes self-aware.
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cracks identified on Mars' surface last year by the Curiosity rover are indeed evidence of ancient lakes that likely dried up about 3.5 billion years ago.
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So yes, Uranus smells like rotten eggs. Just a little.
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A new documentary on the promise and dangers of the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence
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Project Pollinate is an educational and research organization dedicated to informing communities about the interconnectedness of our ecosystem while providing habitats and sanctuary for honeybees, native bees and other pollinators.
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The Resource Center for Nonviolence, founded in 1976, is a peace and justice organization promoting the practice of nonviolent social change.
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April 17, 2018
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2018 GE3 swept by at half the moon’s distance Sunday, just hours after being detected. Its size is 3 to 6 times that of the space rock that penetrated the skies over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013.
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The ExoMars is launched in search of trace gases in the Mar’s atmosphere, which is likely related to life.
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NASA plans to launch spacecraft on the Parker Solar Probe by the end of July 2018. This launch will be on a seven-year mission which aims at exploring the sun.
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The upper stage is currently the only major component of the rocket that the Hawthorne, California-based aerospace company has not tried to reuse in its pursuit of a fully reusable launch vehicle.
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Psyche consists of metal on 95 percent, and has 124 mile with 200 km wide.
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Ranging from AI-enhanced medical imaging to nanometer-scale MRI and a skin-implantable biosensor
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Answers to your questions in more than 100,000 books
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New post-Hebb brain-learning model may lead to new brain treatments and breakthroughs in faster deep learning
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Coded electrical signal reinforces memories in patients, supporting pioneering research at USC and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
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MIT researchers have invented a system that allows someone to communicate silently and privately with a computer or the internet by simply thinking — without requiring any facial muscle movement.
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scientists have unveiled a new explanation for the geology underlying recent seismic imaging of magma bodies below Yellowstone National Park.
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Using laser tweezers, a team of Harvard University scientist nudges one sodium and one cesium together to form a molecule. The achievement is particularly exceptional because these two elements would not normally form a molecule.
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The “Silurian Hypothesis” is their ultimate focus. It is a theory named after a plot in the 1970s incarnation of the Doctor Who sci-fi TV series in Britain, in which the “Silurians” were a buried race of intelligent reptiles
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Rivals Baidu and Tencent are also working on autonomous technology.
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A month after the first pedestrian death caused by a self-driving car, the industry shows no signs of slowing down
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S.B. 822, Senator Scott Wiener’s net neutrality bill, is currently pending in the California legislature. It’s a bill that prioritizes consumers over large ISPs, creating strong net neutrality protections.
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“We rightly fear that without regulations, (Internet service providers) will abuse their power anti-competitively in ways that harm consumers,”
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“Community Announcement — Long time resident, and radio show host, Art Bell died today at 72 years old in his home in Pahrump Nevada,” the Sheriff’s Department announced on Facebook.
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April 10, 2018
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The new space telescope is named TESS — short for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — and it has a pretty awesome job.
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Launched by Orion Span, Aurora Station Will Host Immersive 12-Day Trips Beginning in 2022; Now Accepting Deposits
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In just a month, it'll fire InSight to the Red Planet, where the lander will drill to unravel the geological mysteries of our solar system's rocky bodies.
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Psychologists call the emotion "elevation,"
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The RemoveDebris satellite is carrying a number of different devices designed to help clear the huge amount of debris orbiting the earth.
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Orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has confirmed it will open a 14-day launch window this month to conduct the company’s first fully commercial launc
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The classic science-fiction tale "Nightfall" is set on a planet where night only falls every 2,049 years. Now, a scientist proposes a planet could exist on which night would never fall
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Can we reproduce in microgravity?
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April 3, 2018
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A Chinese space station the size of a school bus re-entered Earth’s atmosphere at about 5:16 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday, scattering its remaining pieces over the southern Pacific Ocean
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For the most part, low-Earth orbit tracking is done with radars on the ground.
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The California-based startup’s new machine takes to the skies just as the US is about to loosen rules governing drone operations.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has broken yet another observing record: The famed observatory has found the most distant "ordinary" star ever observed, at an astounding 9 billion light-years from Earth
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particles in Venus’ lower clouds contain sufficient mass balance to harbor microorganisms, water, and solutes, and potentially sufficient biomass to be detected by optical methods,
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just painting the asteroid's surface with a different color on one side can change the thermal property of the space rock and change its orbit.
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fat is converted to carbon dioxide and water. You exhale the carbon dioxide and the water mixes into your circulation until it's lost as urine or sweat.
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As Stanley Kubrick’s monolithic movie celebrates its half century, special effects gurus, directors and those who worked on the film consider its legacy
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Santa Cruz's premiere movie reviewer checks out Spielberg's latest blockbuster,
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European engineers who developed a small satellite hitching a ride to the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX supply ship Monday are gearing up for a first-of-a-kind experiment to examine ways to snare a chunk of space junk and tug it back to Eart
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The Go Fund Me wheelchair/bike campaign by this week's guests, Carrina and Ryan
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March 27, 2018
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Apple showed off a new iPad to help get ahead in the classroom.
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China's first prototype space station, Tiangong-1, will come crashing back to Earth between March 30 and April 3 in an uncontrolled re-entry, give or take a few days
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China’s yuan-denominated crude oil futures launched today in Shanghai with 15.4 million barrels of crude for delivery in September changing hands over two and a half hours—the length of the first-day trading session for the contract.
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A satellite meant to inspire the world to enjoy the night sky has flashed out of existence earlier than expected.
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What is the CLOUD Act and what does it mean when it comes to my privacy as a Google customer?
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An alien star flew by the Solar System and threw comets and asteroids off of their normal orbits at the time in our history when early humans and the Neanderthals were still walking on Earth.
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Astronomers discovered a bizarre "zombie" star that went supernova not just once, but twice.
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the national park sits right on top of a "hot spot."
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A microsatellite located some 350 kilometers above ground is releasing the 15 to 20 multicolored pellets measuring half an inch wide.
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there could be a copy of yourself making different decisions and seeing places that somehow later manifest themselves in your dreams.
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Christopher Wylie says Cambridge Analytica "don't care whether or not it's legal as long as it gets the job done."
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here is an overview of the groups involved, what happened - and what it means.
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We now have a deluge of social media information that can give analysts a colossal archive of our "likes," language, friend networks, and history to play with.
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Wrangling your Facebook privacy settings—fine-tuning what data friends, advertisers, and apps can access—is a slog.
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Mark Zuckerberg recently gave an interview to WIRED in which he discussed the recent crisis, the mistakes Facebook made, and different models for how the company could be regulated.
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March 20, 2018
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This death could alter the course of a scantily regulated, poorly understood technology that has the power to save lives and create fortunes.
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You get a voice assistant, and you get a voice assistant, and you...
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The paper cites the famous physicist as a co-author and addresses the potential for alternate universes
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it is the first project attempting to make this technology widely available. In a few years’ time there could be neighborhoods of 3D printed homes across the globe.
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VR will sell more furniture with less, or even no, square footage devoted to displaying it.
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A group of researchers using a new artificial intelligence algorithm have identified about 6,000 previously unseen craters on the moon.
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A new photo shows a swirling maelstrom on Jupiter through rose-colored glasses.
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Scientists are using a global network of telescopes to detect tidal disruption flares, which are basically powerful explosions of X-ray radiation that occur when a black hole chows down on a star.
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An environmental study issued by the Port of Los Angeles suggests that Elon Musk’s aerospace company aims to lease an 18-acre site on Terminal Island to build a facility “to manufacture large commercial transportation vessels.”
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Doctors have taken a major step towards curing the most common form of blindness in the UK - age-related macular degeneration.
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In addition to getting the computers extra-tiny, IBM intends to make them extra-cheap, perhaps 10 cents apiece.
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The AliveCor KardiaBand, a sensor compatible with the Apple Watch, can detect dangerous levels of potassium in blood with 94 percent accuracy.
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High-speed “4D” views inside living cells
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Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse.
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The ashes of Stephen Hawking will be interred next to Sir Isaac Newton in Westminster Abbey, the first time a scientist has been afforded the honour in 80 years.
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March 13, 2018
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The aerospace company has five Falcon 9 launches planned over the course of one month, beginning in late March and culminating in April.
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False information on the social media network travels six times faster than the truth and reaches far more people.
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The flying car startup backed by Google co-founder Larry Page has unveiled an air taxi, collaborating with the New Zealand government to get it off the ground.
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The partnership includes a two-month pilot period with Domino's Pizza, as well as a similar budding alliance with delivery service Postmates.
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A team from the Tokyo Institute of Technology's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences confirmed the existence of 15 exoplanets that are orbiting red dwarf stars.
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Machine-learning algorithms (often neural networks) combined with facial-mapping software enable the cheap and easy fabrication of content that hijacks one’s identity—voice, face, body.
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HAMMER stands for Hypervelocity Asteroid Mitigation Mission for Emergency Response, and its name gives away its mission of saving Earth in case of an asteroid emergency.
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The researchers at ORNL used a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process to manufacture graphene, which is something we’ve been doing for quite awhile already, but with a new twist.
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Yale researchers have captured what happens in the split second before the emergence of consciousness, a fundamental state of human life.
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In labs around the world the foundations are being laid for the 'nano-fabricator' a device that will allow us to assemble just about anything, atom by atom; including itself. It could mean the end of scarcity itself.
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March 6, 2018
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Electric skateboards, haptic suits and future food, oh my!
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The 72-qubit chip will help researchers understand error rates and scalability.
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Developed by former employees from Google and a speech-recognition veteran Nuance, Otter is a free service that transcribes speech on the go through the power of artificial intelligence (AI).
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Cheaper and faster than a Model X 100D, and it even gets over-the-air updates.
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The assistant is named CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion) and takes the form of a medicine ball with a screen that weighs 5kg and will be able to float alongside astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS).
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Google is bringing 11 Disney parks to Google Maps Street View, allowing you to virtually visit the tourist destinations from the comfort of your home.
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YouTube is taking a page out of Hollywood's book with a new feature aimed at giving you more control over your stories.
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The physicist tells Neil deGrasse Tyson what came before the Big Bang. Was there anything there? Was there nothing there? Was there even a there there?
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Astranis is sticking to geosynchronous orbit, but it's building small, cheaper satellites that the company hopes will bring the costs for end-users into the same price range as cellular data.
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A new laser-based system could allow vehicles to ‘see’ obstacles before they come into view
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The research is something like taking the milk out of your tea after you've made it
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Want to say “Hello,” but don’t know the local language? Try waving your hand. Such gestures, common among humans, are also surprisingly similar among chimpanzees and bonobos, our closest great ape relatives.
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Changing anyone’s mind is a difficult task at best. It’s hard to find the best way to make your case, and a new study reveals that persuasion is only partly about your words. The way you say them can be more convincing than just words.
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The most successful people are not the most talented, just the luckiest, a new computer model of wealth creation confirms. Taking that into account can maximize return on many kinds of investment.
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This could be precursor to Earth's poles swapping places.
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February 27, 2018
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If you want to get to your destination fast, then you’re better off using Google Maps or Waze over Apple Maps—Waze if you truly want the “fastest” option.
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Artificial intelligence startup LawGeex put its software up against a group of lawyers. The results were pretty eye-opening.
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Sweden’s recycling is so revolutionary, the country has to import rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going.
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Spreadsheets, analysis, and predictions are all great. But nothing compares to the free market if you want to really understand the trajectory of clean energy pricing.
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Experience first hand VR and AR programs at the Fest!
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Its payload capacity is over 500,000 lbs, and its job in the near future (if all goes according to plan) will be to deliver three rockets into space, along with servicing satellites for companies like SpaceX and Terra Bella.
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Unless you like radiation blasts to the face.
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The organisms survived in Enceladus-like conditions
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The organisms survived in Enceladus-like conditions
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evidence of microbes that have adapted to the extreme conditions.
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Scientists have discovered that water, or its relative hydroxyl, may be widely distributed across the surface of the moon—contradicting earlier research placing it mostly at the poles.
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The moment a supernova becomes visible in the sky has been captured by an amateur astronomer, and has helped an international team of researchers validate theoretical predictions about the initial evolution of such stellar explosions.
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Artificial muscle and metalens technology have been combined to create a tuneable metalens that can change its focus in real time.
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A new analysis shows that transparent solar technologies that can be applied to windows, display screens, and cars could supply 40 percent of energy demand in the US.
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February 20, 2018
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Called simply “Where is Starman?” the site updates constantly, allowing visitors to learn exactly where Musk’s Tesla Roadster is at any given time.
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The actual idea for the clock comes from Danny Hillis, who originally proposed a 10,000-year clock in 1995 in Wired as a way to think about the long-term future of humanity and the planet.
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impressive when you consider that it was only planned to last 90 Martian days, or sols.
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Last week, Washington, DC’s Department of Transportation issued a preliminary permit to Musk’s Boring Company to start digging at an abandoned lot in the northeast section of the city
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the Great Red Spot could soon weaken and fade into a "Great Red Memory" within a few decades.
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Scientists are witnessing an absolutely stunning event with the Hubble Space Telescope, as a huge storm on the surface of Neptune disappears before their very eyes
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Watch how ICOs are growing and evolving around the planet
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A radiocarbon 'golden spike' found in a tree on an island in the Southern Ocean marks a new geological epoch during which human activity has been a dominant influence on earth.
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The Arizona woman says she has gone to bed with extreme headaches in the past and woke up speaking with what sounds like a foreign accent. At various points, Australian and Irish accents have inexplicably flowed from her mouth for about two weeks,
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February 13, 2018
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The plan involves launching over 4,000 such satellites, which would form a network capable of transmitting anywhere.
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Budget proposal calls for return trip to the moon, 'with eye toward Mars'
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plan involved launching over 4,000 such satellites, which would form a network capable of transmitting anywhere.
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a major reconfiguration that will allow it to generate a 3-D map of the universe and probe the mysterious physics of dark energy that is thought to power the expansion of the universe.
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Although the exact reason for the object's spinning isn't clear, researchers think that Oumuamua collided with another object in the past and this violently threw it out of its home system and into the interstellar space.
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Axel Springer says their investment in Magic Leap will allow them to “actively participate in innovative technologies bearing the potential to present journalistic content and classifieds in new formats and environments.”
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Scientists believe they have made a breakthrough in treating schizophrenia by helping patients train themselves to control verbal hallucinations using an MRI scanner and a computer game.
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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft just took the farthest-ever images from Earth
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At the World Government Summit in Dubai, Sebastian Thurn said that AI will make humans into "superhuman workers." According to the Google X co-founder, AI will get rid of repetitive jobs, but it will also open up more creative ones.
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NASA researchers are developing a submarine that could traverse the liquid methane lakes and seas of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan
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They're taking part in simulation training, aiming to one-day help humans survive on Mars.
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Less-invasive way to stimulate the brain with light may lead to new treatments for neurological disorders
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HFC is a multi-year, U.S. Intelligence Community-funded research competition that seeks to develop and test hybrid forecasting methods that will radically improve the accuracy and timeliness of geopolitical and geoeconomic forecasts.
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What beckoned to Dr. Ralph Abraham, renowned tenured Princeton University mathemation, historian, and recontour, to leave his prestigious East Coast Post and head for the hills of UCSC and Santa Cruz, CA in 1968?
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February 6, 2018
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The nation is trying to battle a big uptick in road deaths.
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Over the weekend, Japan launched a miniature satellite by way of a modified SS-520 “sounding” rocket.
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This ensures he will remain ensconced in the Ecuradorian Embassy in London.
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The CD, which revolutionized the music industry in the late 1980s and early 1990s, could be on the way out.
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A new study reveals that viruses are raining down from above on a non-stop basis, no matter where you live on the planet.
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Over planetary history, warm-blood animals have outperformed cold-blooded animals in adapting to changing temperatures
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An incredible new test has demonstrated that space-based detectors could become a reality, which could open our ears to entirely new sources of gravitational waves.
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there should be at least 2,000 objects, ranging from moon- to Jupiter-sized, per main-sequence star in the galaxy, based on how the galaxy’s gravity warped the objects behind it.
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the gutting of local journalism has probably helped to fuel historic levels of public mistrust in the media.
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Massive objects like black holes and galaxies can curve the fabric of spacetime so much that light bends as it passes by, and astronomers use these objects as "lenses" to study extremely distant stars, galaxies and supernovae.
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What makes the feat a world-first is that the ear was made using that person’s very own cells.
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Contrary to expectations and with no explanation for how it's happened, the lower stratosphere appears to be losing ozone, so much so that the total amount of ozone over the most densely populated areas isn't increasing at all.
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GOLD studies the little-understood region where Earth's uppermost atmosphere meets the space that surrounds us - a critical boundary layer that responds both to terrestrial weather below and space weather above.
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Toward the end of the ice age, a massive firestorm broke out after fragments of a comet that measured more than 60 miles wide, struck the planet
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According to the new study published in the Journal of Nutrition, nuts are rich in mono-unsaturated fats and poly-unsaturated fats, which are deemed as good fats.
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Crunchy cricket tacos anyone? If the idea sounds stomach-turning, consider new research that shows humans are meant to eat bugs. Well, insects to be exact.
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Every fall The 418 Project invites people of all experience levels, from professional performance artists to those with no stage experience, to apply for What Is Erotic?
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January 30, 2018
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The Supermoon Trilogy we've been experiencing since December will end with a bang on January 31st, combining a Supermoon, a Blue Moon, and a Total Lunar Eclipse.
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The launch will take place from launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, which SpaceX has refurbished and modified for its big rocket.
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Will autonomous robots be the ones issuing arrests and tickets in the future? It’s not out of the question. Ford has officially filed for a patent on an automated police car.
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Rocket Lab kept secret two other craft riding atop the launch vehicle until the U.S.-New Zealand company announced their presence on the mission
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former members of IMAGE science team are hoping the satellite can be contacted and perhaps revived.
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Accessible Olli was designed from the ground up to help people with disabilities get where they need to go.
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A new health initiative from Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. announced on Tuesday was short on details but long on disruption, sending a wide range of industry stocks shuddering in morning trade.
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how anyone can identify secretive military bases and patrol routes based on public data
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Would you like some dungemite on your toast? Astronauts on deep-space missions could recycle their own feces to make food.
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A more appropriate title for the field, she said, would be "the search for technosignatures," or signs of technology created by intelligent alien civilizations.
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Steven Pinker's new book reveals three mental biases that will keep you from achieving your leadership potential.
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Fills a right now need- small autonomous vans dedicated to delivering all the stuff we order online or at local shops.
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Launching a truly driver-free service in Phoenix this year (as in, cars romping about with no one at the wheel), the company now unveils how it will do it: with the help of thousands more Chrysler Pacifica hybrids
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the Air feels like a refinement of the company’s first two folding drones, the Mavic Pro and Spark.
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There can be temporary and incomplete reversals, known as events and excursions, in which the magnetic poles move away from the geographic poles – perhaps even crossing the equator – before returning back to their original locations.
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MRI scans show that the brainwaves of close companions match when watching videos clips of a wide variety of subjects, including comedy, documentaries debates and music.
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January 23, 2018
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automating most of the purchase, checkout, and payment steps associated with a retail transaction and replacing cash registers, cashiers, credit cards, self-checkout kiosks, RFID chips — and lines — with hundreds of small cameras, computer vision,
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Like the waistband of a couch potato in midlife, the orbits of planets in our solar system are expanding
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Google really wants you to use Duo
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'Still Testing' ferried three small satellites to Low Earth Orbit.
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Bitcoin could support far more transactions and make them almost-instant, reliable and cheap, while remaining free of banks and other institutions.
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Google promised $20 million to the first private company that could land on the moon, roll around a few hundred meters, and then beam the achievement back to Earth
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The first of 37 "cryomodules" has arrived at Stanford University's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, which will boost the speed and power of the facility.
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“Multiplicity is not science fiction,” says roboticist Ken Goldberg. “It's something that's happening right now, and it's the idea of humans and machines working together.”
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the team relied on networks of optical fiber, a handful of encryption algorithms, and a $100 million satellite that China launched in 2016—the only one specifically designed for quantum cryptography.
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A University of Michigan (U-M) team has announced plans to develop an “unhackable” computer, funded by a new $3.6 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
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Check out the latest reports from our Digital Nomad, Shannon Leonard
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January 16, 2018
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The galaxy named SPT0615-JD existed when the universe was 500 million years old.
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Wild sex isn't always a good thing.
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The next step beyond 3D-printed tissues and organs
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Think of it as a really large bug zapper.
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“The Trichome Institute is really just a mission to end cannabis misinformation by educating people on cannabis things that we know to be real and true,” says Max Montros, President of the Trichome Institute.
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micro-compounds in the rock don't match anything we've ever found in our solar system.
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According to animal behavior expert, Professor Con Slobodchikoff, he hopes his research, will allow pets and their owners to speak using a ‘pet translator' in less than ten years' time.
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A private British company developing a vaccine that would be the first in the world to fight all types of flu has raised 20 million pounds ($27 million) from investors including GV, the venture capital arm of Google parent Alphabet Inc.
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Coconut oil may help lower the risk of heart disease and the chances of a stroke, according to a study by researchers from the University of Cambridge.
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When the Falcon Heavy lifts off later this year it will be the most powerful rocket in the world by a factor of two.
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January 9, 2018
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Google's massive installation in the convention center parking lot includes a twirling slide and a ball pit
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If Microsoft had forged better relationships with smart-home suppliers, it might have avoided this.
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This week, Intel will show off a chip that learns to recognize objects in pictures captured by a webcam. Nothing fancy about that, except that the chip uses about a thousandth as much power as a conventional processor.
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Intel's CES 2018 keynote focused on its 49-qubit quantum computing chip, VR applications for content, its AI self-learning chip, and an autonomous vehicles platform.
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The U.S. government's hush-hush Zuma satellite may have run into some serious problems during or shortly after its Sunday launch (Jan. 7)
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A Senate bill that would block the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from repealing its net neutrality rules now has 40 co-sponsors
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What these newest studies are looking for is the effects of a fourth spatial dimension that can be detected within our three-dimensional world.
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we present a method called ‘speed breeding’, which greatly shortens generation time and accelerates breeding and research programmes. Speed breeding can be used to achieve up to 6 generations per year for spring wheat
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In space everyone is taller, but not this much! Will he fit in his return capsule?
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Blistering fast wireless networks, digital assistants that are, well, everywhere, and a coming out bash for augmented reality.
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DARPA-sponsored research project allows for capturing single photons, replaces time exposure
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January 2, 2018
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Both companies have said that they expect to start taking paying passengers on flights in 2019, so they both need to get moving this year vis-à-vis their own test crews taking the flights
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What the US could do to support the rebel alliances
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By landing on the far side of the moon, China will outdo the historical achievements of the US and the USSR.
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Next year is already overflowing with exciting missions to space
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Ocean Cleanup’s mission is to help remove the five trillion pieces of plastic currently in the ocean, with deployment scheduled for next year.
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new 88-inch 8K OLED display, which is both the largest and the highest-resolution OLED panel to date
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For seniors, playing 3D-platform games like Super Mario 64 or taking piano lessons can stave off mild cognitive impairment and perhaps even prevent Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study by Université de Montréal psychology professors
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Cornell University engineers has been experimenting with a new type of programming that mimics the way an insect’s brain works
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Metalenses are thin, easy to fabricate and cost effective. This breakthrough extends those advantages across the whole visible range of light. This is the next big step.
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Although the potential of launching before the end of the year – as Elon Musk had previously noted was the hope – was lost, SpaceX did manage to achieve a major milestone over the holidays with the rollout of the full stack to 39A.
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The odds of any debris hitting a person are astronomically small.
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What CubeSats need to stay in space are mini boosters, and scientists are racing to build them.
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December 26, 2017
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They're not even genetically modified.
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It’s safety advice for an unclear, undefined threat to health.
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Researchers program DNA molecules to follow specific instructions to create sophisticated molecular machines for medical and research uses
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December 19, 2017
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The first known interstellar asteroid may hold water from another star system in its interior, according to a study.
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Funded at the request of Harry Reid, the program probed a number of encounters military pilots had with aircraft they believed didn’t operate like anything they had seen before.
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Applications include skin transplants and nanofilters that break down toxic substances
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The Trump administration on Monday evening publicly acknowledged that North Korea was behind the WannaCry computer worm that affected more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries earlier this year.
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French researcher Albert Jambon has demonstrated that iron used during the Bronze Age is always meteoric and he explained how this practice was abandoned during the Iron Age.
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The company says the funding will enable it to launch a spacecraft into lunar orbit by 2019, and eventually to offer a “projection mapping service” to advertise on the moon’s surface.
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What happens when you create an open AI marketplace that can learn from itself?
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so they can figure out how to manipulate objects they have never encountered before.
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It's part of the ongoing effort to fight fake news.
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The video shows the next-gen New Shepard rocket-capsule combo, which Blue Origin is developing to carry people and payloads on trips to suborbital space
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December 12, 2017
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Trump vowed on Monday that the United States will remain the leader in space exploration as he began a process to return Americans to the moon.
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“It doesn’t play like a human, and it doesn’t play like a program,” said Hassabis, DeepMind CEO, an expert chess player himself. “It plays in a third, almost alien, way. It’s like chess from another dimension.”
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The 10-month launch pad build cost SpaceX around $50 million and was completed just days ago.SPACE X FOR THE FIRST time since a fiery pre-launch disaster in September last year
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It’s a low, ceaseless droning of unclear origin that rolls imperceptibly beneath our feet, impossible to hear with human ears.
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The rover is well on its way to surviving this winter, the eighth the craft has endured since touching down in January 2004
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SENS Research Foundation co-founder Aubrey de Grey believes in a world in which we no longer age.
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an annual televised awards ceremony to sprinkle some glamour –and a total of $22 million -- on some of the world’s top life scientists, physicists and mathematicians.
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Scientists have launched a project to find out if genetically editing animals could provide a more humane method of pest control.
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Webiste of our guests for our Dec. 12 show
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December 5, 2017
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Where do they even come from?
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NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has fired a set of four control thrusters for the first time in 37 years, giving the long-lived probe a new way to point itself on its cruise into interstellar space 13 billion miles from Earth.
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What happened? Why is this so hard?
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The company will be receiving 3GW of production capacity from three wind power plants.
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High Fidelity is unveiling Avatar Island, a virtual reality domain where users can buy and sell items based on a blockchain service.
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“Venezuela will create a cryptocurrency,” backed by oil, gas, gold and diamond reserves, Maduro said
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Techies about to discover themselves Esalen style
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By forcing light to go through a smaller gap than ever before, a research team at Imperial College London has taken a step toward computers based on light instead of electrons.
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a baby boy delivered at Baylor University Medical Center became the first in the nation to be born to a mom whose reproductive organs had been implanted from another woman’s body.
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Plus: soft robots get superpowers (equivalent to a duck lifting a car)
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Researchers at Columbia University and the New York Genome Center have developed a method to quickly and accurately identify people and cell lines from their DNA.
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The base can conduct bigger, more complicated research and experiments, according to space officials who announced the plan at an international symposium in Shanghai at the end of November.
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November 28, 2017
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Various entrepreneurs and investors are asked about the future of Bitcoin
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a chemical torpedo that, after injecting into mice, zooms to senescent cells and puts them out of their misery, while leaving healthy cells alone.
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Worms have been born in a Mars soil simulant for the first time, bringing the prospect of farming on the Red Planet a step closer to reality.
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Take NASA's one-ton, car-size, nuclear-powered Mars Curiosity robot: After just a year of cautious 0.09-mile-per-hour roving, small rocks began ripping large holes in its tires.
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Anheuser-Busch will be sending barley seeds, one of the beer’s key ingredients, on a rocket to the International Space Station — the first step in its research on microgravity beer.
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The winning design for the first Martian city is called Redwood Forest, is a collection of "tree habitats" connected through a system of tunnels called "roots.
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"Not everybody needs to go to a coding boot camp but they probably do need to know Excel"
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The technology described in the film already exists, says UC Berkeley AI researcher Stuart Russell
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the Relax Sleep ASMR YouTube channel has also assembled a "video" offering 10 hours of Arctic ambient music, featuring the sounds of the frozen ocean, ice cracking, snow falling, [an] icebreaker idling and [a] distant howling wind sound."
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If you hang toilet paper using the under method, then there’s a good chance your hand will brush the wall when you go for a few squares, which will cause you to potentially leave bacteria on the wall..
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Learning to intelligently respond to emotionally draining thoughts.
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There are no drugs involved but participants reported visual hallucinations akin to those induced by LSD or psilocybin (magic mushrooms).
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izwan (“Riz”) Virk is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, bestselling author, video game industry pioneer, and independent film producer.
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November 21, 2017
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It swept nearest the sun in September, then sped away again, back to interstellar space. Astronomers named it `Oumuamua. It’s dark red, very elongated and unlike anything in our solar system.
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The Tesla Semi was formally unveiled in November 2017, and a host of big-name companies have pre-ordered the trucks to try them out.
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According to panpsychism, the smallest bits of matter – things such as electrons and quarks – have very basic kinds of experience; an electron has an inner life.
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THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Commission will publish on Wednesday its plan to reverse Obama-era net neutrality rules
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New data suggests the total population of flying insects there has declined a whopping 75% in the past 27 years. And no one knows why.
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Chinese AI-powered robot Xiaoyi took the country's medical licensing examinations and passed, according to local reports.
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When blue whales come across a large patch of krill, the tiny crustaceans that make up their main meal, they do side rolls, but when they go after the smaller krill patches closer to the surface, they do full barrel rolls, shooting straight up in the wate
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Your future smartphone may be woven into your machine-washable clothes
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The 14.8-foot (4.5 meters), 5,060-lb. (2,295 kilograms) spacecraft's five instruments will let it observe Earth and its climate over the long term while also pinpointing immediate weather changes
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The first mammals emerged during the reign of the dinosaurs, adopting a nocturnal lifestyle to stay safe.
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The tool uses polarisation to generate structures such as swirling vortices, spirals, and corkscrews that not only help explore light’s properties, but also have potential practical applications, such as high-powered imaging.
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One pill in particular (GW501516) mimics the effects of endurance exercise on the gene PPAR-delta. When 516 binds to this gene it boosts a signal to burn fat.
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The chart is a plot of oil rigs in the United States compared to the number of workers the oil industry employs, and it’s an important part of a puzzle that needs to be pieced together before it’s too late.
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It also enables you to switch to "autopilot" for routine tasks like driving
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November 14, 2017
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Arrivo founder Brogan BamBrogan joined Colorado transportation officials leaders in Denver Tuesday to announce a partnership to create a network of roadside tubes at the congested heart of the city .
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An atmospheric test article of Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser spaceship made a successful runway landing Saturday at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a glide test flight performed to verify the craft’s handling qualities and guidance systems
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"Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers, new manufacturing technologies and distribution models,
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Hundreds of experts in the field of artificial intelligence have joined to send letters to Australia and Canada's head of state, asking for their countries to support a ban of autonomous weapons at an upcoming UN meeting.
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Stem cell therapy appears to be a safe and effective way to reverse age-related frailty among the elderly, suggest researchers at the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute (ISCI) at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
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VR is affecting many aspects of medical training/treatment modalities. Insights from the Exponential Medicine Conference by Singularity University.
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Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a method for rapidly 3D-printing fully functional electronic circuits such as antennas, medical devices, and solar-energy-collecting structures.
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The sKan makes heat maps of the skin to identify anomalies associated with melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, to enable earlier detection.
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November 7, 2017
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"It could be that there are a whole bunch of them out there and we haven't been able to see them, but with the LMT we have the power to see them," said researcher Min Yun.
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The mystery of why the ocean beneath the icy shell of Saturn's moon Enceladus did not freeze over long ago may now be solved
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first peek at the new healthcare improvement center, where VA officials in Washington track data and reports from health care facilities across the country and dispatch aid as quickly as possible.
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Subscribe Swirlds is a software platform that has developed the hashgraph consensus algorithm: an entirely new distributed ledger technology
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Being intelligent is great, but it does have some real downsides, according to science.
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If you'd like to know more about the good doctor
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October 31, 2017
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With three fourths of Puerto Rico still in darkness, solar brings sick kids light and hope.
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A small, recently discovered asteroid - or perhaps a comet - appears to have originated from outside the solar system, coming from somewhere else in our galaxy
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Getting ready for the Halloween festival, the NASA has released a collection of sounds of space to increase the spookiness of the celebrations.
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A humanoid named Sophia has made history by becoming the first robot in the world to be granted citizenship.
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Amazon has the most practical of reasons driving it into robotics.
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A technique known as cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) won the 2017 Nobel Prize in chemistry and has been used by scientists at Stanford University to capture the first atomic-level images of growths in batteries
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NASA and Google have teamed up to let space enthusiasts explore outer space without even having to leave their homes.
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it hosts a new platform for Augmented Reality, which integrates what the camera sees and graphics created by the device
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“Looking at gene expression … we really see an explosion, like fireworks taking off, as soon as the human body gets into space.”
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If you break a rule, they just have no tolerance.
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Japanese researchers demonstrated an artificial intelligence capable of identifying and analyzing polyps found during a colonoscopy in less than a second.
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Humans may have invented plastic that is appetizing.
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a pint-sized ultrasound machine that plugs into an iPhone
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Zapping the brain to relieve depression can spark fits of fury in a small number of people, psychiatrists warn.
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Whence does the scream derive its unmistakeability?
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October 24, 2017
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Apple, AT&T, the FCC and Alphabet’s X division have all put into motion efforts to give residents of Puerto Rico more cellular connectivity.
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It is very long — 31 miles, according to Japan’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. It must be ancient, and may be buried more than 300 feet below the surface. It might even contain ice or water.
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NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting Ceres since March 2015, has just been given a second mission extension, which will be used to bring the probe into the closest orbit yet around the dwarf planet.
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Under the deal, Delphi’s autonomous driving team will nearly double in size to about 200 people, including highly sought after engineers and scientists
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Self-taught "superhuman" AI already smarter than its makers
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Using a synthetic gene circuit, Duke University researchers have programmed self-assembling bacteria to build useful electronic devices — a first.
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Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have developed a virtual-reality (VR) system that lets you teleoperate a robot using an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive VR headset.
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That's the thrust of a white paper proposal that imagines an “autonomous vehicle corridor” replacing the I-5 freeway between Seattle and Vancouver.
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Theoretical neuroscientist, technologist and entrepreneur Dr Vivienne Ming looks to artificial intelligence and neuroprosthetics to augment humans.
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Vivienne's home site
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October 17, 2017
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"Now, for the first time, we've seen light and gravitational waves produced by the same event."
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Skyjet plane was struck as it approached Jean Lesage airport Thursday but landed safely
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Planet Nine has been the subject of debate since 2014, when it was first proposed by Caltech experts. NASA has now provided evidence that Planet Nine is somewhere out there, and the search is on to spot it.
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The L16 fits in your back pocket, yet packs 16 lenses and sensors to capture a single holy-guacamole shot
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scientists re-examining old rocks brought from the Apollo missions now believe that our orbiting satellite may have once had a thick atmosphere.
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Initial system uses micro-sized 3D liver, heart, and lung "organoids"
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The system integrates networked observations such as heterogeneous satellite data and real-time remote sensor data, with computational techniques in signal processing, visualization, modeling, and data assimilation to provide a scalable method to monitor
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October 10, 2017
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The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe
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Project Loon–an ambitious plan to deploy balloons roughly 11 miles up to create an aerial wireless network.
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a map of US wildfire locations (active/recent) and other sources of information related to wildfires, including social media.
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A 65-foot-wide asteroid is set to zip past Earth on Thursday. It won't hit us, but its proximity underscores the significance of the work Earth's planetary defenders do every day to scan the skies for approaching space rocks.
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wind farms in open ocean environments may be able to sustain higher electricity generation rates than wind farms on land
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The farm’s solar panels cover the equivalent area of more than 160 football fields as they float on top of the freshwater runoff that has filled a former mine.
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Flying cars are so passé
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What do bleach-resistant coral, mammoth-elephant hybrids, and drought- and CO2-resistant crops have in common? A growing group of scientists think they might be the key to not just fighting climate change, but recovering from its effects
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They swapped just two DNA letters!
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a new crystalline aluminum called supertetrahedral aluminum that has a density of 0.61 gram per cubic centimeter. For comparison, traditional aluminum has a density of 2.7 grams per cubic centimeter.
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the 2017 Nobel Prize in physics went to three scientists who helped detect gravitational waves, ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein.
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Filmmaker Shannon Leonard on his Millennial Digital Nomad Lifestyle
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It’s time to talk spoilers — all of them
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https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/1006/Blade-Runner-2049-Why-some-science-fiction-writers-are-tired-of-dystopias
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October 3, 2017
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Las Vegas rips apart the "good guy with a gun" justification, leaving only a flawed constitutional take to justify the madness
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Some basic steps that could make a huge difference in gun violence
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The UK, Australia, Japan and Germany have all taken measures to reduce gun homicides. Can the US learn anything from them?
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about 5 tons (4.5 metric tons) of spring barley have been harvested from the world’s first robotically tended farm. Everything from start to finish — including sowing, fertilizing, collecting samples and harvesting — has been done by autonomous vehicles
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A new set of investigations in ancient Egypt have led to some startling discoveries – the translation of an ancient papyrus, the unearthing of an ingenious system of waterworks, and the discovery of a 4,500-year-old ceremonial boat
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‘Anywhere on Earth in under an hour,’ Musk says
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A very helpful site in seeing what's what and the latest in the crypto currency world.
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September 26, 2017
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A suitcase-sized radar instrument capable of detecting human heartbeats under rubble is helping disaster relief workers on the ground in Mexico City
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The show has to reassure two (or three) generations of older fans that the 23rd-century Federation is still something they want to follow, and also endear itself to new viewers
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A fleet of small spacecraft propelled by electric solar wind sails (E-sails) could catalogue nearby asteroids like never before.
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It’s unclear who slipped the mining code into the websites.
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Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon tried to spy on Facebook by planting a mole in the company
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Days after Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, President Barack Obama privately pulled aside Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at a conference in Peru, where he asked the young billionaire to take the threat of fake news and misinformation on the site
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Danish researchers found that the type of bacteria in your microbiome may affect how much weight you may lose from a particular diet.
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a team of Canadian researchers have found that people who primarily stand at work are twice as likely to develop heart disease as their chair-dwelling counterparts.
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3D-printable, synthetic soft muscle can mimic natural biological systems, lifting 1000 times its own weight
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Apple's new A11 Bionic chip used in iPhone 8 and the upcoming iPhone X packs in an array of processing cores and sophisticated controllers, each optimized for specific tasks.
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Armed only with their phone and a virtual spray can, artists could soon leave hidden marks for others to find in the urban environment.
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Robert Scoble had predicted the next iPhone would be focused on augmented reality (AR) and transparent, like a piece of glass. It wasn’t.
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With this new integration, you can simply ask Alexa to play what you're in the mood for.
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The Food and Drug Administration today announced that it has selected nine companies to join its voluntary Pre-Cert pilot program, which is designed to foster innovation through the creation of a less restrictive regulatory framework
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4 Dubai has a target for autonomous transport to account for a quarter of total trips by 2030
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To win over skeptics, the scientific community needs to do a better job of communicating with them and using scientific data smartly, rather than simply presenting facts and figures.
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September 19,2017
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The Sun’s largest solar flare in more than 12 years – and the eighth largest since modern records began in 1996 – has been captured in high detail by a team of researchers from the University of Sheffield and Queen’s University Belfast.
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Six NASA-backed research subjects who have been cooped up in a Mars-like habitat on a remote Hawaii volcano since January emerged from isolation Sunday.
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Venus is considered as the slowest turning planet in the solar system as it rotates just once in every 234 Earth days. That's why scientists were not able to extract any satisfactory information about Venus's dark side as its nights were very very long.
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‘Planet 9’ — an unseen planet on the edge of our solar system — probably formed closer to home around the Sun than previously though
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A radical software invention by three Caltech engineers promises to allow your smartphone camera* to provide detailed information about a critical measure of your heart’s health: the “left ventricular ejection fraction” (LVEF)
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A skin patch that effectively melts excess body fat wherever you decide to apply it.
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When it comes to US presidents, we expect to see a combination of prestige and dominance. Donald Trump’s Twitter tirades and demands for fealty show he prefers the latter – an ape-like strategy for success
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Become aware of Artivism, where Art meets Activism
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September 12, 2017
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Prodrone's latest creation can also use its five-axis metal claws to perch on a fence like a bird.
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In honor of today's guest James Gleick on Time Travel
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James has written a new book on Time Travel, and a guest of Dr. Future
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Without Cassini and its forebears we would never have guessed life may lurk in the cold outer reaches of the solar system – now we know just where to look
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A facial recognition experiment that claims to be able to distinguish between gay and heterosexual people has sparked a row between its creators and two leading LGBT rights groups.
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The successful, if brief, launch yesterday of Britain’s largest rocket paves the way for the UK to take a giant leap in the space race with the development of a three-seater capsule fuelled by recycled tyres.
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Peter Harrison has been working with a team to repair degraded reefs in the Philippines by encouraging the reproduction of coral larvae.
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Many turned to Facebook Live, Periscope and Snapchat to share their experiences on live video.
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September 5, 2017
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The full House of Representatives will vote next week on bills that would allow automakers to eventually deploy up to 100,000 vehicles annually that are exempt from existing auto safety standards.
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China on Monday banned and deemed illegal the practice of raising funds through launches of token-based digital currencies.
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"It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict," he said.
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The Elon Musk company just tested its Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time, a rocket that could eventually send mankind to Mars.
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Producing exclusive video content might make the Apple TV — which lags behind Roku, Chromecast, and Fire TV in the U.S. streaming device market — more appealing to consumers.
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Cricket company Aspire has created a massive farm to raise crickets that will be used to make mainstream snacks.
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The Korean conglomerate is joining the likes of Waymo on California roads.
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Were these powerful bursts used by an extraterrestrial civilization to power exploratory spacecraft?
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Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) are considered the missing link in the evolution of the cosmic objects and could help explain how supermassive black holes are formed
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Drone pilots say they can save lives, but emergency responders want them grounded
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Tesla has started producing solar roof tiles at its factory in Buffalo, New York. Several hundred employees and machines have been installed in the 1.2 million-square-foot factory, and they are now creating tiles that can harness the sun’s energy.
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The technology is so sensitive that it can detect the tiny traces of light that pass through the body's tissue from the light of the endoscope.
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Scientists across Europe have hailed the dawn of a new era of molecular research, thanks to the official opening of The European X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL), the largest and most powerful X-ray laser in the world.
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Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a radical new method of 3D-printing laboratory-grown cells that can form complex living tissues and cartilage to potentially support, repair, or augment diseased and damaged areas of the body.
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A footprint could re-write the entire narrative of human evolution, according to the researchers that discovered it
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How did the storm rapidly blow up from Category 1 to 4, why is it so stuck over Houston, how can it possibly produce so much rain?
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In the coming weeks and months, they'll help locals assess damage to homes, roads, bridges, power lines, oil and gas facilities, and office buildings
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August 29, 2017
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The Johnson Space Center is still managing ISS mission control and Webb testing.
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SpaceX held its second Hyperloop Pod design competition for student teams at the test track built near its headquarters today.
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With each purchase of the burger chain's signature Whopper sandwich, customers can receive WhopperCoin tokens via a digital wallet.
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Lets users see, hear, and feel animated characters, replacing glasses and other devices
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It is identical to the meat we eat, down to the cellular level; it’s just the manufacturing method that radically changes.
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Astronauts traveling aboard Elon Musk's Dragon Capsule will wear form-fitting white-and-black spacesuits that bear little resemblance to their NASA forebears
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For NASA’s Saturn explorer, the end will come quickly.
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Originally developed as a way to “play back” scenes that the cars experienced while driving on public roads, Carcraft, and simulation generally, have taken on an ever-larger role within the self-driving program.
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Faceware Technologies, Maxon and Nvidia Honored for New Technologies.
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In the new film Supersapiens, writer-director Markus Mooslechner raises a core question: As artificial intelligence rapidly blurs the boundaries between man and machine, are we witnessing the rise of a new human species?
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preliminary evidence suggests ketamine's effectiveness as an antidepressant when delivered in repeated intravenous doses.
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Researchers claim to have developed a simulator which can feed information directly into a person’s brain and teach them new skills in a shorter amount of time, comparing it to “life imitating art”.
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George R. Lawrence used a system of kites outfitted with a 49-pound camera to capture aerial views of the US
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Smart phones and water just don’t mix, as thousands of people in Texas are learning to their distress during the flooding there.
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A very slippery slope..
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Our totality experience with 40K others at Symbiosis 2017 Oregon
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July 25, 2017
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By analyzing satellite images, scientists found evidence of water trapped in "glass beads" in ancient ash and rocks that volcanoes spewed across the surface of the moon
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San Francisco’s Aerial Sports League — one of the first groups in the country to organize drone competitions — turned the Palace of Fine Arts Theater into a looping, quarter-mile indoor drone drag race course
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It's the 50th anniversary of San Francisco's "Summer of Love" and the city is blooming with ways to celebrate.
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The FAA says that this year it will begin offering "instant authorization" for drone flights in controlled airspace.
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young drinkers aren't consuming as much alcohol as previous generations did. Millennials are trading beer for wine and spirit
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An unusual optic phenomenon – a huge full circle rainbow – was caught on camera from the top of a skyscraper in St. Petersburg, Russia. People on social media called the spectrum of light “gorgeous” and “round beauty.”
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The totally accurate replica of Noah's Ark in Northern Kentucky is now permanently lit up like a rainbow after dark because, as Ham tweeted, "Christians need to take back the rainbow" because "God owns it."
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Electric fields can be used to guide transplanted human neural stem cells — cells that can develop into various brain tissues — to repair brain damage in specific areas of the brain
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It’s not easy, but a newly proposed test might be able to detect consciousness in a machine
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After two years in a limited program, Glass Enterprise Edition is now available to more businesses through our network of expert partners
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Reeling from severe storm damage and crushing expenses, a cathedral to the personal growth movement will reopen next week after its rescue by an ethos far more powerful: community.
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The case contains a device that connects to the phone’s radio transmitters and alerts the owner when a cellular, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connection is being used to share or receive data.
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Researchers studying saliva have found suggestions that a “ghost” species of archaic humans contributed genetic material to ancestors of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa today.
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the regenerative medicine market has the potential to be the largest application for 3D bioprinting, and that the replacement of damaged and failing organs by 3D bioprinting is not limited to science fiction
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The U.S. Justice Department, in partnership with European investigators, has shut down two of the world’s largest Websites on what is known as the Dark Web.
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Tesla and SpaceX chief executive officer tweeted that he'd received "verbal" approval to build an ultra-high-speed rail connection capable of sending commuters from New York to Washington, D.C., via Philadelphia, in exactly—and Musk was precise here—29 mi
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Reuters has reported that iRobot, makers of the popular robot vacuum cleaner Roomba, has been collecting data as well as dust.
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“viewers will be whisked away to the crumbling medieval kingdom of Dreamland, where they will follow the misadventures of hard-drinking young princess Bean [Jacobson], her feisty elf companion Elfo [Faxon], and her personal demon Luci [Andre].
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It can be controlled from Earth
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Law enforcement agencies across the country have implemented or proposed to implement drone programs to assist in search and rescue missions, photograph crime scenes or assist during active shooter situations.
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July 18, 2017
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Bad for miners, good for gamers.and VR enthusiasts
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Allowing the blind to see or the paralyzed to feel touch
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Is this the future of fake TV news?
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Reared by machines, the male mosquitoes are infected with a bacteria that, while harmless to humans, creates nonhatching dead eggs when they mate with wild females.
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a breakthrough in security technology that will enable all businesses to encrypt their customer data on a massive scale
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The “very peculiar” pulses appear to be unique to the red dwarf
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You can relive New Horizons' epic Pluto flyby, thanks to two amazing videos NASA released Friday
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Quixotic dreamer and accomplished visionary, Frances Gabe made the house do it's own scrubbing.
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Those looking for legitimate stem cell treatments face bewildering choices about where to go and which of the many kinds of stem cells are best for their condition.
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Stem cell therapy is being developed all over the world for all kinds of ailments. But what really works right now?
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We provide a range of services to help you feel, and look, younger and healthier. These include Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber therapy, Prolotherapy, Platelet Rich Plasma Prolotherapy, Stem-Cell Prolotherapy, "Vampire" Makeover therapy, physiotherapy, and more
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A luxury space hotel in a galaxy far, far away
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July 11, 2017
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On Monday night, the probe flew over the Great Red Spot, an enormous ancient storm system that has been raging on Jupiter's surface for centuries, and got a camera closer to the spot than ever before.
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A team of NASA researchers is trying to recreate the environment on the space station to see exactly how humans impact what microorganisms colonize space habitats.
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the Hydrogen One is being touted as the world's first glasses-free hologram projector
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It’s a slightly modified version of a compound that was discovered in a plant, Galega officinalis.
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There’s a new automated propaganda machine driving global politics. How it works and what it will mean for the future of democracy.
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ShapeScale utilizes 3D body scans to create a map of where you’re gaining and losing weight/muscle on your body
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Your gut has an army of trillions of microorganisms at your disposal. Enlist them to work for you today and join the wellness revolution.
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CMU aims to map all types of knowledge in the brain
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The ability to recognize finger or hand poses will make it possible for people to interact with computers in new and more natural ways, such as simply pointing at things.
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A 911 call believed to have been triggered by a voice-activated smart device was credited with alerting sheriff's deputies in New Mexico's most populous county to a potentially deadly domestic violence situation
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Innovative Ways to both look at and resolve world issues
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Examples of what kinds of things can be done with the Chrome browser, from music light shows to global radio access.
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June 27, 2017
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SpaceX completed back-to-back launches at the weekend.
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China's central bank has developed its own cryptocurrency, which is now being tested
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Alphabet and Apple have are now working with Avis and Hertz, respectively
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Boom has a new design for its XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator jet, the working prototype aircraft it’s creating to prove out its tech before beginning work on building real, commercial supersonic passenger aircraft.
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Some believe that the federal government must step in to create a national standard pertaining to testing, crash liability and design requirements
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It looks a lot like a bee hive.
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Dismissing IoT device threats in the “internet of everything” world is easy. But privacy and personal data loss isn’t science fiction.
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Not everything goes as planned. The Museum of Failures is here to help with that reminder. Opening on June 7th this Helsingborg, Sweden museum will feature displays of man’s biggest flops
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Tesla has hired deep learning and computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy in a key Autopilot role
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A simplified explanation of blockchain, with visuals.
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A brilliant pioneering visual music maestro!
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The lab is equipped with state of the art technology to assist students with learning skills for 3D printing and scanning, laser cutting and engraving, vinyl cutting, and CNC router capabilities.
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website of guest Payson McNett, founder of the Fab Lab at Cabrillo College
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June 20, 2017
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The more we look, the more we find planets as small as ours
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One of the largest-ever implementations of the ethereum blockchain for a charitable cause has just concluded a successful trial.
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The Air Force is trusting the billionaire to launch its secret space plane this summer, and the stakes are high.
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The government can save a ton by have SpaceX launch its satellites.
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Tech companies and the president met Monday at the White House to work on a joint project: Using technology to make government more efficient.
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all of SpaceX’s work is under the construction, testing, and establishment of the Interplanetary Transport System.
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When Facebook designed chatbots to negotiate with one another, the bots made up their own way of communicating.
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Multicopter drones are breaking through the final restriction on their movement in the air: they no longer need to hover parallel with the ground.
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Invented more than 60 years ago, these radioactive material-based machines soon became a fundamental tool for cancer treatment.
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They’re almost invisible but contain a hidden code – and now their presence on a leaked document has sparked speculation about their usefulness to FBI investigators.
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treatment choices relating to medical conditions like epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, migraine headaches, etc. is one of the key drivers of the global Neurostimulation Devices Market.
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The domestic cat is descended from wild cats that were tamed twice - in the Near East and then Egypt, according to the largest study of its kind.
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A million-year-long period of extreme volcanic activity most likely paved the way for the dawn of the dinosaurs, a study suggests.
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Daily humor almost every day since 1998.
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Our guest Stan's magic summer camp for kids
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June 13, 2017
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Drones could be used for potentially life-saving delivery: automated external defibrillators, or AEDs.
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Simplified interactive design tool will let you select 3D-printed parts and off-the-shelf components
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Porn made with feminist values "is about showing an authentic representation of human sexuality,"
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Only 205 neurons required per face; findings also have artificial intelligence applications
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The latest research suggests with even more certainty that Mars was once habitable while revealing striking mineralogical diversity on the Red Planet.
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The biographical adventure of John Draper (aka Captain Crunch). Notorious 'Phone Phreak', legendary internet pioneer and ardent privacy advocate.
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This extremely complex and dangerous surgery gives Crunch a 50/50 chance of a normal life.
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A multi-party video conferencing app recommended by Captain Crunch
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An end to end encrypted text and voice communication app with no record trail. Very secure communications.
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June 6, 2017
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Apple CEO Tim Cook promised updates to each of Apple's operating systems — for the Apple TV, the Apple Watch, mobile devices and computers — plus some additional announcements
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On Saturday (June 3), the California company launched a re-used Dragon capsule for the first time, sending the robotic craft on its way to the International Space Station (ISS) on a cargo mission for NASA.
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India's space agency debuted a massive rocket on Monday, launching it from the southeastern barrier island of Sriharikota.
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It's not unusual to find that Toyota Motor Corp. has been quietly steering for the future, but some of its latest moves seem to have even jaded investors feeling revved up.
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What if Russian hackers were more anti-Clinton than pro-Trump?
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A gene-based therapy that re-engineers immune cells offers hope to patients suffering from a type of blood cancer known as multiple myeloma.
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a common, inexpensive, and safe antioxidant chemical called methylene blue could slow the aging of human skin, based on tests in cultured human skin cells and simulated skin tissue.
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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a way to structurally modify the antibiotic called vancomycin to make an already-powerful version of the antibiotic even more potent — an advance that could eliminate the threat of antibi
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'Mobile first world to AI first world'
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It might be called the Apple Neural Engine
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Gelatin sheets that transform into edible 3D shapes when dunked in water could save food shipping costs. And they're fun.
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“Throw their energy into the next set of grand challenges, developing advanced general algorithms that could one day help scientists as they tackle some of our most complex problems, such as finding new cures for diseases, dramatically reducing energy con
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Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head.
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Max-Q promises three times the performance in laptops three times thinner than before.
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The Watershed Rangers of San Lorenzo Valley Middle School give us some tips on keeping our watershed happy.
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May 30, 2017
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A volcanic eruption Sunday prompted the temporary raising of the highest aviation alert, the Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) said Sunday.
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NASA is set to reveal details about a mission to “touch” the sun in a bid to help us forecast major solar weather events that could impact Earth.
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The startup just raised $2 million in funding
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Discoveries include enormous new cyclones swirling around the planet’s poles, a magnetic field that’s much more variable than expected
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The Personal tab might not be immediately obvious to users, but it’s right there on Google Search, buried inside the More option.
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A faster, easier way to reply to email messages
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Letter from Ray Kurzwei l- People will benefit from social help, plus accelerating tech + science abundance.
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But you should only be scared if you live in a cave in Cuba.
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May 23, 2017
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The "pale blue dot" has been twinkling like a brilliant diamond in satellite images, and scientists may have finally solved the mystery of why.
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It is becoming clear that the 15km-wide asteroid could not have hit a worse place on Earth.
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Are you ready for fake audio (and maybe video) news?
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It’s not about artificial intelligence (AI) taking over — it’s about AI improving human performance
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Scientists have discovered over 50 new genes relating to intelligence—a finding that gives us a far better insight into the “genetic architecture of intelligence” and how this relates to IQ.
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Healthy baby mice have been born using freeze-dried sperm stored in the near-weightless environment of space.
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A star that acts like none other in the galaxy started acting up again over the weekend.
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May 16, 2017
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The annual $8.5 trillion construction industry may in for a major redesign
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NASA is offering prizes and money for help in making their new supercomputer Pleiades, to run old code written in Fortran run faster.
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The machine's key component isn't nuts or bolts, antennae or telescopes. It’s DMT.
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This could be the beginning of a whole new life form.
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Virtual reality (VR) technology can be an effective part of treatment for phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in combat veterans, and other mental health conditions, according to an open-access research review in the May/June issue of the Harva
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University of Florida (UF) researchers have developed a method for 3D-printing soft-silicone medical implants that are stronger, quicker, less expensive, more flexible, and more comfortable than the implants currently available
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“The human species will have to populate a new planet within 100 years if it is to survive,” famed physicist Stephen Hawking, PhD says in “Expedition New Earth” — a documentary that debuts this summer as part of the BBC’s forthcoming Tomorrow’s World
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Researchers have released a paper detailing their new Deep Photo Style Transfer. The paper explains how the researchers have augmented style transfer so that it can transfer the look of one photo onto another.
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Can capture rapid processes in chemistry, physics, biology and biomedicine that so far have never been caught on film
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The massive ransomware attack that crippled more than 20% of hospitals in the United Kingdom and disabled systems in as many as 74 countries appears to have been inadvertently stopped by a 22-year-old computer security researche
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SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload from communications satellite company Inmarsat, the fourth in a constellation created to provide high-bandwidth broadband internet globally.
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With the second generation Autopilot, Tesla is betting on computer vision and basing the system on cameras.
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A 3-D printed ovary allowed an infertile mouse to naturally mate and go on to give birth to two pups of their own
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A Bay Area event gone global!
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Sherry shares with us what's happening at this year's Bay Area Maker Faire.
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May 9, 2017
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The Air Force’s robotic X-37B mini space shuttle swooped out of obscurity today after 718 days spent in orbit on a secretive military mission
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... and a coast-to-coast Hyperloop connection
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"Instead of asking how smart we can make our machines, let's ask how smart our machines can make us."
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Desktop Metal thinks its machines will give designers and manufacturers a practical and affordable way to print metal parts.
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Study examined muscles of bonobos and found they are more closely related to humans than common chimpanzees
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by increasing the lifetime of those batteries, Tesla is reducing the cost of delivered kWh for its residential and utility-scale projects.
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affordable, easy to use underwater photography drone w 4k camera, 100m depth & 500m range.
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Create, Collaborate, Innovate, Celebrate
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His latest book, "Changing our Minds," chronicles a quiet revolution underway in our understanding of how psychedelic drugs work and how they can be used to treat depression, addiction and other disease.
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May 2, 2017
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The US space probe Cassini recently survived its first dive between Saturn and its innermost ring in order to make some observations and transmit back to NASA.
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It was the 34th mission for SpaceX, but its first flight for the Department of Defense, a customer long-pursued by company founder Elon Musk.
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a family of nine killer whales has taken part in all of the attacks, but the first killing involved 33 orcas.
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Apple is reportedly finalizing a device that rivals the Amazon Echo and the Google Home voice-activated speakers
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Tesla will have more than 10,000 high-speed Supercharger electric car chargers by the end of the year
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“Quantum dots” emit infrared light, providing highly detailed images of internal body structures
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Four new human rights laws could emerge in the near future to protect against exploitation and loss of privacy
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Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero has announced further details about the plan to carry out the world’s first head transplant surgery
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This visionary approach was inspired by ferns, which have a dense system of veins that transfer energy and water to the entire body of the plant
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A giant galactic Cold Spot may have been caused by a collision between our universe and another bubble universe.”
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The possibilities and attendant implications are staggering.,
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What really did NAB have to offer this year?
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April 25, 2017
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Pilot program will help research what people want from a self-driving taxi service.
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Today. Uber kicks off its very first “Elevate Summit,” a three-day conference in Dallas on vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft — more commonly known as “flying cars.”
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Apple's CEO was upset over the app secretly identifying iPhones, even after the app had been deleted
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T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) is open to merger talks after a federal ban expires this week
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NASA's superstar astronaut and International Space Station commander Peggy Whitson received a special long-distance call from the White House
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"We've been extremely successful in replacing the conditions in the womb in our lamb model," says Alan Flake, a fetal surgeon at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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What if these so-called pests could actually help break down polyethylene, a common and non-biodegradable plastic currently clogging up landfills around the world?
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Scientists have created a material with "negative mass", apparently upending our entire understanding of physics.
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Company announces algorithmic changes and new reporting mechanisms to prioritize high-quality results
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Doing moderate exercise several times a week is the best way to keep the mind sharp if you're over 50
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The real publicity prize will come from the first launch of US astronauts from US soil.
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Using a new technique which takes adult cells back to their embryonic form, US researchers at the Salk Institute in California, showed it was possible to reverse ageing in mice, allowing the animals to not only look younger, but live for 30% longer.
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genetic engineering to alter humans to better live on Mars.
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VR technology has quite some intriguing use cases most people would not think of at first.
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Headless AI is the application of artificial intelligence to vastly improve internal business processes.
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The Mars rover will land at an ancient lake, a volcano or on silica rock deposits
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The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think
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Dealing with the superintelligence existential risk
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Researchers are using human tissue to create devices that mimic the three-dimensional realities of organs.
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Former DARPA director reveals Facebook's secret research projects to create a non-invasive brain-computer interface and haptic skin hearing
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Augmedix, which raised $23 million in December, is poised to triple its growth year over year, said Shakil. Thus far, he said, most patients seem open to their doctors wearing the device: "We've already done tens of thousands of patient interactions."
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Their theme this year: “Diverse Life and its Detection on Different Worlds.”
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The massive Annual Conference in Las Vegas for the media broadcasting community
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April 18, 2017
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This is the 10th anniversary of F8, and you know that CEO Mark Zuckerberg will want to show off just how far Facebook has come in the past ten years.
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Chimps may have no preference between Beethoven’s classical stylings or Justin Bieber’s blend of pop and EDM.
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The NASA pictures make clear that a significant new rift has opened near the center of the glacier’s floating ice shelf — an unusual location that raises questions about how it formed
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While working at the Pentagon in the 1960s, he instigated the creation of Arpanet - a computer network that initially linked together four US research centres, and later evolved into the internet.
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Two veteran NASA missions are providing new details about icy, ocean-bearing moons of Jupiter and Saturn, further heightening the scientific interest of these and other "ocean worlds" in our solar system and beyond.
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Though the tiny icy orb meets all the criteria, it has yet to receive the official designation.
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A handful of drones controlled from the United States and a small force of offshore Marine aircraft played a decisive role in defeating Islamic State fighters in Libya last December.
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“Strange Beasts” — a five-minute short Black Mirror-style science-fiction movie produced by Magali Barbe, is in the form of an augmented-reality-game promo.
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Governors in four states have joined forces with a marijuana message for two top officials in the Trump administration.
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His arrest and takedown of his network ended a vast criminal enterprise.
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Consumers could use the tests to find out if they have a genetic risk for diseases like Parkinson's or Alzheimer's.
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Using a new genetic technique, a collaborative team of researchers has concluded that ctenophores—also known as comb jellies—were the first animals to appear on Earth.
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You first become aware that your computer has been infected when an image of Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise appears on your screen...
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MIT-UC Berkeley invention may offer hope for the two-thirds of the world’s population experiencing water shortages, including the one third living in desert climates
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As organized by our cosmic guests this week, Narayani Gaia and Elk Man.
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April 11, 2017
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Necropsy results show severe necrotic brain lesions, as a result of this infection the specimen also showed some inflammation around the heart and liver indicating the shark's immune systems were crashing.
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NASA reports it will hold a news conference 2 p.m. Thursday, April 13 to reveal "new results" regarding oceanic worlds in Earth's solar system.
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The cameras were attached to the whales with suction cups and allowed researchers to monitor little-known details about their feeding and social habits.
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NASA is encouraging people to virtually adopt a piece of Earth. It's all in an effort to get us to learn more about this planet.
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Following the successful reuse of one of its Falcon 9 rockets, Elon Musk took to Twitter to share SpaceX's next goal: to turn around its rockets for reuse within 24 hours of landing.
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This year, in 2017, the full moon celebrates the change of seasons by pairing up with the dazzling planet Jupiter
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engineers and scientists at NASA's Langley Research Center are developing an aerial drone.
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A team of astronomers says they’ve caught wind of an atmosphere around a super-Earth known as GJ 1132b, just 39 light-years away.
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Measuring 8,700 miles wide and 7,500 miles across, the mysterious spot is bigger than the Earth itself.
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Artificial intelligence software vs. humans to highlight five-day festival
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In a spectacular new view of Uranus, the Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most intense auroras ever observed on the icy planet.
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Using NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) spacecraft, astronomers have discovered that Mars has electrically charged metal atoms (ions) high in its atmosphere that can reveal previously invisible activity
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The point isn’t to relieve pain—it’s to kill
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The chronic traumatic paraplegia case marks the first time a patient has intentionally controlled previously paralyzed functions within the first two weeks of stimulation.
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Uber calls Waymo’s lawsuit ‘a misfire,’ but in doing so, had to own up to its own technological shortcomings
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http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/04/10/amazon-coms-third-party-sellers-hit-by-hackers.html
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Now capable of 3D printing in an even larger array of materials, the updated model also features a new extruder that can withstand higher temperatures.
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Researchers demonstrate by producing an inkjet-printed flexible resistive memory
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April 04, 2017
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Startup from CEO of Tesla and SpaceX aims to implant tiny electrodes in human brains
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What’s in a name? Neuralink is a lot sweeter now that a billionaire is behind it.
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The matter will be considered next week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas.
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Last year, scientists spotted signs which offered a hint that there is a huge, unseen world lurking at the edge of our solar system – ‘Planet Nine’.
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Employees have have tiny microchips embedded in their hands.
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a cap-like device that makes electric fields to fight cancer improved survival for the first time in more than a decade for people with deadly brain tumors, final results of a large study suggest.
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The tool compares the brightness of a country’s night-time lights with the corresponding electricity consumption, GDP, population, poverty, and emissions of CO2, CH4, N2O, and F-gases since 1992
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How crossing plant and animal kingdoms may lead to radical new tissue-engineering breakthroughs
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A UK-based team of researchers has created a graphene-based sieve capable of removing salt from seawater.
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A mysterious, sudden, and bright flash of X-rays was caught by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, with astronomers wondering if it signals a completely new type of cataclysmic event.
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how maple syrup extracts can boost the performance of antibiotics.
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The droplets bounce off super-hydrophobic surfaces, dissipating heat as they do
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New iPhone 8 models will be waterproof and can be charged wirelessly
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It says the CIA disguised its own hacking attacks to make it appear those responsible were Russian, Chinese, Iranian or North Korean
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While providing a rallying call for autism research, Trump himself has been the source of considerable misinformation regarding autism, a trend first noted on the campaign trail that has continued into his presidency.
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Featured speakers include author and transformational culture anthropologist Graham St. John, currently working on the Burning Progeny project, and journalist Don Lattin, with his new book "Changing Our Minds: Psychedelic Shamanism and the New Psychothe
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In the demonstration, a KT employee held a meeting with a Verizon employee in New Jersey who appeared as a hologram image on a monitor in the KT headquarters building.
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March 28, 2017
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The president will instruct agencies to rescind a moratorium on coal leasing on public lands; rewrite limits on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry; and ignore the EPA's current calculation on the costs of carbon pollution
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And the vehicle’s going to attempt another landing, too
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Radiation exposure is believed to be one of the most dangerous aspects of traveling to Mars
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Facebook officially released a tool Monday that lets its users — all desktop and mobile users in the U.S. — easily contact their local officials. It's called "Town Hall."
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"We don't want to improve nature, we want to benefit from what nature has already created."
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Because no one else can explain them.
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Holy. WOW.
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it would appear that the DNA computer in question can also have better processing power than its mechanical counterparts
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Researchers at King's College London found that the drug Tideglusib stimulates the stem cells contained in the pulp of teeth so that they generate new dentine – the mineralised material under the enamel.
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A new infrared-light WiFi network can provide more than 40 gigabits per second (Gbps) for each user* — about 100 times faster than current WiFi systems
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A Mayo Clinic study says the best training for adults is high-intensity aerobic exercise, which they believe can reverse some cellular aspects of aging.
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Could lead to an anti-aging drug that counters damage from old age, cancer, and radiation
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Compared to leaf-eaters, primates who ate fruit had around 25 percent more brain tissue.
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How will we deal with a world where leisure is abundant and there aren’t enough good-paying jobs to go around?
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Captain Crunch will be facing some very difficult surgery on March 28, 2017 involving 3 incisions, 1 in his side after removal of one of his ribs. 1 in the front of his stomach where they have to move all of his vital organs aside and 1 in his back
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March 21, 2017
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The pressurized capsule carrying about two tons of science projects splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Baja California on Sunday after a five-hour free-fall from the International Space Station.
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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson believes President Donald Trump's first proposed budget could make America "weak," "sick" and "stupid."
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a slew of discoveries have been made which can improve the usage of robots and have now even allowed for actual mind control
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Warner Bros. is in the early stages of developing a relaunch of The Matrix
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Off the coast of South Africa, as many as 200 humpback whales – typically solitary creatures – have been swarming and researchers aren’t exactly sure why.
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a new virtual reality app led by Buzz Aldrin wants to give the public the chance to get an early taste of the Red Planet.
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What if we considered the possibility that all brain functions are distributed across the brain and that all parts of the brain contribute to all functions?
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Nanowires provide higher resolution than anything achieved by other devices --- closer to the dense spacing of photoreceptors in the human retina
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How Justin Bieber, The Weeknd and other artists are sending the humble cassette tape on a comeback tour.
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A protein in the venom of potentially deadly funnel web spiders could minimise the effects of brain damage after a stroke
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The new bill adds a crewed mission to the red planet as a key NASA objective and authorizes the space agency to direct test human space flight programs that will enable more crewed exploration in deep space.
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NASA engineers are developing the Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER), a lightweight, origami-inspired bot capable of flattening itself out, squeezing into tight spots and clambering up steep slopes.
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NIH conducts clinical research trials for many diseases and conditions, including cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, allergy and infectious diseases, and neurological disorders
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March 14, 2017
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The creator of the chatbot DoNotPay, the world’s first (self-described) ‘robot lawyer,’ is giving free legal aid to refugees in the US, Canada and UK.
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gamers and activists putting their heads together to figure out how best to help countries implement the UN vision of a more just and equitable world where no one is left behind
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Google and Levi's is showing off the new "smart" jacketA new denim jacket with special material that will enable you to control the music on your smartphone or hear direction details at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
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A little more than a year after the end of World War II, a team of soldiers and scientists gathered in the desert of New Mexico to launch a V-2 missile assembled from parts captured after the German surrender.
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in the Chilean Andes has identified dust and gas in a galaxy that formed when our universe was only about 4 percent of its current age.
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The research could have huge medical and ethical implications for things such as organ donation
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plants wear down certain kinds of rocks, and how those rocks remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as they wear down—leaving just enough CO2 out there to trap solar warmth, and gradually bring summer back.
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autonomy can’t save everyone—the technology will never be perfect—and society must understand that very well before the technology arrives.
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Technology now is designed to make it “irresistible,” argues psychology and marketing professor Adam Alter
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Dendrites found to generate nearly 10 times more electrochemical spikes than neuron cell bodies
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March 7, 2017
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Documents taken from the Central Intelligence Agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, a dramatic release that appears to expose intimate details of America’s cyberespionage toolkit.
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WikiLeaks begins its new series of leaks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Code-named "Vault 7" by WikiLeaks
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NASA confirmed this week that it was forced to perform an unplanned maneuver with MAVEN to prevent it from slamming headlong into Phobos, the largest of Mars’ moons.
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The White House is proposing a 17% cut to the nation's top weather and climate agency, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
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The privately developed rocket will also be capable of 100 reuses, Jeff Bezos says.
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“If superintelligence goes inside the moving device then the world, our lifestyle dramatically changes,” he said.
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Facebook has just launched a tool that flags fakes news in the News Feed
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A major step toward long-term preservation of organs and tissues for transplantation; could lead to saving millions of human lives
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Europe launched a fourth satellite Tuesday for its Copernicus Earth-monitoring project to track changes in forest cover and air pollution
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NASA’s Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), an instrument being developed to study matter at extremely low temperatures
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Founder CEO of JYC Production Studio. Has created "Philosophy of Life," and "Zika Virus 360"
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February 28, 2017
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Last week, University of Florida did this for the first time by using BCI software to control a group of DJI Phantom drones
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Embark, a new self-driving truck startup that launched Friday, is the brainchild of University of Waterloo buddies Alex Rodrigues and Brandon Moak, also 21.
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Downed drone outside Mosul shows off-the-shelf tech creatively used to kill.
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Roger Waters, a co-founder of a rock band Pink Floyd, intends to stage a performance of its The Wall album near the construction site of a wall designed to separate the southern border of the USA and Mexico.
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Two private citizens approached the company, are ‘very serious’ about the trip
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Coming next: controlling personal computers, phones, and tablets --- and reaching out via the internet
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From what we know, it's beautiful - stretching more than a thousand miles from Savage Seamount across Three Kings Ridge, past swamp forests and volcanoes to the southern slopes.
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They're led by Alan Stern, the principal investigator for NASA's Pluto mission.
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This week the company said it will begin opening up paid live broadcasting to the general public.
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Many scientists don’t believe metallic hydrogen was created to begin with.
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Brain-like device with 500 states instead of binary could one day communicate with live neurons, merging computers with the brain
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they hope to get the spacecraft close enough to gather data that can answer crucial questions regarding the host star of the solar system.
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From education-focused robots to more diverse representation in figurines to the just plain silly stuff like Barbie on a drone
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he idea is that kids want to know what Barbie is up to when she isn’t actively being played with, and the Hologram answers that question. (Spoiler alert: Barbie loves to dance.)
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a fourth of the TRAPPIST-1 planets might be habitable, too—if we stretch our imaginations a bit.
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What happened on this day in the past..
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February 21, 2017
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Samsung itself is expected to take a big AI plunge with a smart assistant called Bixby
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"Automation is going to cause unemployment and we need to prepare for it," Cuban posted on Twitter with a link to an essay about the rise of robots in the workplace.
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Robots are taking human jobs. But Bill Gates believes that governments should tax companies’ use of them, as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of employment.
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Hiroshima University researchers and associates have developed a terahertz* (THz) transmitter capable of transmitting digital data over a single channel at a speed of 105 gigabits per second (Gbps)
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Margot Wallström’s principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely
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The bio-bots would integrate multiple cell and tissue types, including neuronal networks for sensing and processing, and vascular networks for delivery of nutrients and other biochemical factors. They might also have some of the higher-order properties of
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Arnie has his rant on a clean energy future.
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Genetically modified children could be acceptable in narrow circumstances, according to National Academy of Sciences.
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February 14, 2017
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The co-passenger satellites comprise 101 nano satellites, one each from Israel, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates and 96 from United States of America, as well as two nano satellites from India. .
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The Mars 2020 rover will delve into the planet's history of water and possible microbial life. But first NASA must decide where it'll land.
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Tesla is on now on track to potentially launch the Model 3 ahead of schedule. Hitting its marks
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Tim Cook seems to wax poetic about the potential of AR every single time the topic comes up.
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Bikkannavar says that no one would explain why he had been singled out but an agent asked him questions about his travels and his personal life.
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"It's mostly about the bandwidth, the speed of the connection between your brain and the digital version of yourself, particularly output."
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now that Trump’s chaotic twitter feed can make or break a company with a single mention, you can easily trade against positive or negative sentiment and make a little money in the process!
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Our guest this week is quantum physicist Nick Herbert and Nature Diva August O'Conner
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This project opens up a great chance to teach the public about searching for planets
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Site also pulls PewDiePie channel from preferred-advertising program for anti-semitic references
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The flying taxis are being manufactured by Chinese drone-making firm EHang and can carry a person weighing up to 100 kilograms (about 220 pounds) along with a small suitcase.
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February 7, 2017
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It’s been long discussed that robots and computers will start taking our jobs “in the near future” — well that near future is upon us.
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The technology underpinning the Intel Shooting Star drone system is fascinating in and of itself, but its potential applications are even more so.
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97 tech companies — including giants Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook — filed a joint court brief Sunday opposing the new rules.
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Merriam-Webster added more than 1,000 new words to the dictionary this week.
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The issue stems from a pattern of problems with turbine blades that deliver fuel into the rocket engines. The blades are prone to cracking, which is considered a major threat to the safety of the craft and will require a redesign of the Falcon 9’s turbo
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Reveal they are happy and want to live
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Another major milestone in artificial intelligence
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Thousands have embraced the March for Science as a wake-up call, but others say a different approach is most constructive.
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a group of Canadians have invited the residents of California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada – where Donald Trump lost to Hillary Clinton – to secede and join Canada.
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There is a Change.org a petition to ask that the Trump Audio-Animatonc will remain silent without making a speech as it is usually the case.
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Time crystals repeat in time because they are kicked periodically, sort of like tapping Jell-O repeatedly to get it to jiggle
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Starbucks says it's partnering with Amazon's voice platform to offer what it calls "on command" ordering.
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The Asilomar A.I. Principles were developed after the Future of Life Institute brought dozens of experts together for their Beneficial A.I. 2017 conference.
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A speck-size creature without an anus is the oldest known prehistoric ancestor of humans, a new study finds.
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A shift in the GI tract
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The man who inspired Google’s co-founder will join the ride-hailing startup’s nascent project.
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Bannon's the man with the power in the White House.
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President Trump’s strategic adviser is elevating a once-obscure network of political thinkers.
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Everyone who has ever worked with Bannon describes him as an intense bibliophile who is deeply familiar with history, from Europe to ancient Greece, and the literary canon.
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January 31, 2017
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Three student teams got through the engineering gauntlet and sent their Hyperloop pods through a mile-long tube to test a new mode of transportation
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It’s a street carnival for techies, here to watch students from all over the world compete in one of the first tests of a technology that some believe could be the future of travel.
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The search-engine giant has created a $2 million crisis fund that can be matched with up to $2 million in donations from employees, totaling $4 million, for four organizations
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"We're not far from talk of internment camps, I fear. It's not a time to be shy and reserved."
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a team of researchers at Stanford has developed a deep-learning algorithm that may make this vision a reality for skin cancer.
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Fitness monitors and other wearable biosensors can tell when your heart rate, activity, skin temperature, and other measures are abnormal, suggesting possible illness, including the onset of infection, inflammation, and even insulin resistance
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The skin has been used to treat burns as well as traumatic and surgical wounds in a large number of patients in Spain, according to the scientists.
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The byproducts of life are sprinkling onto lunar soil
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and his CEO Confidant, Elon Musk
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How paranoid can you be?
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January 24, 2017
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They have booked rides to space, but they need to launch before December 31st
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Musk is one of several executives attending President Donald Trump's meeting on manufacturing Monday morning.
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A "psychological vaccine" of a weakened form of a piece of fake news can make people better at identifying false claims about climate change, researchers have said.
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Can be applied to multiple stem cell types and to repair of various organ systems
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No one is saying that Sony is abandoning its newborn platform a couple months after launch. There are, however, some eyebrow-raising things to consider.
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natural microbial nanowires can be mass-produced at room temperature from inexpensive renewable feedstocks in bioreactors
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Non-invasive repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation could help people with brain injuries or dementia
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The October retreat marked the launch of a long-term, one-step-back-two-leaps-forward strategy to go far beyond the limited vision of autonomy it had previously delivered.
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In a breakthrough, scientists have created the first stable semi-synthetic organism, a single-celled bacterium, that may play important roles in drug discovery and other applications.
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solving the riddle for finding Burmese pythons in Florida's Everglades.
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Today, meet Joe Jordan, host of Planet Watch Radio, a A new exploration of what's going down in our part of the universe and what we can do about it: Solutions to big problems facing humanity today, plus fun tidbits on astronomy, weather, earth and sky.
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January 17, 2017
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U.S. astronaut Gene Cernan, who as the commander of the final Apollo lunar landing mission in 1972 became known as the "last man on the moon," died on Monday (Jan. 16). He was 82.
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The successful launch ends four months of worry and mystery
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The wave in Venus' atmosphere could be the biggest seen in the solar system.
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The most complex and expensive search in aviation history had cost around $150 million but failed to even locate the plane, let alone answer the questions surrounding its disappearance in March 2014.
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Over the past decade, an alternative digital paradigm has slowly been taking shape at the edges of the internet.
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Tesla Gigafactory Rooftop Solar System To Be ~7 Times Larger Than Largest Rooftop Solar System Todaythe rooftop portion of this planned 70 MW rooftop + ground-installation will apparently be ~7 times larger “than the largest rooftop solar system installed today.”
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Airbus is working on a single-passenger vehicle, package delivery drones, and autonomous buses.
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10 times as strong as steel but much lighter
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A special 2016 holiday massage from the Swami. He can be found at www.wakeuplaughing.com
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On the Apollo 17 mission, Commander Eugene Cernan made a speech before closing the hatch for the Lunar Module.
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January 10, 2017
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A potential solution to a troublesome sand shortage off Southeast Florida is tucked away in a massive water resources funding bill President Barack Obama signed into law last month. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article124145449.
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The material, which was inspired in part by the regenerative ability of the comic book antihero Wolverine, could someday be used to improve the lifespan of electronic devices or develop self-repairing robots.
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When you’re cleaning up after number two, don’t forget your number one gadget.
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Why does a mole rat live 30 years but a mouse only three? With $1.5 billion in the bank, Google’s anti-aging spinout Calico is rich enough to find out.
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A professor of cognitive science argues that the world is nothing like the one we experience through our senses.
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January 3, 2017
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The lawsuit argues that Apple should have added features to its iPhone that would automatically disable FaceTime based on highway speeds.
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ur source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party," Assange said.
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SpaceX is now targeting Jan. 8 for its return to flight after completing its investigation of a September launch pad explosion that destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket and a commercial communications satellite.
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TVs, drones, and self-driving cars invade Las Vegas
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The current proposed budget for NASA in 2017 is $19 billion — down $300 million from the previous year but still an improvement from the past decade, which saw the end of the space shuttle program.
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After initiating the Version 8.1 software update on New Year's Eve, Musk tweeted that Tesla would then "hold to verify no field issues and upload to rest of fleet next week."
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From Google Fiber to Pebble smart watches, several once-popular ideas faded to the background this year.
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Hans Noordsij, a Dutch Tesla driver, uploaded a Dec. 27 dashcam video that dramatically shows the new radar processing capacity of Tesla’s Autopilot and resulting auto-breaking
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An international team of researchers has developed a unique device that can detect and distinguish between as many as 17 illnesses, ranging from multiple sclerosis to several types of cancer, on the basis of a breath sample.
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GLXP is a competition, started in 2007, to spur private development of low-cost spacecraft and launch systems to land robotic spacecraft on the Moon
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the cells may be the missing link connecting the brain and the microbiota in our guts, a relationship already shown important in the development of Parkinson's disease.
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December 27, 2016
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Solar and wind is now the same price or cheaper than new fossil fuel capacity in more than 30 countries
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Salk Institute scientists have extended the average lifespan of live mice by 30 percent, by rolling back the “aging clock” to younger years, using cellular reprogramming.
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The sexually transmitted disease is a growing threat in the U.S.
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The detection of ripples in space-time and a famous cat-based paradox are featured in a list of the physics advances of 2016.
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Google’s multiple AI’s that make up a large part of the Google Brain Project have been taught not only how to create their own encrypted messages but to also use them with one another when no one else can read them.
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Dutch company CyBe Construction have placed a concrete 3D printer, the CyBe RC 3Dp, on rubber wheel tracks giving it the ability to roam around a construction site.
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While they have a speech-ready vocal tract, primates can’t speak because they lack a speech-ready brain
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The roadway is just one kilometre (0.6mi) long, but that still works out at 2,800 square metres of photovoltaic cells—enough, hopefully, to power the village's street lights.
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Elon Musk's company has become an automaker, an energy company, the builder of a massive battery factory in Nevada, and a solar company through its merger with SolarCity.
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Physicists learn how to measure antimatter using light
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It appears radiation in space can mess with the endocannbinoid system.
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December 20, 2016
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The one thing more Americans typed into Google this year wasn’t Donald Trump, or Hillary Clinton, or even iPhone 7. It was Powerball.
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Earlier this year, autonomous Bolt EV prototypes began testing on public streets in San Francisco and Scottsdale, Arizona, deployed by GM's Cruise Automation subsidiary.
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said Monday it has completed the development of 100 uniquely outfitted Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans and has delivered them to Google's Waymo, which will turn them into the industry's first test fleet of fully autonomous mini
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Engineers were working to fix programming flaw that could have deadly results for cyclists days after Uber announced it would openly defy California regulators
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The fallen smartphone firm is now betting its future on making software and managing mobile devices.
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Marapharm Ventures Inc has quickly become one of the most active names among cannabis investors
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Cannabis seems to be on everyone’s agenda as Massachusetts waits for the ballot measure legalizing recreational marijuana to take effect this week.
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Google announced Monday that it signed a new deal with Cuba's state-run telecommunications company to speed up Internet service for Cubans using YouTube and other Google products.
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In a major technological advance, physicists shone a laser on trapped anti-atoms to detect whether they behaved any differently to atoms.
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Research on artificial intelligence moves from 2-D to 3-D representations of the world—work that could lead to big advances in robotics and automated driving.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota have achieved a “major breakthrough” that allows people to control a robotic arm in three dimensions, using only their minds.
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Drone footage captured killer whales taking turns eating a shark in Northern California.
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Could one day restore sensitive touch for both hand amputees and robots
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Nowhere can dreams be more inspiring and profitable than in space.
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December 14, 2016
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Signs of some sort of tech summit
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The name is derived from its mission of finding “a new way forward in mobility.”
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Scientists have used Cold War spy satellites to reveal the dramatic environmental changes in the Himalayas.
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Chevrolet Bolt would be an affordable, connected electric vehicle built for everyone.
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The KITE experiment will use a half-mile long cable to guide some of the 500,000 chunks of space junk out of orbit
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Yes, even more so than 'Game of Thrones'
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COPY THIS URL Humans may have evolved to have faces that look uncannily similar to asses, according to new research on chimpanzee butt-recognition.
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And so it begins ...
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The new Netflix VR app allows subscribers to its movie streaming service who own Google's Daydream View headset to watch 360-degree video content.
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Researchers at Cornell University have developed a robotic hand whose soft touch resembles that of a human.
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The tiny space ship, which was dreamed up by a team of scientists including Professor Stephen Hawking, would be flown to Proxima b, a newly-discovered Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri – the closest neighbouring star to the Sun.
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I saw a guy shaving with one hand and drinking a huge-sized coffee with the other. I have no idea how he was steering.
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December 6, 2016
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but admits he's worried that he'll face prison or execution if Russia hands him over to Trump without a pardon from Obama
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The SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity was lifted by mothership WhiteKnightTwo from Mojave Air and Space Port in California
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Caesareans account for one in four births across the UK and third of births in US
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t cable TV AT&T's DirecTV Now streaming service offers more than 60 channels for packages starting at $35
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To date, a dozen platforms exist to host NASA challenges, including a site called Freelancer.com, whose latest challenge involves designing a robotic arm for a new generation of free-flying robots on the ISS.
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Could provide biomarkers to help researchers determine how factors such as disease, the environment, and different experiences impact the brain and change over time
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The product is aimed at government agencies interested in defending their airspace from potentially explosive-carrying UAV threats
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at least five gigafactories are now slated for the continent
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A Washington State University research team has successfully used a mild electric current combined with an antibiotic to kill multidrug-resistant pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 bacteria in a lab-cultured biofilm.
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the ants are found in large numbers near electrical equipment and wall sockets
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Tech-savvy rightwingers have been able to ‘game’ the algorithms of internet giants and create a new reality
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Images from Google's satellite timelapse photography highlight the changes Earth has undergone – both negative and positive – over the past few decades.
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Using ultrasound to bypass the blood-brain barrier (BBB), Columbia University researchers have succeeded in releasing drugs only in the specific area of the brain where they are needed — not in the rest of the body
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November 29, 2016
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NASA's Dawn probe is snapping stunning new views of the dwarf planet Ceres as the spacecraft pushes ever higher above the small world.
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Instead of spending money on the planet's weather forecasts, it will be appropriate if financing will be tied up to the deep and unexplored frontier.
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Silicon-based life? Scientists say that the directed evolution technique could open the door to interesting future discoveries.
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In a new study two scientists report that they believe the speed of light was actually faster right when the big bang happened than it currently is.
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Could lead to products that are more environmentally friendly and potentially much less expensive; raises questions about alien lifeforms
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The new battery would be flexible and a fraction of the size of a lithium-ion battery.
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Mice engineered to lack this gene seem to like alcohol much more and certainly choose to drink more alcohol than normal mice
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Neil Young recently celebrated his 71st birthday by traveling to Standing Rock to perform for the individuals gathered at the site protesting against the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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With a new administration talking over in Washington, D.C., what does this mean for legal marijuana?
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A little background on the legendary computer hacker, in preparation for today's show
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A poignant story suggested by our caller in the first hour of this week's show.
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November 22, 2016
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The president-elect seems to favor a strong human spaceflight program—but monitoring our own planet from space is likely not on his agenda.
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scientists have this week begun an aerial survey of Yellowstone that actually looks well into the earth, "visualizing" the geology and water as much as 1,500 feet below the surface
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Security contractors recently discovered preinstalled software in some Android phones that monitors where users go, whom they talk to and what they write in text messages.
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http://www.techtimes.com/articles/185626/20161114/nasa-will-launch-swarms-of-cyclone-tracking-microsatellites-into-space.htm
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Teamwork and sticky feet move mountains
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HuffPost/RYOT has been tapped by Google to serve as the VR “breaking news” unit for its new Daydream platform and headset.
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using the immersive experience to show consumers what it's like to be in a fatal drunken-driving accident.
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Many South Bay residents on Tuesday afternoon reported hearing a loud boom that rattled windows.
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researchers* have found that transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS) of the brain can improve people’s multitasking skills and help avoid the drop in performance that comes with information overload.
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It’s impossible to know for sure what’s happening inside this chimpanzee’s mind, but it’s probably safe to say it doesn’t have the same ability to comprehend what’s happening.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said it's a "fundamental misunderstanding" to believe eliminating zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) credits would hurt Tesla competitively.
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That's one reason why Facebook and Google would want to fight bogus stories.
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A new study suggesting that the seemingly impossible space engine may actually work has passed the peer-review process.
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The most advanced weather satellite ever built rocketed into space Saturday night, part of an $11 billion effort to revolutionize forecasting and save lives.
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he is considering “how much it will cost our companies” when it comes to climate change, and that when it comes to withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, “I’m looking at it very closely. I have an open mind to it.”
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Many SFGATE readers had some funny things to say about the phantom quake.
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November 15, 2016
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what it means for the realm of hackers and spies
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Trump has said little about Silicon Valley, but what could happen?
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100.0% ( 24,847 of 24,847 ) precincts
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Andrew Torba, founder of conservative social network Gab.ai, has been removed from Y Combinator’s alumni network.
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Just how might changing Federal government policies affect Tesla?
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All the ballots haven't been counted yet, but it looks like Hillary Clinton really did win the nationwide popular vote — if not the presidency — by a considerable margin.
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Google announced Monday night that it will stop allowing fake news sites to use its ad software.
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"Mars" portrays the story of the first crewed mission to the Red Planet with a unique storytelling format.
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First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki.
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The November "supermoon" is extra close to Earth today (Nov. 14), providing an extraordinary sight for skywatchers
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November 8, 2016
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There are 17 propositions appearing on the November 8 ballot
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the problem “basically involves liquid helium, advanced carbon fiber composites, and solid oxygen. Read more at http://hothardware.com/news/musk-offers-explanation-for-falcon-9-explosion#Lvc85OdPBw0pb4kc.99
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automation of U.S. factories is a much bigger factor than foreign trade in the loss of factory jobs
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A commercial diver may have discovered a lost decommissioned US nuclear bomb off the coast of Canada.
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" the attack is a worm, and can jump from connected device to connected device through the air. It could potentially knock out an entire city with just one infected bulb at the root "within minutes."
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The World’s Advanced Saving Project (WASP) has unveiled the world’s largest delta-style 3D printer, which can build full-size buildings out of mud and clay for nearly zero cost.
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Mind-wandering is not far from creative thinking.
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New study demonstrates silent, eyes-free text entry
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Users will have just five seconds to take back the email after it's been sent
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The United States Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane would make a nice medical-evacuation vehicle for the International Space Station (ISS), some researchers say.
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November 1, 2016
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New PCIe solid-state drives could double the read/write performance of last year's model.
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Previously believed to be only man-made, a natural example of a functioning gear mechanism has been discovered in a common insect - showing that evolution developed interlocking cogs long before we did.
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Last year, Netflix spent nearly $5 billion on content, while Amazon spent $2.67 billion — that's more than twice the amount each spent in 2014.
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“This has implications for plans for sample return from Mars and for future human missions.” --- NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay, PhD
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the “peacock begonia,” dwells in the dim rain forests of southeast Asia and has adapted to the low levels of sunlight there by developing leaves that are an iridescent azure.
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An artificial intelligence method developed by University College London computer scientists and associates has predicted the judicial decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with 79% accuracy
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"The average cost per lawsuit: at least about $350,000"
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Worried about machines trying to get us? Seems to me, they already are.
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the key players responsible for the bacteria-gut-brain axis—the nervous system of the intestines, the immune system, the vagus nerve, and possibly gut hormones and neurotransmitters (e.g., serotonin and dopamine)—are involved.
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A new design for transistors which operate on ‘scavenged’ energy from their environment could form the basis for devices which function for months or years without a battery, and could be used for wearable or implantable electronics.
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Researchers have engineered material that could lead to a new generation of computing devices, packing in more computing power while consuming a fraction of the energy that today's electronics required.
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Inexpensive new nanoparticle generates toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) for targeted attack of cancer cells
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In The Social Organism, Luckett and Casey offer a revolutionary theory: social networks — to an astonishing degree — mimic the rules and functions of biological life.
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Embryonic neural stem cells transplanted into damaged areas of the visual cortex of adult mice were able to differentiate into pyramidal cells — forming normal synaptic connections, responding to visual stimuli, and integrating into neural networks
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MIT researchers have engineered a bionic plant that can detect explosives and send a warning signal — without wires! — to scientists nearby.
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a brief synopsis of Prop 64
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Latisha Pepper makes case against Prop 64
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Recreational Pot Will Be Legal Just About Everywhere Soon
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Prop 61 would lower the cost of prescription drugs. How? By having the state of California pay no more than what the Veteran Administration pays. You see the VA gets a big discount – about 40% -- when it buys drugs for veterans.
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What could happen if we pass Proposition 64?
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October 25, 2016
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What makes Mirai, and the attack on Dyn DNS, really scary is that most of the attacking devices aren’t actually computers
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Researchers sift through clues after Schiaparelli crash in hopes of averting mistakes in 2020 mission.
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Last week, self-driving truck start-up Otto teamed with Anheuser-Busch to successfully deliver a semi-tractor full of beer from Fort Collins, through Denver and on to the southern Colorado city in the shadow of Pikes Peak.
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Tesla will send an Autopilot-enabled vehicle across the country, from Los Angeles to New York, sometime in 2017,
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A fast-approaching internal deadline could end the tech giant’s automotive ambitions.
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Elon Musk wants to launch a million people to Mars in the event some apocalyptic disaster eventually ruins Earth.
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GOOGLE REVEALED WEDNESDAY it had been released from an FBI gag order that came with a secret demand for its customers’ personal information.
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Google’s smartphone, in many respects, is being afforded a pass that Apple’s iPhone rarely, if ever, receives.
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has obtained low-resolution photos that appear to show the wreckage of ESA's Schiaparelli lander.
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Telling little fibs leads down a slippery slope to bigger lies — and our brains adapt to escalating dishonesty, which makes deceit easier, a new study shows.
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A satellite image showing peculiar hexagonal clouds over the ocean area known as the Bermuda Triangle is prompting speculation about whether they may represent a recurring phenomenon responsible for decades of unexplained disappearances in the region.
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October 18, 2016
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Interesting to see whats possible with swarm drone capabilities
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Due to intelligence genes being carried on the X chromosome, women are more likely to pass them on as they have two, compare to one for men.
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"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
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Milk from Tasmanian devils could offer up a useful weapon against antibiotic-resistant superbugs, according to Australian researchers.
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As the other spacecraft gets into orbit
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October 11, 2016
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The Russians engage in a sloppy disinformation effort and, before the day is out, the Republican nominee for president is standing on a stage reciting the manufactured story as truth
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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016 was awarded today to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, PhD, Sir J. Fraser Stoddart,PhD, and Bernard L. Feringa, PhD, for their design and production of molecular machines. They have developed molecules with controllable movements.
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Apparently after Camille shot this footage of the “All-Seeing Trump,” he was packed in a van and driven away. Maybe he’ll be making appearances around the city today.
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Iceland has found nine top bankers guilty and sentenced them to decades in jail for crimes related to the 2008 economic crash.
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Company asks all telecom carriers and retailers selling Note 7 globally to stop sales and exchanges
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the electric car maker wants to eventually add 4.6 million square feet of space to its factory’s existing 4.5 million square feet.
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Your living room will temporarily look like a municipal power grid diagram, get over it
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A concept for remote-controlled “avatar” humanoid robots, presented by ANA, Japan’s largest airline, was named one of the three “top prize concept” finalists at XPRIZE’s recent inaugural Visioneers event.
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A first step towards future self-assembled solid-state biomedical and electro-optical nanodevices
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Dr. Abraham shares stories from his early and formative days in Santa Cruz
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October 4, 2016
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new Pixels phones, Daydream VR, Google Home, Google WiFi, and Chromecast
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Here's a list of the 2016 Nobel Prize winners
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The make-up of the bacteria found in human faeces may influence levels of dangerous fat in our bodies, say researchers from King's College London.
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The unit is extremely small and portable, but still packs all the high end features DJI drones are known for
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Revolutionary Process for Secure Body Password Transmission
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People who tell themselves to get excited rather than trying to relax can improve their performance during anxiety-inducing activities such as public speaking and math tests.
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rumors suggest we’ll see a ton of new hardware unveiled, including new Pixel smartphones running stock Android (replacing the Nexus lineup of devices)
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On Monday the social network introduced a new tab in its mobile app called Marketplace, which lets you buy and sell things to people in your city.
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Universal time doesn’t add up.
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At stake is roughly $70 billion worth of Pentagon satellite launch contracts through 2030, plus what some members of Congress argue is the safety of future astronauts.
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September 27, 2016
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The discovery could hasten the search for alien life.
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SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk will discuss plans for colonizing Mars at a space conference in Mexico on Tuesday.
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images show the engine firing and the “Mach diamonds” produced – a standing wave pattern that appears in supersonic rocket engine exhaust plumes.
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For best results, ride in the back, where — roller coaster afficionados all seem to agree — the thrills are greatest.
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A look at some of the claims in the debate and how they compare with the facts:
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The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, or FAST, is named after its diameter, which, at 500 meters, is 195 meters wider than the second-largest telescope of its kind, the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
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NBC has teamed with AltSpaceVR to stream the U.S. presidential debate Monday night Sept. 26 live in virtual reality for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Samsung Gear VR devices.
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September 20, 2016
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"Within five years a fully autonomous fleet of cars will provide the majority of Lyft rides across the country," said Zimmer, indicating that early versions of such cars have been in operation in San Francisco and Phoenix.
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Rushing out their new phone ahead of the iPhone 7resulted in some quality control missteps that would ultimately lead to the debacle the company is in now.
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The smart messaging app, Allo is a major step forward in the field of AI and machine learning, as it comes baked in with the new and smarter, Google Assistant.
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DARPA’s recently announced Aerial Dragnet program is seeking innovative technologies to “provide persistent, wide-area surveillance of all unmanned aerial systems (UAS), such as quadcopters, operating below 1,000 feet in a large ci
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Montreal researchers clear a major hurdle in the fight for longevity
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Official site of Blume, where Alcohol can be a gas..
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But what he saw half-buried in the sediment was even more than he could have hoped for: "We have the first human skeleton recovered from an ancient shipwreck since the advent of ancient DNA studies," Foley said. "We can investigate this individual in a wa
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September 13, 2016
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asking the public for help in nailing down the elusive cause
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a host of new and updated hardware and software.
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will stand taller than SpaceX's Falcon Heavy and United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy, and the three-stage approaches the stature of NASA's Saturn V
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In just a few days, the Rosetta orbiter will end its two-year mission by crash landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
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The mission is the first flyby of its kind in a series intended to dig deeper into what makes Jupiter tick.
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With an EPA-certified range of 238 miles on a charge and a base price under $30,000 after tax credits, the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt aims to rewrite the book on electric vehicles
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Tesla Motors TSLA -1.52% said Sunday it will improve the radar systems in its electric cars to address safety concerns about its semi-autonomous AutoPilot feature
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Google has lost its first-mover advantage to other companies pursuing more practical, less-ambitious self-driving car services
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Placing a historical context on LA's Electronic Cafe, a place in the 1980's and 90's where many pioneering projects combining art and tech took place.
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Oh, and they don't explode
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It now appears that microbes are necessary "partners" for the betterment of our immune systems.
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A fascinating easily comprehensible visual experience of microbes overcoming antibiotics.
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EMPOWERED THROUGH IMMERSIVE EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
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September 6, 2016
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The final resting place of the European comet lander Philae is a mystery no more. After nearly two years of searching, the lander's shadowy grave on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has been found
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A satellite co-leased by Facebook and intended to bring internet access to parts of sub-Saharan Africa, was destroyed on a launchpad in Florida
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Apple Inc., Google and Amazon.com Inc. were among the tech leaders that rallied behind Microsoft Corp. in its battle to stop the U.S. government from conducting so-called sneak-and-peek searches of customer e-mails.
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The missiles launched by North Korea today could be proof that China is arming the rogue state and flouting international sanctions, a former US defence chief believes.
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New compact spherical tokamak design may overcome physics challenges
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Forget about listening to ourselves. In the age of data, algorithms have the answer, writes the historian Yuval Noah Harari
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Two low-energy innovations that promise to transform home and business data communications
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Gliimpse, founded by ex-Apple engineer Anil Sethi in 2013, lets users curate their medical records and other health information into a secure, life-long personal health story.
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Researchers at the company could unveil a quantum computer that is superior to conventional computers by the end of next year.
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Angler phishing attacks target customers looking for help on Twitter by posting from fake accounts.
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August 30, 2016
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shouldn’t there be more innovative and purpose-driven organizations birthed from Burning Man?
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Six scientists are wrapping up Sunday a year of near isolation in a Mars simulation on a Hawaii mountain.
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The batteries should last twice as long as comparably sized rivals.
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New noninvasive technique may lead to low-cost therapy for patients with severe brain injury
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Researchers found that while the galaxy is as massive as the Milky Way, only one-hundredth of 1 percent of it is in the form of stars and what is considered as normal matter.
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The probe soared 2,600 miles above Jupiter at 130,000mph, five years after leaving Earth to survey the giant planet
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The major customer base is a community of “biohackers” in Silicon Valley who hope nootropics will give them an edge in work and life.
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an extensive compilation of drugs, compounds and supplements (including natural products and nutraceuticals) with anti-ageing properties that extend longevity in model organisms
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The 3D-printed "octobot" is powered by oxygen released from hydrogen peroxide and controlled by microfluidics --- no electronics
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...let's not lose our minds
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the lens will go beyond the standard 20/20 vision, giving patients the super power of seeing three times better.
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Proponents say the tiny, chirping bugs are high in protein and iron and can serve as a sustainable alternative to beef or chicken. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-08-silicon-valley-power-brain-food.html#jCp
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Uber will use Volvo’s cars for its next stage of self-driving development
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Nootropics are trending right now. A crop of new companies are selling these so-called productivity or smart pills.
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See the Playa live as this year's Burning Man unfolds before your eyes.
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August 23, 2016
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The age of the hirable robotaxi for the masses will begin within the next twelve (12) calendar days.
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Ultralight flying objects with collective behaviour
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owever, now if you try to visit such URLs and view the information, you may get three-year jail sentence as well as invite a fine of Rs 3 lakh.
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A thought experiment at Burning Man. Hint: take the red pill.
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These provocative conversations reveal the ways in which the online world has transformed how virtually everything in the real world works, from business to education, space travel to healthcare, and the very heart of how we conduct our personal relation
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August 16, 2016
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And the fourth drone ship landing
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The canyons, which appear to contain the same liquid methane seen in Titan’s oceans, represent the first direct evidence of liquid-filled channels on the moon.
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A team of astronomers think the torrid and toxic world was once a cozy home for potential life
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Microsoft inadvertently published a Secure Boot policy that acts as a backdoor that allows for the UEFI firmware feature to be disabled and for anyone to load unsigned or self-signed code.
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Science fiction is inching closer to reality with the development of revolutionary self-propelling liquid metals – a critical step towards future elastic electronics.
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In the case of Poe, it was his fiction that was, well, stranger than fiction.
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Poe's cosmic prose poem, written shortly before he died, about the universe. He seemingly predicted the Big Bang years before anyone else.
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Seth Rogen (Freaks and Geeks, Knocked Up, Superbad) and collaborator Evan Goldberg are writing the script for a pilot for a new “half-hour comedy television series about the Singularity for FX
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“We might not convince die-hard believers that their beloved secret spraying program is just a paranoid fantasy, but hopefully their friends will accept the facts.”
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Scientists Monday attributed most of the methane emissions contributing to a "hot spot" the size of Delaware recorded over the Four Corners region almost two years ago to natural gas production equipment and infrastructure.
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A worldwide research team has built a transistor that consists of a single copper phthalocyanine molecule, a dozen indium atoms and an indium arsenide backing material.
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We challenged seven physics experts to explain quantum computing to the rest of us, in the time it took Justin Trudeau to do so
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The chip giant hopes that VR, connected cars and other devices will play to its strengths.
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August 9, 2016
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Applications include water purification, fuel cells, and selective drug delivery
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Could substantially decrease greenhouse gas emissions and reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil
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Instagram Stories may look like a shameless grab for Snapchat users, but it also reflects a craving for ephemerality.
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a documentary about government secrets and one man's journey to gain back his reputation through speaking the truth. Published for the first time, personal documents, interviews and unspoken factual encounters are revealed in this notable account by Davi
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It also enlarges your brain and lowers dementia risk --- and why fidgeting helps prevent arterial dysfunction from sitting and improves learning
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System would use microbes for manufacturing small amounts of vaccines and other therapies.
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A new prototype display could show 3-D movies to any seat in a theater — no eyewear required
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August 2, 2016
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The research, conducted by the University of Minnesota, identifies a virulent strain of humans who are virtually immune to any form of verifiable knowledge, leaving scientists at a loss as to how to combat them.
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The contrarian venture capitalist believes transfusions may hold the key to his dream of living forever.
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The Theranos Sample Processing Unit, or "miniLab" — was the size of a computer printer, and will be able to run a battery of tests on just 160 microliters of blood taken from a pricked finger.
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Meanwhile, hampered by new FAA rules, Amazon Prime Air testing moves to the UK
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A team of engineers from Washington University in St. Louis is looking to capitalize on the sense of smell in locusts to create new biorobotic sensing systems that could be used in homeland security applications.
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Facebook and Twitter have already become go-to news sources.
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July 26, 2016
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The world's first round-the-world flight to be powered solely by the sun's energy made history Tuesday (local time) as it landed in Abu Dhabi, where it first took off on an epic 25,000-mile journey that began more than a year ago.
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Facebook Connectivity Lab announced today the first full-scale test flight of Aquila — a solar-powered unmanned airplane/drone designed to bring affordable internet access to some of the 1.6 billion people living in remote locations with no access to mobi
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On 21 July, a crew of six astronauts splashed down in scuba gear into the Aquarius Reef Base, an underwater research station 19 metres below the waves off the coast of Florida.
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Google's popular messaging app Hangout will be phased out slowly after the launch of Android Nougat which will have a new inbuilt messaging app called 'Allo' and 'Duo'.
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Astronomers announced this week the sharpest results yet on the properties of dark energy.
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Elon Musk revealed his new master plan for Tesla today (July 20) in a blog post published on Tesla’s website:
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The densest data storage device ever invented.
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Can you imagine a world where robots do basic jobs and allow people to work only 10 hours a week?
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The latest in the world of graphics and animation
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By stepping into the middle of our Presidential race, the obvious Russian front has outed themselves
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July 19, 2016
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These contrarians support Trump's risk-taking, pro-business mien and oppose expanding the H-1B work permit visa program, which allows U.S. companies to employ foreign workers in STEM fields.
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Bezos plays an alien (species unknown) in “Star Trek Beyond,”
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Nintendo's market cap also doubled to $42.4 billion. That puts it above the value of Japanese electronics maker and video game hardware rival Sony.
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SpaceX pulled off its fifth rocket landing in the last seven months early Monday morning (July 18), this time bringing a booster back during a successful cargo launch toward the International Space Station (ISS).
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He said "significant improvements" look possible that would be beamed to Tesla's electric cars wireless via over-the-air updates.
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the company unleashed VR Funhouse, an immersive collection of arcade-style mini carnival games that is meant to showcase what’s possible in virtual reality
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Some birds have been found to be as intelligent as mammals. And some that can see ultraviolet (UV) light live in a super-sensory world apart, able to transmit and receive signals between each other in a way that is invisible to many other species.
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MRI study reveals different parts of the brain involved with younger vs. older subjects
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Vulcan and Show of Force, in partnership with FilmBuff, will produce a nonpartisan slate of 21 shorts dubbed 'We the Voters: 21 Films for the People.'
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it has shifted in such a way — by expanding subtropical dry zones, located between around 20 and 30 degrees latitude in both hemispheres, and by raising cloud tops — as to make global warming worse.
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By flashing images and biochemically stimulating optic nerves, researchers say they motivated the regrowth of nerve cells allowing the eye to deliver visual data to the brains of blind mice.
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According to Stephen Hawking , Brexit will harm United Kingdom Science
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Unprecedented window into how the brain perceives the visual world
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Human clinical trials are set to start in July in Minnesota
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The movement of bacteria could be used to provide a power source for electronics, according to a team of scientists from Oxford University. The suggested system involves the turning of cylindrical rotors and is “self-organized.”
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According to a new study, “Fossorial Origin of the Turtle Shell,” turtles’ shells were originally developed to help them burrow underground, not to offer protection as we previously thought.
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Ford Motor Co. is among a group of investors putting seed money into 3D mapping startup Civil Maps as the automaker looks for new ways to push forward the development of self-driving cars.
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A new system developed at Oxford could turn any vehicle into a driverless one.
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The design of the internet of everything, and the nature of the cloud that it floats in, is to track data.
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July 12, 2016
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Concerns raised by the first reported fatality in a semi-automated car were expected to speed adoption of more sensitive technology to help vehicles see and drive themselves safely
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This message will self-destruct in __ seconds
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Chinese traffic police already testing system
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Cabin Spacey wants to convert the tops of Berlin's buildings into a new source of housing.
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Neurons’ activity seemed to improve by adding IGF-1, which is known to enhance connections between neurons
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Why? To protect us, future consumers and adopters, and society from machines of malice --- whether eventually by AI superintelligence, or right now by corrupt human intelligence.
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A new dwarf planet has been discovered in the icy realms of space beyond Neptune, researchers said Monday.
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July 5, 2016
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The people behind NASA's Juno mission rode a wave of emotions Monday night (July 4) as the spacecraft approached Jupiter
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NASA spacecraft Juno successfully entered the gas giant's orbit
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Successfully entering orbit around Jupiter, NASA spacecraft is set to probe the gas giant’s deepest mysteries
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The version 8.0 update includes plenty of new features that you can read about here, and now a new report adds some more detail ahead of the new software’s release.
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A security software maker says that Chinese cybercriminals have gained access to millions of smartphones around the world.
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Looking back in time at 250,000 galaxies --- some within the first billion years after the Big Bang
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Based data gathered by NASA's Dawn, new study claims the spots are deposits of sodium carbonate that could have been formed by crystallization.
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The $180 million project has the ability to find “strange objects” for better understanding of the universe’s origin, Zheng said, adding that the radio telescope will be a global leader for next 10 to 20 years.
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An artificial synapse that emulates a biological synapse while requiring less energy has been developed by Pohang University Of Science & Technology (POSTECH) researchers* in Korea.
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"Genetic fuzzy tree” software enables Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles to function 250 times faster than humans
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Primatologist creates ‘humankind evolution bed’, which apes key features of a treetop lair to provide a good night’s sleep
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iPhone® users will be able to sign up to be an organ, eye and tissue donor right from the Health app with the release of iOS 10.
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On May 20th, at the Little Las Vegas Chapel, Chervenak was married to the love of his life, his Apple iPhone
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New research is aiming to chemically grow unmanned aerial drones to make them quicker to produce. - See more at: http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/296353/scientists-are-attempting-to-grow-drones#sthash.udercJjV.dpuf
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Google is working on new features to bring the web to VR, according to Google Happiness Evangelist François Beaufort.
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June 27, 2016
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Thousands of onlookers gawked as a column of flame exploded across the desert floor outside Promontory, Utah, today (June 28) during a test of the engine that will power NASA's next-generation rocket.
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The Cosmos computer will plot the position and movement of billions of galaxies, black holes, supernovas and other cosmic structures
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MarsOne has completed testing different types of crops in simulated Martian soil, to see which ones could grow on Mars.
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They are looking for advanced safety features like blind-spot warning, crash mitigation, lane departure warnings and advanced headlights.
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The World Economic Forum’s annual list of this year’s breakthrough technologies, published today, includes “socially aware” openAI, grid-scale energy storage, perovskite solar cells, and other technologies with the potential to “transform industries,
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crowd-based capitalism” — a new way of organizing economic activity that may supplant the traditional corporate-centered model.
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Cancer cells appear to depend on an unusual survival mechanism to spread around the body, according to an early study led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL)
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The Runcible is an experimental new take on the phone from Berkeley, California, company Monohm. The palm-sized device is designed to look more like a pocketwatch than a phone.
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Want a round tablet? Here's your chance!
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June 14, 2016
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all the news about the latest enhancements coming to your Mac, your iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
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The new software enhancements will be available for us in the fall. Here are the top ten takeaways:
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Alongside Microsoft and Sony, both of whom have new consoles in the works, publishers Ubisoft and Square Enix hold events to roll out news for franchises like Final Fantasy and Assassin’s Creed.
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Publishers altering efforts that would be "nonresponsive to the national mood."
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Sony focused on games today; Microsoft didn’t.
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Know everything about your business contact before you even walk into the room.
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The newly confirmed behemoth has been dubbed Kepler-1647 b, and it sits 3,700 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.
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Two million years ago, a planet was born in the constellation Orion. Today, astronomers say it could be in danger of death... at the hands of its own sun
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The space agency signed an agreement with the UAE's space agency in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, as it faces questions about the feasibility of a mission to Mars by the 2030s.
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when the freighter is a safe distance from the ISS, controllers on the ground will deliberately light a large fire inside Cygnus to test how flames spread in microgravity.
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Destroys bacteria cell membrane, blocking development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
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Stanford researchers now actively recruiting 156 patients for new trial
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The way eels leap out of the water to defend themselves is completely crazy.
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In one of the most isolated places in the Globe, The 'Spacecraft Cemetary' provides a place to die.
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For Sunspring's exclusive debut on Ars, we talked to the filmmakers about collaborating with an AI.
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June 21, 2016
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New drone rules from the Federal Aviation Administration limit most small commercial drone operations to daylight hours and require operators to get certified every two years.
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Local Motors transforms the passenger experience with IBM Watson Internet of Things technology; On roads now in Washington, DC and soon in Miami-Dade County and Las Vegas
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Together Microsoft and Los Angeles-based Kind Financial will roll out government-facing contracts for a seed-to-sale tracking system and other business tools.
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China on Monday revealed its latest supercomputer, a monolithic system with 10.65 million compute cores built entirely with Chinese microprocessors.
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An FDA-approved exploratory clinical trial of a prototype wearable artificial kidney (WAK) — a miniaturized, wearable hemodialysis machine
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Small electrical currents appear to activate certain immune cells to jumpstart or speed wound healing and reduce infection when there’s a lack of immune cells available, such as with diabetes, University of Aberdeen (U.K.) scientists have found.
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Even small increases in consumption could bring substantial health benefits
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Swallow massive lake, regurgitate, repeat
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Physicist Nick Herbert's report on a conference on human superpowers which featured philosophers, historians, psychologists and physicists.
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Ounce for ounce, bird brains have significantly more neurons than mammal or primate brains
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Elon Musk now says the Tesla “Model S floats well enough to turn it into a boat for short periods of time.”
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Elon Musk's next goal is to design a robot to do your chores.
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An collaborative interactive art project between continents and cultures
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A goto place for learning about what the latest is in the world of VR/AR and mixed realities.
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June 7, 2016
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NASA astronaut Jeff Williams opened the hatch leading to the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) for the first time today (June 6) at 4:47 a.m. EDT
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The robot is about two feet high and rolls around on wheels, with a display that can show its animated face or be used for other things like making video calls and streaming movies.
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Should we spend a trillion dollars to replace each of our thousands of nuclear warheads with a more sophisticated substitute attached to a more lethal delivery system? Or should we keep only enough nuclear weapons needed for a devastatingly effective dete
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Bernie Sanders has a history of backing pro-science stances:
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An outline of issues from survellance to space education on the candidates pov
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The Republican frontrunner has given hints about his take on scientific topics; now experts weigh in to say what a Trump presidency might mean for science
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Clutter is a special challenge for robots, but new Carnegie Mellon University software is helping robots cope, whether they’re beating a path across the Moon or grabbing a milk jug from the back of the refrigerator.
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OUR DJI PHANTOM DRONE Teaching Twitter a lesson on drone flight and live stream broadcasting
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Carnegie Mellon University researchers may devised an effective way to improve transparency and head off confusion or possibly legal issues.
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Cornell researchers have developed an interactive prototyping system that prints a wire frame of your design as you design it. You can pause anywhere in the process to test or measure and make needed changes, which will be added to the physical model stil
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A few decades from now, asteroids may be flying themselves to mining outposts in space, nobly sacrificing their abundant resources to help open the final frontier to humanity.
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Leading genomics experts have announced Genome Project-write (HGP-write), which aims to synthesize entire genomes of humans and other species from chemical components and get them to function in living cells.
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May 31, 2016
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Something strange is happening to the oceans. As coral reefs wither and fisheries collapse, octopuses are multiplying like mad
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Robot unfolds from ingestible capsule, removes button battery stuck to wall of simulated stomach.
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Facebook is continuing to devote resources to fine-tuning how 3D audio impacts viewer perceptions in virtual reality.
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A new tool called "LIGR-Seq" enables scientists to explore in depth what non-coding RNAs actually do in human cells
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Facebook’s newest feature could fundamentally change how you watch video.
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Ingredients crucial for the origin of life on Earth, including the simple amino acid glycine and phosphorus, key components of DNA and cell membranes, have been discovered at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Researchers at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Australia have discovered a new way to trigger cell death that could lead to drugs to treat cancer and autoimmune disease.
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The device is basically a single-layer, organic, nanometer-scale transistor on a glass slide.
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May 24, 2016
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The billionaire, who called global warming a hoax, warns of its dire effects in his company's application to build a sea wall.
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Three interesting narrative lines propel “The Prodigy’s Cousin: The Family Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Talent,” a new book by psychologist Joanne Ruthsatz and her daughter, science writer Kimberly Stephens.
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3D metal structures can be printed in midair, without the need for anything supporting them.
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Is digital information overload also killing our capacity for contemplative, abstract thought --- permanently altering the wiring and circuitry of our brains?
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tech entrepreneurs find creative ways to blow off steam in their spare time.
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A fossil from a newly discovered animal that didn’t look like it was supposed to has given scientists a window into the evolutionary period just after the worst mass extinction event the planet has ever known.
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The nation flight-tesay night ted its robotic space plane prototype, known as the Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD), for the first time Sund(May 22
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May 17, 2016
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Genetically engineered crops are safe for humans and animals to eat and have not caused increases in cancer, obesity, gastrointestinal illnesses, kidney disease, autism or allergies, an exhaustive report from the National Academies of Science
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Big trucks might be more palatable financially and to regulators
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Moving at an incredible 17,500 miles (28,164 kilometers) per hour, the ISS takes about 90 minutes to finish a complete orbit around our planet at an altitude of 240 miles (386 kilometers). -
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White House to study benefits and risks of AI, ways to improve government
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After 4 billion years of evolution by one set of rules, our species is about to begin evolving by another.
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even planets around a dying star – or in so-called red giant neighborhoods – can still support life
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The space agency made 56 more patents freely available for use, as well.
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Android N and virtual reality will surely be hot topics of discussion, but how much will Google's new conference venue influence the company's biggest event of the year?
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The US military may soon welcome some new additions to its fleet of unmanned aircraft, with the Navy revealing plans to purchase a set of small drones that can be launched into the air from submarines and other underwater vehicles.
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enter a black hole and fly around it as well. This video is in full 360.
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A potential breakthrough for regenerative medicine, pending further studies
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Google has just released two powerful natural language understanding tools for free, open-source use by anyone. These tools allow machines to read and understand English text (such as text you type into a browser to do a Google search).
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May 10, 2016
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Sea stars, or starfish, have come back in huge numbers along the Northern California coast, marking the first such boom since a virus killed off a huge number of starfish along the West coast several years ago.
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the FBI has recently warned that ransomware attacks against hospitals, schools, government agencies, police departments, businesses and individuals are dramatically increasing.
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Closer to the natural regeneration that happens in animals like newts and salamanders and no medical-safety and embryo concerns
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A true MESSENGER, bringing forth information...enough to extend the mission from one-year to more than four years.
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The space will host an experience based around the new Ghostbusters film
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Viv wowed the crowd during a public demo in New York
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Until now, only mammals and birds were known to experience rapid eye movement
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And they’re missing out on major growth.
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ASTEROID mining is considered by many as the new frontier in the hunt for natural resources and Luxembourg is the latest player to throw its hat in the ring.
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That’s the most exoplanets ever announced at once
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“…former Merck scientists [claim] that Merck ‘fraudulently misled the government and omitted, concealed, and adulterated material information regarding the efficacy of its mumps vaccine in violation of the FCA [False Claims Act].’”
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Today, mBio published the results of the study, which proves that, as most scientists suspected, the XMRV theory is most definitely dead.
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A story of a human retrovirus and associations with chronic fatigue syndrome and autism
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Ken's Blog- review on Vaxxed, updates on SB277, autism
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Old drug used for sleeping sickness may point to new treatment in humans
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May 3, 2016
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three earth-like planets discovered orbiting a nearby star have potential life and water,
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Australian businessman Craig Wright claimed Monday he created the digital currency, which would end one of the biggest mysteries in tech
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deep learning algorithms rival human skills in detecting cancer from ultrasound images and in identifying cancer in pathology reports.
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Imagine a miniature remote-controlled HD video camera that streams live video from a patient's intestines to a physician
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The universe’s biggest space telescope is as tall as a three-story building and as wide as a tennis court. -
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This week was the official one-year anniversary of the Apple Watch.
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Champion jet skier Franky Zapata’s approximately 1.4-mile (2,252-meter) trek over Sausset-les-Pins soars past the record of 0.17 miles (275.9 meters) set last year by Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru.
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Former surgeon hit headlines when documentary Vaxxed was offered a premiere at Robert De Niro’s Tribeca film festival, then withdrawn after an outcry
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Vaxxed: How did they threaten Robert De Niro? De Niro talked to Congressman about censored Vaxxed film
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Previous studies have placed it anywhere from 3 million to 100 million
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April 26, 2016
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The Volocopter VC200 made aircraft history on March 30 as the first certified multicopter to fly with a person onboard.
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A detector on the NASA probe circling Saturn has gathered a rare sample of interstellar dust from a galaxy far, far away.
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The e-retailer files a third lawsuit going after allegedly fraudulent reviewers, this time naming five new sites that promise glowing reviews.
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Could one day replace fingerprints; initial use likely to be high-security locations
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Ever want to just push a button and print out a hydraulically-powered robot that can immediately get to work for you?
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British astronaut Tim Peake just ran a marathon on the International Space Station.
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As Tesla begins ramping up production of its seven kilowatt wall-mountable in-home battery this year, it expects to exceed the sales of the entire energy storage system market last year.
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Here's a few foolish links from quantum tantric physicist Nick Herbert to brighten your day.
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May be an effective alternative to pain medication, such as the opiate percocet taken by Prince
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The U.S. Navy hails the installation as a “historical milestone.”
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Zero Zero Robotics is emerging from ‘stealth mode,’ and announcing $25 million in funding
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United Launch Alliance offers space launches for $125 million.In contrast, SpaceX's published price list advertises rocket launches for as little as $61.2 million.
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Lyft and Volvo are also involved
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The Zika virus could open the door for a new era of gene-tweaking for pest control and disease prevention.
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April 19, 2016
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The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) was successfully installed to the International Space Station (ISS) over the weekend
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Chariot, a ride-hailing app for only women drivers and passengers, is set to launch in Boston later this month.
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Imagine shirts that act as smart-phone antennas, workout clothes that monitor fitness level, sports equipment that monitors performance, a bandage that tells your doctor how well the tissue beneath is healing, or a flexible fabric cap that senses brain si
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Companies hope to mine N.W.T. for vital elements in electric car batteries
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The uncanny mechanisms that monarch butterflies use to navigate thousands of miles each year, back and forth from their wintering grounds in Mexico has long baffled scientists. A new study suggests how they may process information to determine which way t
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After years of negotiations, an international team of scientists has been finally allowed to enter North Korea and image Mount Paektu’s subsurface
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Surveillance is the initial function of these unmanned, undersea vehicles, which can operate in shallow water 'where manned submarines cannot'
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Breakthrough Starshot aims to propel postage-stamp sized ships toward the Alpha Centauri star saystem using lasers over the relatively short span of 20 years.
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When black holes collide, do they hide in the dark or emit flashes of light?
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Their puzzling genetic resilience could hold clues to curing crippling diseases.
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Imagine an aircraft that could alter its wing shape in midflight and, like a pelican, dive into the water before morphing into a submarine.
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Multiple recon drones in the sky all suddenly aim their cameras at a person of interest on the ground, synced to what persons on the ground see …
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a gradually evolving alternative that I think will be a positive future inspiration, based on the Moon as our next place to visit and start permanent settlement rather than Mars.
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For at least 40 million years before that pesky asteroid, the dinosaurs were losing species faster than they could replace them.
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April 12, 2016
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Mission managers succeeded in getting Kepler out of "emergency mode" (EM) Sunday (April 10), and the space telescope is in a stable state with its antenna pointed toward Earth, allowing communications to resume.
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Now Messenger wants you to chat with businesses and get updates from them, too.
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What do fire breathing dragons, learn-to-fly drones, programmable robots, working steam engines, 3D printers, marimbas, origami, crochet and art cars all have in common?
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Grand Moff Tarkin, Cushing’s character from the original 1977 Star Wars movie, could be recreated via CGI for Gareth Edwards's standalone movie
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The drone ships are outfitted with four diesel-powered azimuth thruster engines which can pivot horizontally, removing the need for a ship rudder and offering better maneuverability with a complete 360 degree range of motion for the ship controls.
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Pole tends to move in direction of missing mass, and depletion of Eurasian aquifers has big effect
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Time to think differently about the drug war we have been waging now for one hundred and one years.
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Schaft, one of the Google X robotics companies, has unveiled an armless bipedal robot capable of carrying heavy loads and climbing stairs
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"There are other things people want to do that Facebook [the company] can help them do."
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With AI-based automatic alternative text feature, Facebook hopes to reach to the millions with blindness or visual impairment to have a feel of what images are actually shared on its platform.
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Genetic incompatibiliities would cause male fetuses to miscarriage
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...including disease and aging; human trials next year
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In testing with rats, electrode implant also triggers pleasure-associated dopamine
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ritual killings helped keep the powerful in power and everyone else in check.
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The recipe for 'sophick mercury' – a key element in creating the mythic philosopher's stone to turn lead into gold – will now be available online.
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Composite metal foams (CMFs) have bizarre properties, which allow them to stop even powerful impacts.
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First modern scans of people high on psychedelic drug has given researchers unprecedented insight into neural basis for its effects
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An experiment mimicking our early solar system reveals that the complex sugar ribose, the 'R' in 'RNA,' can form in the icy grains of comets.
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according to those industrious folks over on Reddit, you can sync up Dark Side of the Moon with Star Wars: The Force Awakens
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Study used CRISPR technology to introduce HIV-resistance mutation into embryos
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April 5, 2016
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Even Elon Musk and the team at Tesla underestimated the $7.5 billion in first week orders demand for this luxurious, ready to self-drive 5 seater.
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Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket lifted off from a remote launch site in West Texas on Saturday. The company said the rocket reached an altitude of 339,138 feet during the flight before it returned to Earth and landed gently on the ground.
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Matt King joined Facebook in June as the company's first blind engineer to make sure millions of visually impaired Internet users around the world are not handicapped in their personal relationships
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Scientists have found a rare three-star system 685 light years away. Instead of the more typical single star, or even a pair, it boasts a trio of suns that coexist in a complex dance.
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The unmanned robot boat will follow hard-to-detect diesel submarines
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A California startup called Zipline International has announced a partnership with the government of Rwanda to use its fixed-wing cargo drones to deliver medical supplies to remote health clinics in the East African nation
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Whoever caused the Panama Papers breach at tax avoidance and offshore company specialist Mossack Fonseca leaked an astonishing 11 million documents and 2.6 terabytes of data, the largest of all time.
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Far from seeing robots as just computers, humans can become physiologically aroused from touching a human-shaped robot in private places like their eyes and buttocks.
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A tip for robot designers: incorporate features that remind older adults of robots in movies and TV
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New record for the least number of genes needed for independent cell growth
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A breakthrough for responding quickly to disease outbreak and producing small quantities of custom drugs needed for clinical trials, treating rare diseases, or use as personalized "orphan drugs"
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Engineering bacteria to aid digestion or yeast to produce custom beer
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The molecular secrets of the strongest motor known in nature revealed
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May help avoid ethically controversial use of human embryos for research and support other research goals
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New lip-reading technology developed at the University of East Anglia could help in solving crimes and provide communication assistance for people with hearing and speech impairments.
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March 29, 2016
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This week, Elon Musk unveils the car that might change the world.
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Kuwait has passed legislation that requires all of country's residents to turn in their DNA to build a national database. Failure to comply could mean jail time.
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But a new map of archaic ancestry suggests that many bloodlines around the world, particularly of South Asian descent, may actually be a bit more Denisovan, a mysterious population of hominids that lived around the same time as the Neanderthals.
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Hundreds of civilian drone pilots signed up to lend their services during crisis scenarios, however nobody knows quite yet how to utilize them
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Wearable cameras will be ubiquitous. We’ll barely notice.
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Scientists recently discovered massive mountain peaks higher than 10,000 feet.
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March 22, 2016
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U.S. cities have stepped up security measures in the wake of the deadly bombings in Brussels,
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The latest and greatest from Apple's big March 21 event
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Apple's bewilderment is understandable given that, right up until the final hour, the FBI had insisted it had exhausted every possible route.
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A comet will zoom past Earth Tuesday morning (March 22) in a close encounter of historic proportions.
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In pioneering new cataract treatment of 12 pediatric patients, the eye grew a new lens from its own stem cells after cloudy lens was removed
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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation found to boost memory and mental performance of laboratory mice; may lead to treating post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s
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Using a patient’s own cells may overcome problems associated with receiving a heart donated by another person
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According to the computer, named “Providentia” after the Roman goddess of forethought, It isn’t ISIS that poses the greatest threat to Americans, nor is it another terrorist group, like Al Qaeda.
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I was participating in a study that used a functional MRI scan to compare how various brain regions activated during arousal and orgasm.
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Materials currently used in 3D printing are costly, not readily available, and limited
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March 15, 2016
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The Department of Justice’s latest filing ups the ante on this topic by claiming it could compel Apple to give up the source code for iOS itself, so the government could make the appropriate modifications.
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General Motors Co. and ride-hailing service Lyft are launching a short-term car rental program that is expected to eventually evolve into an autonomous vehicle network.
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A master player of the game Go has won his first match against a Google computer program, after losing three in a row in a best-of-five competition.
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Meet the Euphonia, a machine that boasted the ability to replicate human speech.
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A conspiracy take on an LA-based government cloud seeding experiment.
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Meta 2′s Iron-Man-like immersive functionality appears similar to Hololens and Magic Leap, but with a wider 90-degree field of view, 2560 x 1440 high-DPI display, and natural hand-controlled operation.
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The substance that provides energy to all the cells in our bodies, Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), may also be able to power the next generation of supercomputers.
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Wee livers and heart tissue act like the real thing, may help test new meds.
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Experimental, living T-cell therapy shows promise for treating advanced disease, making immunotherapy a ‘pillar’ of cancer care
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March 1, 2016
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The crash may be the first case of one of its autonomous cars hitting another vehicle and the fault of the self-driving car.
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Cluster of Excellence CITEC is developing a system to support athletes and patients in physical rehabilitation
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The goal here is to replace expensive manufacturing processes for creating paper-based sensors with a simple recyclable materiables.
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Robert's newsletter on what's interesting in his world.
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Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton says Pi 3 is up to 60 percent faster than the Pi 2, warns of possible shortages
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PlaNet doesn't need obvious landmarks to locate an image.
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A Dartmouth College-led study shows that people find it increasingly difficult to distinguish between computer-generated images and real photos, but that a small amount of training greatly improves their accuracy.
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An interdisciplinary team of Stanford scientists is identifying global poverty zones by comparing daytime and nighttime satellite images in a novel way.
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The findings could help solve an outstanding mystery about the circulation of the world's oceans and help improve future climate forecasts.
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A robot's nimble steps in a snowy forest have wowed the world's robotics industry.
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Technological advances in recent years have allowed what could be the most inquisitive Earth dweller of them all, humans, to invent ever more ingenious tracking devices to find out what their fellow inhabitants are up to.
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Feb 23, 2016
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Wes Clark, the computer engineer whose work largely influenced the design of DEC minicomputers, CAD software, graphical user interfaces, and the ARPAnet, died Monday.
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“There is no question that what the FBI has asked Apple to do is create a backdoor," McAfee said
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Digital documents stored in nanostructured dots in fused quartz crystal for billions of years could survive the end of the human race
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Throughout multiple experiments, the cells remained viable and the connection strong. It took the neurons 15 milliseconds to stick to each other—the process would have taken hours to occur naturally.
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a much higher level of precision (up to 20 microns resolution), and the ability to ensure the cells’ viability within 95 to 100%.
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Tiny orbs of brain cells swirling in lab dishes may offer scientists a better way to study the complexities of the human brain.
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Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or “ems.” Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human.
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President of Solari, Inc., the publisher of The Solari Report and managing member of Solari Investment Advisory Services, LLC.
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February 16, 2016
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A twofer: sustainable fuel source from greenhouse gas emissions
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The unique textures of these clay sculptures capture the vibrations of actual sound waves, thanks to a novel form of 3D printed “sonic ceramics.”
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A new report from the Oxford Martin School and Citi considers the risks of job automation to developing countries, estimated to range from 55% in Uzbekistan to 85% in Ethiopia
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What we don’t know is how to create a fine three-dimensional network of vessels in the lab for bioengineered tissue. Researchers at Vanderbilt University found a clue in an unlikely source: cotton candy.
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an era of communication that will see speeds 10 to 100 times faster than what's currently available.
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A new app developed by University of California Berkeley scientists allows researchers to take data from its users in the event of an earthquake.
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At the epicenter of the Zika outbreak in Latin America, Brazil and world health officials have embraced a lab-engineered “Franken-fly” as a potential weapon to control a frightening virus suspected of causing horrific birth defects in newborns.
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The Federal Aviation Administration has approved test flights for an honest-to-goodness flying car.
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You can learn how to improve your novice pilot skills by having your brain zapped with recorded brain patterns of experienced pilots via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
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First preservation of the connectome demonstrated in a whole brain
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In the first of this new series, we meet Zoe Stumbaugh and Dr. Dave, who are big fans and participants in the new sport of drone racing.
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Astro Teller revealed the tech giant considered building air cargo ships and vast vertical farms but later rejected them.
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February 9, 2016
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IT WAS SUPPOSED to be a big moment for disgruntled Uber drivers. Instead, it fizzled.
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“I wanted it to be high mileage, and I think our initial target was 75, and then we realized we could do better,” said Paul Elio
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Juno is set to arrive at Jupiter in July, after a five-year journey through the solar system.
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A step toward revolutionary integrated photonics on a chip
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"Hyperloop is not eventually. Hyperloop is now," says the MIT Hyperloop Team, which just won a competition to design a (subway) car for the Tesla CEO.
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Electrodes in patients' temporal lobes carry information that, when analyzed, enables scientists to predict what object patients are seeing
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Not just as a replacement for traditional ground beef products, but also as a way to potentially find a permanent solution for feeding the world's hungry.
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A new study came to the conclusion that body mass index (BMI) is a really crude and awful indicator of someone's health.
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Yellow fever virus has destroyed armies and economies
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February 2, 2016
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Punxsutawney Phil, the world’s most famous furry forecaster, failed to see his shadow Tuesday morning, meaning spring is right around the corner
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SoundCloud, the free music service particularly favored by independent and grassroots musicians, has finally added 'stations,' a sort of never-ending playlist of related tracks and songs.
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Cats may have an ancestral fear of getting wet. “Domestic cats were descended from Arabian wild cats,”
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GoPro, SkratchTV, and the PGA Tour are teaming up to bring new technology, content, and viewing experiences to golf fans.
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The future of transportation was on display at Texas A&M University.
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Data from the Salk Institute shows brain’s memory capacity is in the petabyte range, as much as entire Web
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May replace electrocardiograph devices, allowing for freedom of movement and use by patients
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What’s the consensus on Ray Kurzweil’s position concerning future singularity? Is his premise and timeline fiction or reality, but not one that’s going to arrive anytime soon? Is it inevitable as Kurzweil suggests, or millennial day dreaming?
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researchers at Harvard University and their colleagues in Spain and France have demonstrated the first ever – and, might I add, non-invasive – brain-to-brain communication between humans.
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Deep-learning AlphaGo: 5; leading Go master Fan Hui: 0.
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Think of Saturn hanging in space, glowing like a streetlamp in fog, the tilt of its record-groove rings suggesting something imaginative or even mad
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It's a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem
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Our stress and its symptoms are maintained unconsciously as a distraction from emotional issues and harmful thinking. By addressing these issues, the body can let go, thereby improving physical health and enhancing performance and the ability feel joy.
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you have more power than you think and it begins with being proactive rather than reactive.
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Bio of our guest this week.
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January 26, 2016
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Ninety years ago today a moving head on a screen made history. It was the first public demonstration of liv.e television
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A touching tribute by Ray Kurzweil to Marvin Minksky, father of AI,. pioneer of Artifiical Intelligence
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The Nature Conservancy is asking tech junkies to capture the flooding and coastal erosion that come with El Niño, a weather pattern that's bringing California its wettest winter in years — and all in the name of science.
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the Air Bonsai uses hidden magnets that actually suspend your plant in mid-air.
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Lost in the debate over who did what, first, is a critical revolution in spaceflight.
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The league hopes to be the Formula 1, NASCAR and MotoGP of drone racing, and has secured backing from venture capital firms and celebrities to make that a reality.
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By mining a vast database of high-school yearbook photos, a machine-vision algorithm reveals the change in hairstyles, clothing, and even smiles over the last century.
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According to Broadway World, the show will feature “the most progressive technology seen on Broadway,” including app integrations and holograms.
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Life on other planets would likely be brief and become extinct very quickly, say astrobiologists from The Australian National University (ANU).
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Young people reveal fears of being made redundant by machines, as world leaders prepare to discuss 'Fourth Industrial Revolution'.
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Growth in renewable energy shows no signs of slowing, even though fossil fuel prices have plummeted. Here’s why.
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Some interesting info about our new planet
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January 19, 2016
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Hi Tech journalist Robert Scoble gives us his download on the huge Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
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What matters is whether people are using bitcoin, and more than ever, they are.
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Relatively new discoveries about of the role of the microbiome in human health have sparked a race to develop new therapies based on microbes.
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Spending time together makes everybody's microbiomes more alike, while increasing microorganism diversity.
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http://www.kurzweilai.net/a-battery-that-shuts-down-at-high-temperatures-and-restarts-when-it-cools
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Greg Panos is author of the upcoming VR/AR Source Guide and a regular contributor to our show
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January 12, 2016
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Digitsole has unveiled a futuristic-looking pair of trainers that automatically tighten, as well as heat the feet.
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Chemistry geeks rejoice! The 7th period is complete!
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The Orthodox Union certifies medical marijuana produced by pharmaceutical company Vireo Health; Rabbi: 'using medical cannabis should be regarded as a mitzvah'.
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"Innovation is what saved our daughter's life."
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On Thursday, the space agency formally founded its new asteroid detection program called the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO).
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Earth’s so-called first space mining company unveils first 3D-printed object using non-Earth materials.
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International pacts forbid the use of lasers or other blinding weapons against people, but the Chinese technology could disrupt sensors on vehicles, aircraft and robots without violating those standards.
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The Bolt is the first electric car with a range of 200 miles and a price under $30,000 (after a $7,500 federal tax credit)
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a launcher shoots a big net attached to a large drone by a string. After an intruding drone is spotted, the drone catcher takes up the chase and fires the net at it from a distance of up to 40 feet (perhaps more spider than falcon).
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January 5, 2016
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GoPro started working on drones a few months ago in order to stake a claim in this multibillion-dollar market.
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The similarity between cyber and biological warfare is tough to ignore: in both cases, we deal with evolving adversaries that grow in complexity and gradually vary their means of attack.
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Let’s take a look at a few recent breakthroughs in bioprinting getting us closer to a world in which organ shortages will be a thing of the past.
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the launch of the world’s first international beauty contest judged exclusively by a robot jury.
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Foresight goggles have yet to be invented, but we put on an imaginary pair to look to 2016 and beyond at the technologies we’re most anticipating coming to life.
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Scientists are using the technology to control genes rather than alter them.
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The changes are so strong they can even influence a man's grandchildren
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LG envisions these types of screens rolling up into our pockets or being made to wrap around interior spaces
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The FAA said the new mandatory online registration had to be shutdown for troubleshooting
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December 29, 2015
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A technique called gene drives could permanently change the way we deal with disease-carrying pests and invasive species.
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May allow for creating fully interactive, 3-D digital personas from photo albums, videos, other sources, or transfer expressions onto the face of someone else
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Tesla Motors CEO, Elon Musk, just assured the public that its fully automated cars should be made available in two year’s time.
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Genetic studies so far have only identified a single gene (APOE, known to be involved in Alzheimer’s disease) that is different in centenarians versus normal agers.
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Gamers used a more complex “multi-cue” strategy in problem solving tasks.
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Zoe Katherine, the force behind Hexinair, is a master pilot and FPV racer.
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Says Zoe: "Being free from my body while flying FPV was a transcendent experience- hard to imagine life without it now."
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December 22, 2015
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If 2015 had anything to say about drones, it's this: They're coming.
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According to our Internet overlords at Amazon, The Man in the High Castle is its most-streamed original series
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket at its landing pad here Monday evening in its first flight since its rocket exploded six months ago.
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Open-sourcing AI development to prevent an AI superpower takeover
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Google and Ford plan to announce at CES that they will partner to create an independent company to build autonomous vehicles, according to a report from Yahoo! Autos.
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December 15, 2015
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They watch; they imitate; and they extrapolate.
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Last year a total of 72,653 volunteers participated in 2,248 CBCs and counted a total of 68,753,007 birds. Most of these bird counts took place in the U.S. (1,888) and Canada (460).
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Brain tech is gaining high-profile backing - even Disney believes that it may soon become as covetable, and mainstream, as Fitbits and iPhones
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Supported by singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, the study aims to study and compare apes' online communication tactics versus that of their more advanced cousins, humans.
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A new phase of solid carbon, called Q-carbon, which is distinct from the known phases of graphite and diamond.
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Seattle billionaire Paul Allen and the federal government unveiled a plan Monday offering a $50 million prize for the city that comes up with the most innovative, revolutionary plans to address traffic problems and define the future of transportation.
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The new laws apply to any UAS weighing more than 0.55 pounds (250 grams) and less than 55 pounds (approx. 25 kilograms) including payloads such as on-board cameras.
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Fans of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” are now one step closer to seeing the campy comedy series return with a new cast and star cameos.
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The effort to limit global climate change relies on technologies that are unproven or even illusory.
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After a decade of research Ellen shares with us a compilation of over 50 famous females through 'herstory' who used cannabis.
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December 8, 2015
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The belch set out a jet of matter moving at nearly the speed of light.
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Google is helping to power a new search engine built on a daily scan of the whole Internet.
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Quite amazing to see in action! (Thanks Zoltan!)
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The probe aims at observing gravitational ripples in space -- something predicted by Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity, published on December 2, 1915.
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an organized trolling campaign against ISIS by assaulting their image through Photoshopped images, memes, videos and jokes related to the terrorist organisation.
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An ecstatic solution to humane dying
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Or are chilled fish just thermotropic?
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Wendy Sue's Pubic Relations Company in LA
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December 1, 2015
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Our body is, in essence, more ecosystem than organism.
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Could we use ant-based rules to program swarms of simple robots to build bridges and other structures by connecting to each other?
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A global meeting in Washington, D.C., isn’t just about whether or not we should alter our species with CRISPR. It’s about how we can pull it off.
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Designers of a “selfish” gene able to spread among mosquitoes say it could wipe out malaria, but the scientific community is at odds over whether or not we should do it.
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live streams from a wide range of free and pay TV channels including HBO, ESPN, Showtime, AMC and more into a single interface. What’s more, the service was compatible with devices on all major platforms including Windows, Android, iOS and Mac
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Formula E, which organizes a racing series for electric cars, is planning a new “Roborace” that will put electric, autonomous cars to the test—power, algorithms, and all.
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Using high-resolution images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Jeff Plescia, a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, was able to locate the lunar impact crater left by Apollo 16's rocket booster.
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Learn about hot new technologies and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts.
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Website of Dr. Bruce Damer, this week's guest
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November 24, 2015
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At Amino Labs, our goal is to make genetic engineering accessible to everyone and enable the next wave of personalized manufacturing using biology.
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A recent experiment in quantum teleportation has set a new distance record. Does it mean that we are one step closer to a real-life Star Trek?
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an enhancement of technology intended to safely find buried plastic explosives and spot fast-growing tumors, using a combination of microwaves and ultrasound to develop a detector similar to the legendary Star Trek tricorder.
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New discovery expected to speed understanding of short-telomere-related diseases and cancer
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Hint: It has nothing to do with Vladimir Putin or terrorism.
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It’s made from a simple mixture of plant fiber (specifically cellulose) and water.
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This live 3-dimensional view around a car can detect, classify, and track objects in real time.
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The sealed glass container was buried on 1957 and was forgotten until discovered by workers building the new MIT.nano building.
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The Goal: Build a Shoebox-sized Particle Accelerator in 5 Years
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Technically, it was an amazing achievement
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Vehicle blasted off from Texas, entered space then landed again
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In a memo leaked this week, agency head Francis Collins says that a colony of 50 chimps it had planned to keep in reserve for research—after retiring the rest—is no longer needed.
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Some patients are bringing troves of fitness-tracker data to their checkups, but the doctor might not find it all that helpful.
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November 17, 2015
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#OpParis has taken down more than 2,000 pro-ISIS accounts so far, the hactivist collective said Sunday.
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why do the English-speaking media find the name so difficult to understand?
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governments around the world have renewed their calls for tech companies to design products that will allow law enforcement agencies to better monitor communications.
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Curiouser and curiouser
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A Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture decided not to compete.
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A biotechnology company says it will test advanced gene-engineering methods to treat blindness.
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Ayman speaks of Emotional Literacy and Terrorism
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November 10, 2015
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Of the nearly 590,000 exposed accounts, about 200,000 turned out to be legitimate.
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The 12.9-inch tablet will be available for online orders Wednesday and in retail stores later in the week. How will it fare in a sluggish tablet market?
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Google is escalating the latest arms race in Silicon Valley: artificial intelligence.
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The Search Giant Is Making Its AI Open Source So Anyone Can Use It
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BitDrones invention is the first step towards creating interactive self-levitating programmable matter — materials capable of changing their 3D shape in a programmable fashion, using swarms of tiny quadcopters. Possible applications: real-reality 3D model
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Faraday Future, as it is called, is taking shape in a Los Angeles suburb, with a $1-billion promise to "take a user-centric, technology-first approach to vehicle design with the ultimate aim of connecting the automotive experience to the rest of your life
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in a private life more compelling than some of her movies, she dreamed up ways to fight the Nazis during World War II and earned a patent for an idea that laid the groundwork for such modern technologies as Bluetooth, GPs and Wi-Fi.
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What investors can learn from the frenzy around the new technology a century ago
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Smartphones have sidelined digital cameras and other special-purpose devices. Now Google thinks mobile phones will shove virtual-reality headsets like the Oculus Rift into the shadows, too.
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Check out the video demos of the Meta 1 Virtual Reality system, as discussed on the show today with Nikki.
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Our special birthday visitor in the studio today, who gifted us with a song.
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November 3, 2015
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Accessible for online viewing
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If oil stays below $50 a barrel for five years, the Saudis' cash reserve will be exhausted, and with it will also go the social stability that lavish spending for the Saudi elites brings.
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The system uses a pair of movable walls to "tickle" the whiskers on each side of a mouse's face. By moving the walls in the shape of a virtual tunnel the mice can be tricked into thinking they are inside the real thing.
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CERN also planning High-Luminosity LHC upgrade for 2025
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An ultrathin, inexpensive wearable patch can give doctors detailed information about crucial markers of health.
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Researchers have successfully demonstrated how several of the problems impeding the practical development of the so-called ‘ultimate’ battery could be overcome.
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Structural deterioration associated with old age can be prevented by long-term aerobic exercise starting in mid-life, according to Jackson Laboratory researchers.
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The world’s first sonic tractor beams that can lift and move objects using soundwaves have been built by a team that includes researchers at the University of Sussex.
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Johns shares his insights from his research for his new book on in Artificial Intelligence and Robots
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October 27, 2015
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Bill Gates explains why the climate crisis will not be solved by the free market.
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Using infrared photography, 3D scanners, ground penetrating radar,cosmic ray detectors and drones
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Researchers from Oxford and Stony Brook universities has found a way to precisely control the electrical waves that regulate the rhythm of our heartbeat — using light.
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Earth came early to the party in the evolving universe. According to a new theoretical study, when our solar system was born 4.6 billion years ago only eight percent of the potentially habitable planets that will ever form in the universe existed.
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a method to re-create the arrangement of muscles of an octopus tentacle, using an elastomer and 3D printer.
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HyperCam, a lower-cost hyperspectral camera that uses both visible and invisible near-infrared light to “see” beneath surfaces and capture unseen details.
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a new type of “rectenna” to efficiently “harvest” thermal emissions (waste heat) radiated from devices (a rectenna converts electromagnetic radiation to DC current).
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Researchers use engineered viruses to provide quantum-based enhancement of energy transport.
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Researchers at Harvard University have created a miniature robot which now has the ability to swim, fly and hover.
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Affordable, lightweight, and versatile, batteries made of porous materials could soon transform energy storage.
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Mass extinctions occurring over the past 260 million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid showers
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Mass extinctions occurring over the past 260 million years were likely caused by comet and asteroid showers
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Fall in Love with your Life!
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Live passionately by refining the sensory perception in your own body, by increasing your sensory awareness?
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October 20, 2015
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A slew of car companies are working to push out similar features in their cars and some have already introduced many of the self-driving functions Tesla just introduced.
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A medical futurist identifies the technical innovations that are defining the future of medicine, whose impact will be seen in the near future.
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The decision to compel drone owners to register their aircraft represents a policy shift by the Obama administration and a tacit admission by the Federal Aviation Administration that it has been unable to safely integrate the popular remote-controlled pla
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Astronomers have spotted a strange mess of objects whirling around a distant star. Scientists who search for extraterrestrial civilizations are scrambling to get a closer look.
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opens the door to the future development of drugs that patients could take as pills to regenerate neurons and to restore brain functions lost after traumatic injuries, stroke, or diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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The seven- and ten-foot islands — implanted with tule, iris-leaved rush, and other Marin-native plants — will for the foreseeable future remain anchored in the lagoon and will act as a natural water filtration system to the man-made body of water.
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U.S. researchers have used a new gene editing technique to trim away potentially harmful virus genes that have impeded the use of pig organs for transplants in humans.
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Google might own the entire alphabet, but it recently almost lost control of its own Web domain.
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How Uber’s archenemy plans to make the world a better place by building a kind of public transit system from private cars.
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Nvidia has put together a simulation to debunk longtime accusations that the 1969 moon landing was a hoax.
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Integrated, international efforts under ElectRx program blend mapping of neural circuits and development of novel bio-electrical interfaces
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October 13, 2015
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The journey to Mars crosses three thresholds, each with increasing challenges as humans move farther from Earth. NASA is managing these challenges by developing and demonstrating capabilities in incremental steps
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Powerful and possibly unregulated, gene editing starts new boom in GMOs.
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IBM SAYS ITS ATOMIC-THIN TRANSISTORS CAN BLOW SILICON-BASED CHIPS AWAY.
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Large, open-access resource aims to be “Wikipedia” for evolutionary history
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This month celebrates the 10 year anniversary of the classic book The Singularity Is Near, written by Ray Kurzweil, published in September 2005.
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Now, thanks to new technologies, costs have been halved and huge desalination plants are opening around the world.
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Pilot plant in Canada tries to demonstrate carbon capture on an industrial scale.
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Adaptive thermogenesis sees the body speed up its metabolic rate
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October 6, 2015
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Be more focused, have fewer meetings—and then go home early. It sounds like a dream, but it can work.
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MULTIMATERIAL 3D PRINTING VIA ACTIVE MIXING AND SWITCHING PRINTHEADS
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Intelexit is an activist group whose mission is to get spies to quit their jobs; they've recently installed billboards around spy complexes in the US and UK.
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Two scientists win the Nobel prize for discoveries involving Neutrinos.
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Two scientists win the Nobel prize for discoveries involving Neutrinos.
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September 29, 2015
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Liquid water flows on Mars today, boosting the odds that life could exist on the Red Planet
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Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk made the prediction about the range of the carmaker's all-electric models in an interview on Danish television last week
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope’s ‘Eye’ Will be Built at SLAC
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What do the rhythmic flashes of light coming from quasar PG 1302-102 mean?
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Snowden was quickly greeted on social media by famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Snowden's response: ".@neiltyson Thanks for the welcome. And now we've got water on Mars! Do you think they check passports at the border? Asking for a friend."
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Google is positioning the mobile phone as the center of everything related to media.
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The campaign to raise funds for a documentary film on the use of psychedelics for treating Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome
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Raising Funds for breakthrough documentary on the use of psychedelics for treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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September 22, 2015
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For global internet, Elon Musk has decided to launch a fleet of 4,000 satellites into low Earth orbit.
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A genomic entrepreneur plans to sell genetic workups for as little as $250. But $25,000 gets you “a physical on steroids.”
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The first application to pursue CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing research in viable human embryos has been submitted to the UK’s fertility regulator by a team of researchers affiliated with the Francis Crick Institute in London.
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Local Motors, a US based automotive firm recently has become the first ever automotive firm that will be launching on a commercial scale, the first ever 3D printed electric car in 2015
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Hilarious one sentence descriptions of some complex thesis.
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With the right telescope and a lot of luck
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Meet the protein that sparked a neuroscience revolution
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UMass Medical School scientists are the first to show that it’s possible to reverse the behavior of an animal by flipping a switch in neuronal communication
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With ability to analyze minuscule amounts of fluid, Rutgers breakthrough could also promote central nervous system and joint research
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A sequel to Steven Spielberg’s epic movie, MINORITY REPORT, and LIMITLESS, based on the feature film, is a fast-paced drama about Brian Finch, who discovers the brain-boosting power of the mysterious drug NZT
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Sally tells the remarkable story of how women who make the shift from oppression to emancipation will improve the economy, reduce poverty and curtail conflict
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September 15, 2015
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Each pack can hold 2.5kWh of electricity but eight can be combined The system would let owners store off-peak, cheaper energy at home.
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Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990. ischemic heart disease, lower respiratory infections, and stroke cause the most health loss around the world.
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Researchers build three-dimensional tissues by using DNA to program how they attach to each other.
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Researchers at the University of Maryland have performed the first focused ultrasound treatments on a deep structure within the brain related to Parkinson’s disease* called the globus pallidus.
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Could make MRIs more comfortable for patients and improve magnetic imaging
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a key part of the solution might actually rest in recognizing how technology can decrease the amount of regulation and enforcement needed.
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along with potential benefits, it raises red flags...
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“Restricting research ... is premature and dangerous"
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some announcements are what dreams are made of, while others might make up someone’s worst nightmare.
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The effects of our greenhouse-gas emissions on the oceans are likely to last for centuries, even if we manage to remove huge amounts of carbon dioxide from the air.
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In 1998, athlete Mark Pollock became the first blind man to race to the South Pole; now "Iron ElectriRx" man is making history again --- in a robotic exoskeleton
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Scientists have discovered a new species of human ancestor deep in a South African cave, adding a baffling new branch to the family tree.
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“If I had learned science with VR, I would have been a straight A student.” - Ryan Pulliam
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The latest person to film a video for the Openly Secular campaign is John de Lancie, an actor best known as “Q” on Star Trek
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Inspired thinking by a geek who watched Daredevil, a blind superhero in NYC.
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"God told us He created two humans as well as all the kinds of land animals — and that includes apes — on the same day. That means that there could be no evolution involved. Whatever species these bones represent…"
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says technology will become so advanced that people will be able to send thoughts to their friends
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A bio of Charles as well as a list of all the C2C shows that he has been on over the years.
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September 8, 2015
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Seeking to reduce traffic casualties, center will focus on robotics and artificial intelligence systems.
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Apple is in the midst of one of its in-between model years, which means we’re expecting the next iPhones to be called the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus.
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Apple has ramped up its hiring of artificial intelligence experts, recruiting from PhD programs, posting dozens of job listings and greatly increasing the size of its AI staff.
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A postcard placed in a bottle and thrown into the North Sea more than a century ago has been found and returned to the scientific institution responsible for its distribution
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The smart phone can be an important lifeline in the long journey to other countries.
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A new approach that uses light to move mirrors could usher in a new generation of laser technology for a wide range of applications, including remote sensing, self-driving car navigation and 3D biomedical imaging.
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Experts once predicted that Americans would face an excess of leisure time.
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Bacterial cells are so prolific in our bodies, that they outnumber our human cells 10 to 1. It’s only because they’re so microscopically tiny that we don’t notice their presence.
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Nanoparticles enable them to be self-propelled, chemically powered, and magnetically steered; could also be used for targeted drug delivery
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A malicious Android app that held people to ransom has been found by US security firm Zscaler.
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The vocal and breathing behaviors Koko had developed were not necessarily supposed to be possible.
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The Dust Mites will have a chance to clean up the detritus on your sheets.
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Toronto researchers have discovered that a single molecular event in our cells could hold the key to how we evolved to become the smartest animal on the planet.
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The company that began as a source of genealogical data now hopes to marry that information with DNA data—and sell it for research.
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There’s a sense that human inventions are separate from nature. But what is natural, and what is unnatural—is this even a useful distinction?
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Researchers say they could build a prototype of a molten salt reactor, a safer, cleaner nuclear power option, in 10 years.
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The virtual reality renaissance that is now underway is creating much excitement surrounding the potential arrival of the “metaverse.”
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September 1, 2015
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Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] has hired two top vehicle security researchers, the company said on Friday, high-profile additions that come as the ride-hailing service ramps up its work on technology for self-driving cars.
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As long as Uber is around, flush with cash and hugely ambitious, autonomous vehicles will continue their doubling trend, ultimately becoming better than driver vehicles and much less expensive.
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Bicycles have completely confused the computerized brain of Google’s self-driving cars. Here’s how
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Black holes store, and garble, information
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Could be used by people without special training at home or in the field
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T-Mobile's "unlimited doesn't really mean unlimited" problem is different from AT&T's and Verizon's.
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Legendary Internet entrepreneur Joe Firmage is back, and he plans to turn the Internet upside down. Again. He did it once before with USWeb in the 90s, designing and building Internet sites, intranets, and applications for more than half the Fortune 100
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Generating and storing renewable energy, such as solar or wind power, is a key barrier to a clean-energy economy
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Evidence left at the crime scene is abundant and global: Fossil remains show that sometime around 252 million years ago, about 90 percent of all species on Earth were suddenly wiped out — by far the largest of this planet’s five known mass extinctions.
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a novel method to economically convert atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into highly valued carbon nanofibers.
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a surprising first glimpse of the potential effects of exercise on the brains and cognitive abilities of the “oldest old.”
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Once licensed, model likely to accelerate study of Alzheimer’s, autism, more
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August 25, 2015
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The commercial launch of space travel is being taken onto new levels by Blue Origin which has Jeff Bezos is working behind it as the founder.
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The project is called Breakthrough Listen and to those who are dedicated to this line of work, this money is a godsend, as funding for alien hunting has become harder and harder to find.
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Today we have seven predictions you may have seen recently as examples of "bad predictions." They sound too good to be true. And that's because they are.
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The first drug for stimulating female libido probably won’t be the last.
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Automated video and sound editing software can make any bumbling idiot into an extreme sports movie star.
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New site Eter9 promises digital immortality using a kind of artificial intelligence to scan your posts.
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The machines might know a fox from a cat, but distinguishing deep space from a roundworm? Apparently, not so much. Ville-Matias Heikkilä recently posted an entertaining YouTube video of what a neural net makes of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s opening
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The Supreme Court’s recent 5–4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges legalizing same-sex marriage raises the interesting question: what’s next on the “slippery slope”? Robot-human marriages? Robot-robot marriages?
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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies announced today that it has signed agreements to work with Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum and global engineering design firm Aecom, validation that it's a serious project
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“What you do with yourself, just the little things you do yourself, these are the things that count.”
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While painting such surfaces white is one approach, a scientist at Johns Hopkins University has developed another – reflective paint made from glass.
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In the search for life beyond Earth, scientists have justifiably focused on water because all biology as we know it requires this fluid. A wild card, however, is whether alternative liquids can also suffice as life-enablers.
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August 18, 2015
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Upstart camera and app makers could beat GoPro at its own game.
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Startups like Doppler Labs are building earbuds that will let you turn down the volume on crying babies and pump up the bass on live music.
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A device that emulates the brain's “cocktail party effect" and could be built into future smartphones
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Move over, autonomous AI weapons, there’s a new risk in town: ‘gene drives’
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Dogs have long been known to show a behavioral response to faces, but a recent study discovered that dogs have a specific spot in their brains that reacts to faces.
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NomadCast isn’t a social app, it’s an iOS live-streaming app first and foremost.
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Network has broad role in memory, learning processes
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Robots "evolve" over 10 generations to perform a task twice as fast
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National Geographic reporter Bryan Christy commissioned two fake elephant tusks embedded with GPS, then planted them to track ivory smuggling routes from the Central African Republic into Sudan.
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A biotech company is genetically engineering pigs so that their organs might work in people.
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If you need to communicate something important to a friend, do you call? Visit? Email? Text? Skype? WhatsApp? Snap? Tweet? Message on Facebook or LinkedIn?
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Author of "The Path- Mastering he Nine Pillars of Resilience and Success."
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August 11, 2015
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As have Google's ambitions for growth - Wikipedia lists 182 acquisitions alone, in addition to the company's core business.
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A company started by several gene-editing pioneers gets new funding to develop treatments for blood cancers, eye diseases, and sickle-cell anemia.
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SIGGRAPH this week in Los Angeles is gathering some of the best VR experiences in the world along with some previously unknown projects and research, much of which will be showcased in a new “VR Village” area of the conference.
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A new crowdfunding campaign aims to raise enough money to put a virtual-reality camera aboard the International Space Station.
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The first restart “is very psychologically important for the whole industry, for Japan and the market.”
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The basic reactor concept and its associated elements are based on well-tested and proven principles developed over decades of research at MIT and around the world
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New Zealand's Rocket Lab wants you to be able to launch your satellite into orbit as easily as you buy a plane ticket.
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Ten years after launch, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has revealed the Red Planet's diversity and activity, returning more data about Mars every week than all six other missions currently active there.
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Several pipes excavated from William Shakespeare's garden contained cannabis, report scientists who used gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to analyze the items.
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A blog from the Planetary Society that updates us on the latest news from our probes in the solar system.
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So says former U.S. Army officer and autonomous weapons expert Sam Wallace
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the notion that everything humans see and know is a gigantic computer game of sorts, the creation of supersmart hackers existing somewhere else, is not a joke
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How do birds communicate? By singing. And now it’s the turn of the machines. A new crop of businesses are now creating what’s referred to as the Internet of Sound.
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A new app on the Play Store automates the process of creating Deep Dream images. Dreamify allows you to upload your own images and convert them, or browse a series of images uploaded from other users
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Prime factors: long telemere length (pre-age 100) and low inflammation
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Actual peer reviewed papers aren't making "Earth to Moon in four hours" claims.
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Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age:Will the intelligent machines of the near future help us, or will they replace us?
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Share prices for the biggest TV programmers are all nose-diving. Disney is down 9 percent. Time Warner is down 8 percent. Viacom and 21st Century Fox are down 7 percent.
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Evidence is already emerging that gigabit networks can become an economic engine.
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Robots without borders is an organization developing artificial general intelligence to benefit Humanity.
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August 4, 2015
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Despite the tragic death of a beloved big cat, scientists continue to go to incredible lengths to monitor and protect the world's vulnerable big cats. Here's how they do it.
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Video captured by Philadelphia surveillance camera thought to show hitchhiking Canadian robot's death
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On July 28, the government of Sri Lanka signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Google to launch Project Loon
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BMW (BMWG.DE) and Apple (AAPL.O) may rekindle a courtship put on hold after an exploratory visit by executives of the world's top maker of electronic gadgets to the headquarters of the word's biggest seller of premium cars.
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More than 1,000 experts and leading robotics researchers sign open letter warning of military artificial intelligence arms race
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Whether for good or ill, robotics has been a prime application venue for bio-inspired design. More organic devices are being developed at an increasing rate because of progress in our ability to process information,make things smaller and use new material
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GIVING THE BLIND ONE MORE TECHNOLOGICAL TOOL TO MAKE LIFE EASIER
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On Tuesday, Calico, the medical research company Google incubated in 2013, announced it had cut a deal for access to genetic information from Ancestry, the largest family tree website.
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It's called the Hemnet House, or, more affectionately, the House of Clicks. It represents the most popular specs of all houses clicked through on the site, spanning more than 86,000 listings.
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Easy DNA editing will reshape the world very quickly and it could really get out of hand..
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How do you kill a zombie bill like CISA? Grassroots action. CISA is fundamentally flawed because of its broad immunity clauses for companies, vague definitions, and aggressive spying powers.
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Monsanto no longer controls one of the biggest innovations in the history of agriculture.
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a baseball-sized camera that uses 360-degree image capture technology to put you back in the middle of life's biggest events, whether it's a family wedding or a little league baseball game.
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Cecily is a hen who was born with a bum leg due to a damaged tendon. The options were to put her down or make her a new leg.
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Rivals thin-film lithium ion batteries in energy density; potential uses include electric vehicles and defibrillators
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Sony Mobile has agreed to collaborate with a Japanese robotics company ZMP to develop drones for businesses.
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Lifelogger helps record your life (or the most important parts of it) by recording video/audio/gps information through the wearable POV. The recorded information can then be uploaded on the cloud, where it is processed/stored.
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Meet Thync, a wearable that zaps your brain to change your mood – like a drug that replaces chemicals with technology.
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Working memory capacity increase of 50 percent found in research
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A tiny, biologically inspired motion sensor could help small drones avoid collisions as they buzz around.
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China’s leading carmaker is testing technology that would let vehicles communicate wirelessly with each other and with traffic signals.
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July 28, 2015
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Instead of volatile liquid or solid rocket fuel, the craft runs on pressurized hydrogen.
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Austin Haughwout, 18, posted a clip online showing the drone firing four shots, which triggered a police investigation.
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Have a big idea about how to use technology to tackle California’s drought? Applications are now open for the 2015 Singularity University Impact Challenge.
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Yes, they use up a lot of water in drought-afflicted California. But the story gets a lot more complicated from there.
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The head of Google’s project to develop a self-driving vehicle, Chris Urmson, says his cars are considerably safer than those driven by humans.
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Google Glass, no longer available to consumers, is gaining fans in the workplace.
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Dairy’s going out of favour – and it’s being implicated in everything from upset stomachs to cancer. What’s the truth and are the alternatives any better?
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Nasa has announced that it has found an extraordinarily similar planet to Earth orbiting around a distant star.
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Lightweight composite metal foams are effective at blocking X-rays, gamma rays and neutron radiation, and are capable of absorbing the energy of high impact collisions. The finding means the metal foams hold promise for use in nuclear safety, space explor
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10-year, Multi-disciplinary Search Effort Will Harness World's Largest Telescopes to Mine Data from Nearest Million Stars, Milky Way and 100 Galaxies
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Preliminary review assigns blame to ... somebody other than SpaceX.
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Neurotheology Team Proves “God Helmet” Is Real, Eliciting Mystic States, Visions & God-Like PresenceA team of neurotheology researchers have replicated and confirmed the results of the iconic “God Helmet” experiment.
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Drug companies are exploiting rare mutations that make one person nearly immune to pain, another to broken bones
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Our guest for this week, who was at Mission Control for the New Horizons Pluto Mission.
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July 21, 2015
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"A journey of science activism against aging & death"
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Man has anesthetic at dentist, leaves with 90-minute memory and belief that every day is the same
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Astronomers have found evidence for a large population of hidden supermassive black holes in the Universe.
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Teens and low-income women were offered free IUDs and implants that prevent pregnancy for years.
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In the new SciFi thriller Self/Less, Damian Hale, an extremely wealthy aristocrat (Ben Kingsley) dying from cancer, undergoes a $250 million radical medical procedure at a lab called Phoenix Biogenic in Manhattan to have his consciousness transferred into
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snapshots from the past few weeks that illustrate the power of the shift in awareness, from ego-systems to eco-systems, that is happening around the planet right now.
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Could lead to learning how to preserve memories
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3D printers could revolutionize food processing in the next 10 to 20 years, said Hod Lipson, Ph.D., a professor of engineering at Columbia Univers
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IBM Research has announced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips, which could allow for chips with more than 20 billion transistors
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Rodent network performs sophisticated image processing and avatar-control tasks, presaging future hybrid digital-analog parallel-processing organic computers
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Crowdsourcing brain data with hundreds of adults could be a new frontier in neuroscience and could lead to new insights about the brain
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Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new design for a cloaking device that overcomes some of the limitations of existing “invisibility cloaks”: it’s both thin and does not alter the brightness of light
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New Berkeley Lab study finds lower greenhouse gas emissions on per-mile basis for driverless cars deployed as taxis.
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July 14, 2015
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The New Horizons spacecraft has traveled more than 9 years and more than 3 billion miles to get this close to Pluto
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A blast of ultrasound can help stubborn chronic wounds heal more quickly.
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Solar-powered trash bins in New York City might soon provide more than just waste disposal.
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For the first time a supercomputer based in the Middle East has entered the top ten list of the most powerful computers on the planet.
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“Microdosing of 10 to 20 micrograms (of LSD) allow me to increase my focus, open my heart, and achieve breakthrough results while remaining integrated within my routine. My wit, response time, and visual and mental acuity seem greater than normal on it.”
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Terminator Genisys film will distract from the real issues posed by future AI
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A University of Texas at Arlington materials science and engineering team has developed a new “photoelectrochemical” energy cell that can efficiently store solar energy and deliver electrical power 24 hours a day.
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The seagull uprising has begun, and it seems the flock of birds is determined to capture beautiful moments via stolen GoPro cameras.
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The website of Peter Fae, allowing one to explore one's own story with deeper insights.
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Juy 7, 2015
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The suspension comes in a week that two managers of the taxi-ordering app Uber were arrested for "illicit activity".
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Eleven times in the last year, fiber-optic lines have been snapped—cutting off 911 service in at least one community. Investigators are scrambling to figure out who’s behind the attacks.
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Actual attacks -- the Times Square Bomber, the underwear bomber, the shoe bomber, the Boston Marathon bombers -- occurred with no warning.
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SpaceX’s rocket explosion last week may only briefly slow the company’s ambitious launch schedule at Cape Canaveral, Fla., but it could also give a boost to its competitors.
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The 'Solar Sun Flower' is built to track the Sun as it moves across the sky, so it can soak up as much daylight as possible.
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A team of Tel Aviv University and Harvard Medical School researchers has devised a novel non-invasive tissue-stimulation technique using pulsed electric fields (PEF) to generate new skin tissue growth.
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It's official! The chimpanzee is a fully protected species in the United States regardless of whether it is a captive or wild animal.
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Construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea, which is considered hallowed ground to native Hawaiians, has sparked heated protests and indefinitely closed the summit of the mountain to the public.
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Besides upending an entire sector of employment, self-driving taxis could have significant environmental benefits.
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Reinventing how these batteries are made also improves their performance and recyclability.
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Fifty chemicals the public is exposed to on a daily basis may trigger cancer when combined, according to new research by global task force of 174 scientists
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The pilot’s field of vision is compromised as the light comes in bursts, a strobe effect the FBI has compared to setting off a camera flash in a dark room. At distances of up to 1200 feet, it can engulf a cockpit.
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Urbanization is associated with increased levels of mental illness
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new research appearing in the current issue of the Astrophysical Journal Letters offers a new theory that reduces the estimated number of the most distant galaxies by 10 to 100 times.
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Pathways to Bliss: Joseph Campbell on Why Perfectionism Kills Love and How to Save Your RelationshipHow to successfully navigate love’s maze of ideal and reality is what master-mythologist and writer Joseph Campbell explores
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Controlled by an external magnetic field, nanoscale bacteria-like chains could replace stents and angioplasty balloons
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Scientists at Cambridge University are investigating how algae and land plants could be used to create a "biological solar panel" that could help power devices including smartphones.
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June 30, 2015
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Just step outside after sunset and face west. Venus and Jupiter are less than a degree apart. Don't wait until the sky fades to black.
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On Sunday morning, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket broke apart nearly 30 miles above Cape Canaveral just a few minutes after launch, marking its first full mission failure.
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Last week, France's interior minister ordered a ban on the low-cost car-sharing service UberPOP after a day of nationwide protests by taxi drivers.
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Today on Amazon.com.mx, Amazon will introduce a Spanish-language site featuring millions of items including consumer electronics, kitchen and home items, sports equipment, tools, baby, health and personal care products, jewelry, music, books, movies, etc.
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Apple has finally entered the streaming music game, with the launch today of Apple Music. The new service is available as a built-in part of its iOS 8.4 Music app for iPhone and iPad devices
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It will allow “significantly more complex computational problems to be solved than was possible on any previous quantum computer.”
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Some of the Middle East's most highly prized archaeological treasures are under threat from the extremist militants of Islamic State (IS). So archaeologists are desperately trying to record as much of these sites as they can.
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An emerging additive manufacturing technology could be fast and cheap enough to compete with conventional methods, but it faces materials-related challenges.
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3D printing production is just scratching the surface of the multi-trillion dollar global manufacturing industry
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drones with cable dispensers attached can be used to quickly build lightweight architectural structures.
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Patients using Argus II experienced significant improvement in visual function and quality of life
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These robotic arms fit onto standard wheelchairs and allow folks to feed themselves, manipulate objects, and live an independent life.
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“With its small-bore, domestic focus, Humans has the potential to stand out in the supersaturated genre of A.I. fiction.” - The Atlantic
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Imagine a material that is a flexible, stretchable, and transparent. So it could be attached to human or robot skin (or woven into clothing) for use as a wearable, stretchable, touch-sensitive smartphone display or used as a wearable temperature sensor.
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The course was different from products from Codecademy and other computer science education platforms in that it had a webbed structure, allowing folks to learn exactly what they needed to build a specific type of web page instead of learning every little
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Stanford scientists have developed a cheap and efficient way to extract clean-burning hydrogen fuel from water 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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June 23, 2015
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A severe geomagnetic – or "solar" – storm hit the Earth on Monday, which may bring gorgeous auroras but also power disruptions.
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A collaboration between NASA, Flirtey and Virginia Tech has received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration fly unmanned aircraft on July 17 to deliver pharmaceuticals to a free medical clinic.
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"The robot cars are being tested on public roads and people have a right to know as much as possible about what goes wrong."
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The subscription streaming service from the giant behind Android-powered devices is adding a free radio-like product to go with its $10-a-month plan.
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Teaching machines to read/comprehend websites, recognize and group faces, and reject fake reviews
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20 years in 6 Days, the future of Aged Spirits
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Automakers have begun harvesting batteries for use in stationary energy storage applications.
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Researchers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working to create a heatless dryer that could make homes safer and more energy efficient.
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Google calls the process by which these images were created inceptionism, recalling the movie, and likewise, the images themselves range from beautiful to bizarre.
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The idea is that it can learn to recognise the same person in different poses in different photos.
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Researchers in Canada and the U.K. have for the first time sequenced and assembled de novo the full genome of a living organism, the bacteria Escherichia Coli, using Oxford Nanopore’s MinIONTM device, a genome sequencer that can fit in the palm of your ha
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In a clinical study, Spanish researchers have used a Microsoft Kinect to help stroke patients increase their ability to use a paralyzed arm.
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LP sales were up an amazing 32 percent from 2012, continuing an improbable growth trend that began in the early 1990s and took off around 2007
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Google Image search, instead of returning photos it indexed from millions of sites, could take a query and based on what it knows about good photography and you, build an entire new photo from scratch that would perfectly match your request
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Looks like a Flux Capacitor from the Back to the Future series
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we are close to living in a world in which it’s possible to revive extinct creatures. - See more at: https://news.ku.edu/2015/06/02/real-jurassic-world-not-far-reality-law-professor-can-comment-new-film-need-regulate#sthash.Trf4tVSa.dpuf
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Tiny satellites to venture out beyond the low-earth-orbit limit
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To show that scientists don't have a robotic adherence to truth and logic, here are 8 insane theories from some of the most important scientists in history:
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June 16, 2015
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Oculus reveals its first consumer virtual-reality headset, Oculus Rift, and hand controls for interacting with digital objects and making gestures.
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Research Reveals Brain’s “Filing System” is Same for Everyone
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Researchers in France and the U.S. have developed a new technology that enables robots to quickly recover from an injury in less than two minutes, similar to how injured animals adapt
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Overrturning decades of textbook teaching, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have discovered that the brain is directly connected to the immune system by vessels previously thought not to exist.
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Wondering what kind of bird you just photographed? See if the experimental beta Merlin Bird Recognizer from Cornell Labs can identify it!
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To make its prototype augmented-reality goggles a product, Magic Leap will have to scale up silicon photonics—something heavyweights like Intel have struggled to do.
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A fake battle, invented in a hail of tweets by a London man, has tricked both so-called Islamic State's supporters, and their opponents, supporters of Shia militia fighters in Iraq.
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Your dose of homemade virtual reality with these top games and apps
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Autonomous cars will be commonplace by 2025 and have a near monopoly by 2030, and the sweeping change they bring will eclipse every other innovation our society has experienced
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The Electronic Entertainment Expo -- or E3 for short -- gets into full swing today, but that hasn't stopped some of the biggest names in gaming from sharing some early surprises.
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June 9, 2015
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Here’s a rundown of the highlights you shouldn’t miss!
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After years of research and development, several intense days of preparation at the competition site, a day of rehearsal and two full days of head-to-head competition in front of thousands of spectators, the verdict is in.
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The falls and fumbles of robots in the DARPA Challenge point to the remaining hurdles for human-robot interfaces.
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Brighter Brains Institute will be presenting a conference at Humanist Hall in Oakland, on July 12, 2015. The theme is “Transhuman Superpowers and Longevity.”
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As well as regular images, the new views let you swim with humpback whales in the Cook Islands, dive off the coast of Bali and take a beach stroll in Samoa.
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New technology called called VirScan developed by Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers makes it possible to test for current and past infections with any known human virus by analyzing a single drop of a person’s blood.
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Researchers explore mechanics of silk to design materials with high strength and low density.
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There happens to be a branch of mathematics that deals with this issue. It’s called queuing theory, and it deals with the behavior of waiting lines.
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Challenges conventional treatments for autism
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As part of its on-going efforts to improve the Maps application offered on its OS X and iOS platforms, Apple has acquired Coherent Navigation, a Bay Area GPS-related firm
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Instead of getting supernatural powers from radiation or spider bites, powers are developed through yoga and meditation.
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This is her artist website
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Meet Icarus, a virtual reality-enabled workout station created by German design firm HYVE to work seamlessly with a VR headset, simulating flying, rollercoasters, and deep sea dives all while burning calories and toning muscles.
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June 2, 2015
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New Google technology addresses the tiny screen problem by letting you control wearables with tiny gestures, or by touching your clothes.
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What if your handheld tools knew what needs to be done and were even able to guide and help you complete jobs that require skills?
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The Ocumetics Bionic Lens takes correcting vision to a whole new level, promising bionic eyesight that’s up to three times better than 20/20.
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MIT scientists find the optimal size and shape to cloak implantable devices and avoid immune rejection
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In an effort to alleviate the environmental burden of electronic devices, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a semiconductor chip made almost entirely of wood.
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The world’s poor could benefit from a system that is blanketing half Earth’s surface with a signal that provides free access to Wikipedia and other useful websites.
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One possible route after Moore's law expires
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The most detailed study to date showing how electrical stimulation accelerates wound healing
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Instead of standing on the shore with binoculars, scientists are turning to drones to monitor wild populations of whales off the US coast.
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The team will work on "ambitious long-term projects", including natural-language processing and speech and image recognition.
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America has been home to some of the most imaginative and innovative minds to have shaped the modern world, but behind each visionary stood an equally determined and ambitious rival.
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May 26, 2015
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Robotic dogs are likely to replace the real thing in households worldwide in as little as a decade, as our infatuation with technology grows and more people migrate to high-density city living.
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IBM is working with text therapy startup Talkspace to help find the best therapist for you within its list of online counseling specialists.
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Supplementing the plant-based Mediterranean diet with antioxidant-rich extra virgin olive oil or mixed nuts has been associated with improved cognitive function in a study of older adults in Spain.
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New neuroprosthetic implant captures intent to move, not the movement directly
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Using electrochemistry, North Carolina State University researchers have created a reconfigurable, voltage-controlled liquid metal antenna that may play a huge role in future mobile devices and the coming Internet of Things
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researchers from the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex have digitally reconstructed the neurons in the brain of the European honeybee, Apis mellifera, and uploaded the virtual brain simulation to a drone.
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Visitors to the restaurant will see these new robots working in harmony at a speed of 50 times faster than the average human employee.
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New environmentally safe paper could lead to light, flexible portable and wearable displays
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a new $2.25 million competition, the 3-D Printed Habitat Challenge, to design and build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space exploration, including the agency’s journey to Mars.
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Researchers expect to be able to produce the vat grown beef patties on a large enough scale to sell them for under $10 a piece in a matter of five years.
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May 19, 2015
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The battery pack weighs around 120 pounds and could easily electrocute the careless.
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Not just cargo anymore, the Falcon can now fly satellites and probes
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Mercury's core is massive, making up 85 percent of its radius. The planet's crust is thinner at the poles and thicker at low latitudes, which suggests that the planet's outer core is liquid.
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Amazing amount of computational capibility in a highly functional form
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Limitless, a TV series sequel to the movie, picks up after the events of the film. Minority Report (Fox) will be based on the film by Steven Spielberg (and the first of his films to be adapted for television).
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Google announced May 15 that it test a few of its new Volkswagen Beetle-like prototype self-driving vehicles on roads in Mountain View, Calif. this summer Unlike Google’s previous prototype test vehicles, these will have safety drivers aboard, and
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Young children and their parents flock to Maker's Faires to get hands-on tech time
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a centimeter-accurate GPS-based positioning system that could revolutionize geolocation on virtual reality headsets, cellphones and other technologies, making global positioning and orientation far more precise than what is currently available on a mobile
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A high-performance 3D microbattery that could be integrated into microchips at production volumes has been developed
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A new radio telescope array developed by a consortium led by Caltech and now operating at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory has the ability to image simultaneously the entire sky at radio wavelengths with unmatched speed,
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With a robotic owl, researchers are decoding the 'language of the forest'.
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May 12, 2015
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Even before considering what AOL's future might be like as part of Verizon Communications you can't help but dwell on the company's notable — and oft-bumpy — history.
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A series of new NASA images may explain the unusual bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres that have been puzzling scientists.
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Details about how Amazon's proposed delivery drones may work have been published by the US Patent Office.
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Over the 6 years since we started the project, we’ve been involved in 11 minor accidents (light damage, no injuries) during those 1.7 million miles of autonomous and manual driving with our safety drivers behind the wheel, and not once was the self-drivin
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The number of smartphones shipped fell by 4% from a year ago to 98.8 million units in the January to March period.
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Try a swarm of tiny drones, each delivering 1kg or 2kg at a time.
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When a panel of federal judges from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the NSA's bulk-phone records spying program was illegal, it was a legal game-changer, but what, exactly, does it all mean?
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Has the digital transformation of our society put the future of recorded history in jeopardy? Many internet observers fear so. But why, and what do they mean?
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Oculus VR announced that the Oculus Rift VR headset will be shipping to consumers in Q1 2016, with pre-orders later this year.
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The project uses modern technology to crowd-source information about how specific songs impact our physical function by combining data from users' music-streaming services and their wearable body monitors, like Fitbit.
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A character controlled by a hacker who used exploits to dominate online game Guild Wars 2 has been put to death in the virtual world.
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Scientists have developed and combined new paper and flexible polymer substrates with special sensing devices for rapid and accurate detection of pathogens such as HIV, as well as other biotargets.
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May 5, 2015
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Researchers at Azabu University in Japan convinced a bunch of dog owners to gaze into their pets' eyes, and found that oxytocin levels rose not just in the humans – but in the dogs, too.
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Artificial intelligence, virtual worlds and interaction with video games comprise the elements of a new therapy designed by several Mexican institutions to help stroke patients and children with cerebral palsy to recover mobility of their upper extremitie
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The Phantom 3 Vision uses Lightbridge technology which enables live streaming of video directly from the drone's camera to a handset.
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Public interest group calls for strengthening global policies against human germline modification
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Uncertainty hangs over Bitcoin, but investors are betting hundreds of millions that it will change the world.
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"Nanowire–Bacteria Hybrids for Unassisted Solar Carbon Dioxide Fixation to Value-Added Chemicals"
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A key protein associated with autism, addiction and depression influences brain connections.
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A new interdisciplinary research program from NASA brings together a team of scientists, including Stanford's Bruce Macintosh, to devise new technologies and techniques for detecting life on exoplanets.
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Findings of UCI study have implications for astronauts on extended spaceflights
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Could lead to better or improved cancer drugs and to repair methods for radiation damage to DNA
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April 28, 2015
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On Monday evening, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully delivered the country of Turkmenistan’s first telecommunications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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Learn about Robotics, Computer Vision, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, life saving drones and much more at this unique event, which will help you to understand how drones, or UAVs will help shape our future.
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The first annual UCSC Bioneers Conference, two days of transformation and connection featuring over 30 plenaries and workshops with visionary activists, scholars and students, Saturday evening community World Cafe conversations and drum circle, and food!
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Join us as we bring the spirit of Burning Man to Santa Cruz County through radical self expression and radical inclusion. Get ready for three fun-filled DAYS of art, performance, music, costuming, DJs, mutant vehicles and more!
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A start-up plans to help solve the world’s climate problems by using drones to plant forests of seedlings.
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as in 3D printing, a structure is built up layer by layer into the desired shape, but these new materials are able to transform themselves from one shape into another, much like a child’s Transformer toy.
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The device uses technology for making holograms to collect detailed microscopic images for digital analysis of the molecular composition of cells and tissues.
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Acoustruments, a technology for acoustically controlling smartphones developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research, can add new levels of interactivity to mobile devices
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Electric motors that do not use rare earth metals will potentially be less expensive and have more stable prices. Non-rare earth motors may also rely more on domestic resources and processing capabilities.
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Could lead to a future self-powered digital watch with camera?
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Using special devices called "q-plates,” the researchers manipulated a laser beam’s polarization into novel shapes.The researchers showed that each shape could carry an additionaamount ofl data stream.
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NASA has released a video of their electric “extreme dexterity” Modular Robotic Vehicle (MRV) in operation at the Johnson Space Center, emulating NASA’s self-driving Rover. The vehicle is designed to be driven autonomously, by a human, or teleoperated
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April 21, 2015
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The theme this year is radical collaboration. Agent Nada comes into the studio to discuss this year's event.
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Google's new changes to its ranking system for mobile searches.
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Asimov’s iconic work, often compared with the Dune series. It tells the story of Hari Seldon, a mathematician who has created the science of psychohistory by which it is possible to predict future events by extrapolating from historic trends.
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The country plans to transition to Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) as a national standard.
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the new HDC-4300 camera fulfills a need for an ultra HD video shooting system that can also mount a long-range zoom lens needed for shooting high clarity details over the distances found in large stadium venues.
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Hollywood and Silicon Valley have created explosive new options for both viewers and video advertisers; Google sees a new golden age.
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A solution for wireless, multi-camera coverage of sports, parades, and other location shoots, the JVC IP solution uses the Silvus Bi-Directional Radio System to transmit very high quality video from remote locations with extremely high streaming reliabil
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This ultra-sensitive photometer project will allow you to tease out the secrets of twilight and even do serious science by finding the altitude of the dust, smoke, and air pollution that influence the colors of twilight.
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With aerial photographs taken by a homemade drone, researchers are mapping exactly where — and roughly when — these ancient tombs were robbed.
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Using a weak electric current to alter a specific brain activity pattern, UNC School of Medicine researchers increased creativity in healthy adults. Now they’re testing the same experimental protocol to alleviate symptoms in people with depression.
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Until now, most researchers have focused on one of two strategies: attacking tumors with antibodies, which activate the innate immune system, or stimulating T cells, which form the backbone of the adaptive immune system.
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researchers say having the ability to steer the epigenome will help them explore the roles that particular promoters and enhancers play in cell fate or the risk for genetic disease and it could provide a new avenue for gene therapies
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April 14, 2015
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Engineers at Saarland University have taken a leaf out of nature's book by equipping an artificial hand with muscles made from shape-memory wire
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The UCLA Biomechatronics Lab develops a language of touch that can be "felt" by computers and humans alike
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the world has actually got greener over the past decade.
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How to plant the seed for the lifelong pleasure of finding things out.
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A miniature electrical propulsion system could let small satellites fly in formation for cheaper imaging.
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Using motion-triggered cameras located in the Yanachaga National Park in Peru, scientists found significant changes in animal behavior more than three weeks before a magnitude 7 earthquake struck the region in 2011.
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A prototype hybrid quadcopter can fly several times farther than conventional battery-powered ones.
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Blackmagic Design drummed up buzz aplenty at NAB in Vegas. This time with a new, compact Super 35 camera called the URSA Mini.
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April 7, 2015
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What makes Meerkat and Periscope alluring is the ability to share live video with your followers from just about anywhere.
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The Indian government hopes to increase the country’s solar capacity 30-fold by 2020.
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A team of heroes may have rescued it from paleontological purgatory.
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The new battery charges fast, won't explode, is cheap to make and can be recharged thousands of times.
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A promising advance that came to nothing suggests what it will take to make cheap batteries for electric cars.
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Towards the creation of what might classically bew called a force field.
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Can deep brain stimulation affect how well and what we remember?
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Power naps positively influence memory recall, according to a new study by Saarland University in Germany.
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Twitter revamped its retweet feature on Monday, making it easier for users to plug other people's tweets and add commentary of their own.
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March 31, 2015
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The Demo is a music-theater work based on Douglas Engelbart’s historic 1968 demonstration of early computer technology. The piece reimagines his demonstration as a technologically infused music and media event, a new form of hybrid performance
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Human lung organoids may help scientists learn more about lung diseases, test new drugs
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Could lead to powerful quantum computers and more-accurate atomic clocks
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Researchers combine two types of photovoltaic material to make a cell that harnesses more sunlight.
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Carbon nanotube fibers invented at Rice University may provide the best way to communicate directly with the brain
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lets you walk up to any LCD display and instantly transform it into viable computer.
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Augmented reality start-up Magic Leap has released a mind-boggling video that dramatically dissolves the boundary between real and virtual.
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Using high-performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050
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Changes in air pressure are perceived as suspended tactile surfaces, creating invisible -- but tangible -- interfaces.
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March 24, 2015
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Welcome Allies to the Realm of Trickster Medicine: Pragmatic Mysticism, Democratic Animism, Applied Divination, and a willingness to co-operate with everything.
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ResearchKit’s raison d’être is clear: medical research needs data, and iPhones offer the promise of a populous pipeline that can get more data flowing to the scientific community.
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Medical researchers have lots of hopes for Apple’s new healthcare data platform, but they also have three big questions.
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Researchers have created a 3-D printer that works on the atomic scale, assembling complex molecules from scratch. And they say their molecule-making machine could revolutionize the drug-development process and simplify the fabrication of solar cells and o
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Companies nationwide over the past five years have ramped up robotics in the face of labor woes, such as worker shortages and rising wages, and to cut their production costs.
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New instrument will scan the sky for pulses of infrared light
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What cloud-based services could soon be available soon taking advantage of the AI revolution?
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The Latin American country hasn’t had to use fossil fuels at all so far in 2015, due to heavy rains that have kept hydroelectric power plants going strong
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A Northwestern-led research team is one of 10 NASA-funded groups across the country studying identical twins Scott and Mark Kelly to learn how living in space for a long period of time — such as a mission to Mars — affects the human body.
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A new free wi-fi cafe in Havana is a sign that the once-isolated island is connecting to the outside world.
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As we all entire the bright VR future we find ourselves at an impasse: we all have amazing 3D models we want to see appear before us like tiny digital floating incubi but how do you get those selfsame models into your randomly generated digital pleasure
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If other bad bots can be compared to well-trained soldiers carrying out the orders of their commander, impersonator bots are the Special Ops unit.
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March 17th, 2015
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The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile recently gave astronomers the best-ever 3D view of the deep Universe.
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Roboticist and aerospace engineer Julie Shah and her team at MIT are developing next-generation assembly line robots that are smarter and more adaptable than robots available on today’s assembly lines.
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the number of stranded babies is more than five times greater than in 2013, the worst season in recent memory.
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“When the biggest company in the world enters your market, that’s the kind of validation you can only dream of, ”
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What did they have against robots you might ask? Well, they are (apparently, seriously) concerned that robots could one day surpass human intelligence and they were genuinely anxious about this.
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March 3, 2015
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The LAPD fatally shot a homeless man on Sunday, in an incident captured on at least one body camera worn by police. High-profile shootings last year have provided some indications of how video may, or may not, factor in a case.
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Dawn will be the first mission to successfully visit a dwarf planet when it enters orbit around Ceres on Friday, March 6.
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Using Virulent viruses to target cancer cells- a special video report
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The ingredient is oleocanthal, a compound that ruptures a part of the cancerous cell, releasing enzymes that cause cell death.
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A prototype “quantum radar” that has the potential to detect objects that are invisible to conventional systems has been developed by an international research team led by a quantum information scientist at the University of York.
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Few truly new ideas are developed without first abandoning old ones. In the past, discoveries often had to wait for the rise of the next generation to see questions in a new light and let go of old truisms.
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This tool allows people to express their ideas rapidly and quickly using hand motions alone.
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The camera on Dawn can now see Ceres more clearly than any previous image taken of the dwarf planet, revealing craters and mysterious bright spots.
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A small area of the brain called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in the thalamus can be optically stimulated to control pain
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I am endeavoring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.
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Named after the self-aware artificial intelligence system in the Terminator movie series, SkyNet is designed to run on a single network or mesh of IoT networks that share a common API or communications protocol.
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A key figure in AI in Europe and noted for his quirky sense of humor, you can post question you might have for him at the above url.
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Sergio Canavero, an Italian neurosurgeon, is talking up his plan to stitch one person’s head to another person’s body by 2017..
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Live webcam of the Villarrica volcano in Chile. A few hours ago it underwent a spectacular eruption.Looks quiet now, the snow is stained and covered by dark volcanic deposits and flows. Just a little smoke at the top.
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March 10, 2015
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Powered by a hybrid electric fuel cell with the range of 900 kilometers, or about 559 miles, and a battery with a range of about 200 kilometers, or about 124 miles, the luxurious F 015 is uniquely designed with cameras, sensors and displays for monitoring
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Apple brought a lot more than expected with today’s event in San Francisco, pushing new products in media, health, computers, and wearables.
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Scientists have captured the first detailed microscopy images of ultra-small bacteria believed to be about as small as life can get.
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But now, for the first time, researchers in Philadelphia have found a way to completely delete HIV from human cells by ‘snipping’ them out.
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A team of Korean scientists have designed a textile capable of harnessing energy from human motion to power wearable devices without an external power source.
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the human body as a touch sensitive surface for controlling mobile devices.
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smartphone users who are intuitive thinkers — more prone to relying on gut feelings and instincts when making decisions — frequently use their device’s search engine rather than their own brainpower.
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Can a machine be truly think like a person? Can the human mind be reduced to a batch of computer code? These are completely open and controversial questions.
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For the last year, a three-person team has been working a circular, palm-sized device dubbed Runcible.
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A look at Soft vs Deep AI
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February 24, 2015
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The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers
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Based on successful results in an experiment with a Labrador retriever using a novel treatment for glioblastoma brain cancer
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Researchers create silicon nanofibers 100 times thinner than human hair for potential applications in batteries for electric cars and personal electronics
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For the first time, researchers have reversed some of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in mice using magnetic resonance (MR) imaging-guided focused ultrasound.
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We’re at the point where anyone armed with a current model smartphone or tablet is able to handle almost all of their at-home—and even at-work—tasks without needing anything else.
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From crickets to test tube meat
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In Earth’s path around and through our Galaxy’s disc, dark matter may perturb the orbits of comets and lead to additional heating in the Earth’s core, both of which could be connected with mass extinction events.
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this could help to find people who have gone missing after posting images on social networks, or even to recognize locations of terrorist executions by organizations such as ISIS.
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We will be talking about healing and energy healing, energetic medicine, alternative health, life energy research and the work of her late husband Joseph R Scogna, Jr
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February 17, 2015
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A mysterious haze high above Mars has left scientists scratching their heads.
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the boulders ranged in size from a few meters (yards) to a few tens of meters, and lie "scattered across the whole surface of the comet."
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The dilemma with letting cops choose what to turn over—or releasing everything they see
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If the Iowa Department of Motor Vehicles has its way, there will be an app for that..
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Researchers have cracked a code that governs infections by a major group of viruses including the common cold and polio.
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The goal of these new rules is to open up the skies to any company with a qualified operator that is willing to follow some basic guidelines.
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The Apple Car would be a massive, multi-year undertaking.
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ACLU publishes DEA documents that show license plate-scanners also record humans, as face recognition helps government be ‘even more sure of exactly who they are surveilling’
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This technology cuts the time between diagnosis and treatment of malignant melanoma from an average of 35 days to 9.
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We’re at the point where anyone armed with a current model smartphone or tablet is able to handle almost all of their at-home—and even at-work—tasks without needing anything else.
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there’s an even smaller inner core within the Earth’s core. And what’s more, the inner core can be read like a tree’s rings.
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Resveratrol, touted for its potential to prevent heart disease, may also help prevent age-related decline in memory.
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Bill Gates calls Ray, “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence.”
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Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire have developed a prototype of a social robot that supports independent living for the elderly, working in partnership with their relatives or carers.
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The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein's theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dark energy, resolving multiple problems at once.
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The flying parts are suspended inside a flexible carbon fiber cage, which lets the drone keep flying even after minor collisions. Instead of trying to avoid debris, the GimBall just sort of bumps into it and keeps on going.
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DARPA's program aims to restore touch to amputees
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Jiebo Luo, professor of computer science at the University of Rochester, in collaboration with researchers at Adobe Research has come up with a more accurate way than currently possible to train computers to be able to digest big data.
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February 10, 2015
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More than four decades after the Apollo 11 moon landing, a cloth bag full of souvenirs brought back by astronaut Neil Armstrong has come to light.
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SpaceX is taking another stab at launching an observatory into deep space and landing the booster that carries it up.
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British scientists have developed Eve, an artificially intelligent “robot scientist” that could make drug discovery faster and cheaper.
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Anthem Blue Cross hack: What you need to know about the health insurer's personal information breachHere are some questions and answers about the huge data breach at Anthem, the nation's second-largest health insurer.
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Anonymous has just struck a massive blow against ISIS recruiting efforts. Hacktivists recently took control of dozens of Twitter and Facebook accounts that had been openly used by ISIS to expand their influence and recruit new members.
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Oracle's Java poses the single biggest security risk to US DESKTOPS, according to a new report from Copenhagen-based security vendor Secunia ApS, because of its penetration rate, number of vulnerabilities, and patch status.
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A low-cost smartphone accessory that can detect three infectious disease markers from a finger prick of blood in just 15 minutes, performing all mechanical, optical, and electronic functions of a lab-based blood test
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Meet NeuCoin, a new cryptocurrency designed specifically to tip content creators and make online micropayments.
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Scientists from UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute have developed a Google Glass app that, when paired with a handheld device, enables the wearer to quickly analyze the health of a plant without damaging it.
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Whether in a corner of an open space of a main lobby or cafeteria, a pod in a hallway, or a small office space, the huddle space is enabling small groups to collaborate on the fly, share ideas and be more productive
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Singapore-based UAV maker Infinium Robotics is working to address its country’s lack of service staff by helping restaurants fill in the gap with drones
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This spring, the company will officially unveil Recordio, a free app with automated voice optimization tools that will enable people to create their own audiobooks.
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February 3, 2015
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The minimum broadband download speeds now begin at 25Mbps, up from 4Mbps
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Britain's House of Commons gave preliminary approval Tuesday to permitting scientists to create babies from the DNA of three people
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The University of Phoenix Stadium, where the big game is being played, recently upgraded over 780 metal halide fixtures with 44,928 Cree XLamp MK-R LEDs,
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Imagine a future when promising drugs won't take a decade to develop, when early success more often translates to later adoption, and when we no longer need to rely on animal testing.
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“I am in the camp that is concerned about super intelligence,” Gates wrote.
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The two companies are going to war over self-driving taxis
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The AP implemented the system six months ago and now publishes 3,000 such stories every quarter — and that number is poised to grow
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Data analysis trumps critics, wisdom of crowds, and number of movie awards
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The boundaries of reality are about to dissolve
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the company will start to offer the one-gigabit broadband network in Atlanta, Nashville, and in two cities in North Carolina — Raleigh-Durham and Charlotte.
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Because in a virtual world, why would you only have two?
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NASA may be sending a copter drone to Mars five years from now. The drone will accompany a six-wheeled terrain vehicle that is being designed for the space administration’s next rover mission.
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DIY phone and Internet Service for Rural Areas
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Enhances ability to make tissues to repair injuries or even to create organs for the thousands of patients in need of organ transplants.
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there exists over 20,000 published studies or reviews in the scientific literature referencing the cannabis plant and its cannabinoids, nearly half of which were published within the last five years
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January 27, 2015
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On January 26, asteroid 2004 BL86 safely flew right past us, making its closest approach around 11:19 a.m. EST at a distance of about 1.2 million kilometers -- that’s only about 3x the distance between us and our moo
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SpaceX recently announced plans to provide Internet access through a global network of about 4,000 satellites starting within five years. The private spaceflight company also revealed that it has raised $1 billion in funding from Google and Fidelity
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SpaceX reached an agreement that will allow the company to compete for some of the Air Force's business.
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Google is still working with a select group of ten “Glass Certified Partners.”
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Feel like the browser experience could be the commonly shared one of VR.
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled 3 billion miles and is nearing the end of its nine-year journey to Pluto. Sunday, it begins photographing the mysterious, unexplored, icy world once deemed a planet.
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In many ways it's like comparing Apples and Oranges..
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Just as venture capital investments in robotics are beginning to take off, the granddaddy of consumer robotics companies, iRobot, is launching a venture capital firm.
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Published in the Annals of Physics journal, the new study is founded on the latest research of highly-mysterious dark matter in the universe.
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Website of this week's guests, Danny Sheehan and Sarah Nelson
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January 20, 2015
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In their 2015 solar outlook, investment bank Deutsche Bank is predicting that solar systems will be at grid parity (when an alternative energy source cost is lower or equal to that of electricity from the electrical grid) in up to 80 per cent of the world
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Salk researchers have developed an entirely new type of pill that tricks the body into thinking it has consumed calories, causing it to burn fat.
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a newly discovered antibiotic that eliminates pathogens without encountering any detectable resistance
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The intrepid inventor and entrepreneur announced a donation of $10 million to help fund research to “keep AI beneficial” to humanity.
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Unveiled at a recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society, the planet Kepler-438b may be the Earth twin that researchers have long sought.
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By uncovering the action of two naturally occurring hormones, scientists may have discovered a way to assist in the shedding of excess fat.
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A study by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — are more likely to have liquid water and be more habitable than we thought.
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Computer chip maker Nvidia made a surprise announcement last night at CES 2015 that it is developing a computer vision-based system for driverless cars, called Drive PX
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Designed structures go from two dimensions to three with a simple ‘pop!’
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On Monday, 23andMe announced it is sharing (anonymously) the DNA data it has collected on 650,000 individuals with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Sharing resources, the companies say, will help them figure out new ways to treat disease
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Researchers at the University of Bern has managed to considerably prolong the lifespan of flies by activating a gene which destroys unhealthy cells
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The method could someday provide advance warning to protect power grids and communication satellites.
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January 13, 2015
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Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced neuroscientists at Harvard University.
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Researchers at Oregon State University show nascent technology could play an important role in low carbon energy mix
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If you sweep a laser pointer across the Moon fast enough, you can create spots that actually move faster than light. Anyone can do it.
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the effects of being separated from one's phone turns out to be both psychological and physiological
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Scientists who have reported that the Great Lakes are awash in tiny bits of plastic are raising new alarms about a little-noticed form of the debris turning up in sampling nets: synthetic fibers from garments, cleaning cloths and other consumer products.
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A blog straight from the mouths -- err, keyboards -- of Squarespacers.
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Opens the door for some cool new levitation gadgets and toys
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a sweeping bird’s-eye view of a portion of the Andromeda galaxy (M31) and the sharpest large composite image ever taken of our nearest galaxy.
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Over the past few months, we’ve started to get clearer and clearer looks at the world that’s coming.
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a transparent and efficient process for funding essential upgrades to the state’s 911 public safety communications systems. The bill goes into effect on January 1, 2015.
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January 6, 2015
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The annual International Consumer Electronics Show starts this week in Las Vegas, Nevada – here’s a look at what’s hot - See more at: http://www.thewrap.com/ces-2015-drones-3-d-printers-ultra-hdtvs-phablets-to-sizzle-at-tech-show/#sthash.EdLzOV0b.dpuf
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See what's hot as Wired journalists discover new stuff
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Within five years, auto makers will roll out cars with windshields that overlay computer-generated graphics
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CES Unveiled 2015 featured a range of new wearable tech including a device to help patients manage chronic pain, GPS trackers for kids and a disposable adhesive heart rate monitor.
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The 3D Printing Marketplace” will feature more than 30 innovative companies showcasing their latest 3D printing technology.
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SpaceX has postponed an experiment to bring part of its Falcon rocket down to a soft landing on a floating sea platform.
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The space probe will orbit the dwarf planet Ceres sometime around March 2015. Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter which some scientists feel has the capability of supporting life as we know it.
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Syfy announced that they would be teaming up with Relativity Television (who brought us all Catfish the show) to work on the unscripted series, which will "take viewers deep inside the shadowy and dangerous world of hi-tech hackers for the very first time
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State-sponsored hacking attempts frequently rely on specially written software, but that's a risky move. Unless it's well-made, custom code can be a giveaway as to who's responsible.
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The day when every kitchen has a 3D printer may be distant, but in 2015 at least a few cooks will be using such machines—thanks to a Barcelona-based startup that plans to sell the “Foodini” for approximately $1,300
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the pod-shaped car is outfitted with a loungelike interior, swivel chairs and multiple display screens–all features intended to make the car’s cabin feel more like a meeting place than simply a passenger compartment.
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This is the era of an app for everything and everything in its app, and health is no exception
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The CIA released an admission that it was responsible for the majority of the reports of Unidentified Flying Objects during America’s Cold War with Russia. “It was us,” the agency posted on social media, along with a declassified document from the 1990s.
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The new Cat Tracker project maps outdoor movements of pet felines
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Imagine a self-learning robot that can enrich its knowledge about fine-grained manipulation actions (such as preparing food)simply by “watching” demo videos.
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AI is not in one or two hands; it’s in 1 billion or 2 billion hands. A kid in Africa with a smartphone has more intelligent access to knowledge than the President of the United States had 20 years ago.
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So many Earth type planets, so few telescopes!
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December 30, 2014
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Safe and affordable device for exploring Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
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A source with knowledge of the matter confirms that the overwhelming majority of these sales occurred through Google Play and YouTube Movies
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several factors contributed to why the debris from the AirAsia plane was located, rather than remaining the subject of conspiracy theories:
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The two big things the classic trilogy missed: The rise of mobile and the Internet
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Musk himself said he was too busy to take on the project, but if other people wanted in on the cause, well, that was just fine with him. As it turns out, other people have taken him up on his offer—about 100 in total.
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when we use smartphones our brains show more activity in the parts associated with the thumb – not a surprising thing – but this reaction only happened in users of touchscreen phones
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A comedy club in Barcelona is experimenting with charging users per laugh, using facial-recognition technology to track how much they enjoyed the show.
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Cancer patients are paying a private lab to breed mice that carry bits of their own tumors so treatments can be tried first on the customized rodents.
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It’s called “beauty work.” It's a digital procedure of sorts, in which a handful of skilled artists use highly specialized software in the final stages of post-production to slim, de-age and enhance actors’ faces and bodies.
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Newest computer neural networks can identify visual objects as well as the primate brain.
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From launching hardware to the International Space Station to hosting events in San Diego, New York City, and Amsterdam—it was a big year for Singularity University.
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CNN published its annual ranking of the best CEO’s, and I am not very surprised to see Apple CEO, Tim Cook top that list.
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The National Security Agency on Christmas Eve day released twelve years of internal oversight reports documenting abusive and improper practices by agency employees.
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By manipulating radio frequencies at irregular intervals between transmission and reception, the invention formed an unbreakable code to prevent classified messages from being intercepted by enemy personnel.
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December 23, 2014
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The Skype Translator project offers on-the-fly translation of both spoken and written languages for participants in Skype conversations, making it possible for two people who speak completely different languages to communicate.
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Uses 3 cameras and autostitching in a readable mp4 format to create amazing 360 videos for $499
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It has headlights now, which is a good thing. Even if a self-driving car can see other cars without headlights (thanks, RADAR!), that doesn’t mean other (non-self driving) cars can see you.
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The death of Robin Williams and this year's World Cup in Brazil were the most popular searches in the U.S. on Google in 2014
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BYU’s 3D virtual reality system much cheaper, just as effective as others
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the object transforms over time.
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The Flux 3D printer wants to be a one-stop fab shop for scanning, designing and building various things thanks to a design with interchangeable heads
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Zapping your brain might make you better at maths tests – or worse. It depends how anxious you are about taking the test in the first place.
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Study shows popular over-the counter drug extends lifespan in yeast, worms and flies
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a sensitive microphone (such as the one in a compromised mobile phone) can be used to infer a secret cryptographic key being used by a nearby computer.
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http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/lost-memories-might-be-able-to-be-restored-new-ucla-study-indicates
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It’s almost a belittling effect to the possibilities ahead – by seeing IoT as simply “yet another new trend.” It’s far more than that
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December 16, 2014
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Isohunt, a website providing access to mostly pirated material, has cloned the database of its competitor, The Pirate Bay, after it was shut down last week.
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Tesla unveiled its latest electric car on Thursday night. And though it doesn’t look different from past models, it’s an absolute stunner.
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Replicating the brain of a roundworm into a Lego robot takes biomimicry to a new level.
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a new gear transmission mechanism with no touching parts, based on magnetic forces that prevent friction and wear and make lubrication unnecessary.
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a team of neuroscientists sent a message from the brain of one person in India, to the brains of three people in France, using brainwave-reading equipment and the Internet.
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Although fears that technology will displace jobs are at least as old as the Luddites, there are signs that this time may really be different.
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an invisible shield some 7,200 miles above Earth that blocks so-called “killer electrons,” which whip around the planet at near-light speed and have been known to threaten astronauts, fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms.
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Canadian researchers have developed “smart textiles” able to monitor and transmit wearers’ biomedical information via wireless or cellular network by superimposing multiple layers of copper, polymers, glass, and silver.
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New research, using ultrasound, has developed a virtual 3D haptic shape that can be seen and felt.
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GCHQ, the British counterpart of the NSA, announced Friday a free Android (iOS planned) educational app called Cryptoy, which “enables users to understand basic encryption techniques, learn about their history, and then have a go at creating their own enc
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Physicists at the University of Michigan (U-M) and several other universities have discovered or confirmed several properties of the compound samarium hexaboride (SmB6) at low temperature that raise hopes for finding the “silicon” of the quantum era.
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So much research is happening at places that are not large web companies, and even most of the large web companies’ work goes unreported.
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The brain has been called the most complex structure in the universe, but it may also be the most beautiful. One artist's work captures both the aesthetics and sophistication of this most enigmatic organ.
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Glowing charge cable to your iOS device lets you know charge status.
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December 9, 2014
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Canadian researchers have invented a fast, low-cost way to spray solar cells onto flexible surfaces using light-sensitive materials known as colloidal quantum dots (CQDs).
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University of New South Wales (UNSW) solar researchers have converted more than 40% of the sunlight hitting a solar system into electricity, “the highest efficiency ever reported for sunlight conversion into electricity
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A new study suggests that if we could figure out how to manage them, ants could be like tiny clean up crews, and help us starve out populations of larger pests that can carry disease.
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the short-term productivity gains from skipping sleep to work are quickly washed away by the detrimental effects of sleep deprivation on your mood, ability to focus, and access to higher-level brain functions for days to come.
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Quantum Realism says the quantum world is real and is creating the physical world as a virtual reality. Quantum mechanics thus predicts physical mechanics because it causes them.
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Google engineers have trained a machine learning algorithm to write picture captions using the same techniques it developed for language translation.
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The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is asking for ideas from the private sector on breakthrough technologies to guide military investment for the next decade and beyond
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A computer system called PaleoDeepDive has equaled (or bested in some categories) scientists at the complex task of extracting data from scientific publications and placing it in a database that catalogs the results of tens of thousands of individual stud
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This is the crowdsourced campaign that has kicked this puppy into gear, and our guest Gary Winnick back into the gamer designing business!
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December 2, 2014
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is set to awake on Dec. 6 from the last of its 18 hibernation periods and prepare for its initial approach towards Pluto
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In an announcement today, the White House has pledged $263 million in new federal funding for police training and body cameras, set aside by executive order
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A Slovakian company founded by Stefan Klein and Juraj Vaculik almost 25 years ago, Aeromobil has gone through multiple prototypes to get to the 3.0 version they are currently showcasing.
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Global access to the web’s best content on your mobile device. Anonymous. Uncensored. Free. Outernet
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Computers only recently began to get the software needed to discern unknown objects; now machine-learning takes computer vision to the next level with a system that can describe objects and put them into context. Coming soon, better visual search?
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The ISS astronauts fired up the printer to produce history’s first 3D printed part in space.
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Things are in motion in the virtual reality space in a way that they simply haven’t been before.
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A new interdisciplinary Stanford University initiative called NeuroCircuit aims to find the specific brain circuits that are responsible for mental-health conditions and then develop ways of noninvasively stimulate those circuits to potentially lead to im
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right now, it’s hard not to look at Firefox and worry a little bit about its future.
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The latest British music industry statistics highlight a remarkable surge in vinyl record sales over the past two years.
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Pripyat has been abandoned since the disaster, which released huge amounts of deadly radioactive particles into the atmosphere and left the region uninhabitable.
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unregulated selfie sticks will be illegal in South Korea, as the country is ready to ban smartphone photo-taking accessories.
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The chip—a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag encased in a biocompatible glass cylinder the size of a grain of rice—was implanted in a three-minute procedure, start to finish, and left a small puncture wound and a bit of soreness.
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The updated Intel-built system integrates SwiftKey software allowing him to now accurately choose entire words rather than individual characters.
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there are geography games to let you explore holiday traditions around the world, you can learn how to say ‘Santa’ in different languages and there’s even a coding project that teaches you JavaScript as you help Santa get on his journey.
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Ridley Scott will be producing the film rather than directing, and Ford will return as Rick Deckard, though he will not be the main protagonist.
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now, with all the news about the in-development Blade Runner 2 breaking even as you read this, it seems like an especially appropriate time to go deeper into Ridley Scott’s piece of groundbreaking, Philip K. Dick-adapting cyberpunk cinema.
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November 25, 2014
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Fifty years ago this week – on Nov. 27, 1964 at Desilu Production's Stages 14 and 16 in Culver City, Calif. – filming began on The Cage, the rejected pilot for Star Trek.
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Lock, weigh and track your Bluesmart carry-on with your phone. Recharge your devices and more
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A new study shows for the first time that playing action video games improves not just the skills taught in the game, but learning capabilities more generally.
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A novel robotic walker that helps patients carry out therapy sessions to regain their leg movements and natural gait has been invented
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Rosetta’s mission will continue until December 2015, following comet 67P as it swings back away from the sun.
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Seed rounds shot up in 2013 as 14 new drone tech companies closed their first rounds of funding.
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VLT reveals alignments between supermassive black hole axes and large-scale structure
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In about 4 billion years, our sun will become a red giant star, engulfing the inner planets and basking the outer planets in its ebbing heat.
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A better-designed condom is hot business right now—even Bill Gates has invested seed money (the puns write themselves). Is the regular old condom as we know it on its way out?
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part of a research exploration into what can be achieved when human intelligence is replaced or assisted by machine intelligence.
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What happens when you mix space pork, greedy megacorporations, and recycled Russian rocket engines?
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November 18, 2014
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Before going into hibernation in the early hours of 15 November 2014, the Philae lander was able to conduct experiments and return its data to Earth.
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New Horizons is scheduled to emerge from a 99-day hibernation on Dec. 6, then gear up for a six-month Pluto encounter that peaks with the first-ever close flyby of the mysterious dwarf planet on July 14, 2015.
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New technology allows you to print electronic devices in the same way your inkjet printer prints a document or photo
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This biodegradable vehicle, developed to protect sensitive ecosystems, invited a closer look at the positive uses of drone technology.
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Wireless links formed partly by lasers may offer a faster, cheaper way to improve mobile Internet.
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Google will test its connectivity-spouting Project Loon balloons in Australia next month in partnership with local carrier Telstra,
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Are we ready to hand over driving duties to computers? Apparently, yes. In a 2014 University of Michigan public-opinion survey of drivers in the U.S., the U.K., and Australia, just 14 percent of the respondents had a negative opinion of self-driving cars.
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The world's No. 1 home for discovering new music is set to launch a paid subscription service Tuesday. For $10 monthly, you can listen to virtually any music you can think of
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Is it possible to rapidly increase (or decrease) the amount of information the brain can store?
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It’s called WeWork Commons, and it could rival LinkedIn—except it might actually be useful.
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Algo will find new projects for you to complete, so you always have something interesting to work on while receiving a paycheck.
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November 11, 2014
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Elon Musk has confirmed that SpaceX is indeed working on satellites.
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Syfy has ordered a television miniseries adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel 3001: The Final Odyssey. The 2001: A Space Odyssey sequel will be adapted by screenwriter Stuart Beattie of Pirates of the Caribbean and Collateral fame.
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced an updated version of its Model A board, called the Model A+, along with a $5 price drop to just $20. The new Model A board is also smaller and more energy-efficient than its predecessor.
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One California company is looking at problems like Ebola through a silicon lens.
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Today, Amazon preannounced the Echo, an unassuming speaker that does a lot more than play music. The cylindrical device sits in your home and is always listening for verbal commands. Similar to Siri, you can ask Echo for weather reports, to play music,
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Starwood hotels announced that its new keyless entry system – SPG Keyless – is rolling out to hotels worldwide. Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/301863/starwood-hotels-will-now-let-iphone-6/#rUJKgM2pfeUwYi8L.99
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A large bitcoin mining facility in Thailand went up in flames this week, destroying the five-megawatt operation and disrupting the crypto-currency’s entire network.
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Take a look at NECLUMI, billed as “the first projection-based interactive necklace.”
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As Cold War tensions came to a head, two men, working across the ocean from one another, became united in the quest to create conversations between Americans and Russians over the telephone lines.
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New data from Amazon, released to The Atlantic, gives us a peek at what, specifically, readers connect with. These are the most popular highlights in some of the service's most popular books.
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Minneapolis-based Kidizen has raised just over half a million in funding for its mobile, peer-to-peer marketplace which allows parents to buy and sell their children’s clothing, toys, shoes and other easily shippable items.
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November 4, 2014
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Investigators probing the Virgin SpaceShipTwo accident have established a "human performance" team to help them understand the actions of the pilots.
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The Antares launch vehicle that exploded during lift-off last week was riding on refurbished disco-era rockets that not even the vaunted Soviet Space Program could manage to get off the ground.
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Besides fast Web access, there are also community tables with Chromebooks wired directly to Google Fiber, not to mention built-in wireless charging to power up devices.
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Hidden away in the secret depths of the Skunk Works, a Lockheed Martin research team has been working quietly on a nuclear energy concept they believe has the potential to meet, if not eventually decrease, the world’s insatiable demand for power.
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“Birds appear to be the best of bipedal terrestrial runners, with a speed and agility that may trace back 230 million years to their dinosaur ancestors,” said Jonathan Hurst, an associate professor and robotics expert in the OSU College of Engineering.
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Research using repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) – a new type of brain stimulation – can improve some of the abnormalities in brain activity in ASD, but also reduce some of the social difficulties.
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Using sheets of light to scan cells, a new microscope can capture real-time 3D videos of what's happening inside cells down to the molecular level
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Researchers led by Virginia Tech scanned people's brains as the subjects looked at disgusting images, and they found that the strength of the brain responses could predict—with up to 98% accuracy—whether a person was liberal or conservative ...
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Cornell computing researchers have come up with a new principle they call “data smashing” for estimating the similarities between streams of arbitrary data without human intervention, and even without access to the data sources.
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over 30 million Americans have used a psychedelic at least once in their lifetime, or around 10 percent of the population.
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Crewed missions to Mars such as Mars One may face dangerous levels of cosmic rays (energetic particles), according to a new paper in the journal Space Weather
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Maker and designer Colleen Jordan has a very organic definition of the word handmade, and she has applied that in an inimitable 3D printed project that combines technology and plant life in a delightful way.
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Special-effects design leads to astrophysics discovery
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New research suggests parallel universes are real, but that they are not quite parallel – they can “collide”.
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Washington University researchers have developed a novel “time-reversal” technology that allows for better-focused light in tissue, such as muscles and organs,
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From standing up in front of a crowd and telling jokes to spending the day working with deadly diseases, a number of jobs are just too scary for some employees to even fathom
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Are things going relatively well for you? Have people told you, you are doing a good job? Do you want to ruin all of that?
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October 28, 2014
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Two major U.S. drugstores have turned off their NFC payment terminals to stop Apple Pay transactions in an effort to make their own "CurrentC" app-based payment system—which is designed to collect and track information on their customers—the only option
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With recent moves by pharmacy chains CVS and Rite Aid to disable Apple Pay or even NFC payments entirely at their stores, a separate mobile payments initiative backed by these and other major retailers is gaining significant attention
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It captures high-resolution images rapidly and minimizes damage to cells, so it can image the three-dimensional activity of molecules, cells, and embryos in fine detail over longer periods than was previously possible.
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There are only “around 100″ cybercriminal kingpins behind global cybercrime, according to the head of Europol’s Cybercrime Centre.
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China has launched its first round-trip mission to the moon with a robotic spacecraft, a mission that will pave the way for the country's planned lunar sample-return program.
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A senior Google vice president, Alan Eustace, has broken the world altitude record for a parachute jump set in 2012 by Austrian Felix Baumgartner.
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Cool technologies that were once reserved for science fiction are invading our reality at an accelerating pace.
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AS AIS DEVELOP, WE MIGHT HAVE TO ENGINEER WAYS TO PREVENT CONSCIOUSNESS IN THEM
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Using a technique called direct metal laser sintering, Solid Concepts is able to 3D print the gun by melting metal powder with a laser.
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a 255 terabit-per-second throughput. That's enough to transfer a 1 GB file in 31 microseconds (.003 sec) or move the entire contents of a 1TB drive in three tenths of a second.
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without 3D printing technology we may never have had a T-Rex shower head.
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October 21, 2014
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Google and other investors are planning a huge investment in Magic Leap, a secretive but boastful company building hardware and software it says will deliver “cinematic reality.”
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The researchers believe that theoretical particles of dark matter, called axions, are streaming from the core of the sun and producing x-rays as they hit Earth’s magnetic field. Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/1549989/dark-matter-may-have-been-disco
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China’s RX1E two-seat electric airplane costs only two cents a minute to fly, which is only a fraction of the operating expense of other fossil fuel powered aircraft
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A free series on growing businesses that can truly change the world.
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Scientists from Tohoku University in Japan have developed a new type of energy-efficient flat light source, based on carbon nanotubes, with very low power consumption of around 0.1 Watt per hour of operation — a hundred times lower than that of an LED!
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The company posted revenue of $42.1 billion. The company sold 12.3 million iPads, 39.3 million iPhones, and 5.5 million Macs, earning a quarterly net profit of $8.5 billion.
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Touchable Memories, enlists Pirate's 3-D printer to re-create old photographs for people who have lost their eyesight.
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the company is experimenting with online support communities for patients and mulling the development of personal health and fitness apps.
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in fewer than 15 years, we will be debating whether human beings should be allowed to drive on highways.
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Open-source solar-powered 3D printers could bring 3D printing to remote areas, Professor Joshua Pearce at Michigan Technological University has proposed.
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How the invisible hand of the clock powered the Industrial Revolution and sparked the Information Age.
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Oscadi has created a piece of hardware, called Oscult, that allows you to perform an ultrasound by simply plugging their device into an iPad.
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Using ultrasound to deliver power wirelessly, Stanford researchers are working on a new generation of medical devices that would be planted deep inside the body to monitor illness, deliver therapies and relieve pain.
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Images reveal the most Antarctic ice on record and the Aral Sea before it dried up.
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Some interesting thoughts on Creativity in a never before published article by the good doctor.
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(for Henry Stapp who once conjectured that consciousness is our reward for collapsing the wave function.)
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October 14, 2014
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An anonymous hacker is claiming to have leaked a few hundred usernames and passwords for Dropbox accounts. It's unclear where they actually came from (and if they really are Dropbox credentials), but either way: it's time to change your passwords.
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In the airborne petri dish that contemporary aircraft have become, fliers may well be worrying about the wrong things. Here are five myths about germs in aircraft.
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Apple fans and followers have several major upgrades to a number of Apple products to look out for, namely the iPad, iMac and Apple's OS X Yosemite.
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Using a titanium dioxide gel, researchers make a battery that could one day allow electric cars to fuel up as fast as their gas-guzzling cousins.
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Apple offers egg freezing for female employees up to $20,000. The company also offers adoption and surrogacy assistance and "a host of other fertility services for male and female employees," the company said via email.
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The U.S. Air Force's mysterious X-37B space plane will return to Earth this week —possibly as early as Tuesday — after 22 months in orbit on a secret mission.
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n October 13 1994, it was announced that the “Netscape network navigator” browser would be made available to download by anyone, initially as a public beta.
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A NASA-backed study is exploring the feasibility of lowering the cost of a human expedition to Mars by putting the astronauts in deep sleep.
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n Project Pegasus and the Advent of Time Travel, Andy narrates his childhood experiences of time travelling for DARPA's Project Pegasus; describes the eight forms of time travel in use by the US government by 1970
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A molecule used as a bacteria communication system can be hijacked and used to prevent cancer cells from spreading — or even to die on command
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an overview of specific use cases for bitcoin that could become the digital currency’s ‘killer apps’.
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The global average temperature in September was the warmest in a record dating back to 1880, according to an update from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies.
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LSF—an additive manufacturing technique that uses laser cladding with synchronously feeding metal powders—for obtaining fully dense metal parts with mechanical properties similar to those produced by casting or forging.
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If every action gets an equal — though perhaps not precisely an opposite reaction, at least via social video — then at least some part of that equation will be settled with the release of Samba
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The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) is the first privately-built space habitat that will added to the ISS, and it will be transported into orbit aboard a Space X Falcon 9 rocket sometime next year.
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October 7, 2014
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The most stunning view of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar to date is now available — through the immersive Oculus Rift Interstellar Experience.
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Explaining My Relationship to the Total Universe
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New, high-tech gear is allowing the team for the first time to examine and excavate a wreck with the care and thoroughness of an archeological dig.
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Robot generators on wheels could power emergency and military operations
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Send for the Sunflower. A solar energy harvester could soon become the first "drop-in" machine to provide renewable energy, water and heat to off-grid communities in remote regions.
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A NASA scientist says he has found fossilized evidence of alien life in the remains of a meteorite, which if confirmed would bolster the theory that life is not restricted to Earth.
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There's a big difference between people from forests and those from arid lands.
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The NASA Orion spacecraft may look like giant beer keg, but the debut of NASA’s next-generation spaceship is the first step in what could end up as the first manned mission to Mars
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Self-guided unmanned patrol boats that can leave warships they're protecting and swarm and attack potential threats on the water could join the Navy's fleet within a year, defense officials say
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How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus - Featuring John McAfee himself (humor)
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Star Trek legends William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy reunite in a Volkswagen Germany commercial.
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Scientists have finally found a really good use for our tonsils.
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Now that iOS 8.0.2 is out with support for the Health app enabled, third-party developers are starting to roll out their apps with HealthKit support
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September 30, 2014
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nown until now as codename Threshold, the successor to Windows 8 will officially be known as Windows 10.
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Mount Ontake's eruption killed at least 12 people. Could a better early-warning system have saved them?
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With the growing number of digital distractions vying for the attention of your kids, reading books might seem far less appealing. Interactive books can bridge the gap, and some of them are having real success.
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a Dutch team is presenting a garment that purifies the polluted air surrounding the wearer
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Such an elastic technology could make possible robots that have sensory skin, stretchable robotic garments that people might wear for added strength and endurance
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Inspired perhaps by Harry Potter’s invisibility cloak, scientists have recently developed several ways—some simple and some involving new technologies—to hide objects from view.
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hundreds of companies are at work on drones. And small wonder — one industry trade group estimates the commercial drone market could soar as high as $82.1 billion by 2025.
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Armed with high-performance computing systems, DOE national labs and partners tackle climate and Earth-system modeling
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Artificial intelligence morality will be different from our human morality
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Some pretty interesting new capabilities
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UC Irvine chemists have scored a scientific first: capturing moving images of a single molecule as it vibrates, or “breathes,” and shifts from one quantum state to another.
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The official site of Kaia Ra and her transmission of the Sophia Code
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Kaia Ra opens Bliss Camp 2014 with a ceremony designed to bring in our higher selves!
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September 23, 2014
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DARPA has awarded a $2.9 million contract to the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University to further develop the Soft Exosuit, a “wearable robot.”
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Transmissions reach speeds of 32 gigabits per second
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Parts of your brain continue to function when you’re sleeping.
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Could be used in cars, emergency devices, and spaceships
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Potential uses include detecting bacterial contaminants in food, toxic pollution in the environment, and dangerous diseases
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Black holes may be more common than we thought
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iOS 8 adds a feature that lets you trigger Siri just by saying “Hey Siri,” so long as your device is plugged in
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Scientists Begin Rallying Around Global Effort to Create a New Liver
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An amazing creative project! The animation itself was mostly like created with software, but perfectly positioning the iPhones, iPads, and iPods while the animated characters and objects appeared to jump from screen to screen is where the real performance
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Dangling from the ceiling of a California firehouse is a bulb that’s burned for 989,000 hours -- nearly 113 years. WTF?
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Two of the country’s top research hospitals have launched HealthKit trials to track diabetics and patients with cancer and chronic disease.
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See what's popular on Frog TV!
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The security protection on cars is virtually non-existent, it is at a level of protection that a desktop computer system had in the 1980s, the basic security requirements such as authentication, confidentiality and integrity are not strong.
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Fast, safe technique avoids problems that have hindered regenerative medicine
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Info about the documentary this week's guest made, about peope who are able to subsist purely on light and prana.
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Could it be true that some humans live purely on light? WTF? This thesis has been very controversial, which is discussed to some extent here.
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September 16, 2014
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Boeing and SpaceX will be awarded NASA contracts to transport astronauts to and from the international space station
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The company introduced its first product in May 2008, and it says that its customers have streamed 5 billion hours of content since then
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Ten months of waiting ends Sept. 21 for the scientists who built the MAVEN space probe on its final leg of a journey to the edge of Mars.
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ndia's ambitious Mars Orbiter Mission, scheduled to enter the orbit of the Red Planet on September 24, is in the "pink of health" and sending vital information from 211 million km away after covering 95% of its journey, ISRO said on Saturday.
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Regenerative medicine researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina have developed what they say is the most successful method to date to keep blood vessels in new human-sized pig kidney organs open and flowing with blood
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In experiments on an indoor track, the robot sprinted up to 10 mph, even continuing to run after clearing a hurdle.
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The NEO Neurophone is not a smart phone. Rather, the brand new 2015 NEO Neurophone is a profound time-tested techno-meditation device that uses ultrasonic waves to soothe and center your mind.
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This new state-of-the-art beam control turret allows for 360 degree aiming coverage for directed energy weapons that will be flying on military aircraft
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"I served as an Air Force imagery analyst. Here's what the government won't say about its drone program AFISR PREDATOR"
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Oregon State University researchers are combining diatoms, a type of single-celled photosynthetic algae, with nanoparticles to create a sensor capable of detecting miniscule amounts of protein or other biomarkers.
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Acoustic device that separates tumor cells from blood cells could help assess cancer’s spread.
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Rather than the body's immune system destroying its own tissue by mistake, researchers at the University of Bristol have discovered how cells convert from being aggressive to actually protecting against disease.
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atomically thin, ultrasensitive and scalable molybdenum disulfide field-effect transistor based biosensors and establish their potential for single-molecule detection - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2014/014380/ultra-sensitive-biosensor-mos2-semic
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If Scotland does becomes independent this week, it will join a long list of nations that have freed themselves from the Empire's chokehold.
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Douglas Gillies, attorney and facilitator, is the author of 101 Cool Ways to Die and Prophet—the Hatmaker's Son. The Life of Robert Muller. His award-winning documentary "On the Edge" addresses the state of the world.
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September 9, 2014
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Apple pulls back the curtain today on its latest innovations, amid frenzied anticipation over new big-screen iPhones and possibly an "iWatch" which could shake up the world of wearables.
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Google said Thursday that it has been working on a secret project to build unmanned flying drones, which could one day deliver packages to consumers or supplies to people in remote areas.
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Samsung Gear VR is a virtual-reality headset that uses the company's new Galaxy Note 4 as its main display. It looks a little like an Oculus Rift, and a "powered by Oculus" logo appears on the side.
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The 1.6-inch sapphire-glass touchscreen can display SMS messages relayed through the bracelet’s Intel XMM6321 3G cellular radio. It can also display calendar alerts.
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GPS-enabled smart sports shoe that vibrates to give the wearer directions
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UK-based company AESIR has developed a VTOL UAV that has no external rotating parts, instead relying on a phenomenon known as the Coanda effect to generate lift.
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The High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD)—basically a high-energy laser mounted on top of a big truck—was successfully used to blast some UAV drones and 60mm mortars out of the Florida sky earlier this year, Boeing announced Thursday.
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Mysterious “interceptor” cell towers in the USA are grabbing phone calls — but they’re not part of the phone networks.
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Stimulating a particular region in the brain via non-invasive delivery of electrical current using magnetic pulses, called Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, improves memory
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toilet paper developed from a series of small evolutionary steps, leaving behind it a trail of outdated, barbaric methods of ass-wiping.
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asking that the Federal Communications Commission reclassify broadband as a utility using Title II of the Communications Act — exactly what net neutrality advocates have been pushing for.
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By turning its instruments skyward, the rover hopes to shed light on weather patterns that have helped shape the climate on Mars. “Clouds are part of the planet’s climate system,” Robert Haberle of NASA Ames tells Astrobiology Magazine
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PayPal-owned Braintree is welcoming cryptocurrency fans with open arms as it opens up support for Bitcoin payments. Braintree is opening up its One Touch system to Bitcoin and PayPal accounts as well.
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Apple today announced the Apple Watch, its first foray into the world of wearable tech
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August 26, 2014
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iOSDevCamp is a not-for-profit developer event for iOS, encouraging developers of all ages to create collaboratively in a stimulating supportive environment.
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The University of California, Berkeley Seismological Laboratory’s detection system gave about 10 seconds of early notice.
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The system relies on a coating of organic molecules that soak up ultraviolet and near-infrared rays. From there, the rays are pushed to photovoltaic solar cells at the edge of the surface where they're converted into electricity.
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Research is pointing to conscientiousness as the one-trait-to-rule-them-all in terms of future success, both career-wise and personal.
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65.5% of all smartphone users in the country average zero app downloads in a month. Only one third – roughly 30% -- download any apps at all, and that would be around 1 to 3 apps.
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a circular display with several new watchfaces are in the works.
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Robo Brain is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals, all being translated and stored in a robot-friendly format.
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scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene, long-touted as the model material for supercapacitors
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littleBits Synth Demo - this video demos what is possible with the off-the-shelf Synth modules from littleBits.
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Recent advances that allow the precise editing of genomes now raise the possibility that fruit and other crops might be genetically improved without the need to introduce foreign genes
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New algorithm lets drones monitor their own health during long package-delivery missions.
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Breakthroughs in the nascent field of soft robotics, in which steel skeletons and power-hungry motors make way for textiles, are beginning to move from the laboratory to the startup world.
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a cheap, emissions-free device that uses a 1.5-volt battery to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen gas could be used to power fuel cells in zero-emissions vehicles.
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he answer is all in the dust—specifically, how the moon dust kicked up by the wheels of the Lunar Rover falls in a way that couldn't be recreated on Earth
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a team of MIT researchers has discovered one way to recycle lead from car batteries, and the end product is something very, very useful: long-lasting solar cells.
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Finding may impact future therapies for spinal cord injuries
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Re-imagining aging is their mission, and Mihai was there to tell us about thier latest conference.
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Better than Sex, describes the ecstatic art of awakening coaching: how anyone can become a support to anyone else in discovering the Open Secret that is an infinite source of stillness, well-being and creativity, and bring it forth in every area.
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August 19, 2014
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An realtime blog with text, tweets, and videos of the unfolding story..
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For the first time, the number of broadband subscribers with the major U.S. cable companies exceeded the number of cable subscribers
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The 350,000 mirrors bounce sunlight back towards the atmosphere with such intensity that it basically creates a giant death ray. The poor little birds that pass by don't stand a chance—they get scorched in midair.
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The US Navy just announced that it has successfully integrated unmanned and manned carrier operations for the first time. This is huge, as it's pretty much the first step in how the Navy will work not for the next few years, but for the next few decades.
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IT WOULD BE BETTER TO HAVE NO RULES THAN THE ONES BEING PROPOSED BY THE FCC, WHICH SIMPLY LEGALIZE DISCRIMINATION ON THE INTERNET.
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A "coregasm" is an exercise-induced orgasm, most widely reported to occur during core work.
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Applied Materials has started shipping equipment that could help double the energy storage of batteries.
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Will Bitcoin predominantly be a store of value (like gold) or a medium of exchange (like the dollar), or both (the best case for Bitcoin bulls).
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researchers are hoping to discover exactly how the chemical effects the brain, as well as any medical or therapeutic usefulness it could have for either revealing how consciousness operates or treating mental illnesses and disorders.
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Suiqiong Li and Joseph Stetter of Newark, CA-based KWJ Engineering have developed a portable device that mimics the way trained dogs sniff out trace chemicals emitted from money.
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Following simple programmed rules, autonomous robots arrange themselves into vast complex shapes.
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Startup Chemisense is developing a wearable chemical sensor that could help asthma sufferers avoid attacks.
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bacteria release signaling molecules in the gut, which are then picked up by the vagus nerve, the connecting structure between the gut and the brain. By making these connections, the bacteria can then influence the immune system, endocrine system, etc.
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Hydraulic-powered, mind-controlled support suits aren’t just for superheroes. Soon you might have to wear one to work.
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In 2009, Airbnb was close to going bust. Like so many startups, they had launched but barely anyone noticed.
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It will be open source, too, since part of the goal is to let those in Africa and other developing regions create their own reliable, renewable power sources.
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Moth eyes absorb almost all incident light, thus reducing reflection that predators would notice. Researchers have now used the moth eye structure as the basis of a highly efficient solar absorbing cell.
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August 12, 2014
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Thicker, stronger, and more resilient. Once a week is all it takes, new research says.
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I liked everything. Or at least I did, for 48 hours. Literally everything Facebook sent my way, I liked—even if I hated it
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An Alternative to the Turing Test, Annual Competition Invites Researchers and Students from around the World to Design Computer Programs that Simulate Human Intelligence
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“Our device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient,” cofounder Alexandros Vardakostas has said. “It’s meant to completely obviate them.”
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A water-based tractor beam that could contain oil spills and manipulate floating objects cannot yet be explained by mathematical theory.
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Hachette Book Group CEO Michael Pietsch spoke out Sunday, saying that “Amazon is seeking a lot more profit and even more market share, at the expense of authors, bricks and mortar bookstores, and ourselves.”
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We mark the passing of a comedy legend...
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With the recent passage of the California Alternative Currencies Act, AB 129, California has taken a significant step toward fostering more just and resilient local economies.
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Learn a new language faster than ever! Leave doubt in the dust! Be a better sniper! Could you do all that and more with just a zap to the noggin? Maybe.
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“The vision is very significant,” says Oren Etzioni, a renowned AI expert who heads the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence. “If this team is successful, we are looking at the future of intelligent agents and a multibillion-dollar industry.”
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Operates at 46 billion “synaptic operations” per second per watt; 100 trillion "synapses" planned, matching the approximate number in the human brain
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In truth, Facebook Messenger isn't any more invasive than Facebook's main app -or other similar applications.
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Crayfish can convert blood to neurons that resupply their eyestalks and smell circuits.
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August 5. 2014
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Customers have now downloaded over 75 billion apps since the App Store’s inception and Apple has paid its developers over $20 billion in that time span.
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After a journey that has lasted a decade, Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is now on its final approach to a comet.
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An American scientist has invented a fuel-less space drive, which has been given the seal of approval by NASA after being tested.
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The Argus II will help people blinded by the rare hereditary disease retinitis pigmentosa or seniors suffering from severe macular degeneration.
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A team at the University of Sheffield has developed spray-on cells that should be both cheap and capable.
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The rise of modern civilization and human culture may have corresponded to a drop in testosterone linked with both male characteristics and aggression
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filmmakers are unlocking new aerial views of natural and manmade phenomena that can be equal parts beautiful, enlightening and enraging all at the same time.
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What if computer screens had glasses instead of the people staring at the monitors?
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They’ve created an algorithm that can reconstruct sound (and even intelligible speech) with the tiny vibrations it causes on video.
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A new extension for Google’s Chrome web browser released earlier this month can turn the giant online retail site into a search engine for pirating ebooks.
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Researchers at NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, and Pennsylvania State University have developed a 3D printing process that transitions from one metal or alloy to another in a single object.
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When a team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution lowered the device into the waters near Guadalupe Island in Mexico, they got more predatory footage than they bargained for, recording dozens of instances of Great Whites hunting the camera like seals.
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The ocean appears to be absorbing excess heat.
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When it comes to a violent solar storm slamming into Earth - it’s not a question of if but when, warns a new study published this month in the Physics World journal.
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This video is a critique of catastrophic man-made global warming theory, based on presentation slides used in a series of public presentations and debates in late 2009 and early 2010. The author is Warren Meyer, author of the web site climate-skeptic.com.
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The world's most viewed site on global warming and climate change
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July 22, 2014
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Japan now has the fastest-growing drone fleet in the world, with an expected 300 percent increase in investment over the next decade
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Experts examine the newly-discovered hole in the earth in Siberia.
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The combined output of 60 kW equates to around 80 horsepower, enough to give the E-Fan a top speed of around 136 mph and a cruising speed, with two people aboard, of about 100 mph.
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The chain began stocking printers made by MakerBot in its stores in three states: California, Illinois, and New York as part of what Home Depot described to Bloomberg as a "pilot."
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the 3-D printing lab is building a car in a radical new way that could change how the auto industry works.
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The new film Algorithm tracks the travails of Will, a freelance computer hacker who "breaks into a top-secret government contractor and downloads all their recently developed programs."
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Jaguar Land Rover's new Virtual Windscreen concept wants to provide drivers with an interactive virtual display on the car's windshield, delivering a kind of augmented-reality experience.
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A profile of a veteran pickpocket in the New York Times this weekend shows that technology is destroying the art. Credit cards are just more lucrative.
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Colin Furze—maker of the coolest Wolverine claws—wants to build a giant butt and fart at France from Dover.
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the internet was collectively tickled at the reports of how NASA was conducting the recovery of some of the first photos of the moon inside an abandoned McDonald's.
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Helps keep blood sugar under control and reverses insulin insensitivity
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Researchers at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics are working to bring the multiverse hypothesis — we are living in one universe of many — into the realm of testable science.
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nly representatives from LinkedIn and open source content management system Drupal attended the FCC’s “Accessing Social Media” event.
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Researchers from Brown University, Shanxi University and Tsinghua University in China have discovered that a cluster of 40 boron atoms forms a hollow molecular cage similar to a carbon “buckyball.”
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Since time immemorial, humans have been captivated by water. And the reasons go beyond evolution
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July 29, 2014
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A new discovery will make it possible to create pixels just a few hundred nanometres across that could pave the way for extremely high-resolution and low-energy thin, flexible displays for applications such as 'smart' glasses, synthetic retinas..
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We don’t understand how they work, and the glimpses we have gotten so far indicate that our brains work quite differently than our own smart technology.
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FirstNet will realize a vision that emerged in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks, using technology that didn’t exist until years later. It will be a single network linking all federal, state and local public-safety agencies in the U.S.
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ur reader appears to have received internal Army correspondence regarding the U.S. military's ongoing agreement with Israel to sell and maintain Patriot missile systems.
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On Wednesday morning, more than 100 activists rallied in Los Altos — the heart of the Silicon Valley.
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The new iWatch will be designed based on the iOS 8 concept. As per official reports, iWatch will feature a 2.5-inch rectangular screen, having a sapphire crystal glass.
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Bacteria that produce a therapeutic compound in the gut inhibit weight gain, insulin resistance and other adverse effects of a high-fat diet in mice,
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New device based on a fly's freakishly acute hearing may find applications in futuristic hearing aids and military technology
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New research by theorists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) shows that we could spot the fingerprints of certain pollutants under ideal conditions.
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The kit contains no human tissue, yet it provides all the major parts of the body required to teach anatomy of the limbs, chest, abdomen, head and neck.
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Pangea with the present day country names.
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Ancient fossilized soils potentially found deep inside an impact crater suggest microbial life
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Amazon has launched a new store for 3D-printed goods, which include items that can be customized to change their size, color, material and even aspects of their design.
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A major go to site in evaluating children's toys
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rundown of what worked and what didn't at Comic-Con 2014.
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July 15, 2014
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Now, researchers seem to have found the part of the brain that controls consciousness by coincidence while studying an epileptic patient—and used electronic brain stimulation to flip the switch on and off.
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During his last six years working as an elite security researcher for Google, the hacker known as Morgan Mayhem spent his nights and weekends hunting down the malware used to spy on vulnerable targets like human rights activists and political dissidents.
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The FingerReader device is a large ring that slips on a finger and features a front facing camera that scans the text that the finger is pointing to
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Happy 158th birthday, Nikola Tesla! To celebrate, Elon Musk agrees to give a chunk of money and a Tesla Supercharging station to the Nikola Tesla Museum.
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A Polish-Peruvian archaeological team has confirmed what has been suspected for many centuries – the Incas used the ancient city of Machu Picchu as a mountaintop observatory.
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The key driver behind the in-store mobile movement has been the introduction of Bluetooth® Smart and iBeacon technology.
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Brief pulse detected by Arecibo telescope appears to come from far beyond our galaxy
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Intended to help military service members with traumatic brain injury (TBI), but could also help with Alzheimer's disease and epilepsy
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The Stirling is quieter than an internal combustion engine, and it’s more efficient because the heat is retained inside the engine by to do more work rather than allowed to escape to the environment.
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As the initial comment period regarding the FCC’s currently proposed net neutrality rules comes to a close, the Internet Association today released a strongly worded statement calling for strict net neutrality rules that would not include paid prioritizat
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In a genome-wide analysis, scientists from University of California-San Diego and Yale found that we are far more genetically similar to our friends than we are to strangers of the same population.
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“Sub-doses of 10 to 20 micrograms (of LSD) allow me to increase my focus, open my heart, and achieve breakthrough results while remaining integrated within my routine
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This launch was the first in a series of ORBCOMM’s OG2 machine-to-machine communications satellites launching on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 vehicle. All six ORBCOMM satellites deployed on target.
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a two-part competition inviting local and international engineers alike to submit proposals for UAVs aimed at improving government services locally and bettering humanity worldwide.
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July 8, 2014
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noted venture capitalist and longtime friend Vinod Khosla managed to get both Google co-founders to reveal their thoughts on everything from novel government policies to the future of technology.
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Scientists from the Universities of Sydney, Harvard, Stanford and MIT have bio-printed artificial vascular networks mimicking the body's circulatory system that are necessary for growing large complex tissues.
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The new battery – which uses no metals or toxic materials – is intended for use in power plants, where it can make the energy grid more resilient and efficient by creating a large-scale means to store energy for use as needed.
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“We wanted to create high-value red cells that do more than simply carry oxygen,” says Whitehead Founding Member Harvey Lodish,
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The team intends to rescue the International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 and then focus on what to use the spacecraft for
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Each of the planned 10,000 robots will cost the company between $20,000 and $25,000, and will be capable of churning out 300,000 smartphones on average.
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If you’ve ever sent an email that you immediately realized wasn’t complete, contained errors, or, even worse, was to the wrong person, you know that feeling of dread
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the latest from Mercedes-Benz indicates that self-driving autos are here to stay.
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Lava Mae is a startup that renovates donated, surplus San Francisco city buses, fitting them out with accessible showers that can be brought to homeless people around town.
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Google is the undisputed king of search in all but one lucrative and vital category: product searches.
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Limbal stem cells -- identified with a new marker -- could reverse a leading cause of blindness
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Scientists test hair claimed to be from Bigfoot, yeti, and other "anomalous primates."
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A woman in the US has developed a tumour-like growth eight years after a stem cell treatment to cure her paralysis failed.
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Star Wars fan Frank Wunderlich turned the German airport of Frankfurt into a base for the Imperial Navy thanks to the wonders of 3D and compositing.
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This is what the inside of a fireworks show looks like! Jos Stiglingh attached a GoPro to a DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter and flew it through a fireworks show in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Landing at LAX we witnessed the City of Angels celebrating July 4th with fireworks spectacularly going off across the city!
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According to journalist/historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. In American Nations he takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent.,
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July 1, 2014
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Cryptome said it would “aid and abet” the release of “57K to 1.7M” new documents that had been “withheld for national security-public debate
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ATAP, which is just over two years old, has 11 projects underway, including the highly regarded projects Tango and Ara which generated the majority of excitement at one of the conference's most jam-packed breakout sessions.
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Lesser known than Elon Musk and Richard Bronson's space tourism exploits is World View, a luxury flight capsule that, in an estimated four years, will start taking travelers on five hour tours through our earth’s atmosphere.
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More than 30,000 sailors, soldiers and military personnel from more than two dozen nations are in Pearl Harbor this week, with ships double-parked at the end of the docks.
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Elon Musk gets more press for being the head of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, but in addition to overhauling the car and launch businesses, he's trying to revolutionize solar energy, too.
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The secret of how salamanders successfully regrow body parts is being unravelled by UCL researchers in a bid to apply it to humans.
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Older sperm donors 'just as good' Women should not worry about using sperm from older donors as the success rate is the same as for younger men, doctors say.
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The bill makes changes to current law to “ensure that various forms of alternative currency such as digital currency, points, coupons or other objects of monetary value do not violate the law when those methods are used for the purchase of goods
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only 17 percent of American homes are equipped with Broadband connections fast enough to deliver 4K content.
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This is a plot of the NSA programs revealed in the past year according to whether they are bulk or targeted, and whether the targets of surveillance are foreign or domestic
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Our work demonstrates that we can execute accurate, high-speed flight maneuvers with a fixed-wing UAV using low-cost onboard sensors
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Some Rice University researchers decided to look at how desert animals have adapted to their waterless conditions.
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Research team stores 5.5 petabits, or 1 million gigabits, per cubic millimeter in DNA storage medium
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Custom-built with privacy in mind, this handset isn’t for (Google) Play.
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Thermal imagers are coming to your smartphone. Here's why you want one.
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The Reading Rainbow Kickstarter campaign now has nearly $5 million in funding and has become the most backed Kickstarter campaign ever, with more than 91,000 backers.
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uman actions may have caused the species’s populations to grow huge as well as led to its demise
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In 1934, a little-known Belgian thinker published plans for a global network that could have changed everything
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Have a look at any ancient artefact and there's probably something there that you cannot see: stone corners that have long since chipped off; carvings rubbed away by time; or once-glorious colours that have faded. Now those missing features can be brought
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a riot control drone to corporations armed with multiple guns that fire pepper spray bullets, paintballs, and blinding lasers.
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The film follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz.
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SpaceX's first commercial resupply mission is a win for ISS partners but a loss for Orbcomm
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June 24, 2014
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SpaceX is targeted to launch the first satellite in the ORBCOMM OG2 mission on Friday, June 20th, 2014 at 6:08pm ET
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He's calling iMemories the "Netflix" of "family memories" and charging $5 monthly or $49.99 yearly for the online service, which started in January.
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Imagine a a Drone Valley, where a particular region removes all legal barriers to flying unmanned aerial vehicles locally.
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NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s
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the skulls have been shown to have DNA that proves them not to be modern Homo sapiens but something else.
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Finnish and Italian researchers have developed a way to align molecular self-assemblies from nanometers to millimeters, an alternative to conventional top-down lithography approaches for creating electronic devices.
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For people who recognize a need for privacy and want a simple, secure place to start.
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For solar energy companies, there was hardly a cloud in the sky
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Rover stretched out its robotic arm and took a series of pictures of itself, then stitched them together
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A recently discovered and very unusual white dwarf star is so chilled out, it is essentially a giant floating piece of bling.
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Google-owned Nest Labs will now allow developers to make appliances that can work and communicate with each other in an interconnected home.
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June 17, 2014
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If the U.S. government has its way, the Transportation Department will have full oversight over apps like Google Maps, Apple Maps, and Waze.
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CEO MARK ZUCKERBERG'S AUDACIOUS BID TO REWIRE THE APP ECONOMY--AND MAKE HIS SOCIAL NETWORK MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER.
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A portable artificial pancreas built with a modified iPhone regulated blood sugar levels in people with Type 1 diabetes.
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The technological changes in the next 20 years will dwarf those of the last 20 years. It will almost be like nothing at all has happened yet.
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Space tourism firm Space Adventures says two customers have paid deposits for a flight around the moon on a Soyuz spacecraft, but the trip requires major changes to the Russian crew capsule.
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"The adult industry was particularly ripe to 'disrupt' because of the combination of unusually high profit margins combined with industry-wide poor e-commerce knowledge"
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The historic ascent involved a 218-pound climber ascending and descending 25 feet of glass, while also carrying an additional 50-pound load in one trial, with no climbing equipment other than a pair of hand-held, gecko-inspired paddles.
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Johns Hopkins researchers have created a miniature human retina in a dish that can sense light.
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Wildlife-related crimes comprise the fourth largest category of international crimes, after drugs and trafficking in humans and arms. A new, anonymous reporting tool helps whistleblowers fight back.
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With the invention of optogenetics and other technologies, researchers can investigate the source of emotions, memory, and consciousness for the first time.
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June 10, 2014
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efforts are underway to create a universal intelligence test that measures smarts via objective qualities like the ability to compress information and make decisions.
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100 million worlds in our home galaxy may harbor complex alien life. One. Hundred. Million.
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Google on Thursday revealed that is working on a tablet computer with 3D and motion-sensing capabilities in an effort dubbed Project Tango.
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Researchers develop novel supercapacitor architecture that provides two times more energy and power compared to supercapacitors commercially available today
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Researchers develop novel supercapacitor architecture that provides two times more energy and power compared to supercapacitors commercially available today
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Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most comprehensive picture ever assembled of the evolving Universe — and one of the most colourful.
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Fraunhofer and Vaillant have developed a simple device for home use.
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MIT spinout Formlabs brings high-resolution, low-cost 3-D printing to makers, engineers and designers.
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A dronie is a self-portrait taken with a drone (an autonomous or remote-controlled flying vehicle).
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overall crime rates in the city of Denver are down more than five months after legal marijuana sales began in the Rocky Mountain state.
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At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple announced latest the winners of its annual Apple Design Awards.
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scientist Dr. Robert Lanza who was voted the 3rd most important scientist alive by the NY Times, has no doubts that this is possible.
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One ton of circuit boards has anywhere from 40 to 800 times the amount of gold in it than one ton of mined gold ore,
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All You Need Is Myth: An Immersive Journey Through the Mythology of the Beatles
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The first legally approved commercial drone flight over land occurred June 8 to survey an oil field in northern Alaska
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June 3, 2014
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The International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) originally launched in 1978 to study solar wind before being diverted to chase after comets in the mid-1980s. Orbiting the sun ever since, it is now making its long-anticipated return.
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Researchers have demonstrated the promise of printable robotic components that, when heated, automatically fold into prescribed three-dimensional configuration.
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Google is now exploring what fully self-driving vehicles would look like by building some prototypes
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Washington University School of Medicine researchers have developed a new form of brain-scanning technology that improves on diffuse optical tomography (DOT).
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One bus sends photons to a series of traps, each tuned to different wavelengths.
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Inspired by dinosaurs, Raptor is a fast-running biped robot developed by the MSC Lab at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). It has two under-actuated legs and a tail inspired by velociraptors, providing stability over high obstacle
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Einstein is wrong? That's the potential outcome of a quantum mechanics study as scientists race to disprove his views on entanglement.
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Around 5 pm PST on June 2, 2014, our long-time friend and role model Sasha Shulgin gently died after several years of battling various illnesses.
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Unleash the power of our affordable head-mounted display (HMD) for iOS and Android smartphones
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Colleen Taylor talks with Founder and CEO of Meta Meron Gribetz and takes a look at their 2.0 version of their Augmented Reality glasses.
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it incorporates elements of both virtual reality and augmented reality.
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Sony is expected to show more of its virtual reality headset, called Project Morpheus, at E3.
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May 27, 2014
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Owners of iPhones and iPads in Australia are reportedly locked out of their devices until paying a ransom fee.
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Here’s an idea crazy enough that it just might work: Pave the streets with solar-powered panels that have their own built-in heat and LED lights.
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Researchers have finally worked out how to utilize rock salt Lithium Borohydride (LiBH4) as a battery material at normal atmospheric pressure and room temperature
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How can an ant lift objects many times heavier than its own body? Engineers at The Ohio State University combined computational modeling at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and lab experiments to find out.
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In response [to the rise of diagnostic algorithms], NNU [National Nurses United] has launched a major campaign featuring radio ads from coast to coast, video, social media, legislation, rallies, and a call to the public to act, with a simple theme –
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a new type of light sensor that could allow medical and security imaging, via low cost cameras.
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The scientific progress that has made it possible to dream of a future in which faulty organs could be regrown from stem cells also holds potential as an ethical and greener source for meat.
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With traumatic injuries, timing in treatment can be the difference between life and death. What if surgeons could hit the pause button, giving them precious additional time to treat the wounds?
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Drug-Delivering Nanomotor is 500 Times Smaller Than a Grain of Salt
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A Japanese company has pioneered a low-cost, recyclable, high-performance battery technology that could see electric vehicles charging just as fast as a petrol car filling its fuel tank.
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Manipulating our personal biome for better health and happiness
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Now you too can brainstorm and partake in the grunt work for big-scale scientific research. It's a win-win way to help out and get introduced to some of the top researchers in the biz.
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Researchers at the Istituto Clinico Humanitas in Italy have trained two dogs that can sniff out the scent of prostate cancer in urine samples with a success rate of 98 percent
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the meteor collided with an asteroid before heading on its collision course with Earth.
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The discovery further ignites the debate about who the first inhabitants were in the Americas and from where they arrived.
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How much would it cost to educate all those currently priced out of education? “Realistically, only a drop in the bucket in relation to the billions floating within the higher education industry
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Germany does a better job on innovation in areas as diverse as sustainable energy systems, molecular biotech, lasers, and experimental software engineering.
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A team of physicists have provided what has been described by the journal Nature as the “clearest evidence yet” that our universe is a hologram.
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May 20, 2014
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The FCC report noted DirecTV is often able to negotiate lower fees for channels than its smaller rivals because of its size and national reach. By acquiring the satellite provider, AT&T gets access to 20 million more homes around the country
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First look at a new low cost flying camera drone that works with your smart phone or Oculus Rift.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art this month released an astounding 394,000 high-resolution images to the public.
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Mice severely disabled by a condition similar to multiple sclerosis (MS) were able to walk less than two weeks following treatment with human neural stem cells.
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Initial focus: the almost 400,000 people who die from lung disease, including cancer, each year
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Researchers have taken a step toward practical applications for “hyperbolic metamaterials” — ultra-thin crystalline films that could bring optical advances including powerful microscopes, quantum computers, and high-performance solar cells.
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Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have engineered a bacterium whose genetic material includes an added pair of DNA “letters” (bases) not found in nature.
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Some SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) scientists are considering “Active SETI” to detect possible extraterrestrial civilizations.
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Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe suggested at the Techcrunch Disrupt event Monday May 5 that Oculus and Facebook could in the future build a massively multiplayer online experience (MMO) for one billion simultaneous users in VR
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By any objective analysis, cannabis and cannabinoids exceed the FDA’s existing standards for medicine
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University of Illinois researchers have developed self-repairing materials that not only heal, but also regenerate.
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WikiLeaks has threatened to unilaterally release the name of an as-yet unnamed country in which every cell phone call is recorded by the National Security Agency
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Terrestrial bacteria that survive the trip through space could contaminate other planets.
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Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light — a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorized by scientists G. Breit and J. Wheeler in 1934.
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but she creates an interesting tension between empowering her cohort and telling a cautionary tale.
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Should we let animals have control of technology? Look what happens when a cat is given a simple bell to play with!
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Penny is a remarkable seer and analyst, helping us to prep for a rapidly shifting future
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May 13, 2014
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A team of researchers led by astronomer Ivan Ramirez of The University of Texas at Austin has identified the first “sibling” of the sun — a star almost certainly born from the same cloud of gas and dust as our star.
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Astronomers have created the first realistic virtual universe using a computer simulation called “Illustris.”
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A human researcher floats near her ship recording a series of whistles from a nearby grey-skinned creature with great dark eyes. Amid the chatter, the computer recognizes a waveform and whispers a word into the researcher’s ear: sargassum.
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A leading robotics expert, Professor Noel Sharkey from the University of Sheffield’s Department of Computer Science, will speak to the United Nations in Geneva from May 13–16 to help global leaders understand the pros and cons of lethal autonomous weapons
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The U.S. Navy plans to increase sonar testing over the next five years, even as research it funded reveals worrying signs that the loud underwater noise could disturb whales and dolphins.
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The U.S Navy plans to raise the death toll by conducting underwater testing of explosive weapons and sonar devices. Tests will be and are taking place in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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May 6, 2014
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A landmark study of retirement community residents who lived past 90 is providing a guide that could help.
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Mr. Imich, a scholar of the occult who was born in Poland on Feb. 4, 1903, is the world’s oldest validated male supercentenarian (those over 110)
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Vârânasî| A retired cobbler from northern India, Mahashta Mûrasi, claims he was born in January 1835, making him not only the oldest man on earth, but the oldest to have ever lived, according to the Guiness World Records.
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http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/04/30/neanderthals-were-not-inferior-modern-humans-says-cu-boulder-study
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100 cars, involving a vehicle manufacturer, real customers, legislators, transport authorities, and a major city
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the new Cree uses LED rather than inert gas which allows it to turn on instantly (regardless of how cold the weather is) without flickering as well as operate at a 30 percent energy savings over the traditional method.
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Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks, says a group of leading scientists
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a deeper shift is underway that will fundamentally change the way the internet is used in the future.
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A new proposal from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) lays out a plan that would solve the country’s energy woes for decades to come.
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Laser shields, such as those protecting spaceships in the Star Wars film series, are scientifically feasible, three University of Leicester physics students have shown.
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Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee has launched a new messaging app called Chadder, with a focus on encryption and security.
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The researchers say the discovery will “change the way many consumer and industrial products are manufactured.”
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Australian scientists have invented a simple and cheap way of making a high-powered lens that can transform a smart phone into a high-resolution microscope.
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a new type of printer developed by Carnegie Mellon University and Disney Research Pittsburgh can turn wool and wool blend yarns into fabric objects that people might actually enjoy touching.
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Graphene and carbon nanotubes can generate intense surface plasmons for use in nanoelectronics and cancer therapy
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Dr. Larry Green, MD,PhD is a research scientist with more then 40 years experience in problem solving in the bioscience sector. He is a physician and scientist.
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April 29, 2014
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After flying to the edge of space, a spent SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster successfully returned to Earth, deployed its landing legs, and hovered for a moment.
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The utopian vision of self-driving cars quietly humming along our roads is nothing new, but much of the work tends to focus on testing a system’s ability to drive a car along a freeway, rather than more tricky busy city streets.
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Skype today announced it is making group video calling (GVC) available free of charge on Windows desktop, OS X, and the Xbox One.
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A startup uses sound waves to create touch sensations out of thin air.
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The new epidermis, grown from human pluripotent stem cells, offers a cost-effective alternative lab model for testing drugs and cosmetics, and could also help to develop new therapies for rare and common skin disorders.
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Studying how mantises see in 3-D could provide clues about how 3-D vision evolved in the natural world and lead to new techniques in implementing 3-D recognition and depth perception in computer vision and robotics.
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Girls who are told by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher that they are too fat at age 10 are more likely to be obese at age 19, a new study by UCLA psychologists shows.
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Google will provide $100 million to contribute to lease financing for thousands of American homeowners to add solar panels to their roof tops and clean energy to their mix.
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In what could revolutionise plaster cast technology, a Turkish design student has unveiled a slick 3D-printed cast with ventilation holes that reduces healing time by around 40 percent than currently used plaster casts.
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Online, words persist forever, in vast searchable databases. Anything you say or do using your real name is permanently attached to it.
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A Wi-Fi-only world would result in massive coverage gaps, interference and congestion.
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the system is far more mathematical than metaphysical.
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Two MIT students have raised half a million dollars for a project to distribute $100 in bitcoin to every undergraduate student at MIT this fall.
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WITH ALMOST $1 BILLION IN FUNDING AND AMBITIONS TO REPLACE PETROLEUM-BASED CARS WITH A NETWORK OF CHEAP ELECTRICS, SHAI AGASSI’S BETTER PLACE WAS REMARKABLE EVEN BY THE STANDARDS OF WORLD-CHANGING STARTUPS. SO WAS ITS EPIC FAILURE. A 21ST-CENTURY CAUTIONA
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Funding for research into the therapeutic uses of psychedelics and medical marijuana increased significantly this April, when the non-profit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) announced that it will receive a generous $1.9 mil
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Welcome to the Consortium of Collective Consciousness Publishing website
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April 22, 2014
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A majority of Americans don't believe in even the most fundamental discovery of 20th century physics, which 99.9 percent of members of the National Academies of Sciences do: that our universe began with an enormous explosion, the Big Bang.
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An online mapping tool will show how much sea levels are expected to rise in each area, as well as the number of residents and buildings that could be flooded.
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A team in Norway announced that a skydiver was almost struck by a meteorite in flight over the ØstreÆra airstrip near Rena, Norway. Their evidence was this video.
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Light-field cameras use a lens array to capture not just an image itself, but also the bundles of light rays, and the direction they are moving in a particular scene.
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Researchers at the University of Central Florida’s College of Optics & Photonics and the University of Arizona have further developed a new technique to aim a high-energy laser beam into clouds to make it rain or trigger lightning.
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If you’re on the edge about deciding to get a 3D printer, this Kickstarter campaign for The Micro, billed as the “first truly consumer 3D printer,” may just push you off it.
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Google has acquired Titan Aerospace, a developer of jet-sized drones intended to fly nonstop for years.Also, Facebook has also agreed to buy the U.K.-based Ascenta
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AT&T has announced a plan that could see high-speed fiber Internet networks rolled out in as many as 100 cities in 21 metro regions throughout the United States.
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Scientists have outlined how they managed to make the "wonder material" graphene using a kitchen blender.
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About 200 recreational marijuana stores have opened in Colorado since Jan. 1. And as the market becomes more and more saturated, everyone is looking for an edge.
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a Colorado group concerned about the impacts of legalization on children issued a statement decrying the scenes of public pot smoking in Denver on Sunday, a day marijuana enthusiasts treat as a holiday called 4/20.
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April 15, 2014
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An encryption flaw called the Heartbleed bug is already being called one of the biggest security threats the Internet has ever seen. The bug has affected many popular websites and services — ones you might use every day.
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The NSA knew about and exploited the Heartbleed vulnerability for two years before it was publicly exposed this week, and used it to steal account passwords and other data, according to a news report.
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A team of scientists at the University of Edinburgh has rebuilt the thymus of an old mouse — the first regeneration of a living organ.
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Better than fitness trackers on your wrist or clipped to your belt, the inventors say
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the technology is now getting so thin and flexible that the future looks bright for new form factors, user interfaces and applications.
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special degradable polymer composite materials designed to quickly and completely melt away when a trigger is activated.
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Stanford engineers have developed what could be the next big thing in interactive gaming: handheld game controllers that measure the player's physiology and alter the gameplay to make it more engaging.
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A security bug uncovered this week affects an estimated two-thirds of websites and has Internet users scrambling to understand the problem and update their online passwords.
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Yahoo has big plans for online video content — and it is eyeing original TV series the likes of those that Netflix and Amazon are targeting,
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Ever-popular among developers, open source technology has moved away from the fringes of tech right to the center of the enterprise, thanks to its high level of security and agility.
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More than 100 tiny satellites are set to launch into space on April 14th, in a demonstration of a possible future inexpensive technology that could pave the way for the $1,000 satellite.
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Navigation app Waze hit the headlines over the past week for the $1.15 billion that Google paid to acquire it last year
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Small teams can have a big impact because software development (and deployment) has improved dramatically over the past decade.
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"Overcoming jet lag is fundamentally a math problem and we've calculated the optimal way of doing it," said Danny Forger, a professor of mathematics at the U-M College of Literature,
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The U.S. Navy plans to install a prototype of the first laser weapon on USS Ponce for at-sea testing in the Persian Gulf late this summer.
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Using a new gene-editing system based on bacterial proteins, MIT researchers have cured mice of a rare liver disorder caused by a single genetic mutation.
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The Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) system will demonstrate up to 50 megabits per second transmission, compared to 200 to 400 kilobits per second for many deep-space missions.
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In the effort to demonize mind-altering drugs, critics have overlooked some very real benefits
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Imaginatrix - The Terence McKenna Experience is an alluring experiment in neo-psychedelic cinema by the creator of Alien DreamTime and Strange Attractor.
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April 8, 2014
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Earth-bound challenges will determine the success of Facebook and Google’s plans to use balloons, drones and satellites to spread Internet access.
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Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have developed a technique to use magnetically controlled nanoparticles to force tumor cells to “self-destruct.” without harming surrounding tissue
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Researchers from the Allen Institute for Brain Science have published the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas, the first comprehensive, large-scale data set on how the brain of a mammal is wired
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StoreDot Ltd., a Tel-Aviv based start-up, says it hopes to at least make the charging process faster–unveiling Monday a prototype charger that promises to take you battery from a tiny sliver of red to 100%, all in about 30 seconds.
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Also expected to lower number of expensive carbon nanotubes required by a factor of 100
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Duke University biomedical engineers have grown living skeletal muscle that resembles the real thing. It contracts powerfully and rapidly, integrates into mice quickly, and for the first time, demonstrates the ability to heal itself both inside the lab
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Harry Potter-style cloaking finally possible
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As part of its Windows Phone 8.1 update announcement Wednesday, Microsoft introduced Cortana, a personal digital assistant with a persona.
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EM railgun technology uses an electromagnetic force - known as the Lorenz Force - to rapidly accelerate and launch a projectile between two conductive rails. This guided projectile is launched at such high velocities that it can achieve greater ranges
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April 1, 2014
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The first is categorized as "steamy" and the second is "mind-bending" and "suspenseful"
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Every year, companies try to dupe readers with crazy gadgets or services. Fortunately, these gadgets are so ridiculous that you can spot a prank with ease.
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Computers in the comedy business are becoming an increasingly big deal.
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3D acoustic cloaking device makes objects undetectable with sound
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In the making of Dune, the Chilean-born director speaks of recruiting not technicians and artists, but fellow spiritual warriors
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Amidst speculation that Apple’s long-fabled iWatch might in fact be a health-specific wristband, Android Wear is clearly aiming for something much bigger.
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Although non-human cultures don’t produce the kind of artifacts we create, the role of knowledge-sharing seems to be just as vital to the success of these societies as it is to ours.
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surgeons in Holland implanted a transparent plastic skull in a woman whose skull has never stopped growing.
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the bankers of Renaissance Europe invented their own form of money. And their experience, it turns out, can teach us a thing or two about bitcoin
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Unveiling the real story behind the richest of the rich
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A large international consortium of researchers has produced the first comprehensive, detailed map of the way genes work across the major cells and tissues of the human body
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Once described by Einstein as “spooky action at a distance”, this three-photon entanglement leads to interesting possibilities for multi-party quantum communication.
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Hybrid materials combine bacterial cells with nonliving elements that can conduct electricity or emit light.
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Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TED 2014 Conference in Vancouver, Canada.
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humans are capable of discriminating at least one trillion different odors
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Vanderbilt psychologists show that it is possible to learn through the application of a mild electrical current to the brain, and that this effect can be enhanced or depressed depending on the direction of the current.
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March 25, 2014
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Former NTSB officials say cloud-based aircraft data would streamline search missions.
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Sensors aboard at least two of NASA’s unmanned Earth orbiting global observation satellites as well as others flying on the manned International Space Station (ISS) are looking for signs of the jetliner that could aid the investigators.
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Firechat will can enable two users to chat not only without an Internet connection, but also when they are far beyond WiFi and Bluetooth range from each other — connected with a chain of peer-to-peer users between one user and a far-away Internet connect
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RoomScan is a crazy app that seems like it should never work. It lets you use your iPhone to measure the rooms in your home and turn them into floor plans, and all you have to do is walk around and tap the iPhone on the walls.
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Andrew Hessel and a team of designers, programmers, and scientists are working on what is perhaps Autodesk’s most ambitious project: building software and hardware that will simplify the task of designing and fabricating living things, including viruses,
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Balaban has built "an alternative operating system that runs on Glass but is not controlled by Google
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Around 15% of near-Earth asteroids are binaries—an asteroid with an orbiting "moon" sometimes nearly as big as itself—but what happens when a binary slams into our planet? The answer, at least some of the time, is the creation of two huge craters,
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Call for feedback from X Prize for a TED-related contest that features a talk written and presented by an artificial intelligence.
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Nanotechnology + synthetic biology creates plants capable of supercharged energy production or as sensors for explosives.
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The Hastings Center asks how should parents determine what sort of child they have?
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Glass Brain is a tool that maps the electrical activity of your brain in realtime, creating a 3D visualisation that you can navigate with a gaming controller.
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Technology now allows us to read facial expressions and identify which of the seven universal emotions a person is feeling: fear, anger, joy, sadness, disgust, surprise, or suspicion.
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Scale-up of LGTmedical's Phone Oximeter™ capitalized with $2 million Canadian private-public investment; device could save lives of women and children in low-resource countries
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Sometimes it only takes a quick jolt of electricity to get a swarm of cells moving in the right direction.
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And now for you fans of Short Attention Span Theater, documentary genre, we bring you 2 minutes of cosmic entertainment, about one of our most favorite topics in the universe, a brief history of us! (A tip of the hat to Pat Bailey)!"
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March 11, 2014
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HLI is Building World’s Largest Genotype/Phenotype Database by Sequencing up to 40,000 Human Genomes/Year Combined with Microbiome, Metabolome and Clinical Data to Develop Life Enhancing Therapies
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On a pound-per-pound basis, carbon nanotube-based fibers invented at Rice University have the capacity to carry four times as much electrical current than copper cables of the same mass
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While India’s recent launch of a spacecraft to Mars was a remarkable feat in its own right, it is the $75 million mission’s thrifty approach to time, money and materials that is getting attention.
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SEXPAND Materials scientists have been eyeing spider silk as a potential supermaterial for years, but the stuff is notoriously difficult to produce in quantities.
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This is real. It’s a video showing the Morpheus Project prototype vertical takeoff and lander doing its thing at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Mar. 5, 2014
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Several military powers, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Israel and China, are already using partially autonomous weapons in combat and are almost certainly pursuing other advances in private
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PonoPlayer features 128GB of memory, will cost $399
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The idea is that you can use your current mobile number for calls and texts, without being held being hostage to that single piece of hardware in your pocket.
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Documentary on Instrumental Trans Communication, electronic communications with what seems to be the dead
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Astronomers have announced a view of the universe though a lens more than 500,000 light years wide, as part of a program called “Frontier Fields” to search for the first galaxies.
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Australian National University reports that the steam and heat from volcanoes and heated rocks helped numerous species of plants and animals endure past ice ages.
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National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says he has no regrets about revealing the agency's mass surveillance program.
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The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang.
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Apple’s recent patents go beyond the expected iWatch to track fitness and health data directly from your ears
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iOS now includes a feature that allows users to control the iPhone with head-based motion gestures. In other words, the front-facing camera will monitor your face and simply shaking your head in a certain direction will trigger an action.
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March 4, 2014
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the movie compellingly presents the core idea that a software program (an AI) can — will — be believably human and lovable.
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For its wearable computer to be accepted, Google must convince people that the device isn’t creepy.
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As crowdsourced Wikipedia has grown too large — with more than 30 million articles in 287 languages — to be entirely edited and managed by volunteers, 12 Wikipedia bots have emerged to pick up the slack.
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Google has invited cities in nine metro areas around the U.S. — 34 cities altogether — to “work with us to explore what it would take to bring them Google Fiber” at gigabit speeds — “100 times faster than what most of us live with today.”
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Entrepreneur Steve Perlman has demonstrated a new wireless technology called pcell that he says will facilitate ubiquitous broadband mobile connections, enabling an unlimited number of devices to share the same spectrum simultaneously
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UVM engineers invent new method for managing growing fleet
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Computer simulations by Professor Mark Z. Jacobson have shown that offshore wind farms with thousands of wind turbines could have sapped the power of three real-life hurricanes, significantly decreasing their winds and accompanying storm surge.
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NASA's Kepler mission announced Wednesday the discovery of 715 new planets. These newly-verified worlds orbit 305 stars, revealing multiple-planet systems much like our own solar system.
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Yes. A space elevator appears possible and space elevator infrastructure could indeed be built via a major international effort.
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In October 2011, Mt Gox lost over 2609 bitcoins by accidentally creating transactions that can never be redeemed. (At the time, 2609 bitcoins were worth about $8000, but they would be worth almost $1.5 million dollars now.)
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From the ocean off Maui since the Year 2000: anyone can listen at no charge from anywhere in the world
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Now you can search Google, Bing, Yahoo, Blekko, and even DuckDuckGo without leaving a trace.
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The frozen soil deep below the Siberian tundra has yielded an astonishing discovery: giant viruses that are still infectious though they've spent the last 30,000 years or so on ice.
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Encouraging Results Published in Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
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Facebook, one of the primary backers of the Internet.org initiative, which aims to bring affordable Internet access to the 5 billion people in the world who still lack connectivity, is in talks with a company that could help further that agenda.
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Jerry Isdale, one of our guests today, is a founder for Maui Makers, part of the global MAKE movement.
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February 18, 2014
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A new way to print living cells onto any surface and in almost any shape has been developed
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The key advantage of using this material is that it’s catalyst-free and low-temperature, and can be healed multiple times
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the bitcoin currency itself is ‘just’ the next phase in the evolution of money – from dumb to smart money.
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The whistle-blowing site now offers a search engine where you can query its entire database of published documents for a specific phrase or keyword of your choosing.
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A self-driving office will make those traffic jams a lot more productive.
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Drones are being used to film ski and snowboarding events at the Winter Olympics in Sochi.
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the Director of National Intelligence admits it would have been better if Washington had acknowledged the surveillance in the first place.
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The NSA, and its British equivalent, the GCHQ, deployed Internet surveillance technologies against Wikileaks in a campaign that also encouraged international governments to take action against the website’s founder
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The sets and the costumes and the props are perfect. The lighting and the direction and the pacing is perfect. It’s even shot in the old-fashioned TV aspect ratio of 4:3.
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An anonymous site with domain, syti.net, documents several astronauts who have allegedly made claims to have encountered UFOs during their work.
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Nature study sequenced genome of 12,500 year old boy discovered buried with Clovis spear points, the first ancient American genome ever sequenced
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Researchers find a way to turn pain on, and off, with a beam of light.
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The technology is also suitable for implants, pacemakers, and insulin pumps.
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Sensing and disrupting biofilms
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Toxic chemicals may be triggering the recent increases in neurodevelopmental disabilities among children—such as autism, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, and dyslexia
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February 11, 2014
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A in-depth interview by the Futures (Al & Sun Lundell) in Vienna with Wolfgang Hoeschele and Alternative Economic Models that have been successful in Europe
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One of the most impressive spectacles visitors can find at the Sochi games this month doesn’t have anything to do with sports at all.
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"it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it’s best to take down Flappy Bird. It’s gone forever.”
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Don’t like yours? Too many pictures of your ex? Don’t sweat it too much. Facebook is working on an edit tool
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organizations and educators in more than 100 countries will hold activities to recognize Safer Internet Day (SID) – a campaign designed to bring awareness to various online safety concerns, such as cyber-bullying and identity theft. Read more at http://ww
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Today, visitors to websites all over the world, on over 6,000 websites, will see a banner, and within the United States, that banner is going to give them an opportunity to call their member of Congress.
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Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is set to make its presence felt in the US by launching an online shopping site through its subsidiaries
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Offering localized pricing is a big step for Stripe, and should go some way towards helping the company gain traction around the globe.
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pretty conclusive proof that Netflix is being heavily throttled by Comcast, despite Netflix’s good faith effort to offer their OpenConnect CDN service to ISPs and the fact that many Comcast customers pay for a faster bandwidth
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Several AI experts add their 2 cents to this controversial topic.
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everyone wants to know more...
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Keio University scientists have developed a “neurocam” — a wearable camera system that detects emotions, based on an analysis of the user’s brainwaves.
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The team’s experiments successfully prove that the fundamental symmetry with which acoustic waves travel through air between two points in space (“if you can hear, you can also be heard”) can be broken by a compact and simple device.
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An international research group of scientists and engineers led by the University of Bristol, UK, has made an important advance towards a quantum computer by shrinking down key components and integrating them onto a silicon microchip.
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Tumbleweed, a nod to its round, spindly shape and wind-powered motion, would roll across the desert, gathering information along its path with the goal of delivering improved, uncovered data to scientists.
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Investigators at Johns Hopkins report they have developed human induced-pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) capable of repairing damaged retinal vascular tissue in mice.
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As we start to reach physical limits, one approach to continued miniaturization of microelectronics is with “DNA origami,” in which strands of DNA are formed into nanostructures to act as scaffolds for manufacturing nanoelectronic components.
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Could finally lead to a fully foldable cell phone or television screen
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IBM has launched a 10-year initiative to bring Watson and other cognitive systems to Africa to fuel development and spur business opportunities across the world’s fastest growing continent.
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Talk to your wall and your wall will talk back, no, really
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While the origin of life remains mysterious, scientists are finding more and more evidence that material created in space and delivered to Earth by comet and meteor impacts could have given a boost to the start of life.
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Virgin Atlantic is looking to make flying fancy again, with the help of some new wearable technology from Google and Sony.
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On Monday, federal officials announced they have chosen a Google subsidiary to restore the landmark Hangar One at Moffett Field and assume control of the airfield's two runways.
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The crowdfunding site had a banner 2013 and has won the Best Overall Startup award at this year’s Crunchies.
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They announced the coding requirement this past summer, and just last week formalized it into the PR-extravaganza known as “Year of Code.”
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the NSF reports that the percentage of Americans who think astrology is "not at all scientific" declined from 62 percent in 2010 to just 55 percent in 2012
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Eigg has a pristine landscape, a broad array of sustainable strategies and gets over 90% of its energy from renewable sources.
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"Instead of looking at a few thousand star systems, which is the tally so far, we will have looked at maybe a million star systems" 24 years from now, Shostak said. "A million might be the right number to find something."
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February 04, 2014
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Plummeting populations of monarch butterflies in Mexico have raised fears about the future of the largest and most remarkable insect migration in the world, but the group that winters in California appears to be holding on after years of decline.
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A mysterious health condition is actually causing starfish to tear themselves to pieces, literally.
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A new brain-imaging technique for a true brain workout
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A new map of the solar system’s asteroids shows more diversity than previously thought.
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German Television Channel NDR does an exclusive interview with Edward Snowden.
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A new method for analysing biological samples based on their chemical makeup is set to transform the way medical scientists examine diseased tissue.
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they’ve opened up the Chromecast for any developer.
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ESO's Very Large Telescope has been used to create the first ever map of the weather on the surface of the nearest brown dwarf to Earth
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Scientists were able to convert ordinary somatic cells from newborn mice to a state of pluripotency — meaning the converted cells could then differentiate (change) into any type of cell in the body.
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was it just a light snow, or a nefarious government conspiracy?
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A daily dose of the antioxidant fisetin keeps mice—even those with genetic mutations linked to Alzheimer's—from experiencing memory and learning deficits as they age.
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The creation of a synthetic magnetic monopole should provide us with unprecedented insight into aspects of the natural magnetic monopole
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interplanetary dust particles (IDPs) could deliver water and organics to the Earth and other terrestrial planets.
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A team of researchers has found what may once have been the most liveable mud on Mars.
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Dawn is continuing its trek through the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Leaving behind a blue-green wake of xenon from its ion propulsion system, its sights are set on dwarf planet Ceres ahead.
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Learn about hot new web technologies and mingle with 150+ fellow entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts
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Spanish researchers have managed to distinguish between different varieties of beer using an electronic tongue. The discovery, published in the journal 'Food Chemistry', is accurate in almost 82% of cases.
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January 28, 2014
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To Bruce Springsteen, Pete Seeger, the singer/songwriter/activist who died Monday at the age of 94 , was "the father of American folk music."
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Two Bitcoin executives have been charged in the U.S. with conspiring to commit money laundering by selling more than $1 million of the digital currency to users of an illicit online drugs bazaar ‘Silk Road’.
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Online speculation focused on the possibility of lunar dust having blocked one of the solar panels from folding inward, leaving equipment exposed to the dangerously low temperatures.
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a Japanese rancher, Masami Yoshizawa, with a history of protesting the government, has moved back to the ranch he was forced to desert immediately after the meltdown
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Jobs had to generate his own campaign to tell the world about the computer that he would announce on January 24, 1984, 30 years ago
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Violations of network neutrality are a real and serious problem.
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Israeli scientists have recently discovered in the Qesem Cave, near present-day Rosh Ha'ayin, the earliest evidence - dating to around 300,000 years ago - of unequivocal repeated fire building over a continuous period.
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the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres.
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Japan is using a new technology of remote-controlled drones to prevent crews from having to be exposed to harmful levels of radiation at the Fukushima nuclear plant
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In terms of evolutionary biology, he's not exactly one of the usual suspects -- a dark-skinned, dark-haired, blue-eyed, European hunter-gatherer from around 7,000 years ago.
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a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that can traverse the viscous fluids of biological environments on their own.
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A customizable and fully open brain-computer interface platform that gives you access to high-quality brain wave data.
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Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a robotic "nanobiopsy" system that can extract tiny samples from inside a living cell without killing it.
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obots can learn new skills from each other worldwide – a kind of ‘Wikipedia for robots’. This brings the development of robots that can carry out caring or household tasks a big step closer.
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tactile sensors from composite films of carbon nanotubes and silver nanoparticles similar to the highly sensitive whiskers of cats and rats.
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A Virginia Tech research team has developed a battery that runs on sugar and has an unmatched energy density, a development that could replace conventional batteries with ones that are cheaper, refillable, and biodegradable.
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Lifelike robots, sentient machines, the Jetsons’ smart home in the sky. Google is spending billions to make itself the place where these fantasies become facts.
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A palm-top device developed by UCSB researchers provides real-time insight into how fast a living body metabolizes drugs, opening the door to highly personalized medicine -
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New brain-scanning technique allows scientists to see when and where the brain processes visual information.
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A new 3D imaging technique for live cells uses a conventional microscope to capture image slices throughout the depth of the cell, then computationally renders them into one three-dimensional image.
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January 21, 2014
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The study found the richest 1% had $110 trillion in wealth -- 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the population. http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-oxfam-world-economic-forum-income-inequality-20140120,0,7080817.story#ixzz2r1W4fK
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comes equipped with a nozzle that spews out concrete and can build a home based on a set computer pattern.
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Watch Dutch mechanical engineer Jarno Smeets take off and fly just by flapping wings of his own invention—like a real bird! It's uncanny.
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The Finnish government has approved the technology behind a new ‘Open Ministry’ platform, which will act as a hub for citizens who want new laws voted on in the country’s parliament
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This talk reports on a study about the impact of crowdsourcing on a law-making process in Finland. In the studied process, the off-road traffic law reform was opened for public participation in Finland by the Ministry of the Environment
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For the first time the Ministry of Environment in Finland has crowdsourced a legislative process by asking citizens to contribute ideas for a new law on off-road traffic.
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While it’s true the issues around net neutrality aren’t black and white, we’ve got a rundown of three risks and unintended consequences of the recent ruling you should be aware of, regardless of the nuances or your politics.
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Join the world's largest consciousness research project, and experience a radical new technology on your phone.
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By Deepak Chopra, M.D., FACP, and Menas Kafatos, Ph.D. Is there such a thing as higher consciousness?
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internet-based surveillance has been found to detect infectious diseases such Dengue Fever and Influenza up to two weeks earlier than traditional surveillance methods.
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Astronomers capture first image of diffuse gas within the network of filaments connecting galaxies in a cosmic web
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When Barack Obama announced his reforms of National Security Agency surveillance programs today, few people were as interested as Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Marissa Mayer, and Steve Ballmer.
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the current state of American inequality reveals a very real and expanding gap between the rich and poor that betrays the foundational endowment of this Union.
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Turns out Netflix has created a database of 76,897 micro-genres that offer a peek into the American psyche
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Give up hopes for computational wristwear that can do most of what your smartphone does, at least for now.
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Mark Wilde has shown that it would theoretically be possible for time travelers to copy quantum data from the past.
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If there were time travelers among us, would they be on social media? How would you find them? Could you Google them?
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Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft ended a nearly three-year hibernation on Monday to prepare for an unprecedented mission to orbit a comet and dispatch a lander to the surface.
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Microsoft’s 12-year-old Windows XP operating system powers 95 percent of the world’s automated teller machines
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“For the first time, we will identify continents and oceans—and perhaps the signatures of life—on distant worlds,” says NASA in its 30-year vision for astrophysics.
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You might have thought that it would be hard to come up with a worse password than ‘password,’ but according to a chart compiled by SplashData from hacked accounts, it has been edged out by ’123456′.
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How old do you think someone should be for the best chance at entrepreneurial success?
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Roughly 1500 years ago, our world was turned upsidown by a winter that witnesses say "never ended." Now there is scientific evidence that there really was a decade of winter.
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Here is a tribe in Africa where the birth date of a child is counted not from when they were born, nor from when they are conceived but from the day that the child was a thought in its mother’s mind.
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January 14, 2014
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Nest founder and CEO spoke on the phone with USA TODAY Personal Tech Columnist Ed Baig about the deal, the vision, and why not Apple, the company where he once worked.
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HARVARD TECHNOLOGY COULD ECONOMICALLY STORE ENERGY FOR USE WHEN THE WIND DOESN’T BLOW AND THE SUN DOESN’T SHINE
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See-in-the-dark device acts as case for iPhone 5/5s; app captures photos, videos
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Emma Thompson presents the Golden Globe to Spike Jonze for the screenplay of Her.
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Open collaboration – which has brought the world Bitcoin, TEDx and Wikipedia – is likely to expand into new domains and displace traditional organizations
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Two teams of scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope report they have characterized the atmospheres of a pair of planets with masses intermediate between gas giants, like Jupiter, and smaller, rockier planets, like Earth.
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An entirely new approach to measuring body temperature — an ”electronic skin” that adheres non-invasively to human skin, conforms well to contours, and provides a detailed temperature map of any surface of the body
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One portable device able to screen up to 200,000 people per year, operated by non-medical personnel
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Computer algorithm developed by TAU researchers identifies genes that could be transformed to stop the aging process
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the digital device can recreate the taste of virtual food and drinks by non-invasive electrical and thermal stimulation of the tongue.
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New IBM Watson Group to Include Watson Innovation Hub, Fueling New Products and Start-ups Watson Group Introduces New Cloud Solutions to Accelerate Research, Visualize Big Data and Enable Analytics Exploration
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When New York City hosted The World’s Fair in 1964, Isaac Asimov, the prolific sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, took the opportunity to wonder what the world would look like 50 years hence
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University of Washington engineers hope a new type of vaccine they have shown to work in mice will one day make it cheaper and easy to manufacture on-demand vaccines for humans
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Called NameTag, it blurs the lines between online and offline dating by allowing smartphone users to simply glance at someone nearby, or take their photo, and instantly see that person's name, occupation and even visit their Facebook, Instagram or Twitter
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January 7, 2014
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also on display is the iOptik smart-glasses system, which uses glasses to project images onto special contact lenses
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Today at CES 2014, MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis announced the MakerBot Replicator 3D Printing Platform including the new Mini, Z18, and prosumer Replicators.
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Intel is introducing at CES several new products and projects focused on wearables
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The design looks like Nvidia’s Tegra 4 chip, and though we can’t confirm this, it may be designed to drum up interest in the Tegra 5 chip Nvidia is expected to launch at CES.
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Meiji University professor Hiroshi Nagashima is creating chimeric pigs, which carry genetic material from two different species
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Since the end of 2013, a hoax has been going around on the Internet saying that Reactor #3 is experiencing a meltdown.
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some people are exaggerating the situation at Fukushima Daiichi, for unknown reasons, in very dramatic ways.
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December 31, 2013
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J. P. Gownder, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals offers these predictions for 2014 for businesses
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The technology to avoid this kind of hacking is available, and it's been in real-world use for many years.
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New approach to use of 2-D carbon material opens up unexpected properties, could unleash new uses.
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An interesting point/counterpoint argument on the efficacy of Cyronics Life Extension
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In Guangdong Province in Southern China, ten transgenic piglets have been born this year, six of them since August, and under a black light, they glow a greenish tint.
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a continuous chemical process that produces useful crude oil from harvested algae in minutes
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Joaquin Phoenix delivers a gentle, thoroughly disarming performance in “Her,” a wildly inventive, scrupulously understated romance from Spike Jonze.
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a World First journey that redefining the future of polar travel
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After nearly a week trapped by deep Antarctic ice, the 74 passengers aboard an expedition vessel could soon be freed.
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December 24, 2013
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It was a “Woodstock for robots,” said Boston Dynamics’ Marc Raibert, as sixteen teams from around the world came together at Florida’s Homestead Miami Speedway
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Two companies acquired by Google demonstrate remarkable feats of agility and dexterity (albeit slowly) at a competition held in Florida.
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Both jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, whose incarceration sparked a global outcry, have been released under an amnesty law.
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in 2013, we had to say goodbye to a lot of great scientific space missions.
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Gunk between cells is cleansed during slumber
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an approach that restores communication between a cell’s mitochondria and nucleus.
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Scientists say they have been able to successfully print new eye cells that could be used to treat sight loss.
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researchers found that caffeine shortens and alcohol lengthens telomeres - the end points of chromosomal DNA, implicated in aging and cancer.
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New hope for severely brain-injured patients: researchers have found that playing popular music can help them recall personal memories.
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At long last, the pros get some love
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Telling the story of the first Earthrise seen by humans, recreated with CGI and real images.
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Scientists have created a molecular communications system for the transmission of messages and data in challenging environments where electromagnetic waves cannot be used
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A new instrument combines two high-resolution telescope techniques — adaptive optics and interferometry
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Admit it: you want to play Iron Man’s Tony Stark, manipulating amazing inventions and taking over the world. June 2014, you’ll have your chance.
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The strange jumping robot as referred to by this week's guest, Howard Bloom
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December 17, 2013
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The country’s first moon rover, which was on board the probe, separated from the lander early on Sunday.
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Apple’s big bet on BLE as the connectivity standard should go a long way towards creating confidence that this is a platform app developers and hardware startups can invest time and money in.
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gadget purveyors of all stripes are vying for a spot on your wrist.
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Research highlights possibility of combination therapy for aging; worms lived to the human equivalent of 400 to 500 years
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Technology could revolutionize gaming, fall detection among the elderly, and more.
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University of Pittsburgh engineering team proposes new composites that can regenerate when damaged
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TU Delft researchers have developed the DelFly Explorer, which they claim is the first Micro Air Vehicle with flapping wings that can avoid obstacles by itself.
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a new review of unconventional research in the Soviet Union reveals the scale of this work for the first time and the cost: as much as $1 billion.
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Cornell researchers have 3-D printed a working loudspeaker, seamlessly integrating the plastic, conductive and magnetic parts, and ready for use almost as soon as it comes out of the printer.
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Four new teams round out the roster, bringing together the international robotics community in a demonstration of realistic disaster response tasks
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The Millennium Project is integrating all of its information, groups, and software into a "Global Futures Intelligence System.
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Technology potentially could create a clean, renewable source of energy
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December 10, 2013
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Apple switched on “iBeacons” across its 254 U.S. stores Friday, using low-power Bluetooth transmitters to offer tips to customers.
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Seems like Google's missive is to to design and build a fleet of next-generation robots under the direction of Andy Rubin, the former chief of Google’s mobile operating system, Android.
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The idea is to enable anyone to sit back in a lounger or airline seat or lie on a pillow in bed, relax and hear next to nothing.
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Eight of the biggest companies in technology have united to speak out against the NSA's leaked surveillance programs and demand sweeping reforms. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo
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the emerging “sharing economy” is changing the entire business model.
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The solstice isn't for more than a week, but the earliest sunset of the year is already upon us. How's that possible?
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Here’s a map and a quick explanation of where your drone can go.
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Why is neuroexistentialism so disturbing?
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On December 9th, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart—along with 17 researchers from Stanford—gave a 90-minute live public demonstration of the technology they'd been working on for the previous 6 years. It changed the face of technology
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Why don’t all tissues regenerate forever? Wouldn’t that be evolutionary advantageous?
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Antoine Deblay, a student who lives in southwest France is actually making money selling cans of air from his town.
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President Barack Obama on Sunday likely became the first actual President to publicly acknowledge Area 51, the top-secret government testing ground that has become a focal point for generations of extraterrestrial enthusiasts.
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‘Don’t just play on your phone, program it’
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Is there a thing or two we can learn from expert gun shooters? Can stealing a few tricks from the best snipers in the world improve your photo ‘shot’?
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Over the weekend, Apple announced plans to support Computer Science Education Week (December 9 – 15) by offering a one-hour introduction to computer science in a workshop at its brick and mortar stores.
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the NSA has been monitoring online gaming communities since 2008 and has even been sending real-life agents into online RPGs posing as players.
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Mt. Gox is no longer the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange, but it remains hugely influential and it has now teamed up with payments company Astropay to make buy and selling Bitcoins in Latin America easier.
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reducing the amount of space required between the pulses of light that transport data.
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A method for developing a “nanocage” — which may eventually enable transport of medications in the body to target diseased cells — has been developed by researchers at Aarhus University and colleagues in Italy and the U.S.
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The engineer who broke numerous ballooning records with Richard Branson is hoping to develop a 1km-tall inflatable chimney that can capture energy from the sun.
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Using the powerful eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, two teams of scientists have found faint signatures of water in the atmospheres of five distant planets.
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Neurons that encode spatial information form “geotags” for specific memories and these geotags are activated immediately before those memories are recalled, a team of neuroscientists from the U of Pennsylvania and Freiburg University has discovered
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Students may soon be able to reach out and touch some of the theoretical concepts they are taught in their physics classes thanks to a novel idea devised by a group of researchers from Imperial College London.
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Want to know what's trending on Facebook?
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December 3, 2013
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The drone economy is booming abroad and an underground version is growing fast in the U.S.
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the company’s latest lofty goal of delivering packages via unmanned aerial vehicles
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by announcing plans to use the aircraft, Amazon likely hopes it will play a significant role in the discussions regarding the new rules.
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Researchers present simplified method of robotic flight at APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Meeting in Pittsburgh
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a method for greatly enhancing biofuel production in tiny marine algae by genetically engineering a key growth component in biofuel.
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New 3-D printing process speeds up fabrication of multiple-material objects
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NEIL program labels images, learns associations with minimal help from people
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As Bitcoin becomes an increasingly popular form of digital cash, the cryptocurrency is being accepted in exchange for everything from socks to sushi to heroin. If one anarchist has his way, it’ll soon be used to buy murder, too.
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The Futures recently appeared on KSCO's Saturday Morning with Ben Fuchs and shared some pretty important stuff..
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A boost for personalized medicine and pharmocogenomics
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Procedure delivers stem cells to the heart to repair damaged muscle and arteries
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a genetic regulatory circuit from human components that monitors blood-fat levels. In response to excessive levels, it produces a messenger substance that signalises satiety to the body.
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Our guest today is Dr. Bruce Damer, who is truly a comprehensive generalist and will help elucidate what's on your mind.
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November 26, 2013
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Bitcoin is supposed to be a virtual currency you can use to buy things online. But....??##!! is happening?
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Apple has confirmed that it has completed its acquisition of PrimeSense, the Israel startup that provided motion-sensing chips for the original Microsoft Kinect game hardware
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see the Earth from space, from the comfort of your couch.
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One budding entrepreneur has her sights set on building a dedicated platform specifically to help authors garner enough funds to push their work to the masses.
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A year ago, Hugo Bernardo thought he was right where the co-founder of a tech startup belonged: Silicon Valley. Now, he's running his company Easy Vino from South America and most of his customers are restaurant owners in São Paulo.
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Like the internet, Bitcoin has its limitations, but it’s something that anyone can modify. What that means is that any problem with the currency can be solved, including the limited-supply problem.
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These patents suggest how liquidmetal could be used to create various product parts through the process of injection molding and 3D printing
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Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, is trying to build around half a dozen of these structures—which it describes as “seemingly innocuous dome-topped antenna perched atop an electronics-packed building surrounded by a security fence”—around the country.
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there’s a pilot release of the Wolfram Language—as well as Mathematica—that will soon be bundled as part of the standard system software for every Raspberry Pi computer.
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The 19-foot long, seven-foot wide autonomous vessel is propelled by a wing sail, can carry oceanographic sensors and has a payload capability of 220 pounds.
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"A Rosetta-Stone event ... may require physicists to modify existing theories about radiation"
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Theorists Predict New Single-Layer Material Could Go Beyond Graphene, Conducting Electricity with 100 Percent Efficiency at Room Temperature
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Data from computed tomography (CT) scans can be used with three-dimensional (3-D) printers to make accurate copies of fossilized bones
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Computer scientists from the University of East Anglia are developing a virtual birthing simulator that will help doctors and midwives prepare for unusual or dangerous births.
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So why is the FDA taking action to block 23andMe after years of allowing the product to be sold?
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New work by researchers at UC Berkeley could soon transform the building blocks of modern electronics by making nanomagnetic switches a viable replacement for the conventional transistors found in all computers.
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Matt Damon isn’t asking you to start a revolution, but when you hear this, you might anyway. If you don’t love what you’re hearing after the first 29 seconds, jump to 3:31 for a nugget of truth that every American can stand behind.
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November 19, 2013
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If the US government goes overboard with a hard-line approach on bitcoin and other emerging digital currencies, it may merely push them overseas, where they will surely flourish outside of its control.
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Bitcoin prices have exploded over the past week, and just in time: Federal agencies are gearing up to defend the digital currency’s legitimacy in a Senate hearing today.
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The two robots couldn’t be more different — except they have one thing in common: Mars’ blighted atmosphere.
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True, personal stories about science
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I hope that by sharing the most important lessons I have learned I can accelerate your learning and help you avoid some of the mistakes that I made.
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What do developers! think of that divide? Whoever makes life easier for them gains a sizable edge.
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Does this really work? We are currently evaluating it..
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Stanford researchers have developed an inexpensive device that uses light to split water into oxygen and clean-burning hydrogen. The goal is to supplement solar cells with hydrogen-powered fuel cells that can gen electricity when the sun isn't shinining.
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MIT researchers find a way to boost lithium-air battery performance, with the help of modified viruses.
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Yale neuroscientist Gordon Shepherd has created the first 3D-printed neuron with help from the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design (CEID).
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The secret to why some cultures thrive and others disappear may lie in our social networks* and our ability to imitate, rather than our individual smart.
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IBM Opening the Watson Cognitive Platform to Global Community of Entrepreneurial Software App Providers, from Start-ups and VC Backed Companies to Established Players
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Comet Ison, first spotted a year ago, is now visible to the naked eye and will continue to brighten as it hurtles toward the sun
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"what snuck up on me is a breathtaking new level of unification—that lets one begin to see that all the things we’ve achieved in the past 25+ years are just steps on a path to something much bigger and more important."
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a system “that comprises an electronic skin tattoo* capable of being applied to a throat region of a body.”
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Conference about new inroads bringing driverless cars to market
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The 418 Project is growing up, and they are throwing their biggest party EVER!
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November 12, 2013
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While still far from giving a thumbs up to unmanned flying vehicles crowding the skies, the government agency recommends that some drones be allowed.
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While firing a round with earlier plastic models of 3D-printed guns has proven difficult, this metal model has already shot 50 rounds successfully.
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Building hardware for the wearables market is only the first challenge companies need to master. For a truly differentiated experience, they must build out a service.
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rapidly and cheaply make electrical circuits by printing them with commodity inkjet printers and off-the-shelf materials.
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Older adults who took music lessons as children but haven’t actively played an instrument in decades have a faster brain response to a speech sound than individuals who never played an instrument,
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healthy people could start modifying their bodies to make themselves harder, better, faster, stronger.
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Reporter in Edward Snowden NSA leaks says there are many documents about Canada
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Google announced it has launched crisis tools to help gather and relay information to do with the devastation wrought by a powerful typhoon in the Philippines.
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Teenager's gradual exodus to messaging apps such as WhatsApp, WeChat and KakaoTalk boils down to Facebook becoming a victim of its own success
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Do you want to know which link is being shared most often at the moment on Facebook, or retweeted by most users on Twitter?
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Experiment Is Web Retailer's Latest Speed Initiative
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Potential uses for dental, from implants to craniofacial defects
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The nearest such planet may be within 12 light-years
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Developing an efficient way to freeze and store living tissues could transform many aspects of medical care and research
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a new study shows how an algorithm can accurately guess a user’s romantic partner or foretell a potential breakup based on the structure of his or her social network.
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he North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is quietly planning to launch a simulated attack on the U.S. power grid on Wednesday and Thursday (Nov. 13–14) called GridEx II
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November 5, 2013
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Playing the Super Mario 64 video game causes increased size in brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as fine motor skills.
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Stanford professor Marc Levoy sees a combination of computational imaging and new-form-factor camera-equipped devices that will allow for a set of what he described as “superhero vision” capabilities.
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a uniquely edgy, experimental Singularitarian road movie.
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A cryogenic propellant depot can rightly be called “a gas station in space.”
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It consists of a headset with a brain-wave sensor and connects to an iPhone.
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An unusal electrical fireball was captured on video as it traveled along a power line, then blew a transformer.
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Tests of Google’s autonomous vehicles in California and Nevada suggests they already outperform human drivers.
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Google’s mysterious floating barge on San Francisco Bay will feature luxury showrooms and a party deck for the tech giant to market Google Glass and other gadgets to invitation-only clients
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Why is it easier to ruminate over hurt feelings than it is to bask in the warmth of being appreciated?
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Robots are beginning to move around in the world and perform tasks as humans do
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Predicts by 2015, average media consumption will be 15.5 hours a day per person
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An obsession with growth has eclipsed our concern for sustainability, justice and human dignity. But people are not disposable – the value of life lies outside economic development
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Loewy is widely considered to have revolutionized his industry creating product designs for everything from refrigerators to cars and spacecraft
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Santa Cruz Indy artist Gary Winnick's plan to create his own graphic novel
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October 22, 2013
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A wearable depth-sensing camera may soon give sightless people a better way to master their environment.
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IBM has unveiled a prototype of a new brain-inspired computer powered by what it calls “electronic blood,”
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A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when they use numbers
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It can apply medical knowledge in very much the same way a human can
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Doodle is based on Parisian daredevil’s brave leap on October 22, 1797
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World View, an offshoot of privately owned Paragon Space Development Corp., is developing a balloon-launched, near-space ride for $75,000
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The company recently surpassed the 40 million members milestone, up from “less than 30 million just one year ago,” they said.
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October 30, 2013
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For the first time in since the beginning of marijuana prohibition, applications are being accepted for business owners to open legal, recreational marijuana shops.
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a deep-sea Internet that could lead to improvements in tsunami detection, offshore oil and natural gas exploration, surveillance, pollution monitoring, and other activities.
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NASA‘s Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) has made history using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239,000 miles between the moon and Earth at a record-breaking download rate of 622 megabits per second (Mbps).
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The most distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy ever found — one created at about 700 million years after the Big Bang — has been detected by astronomers
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Study Finds Natural Compound Can Be Used for 3-D Printing of Medical Implants
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New method would replace costly, highly invasive liver transplantation, could be available for clinical testing in two to three years
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Use tools that employ open-source or public-domain encryption methods, as they need to work with every vendor’s software and, in the case of open-source encryption, can be scrutinized for potential security flaws.
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As far as we know, this will also be the first operational Bitcoin ATM on the planet.
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National Robotics Initiative invests $38 million in next-generation robotics
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Evidence that dendrites actively process information in the brain
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a new form of media — one that combines computer animation and street theater with virtual reality.
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An O'Reilly newsletter covering the biology revolution and connecting the many people working in DIY bio.
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October 15th, 2013
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one of the goals for the interplanetary journey is to hunt down methane gas, a byproduct from living organisms.
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The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world
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Apple announced Tuesday that it hired Angela Ahrendts, the chief executive of Burberry, the British luxury fashion company, as a member of its executive team.
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The National Security Agency is harvesting hundreds of millions of contact lists from personal e-mail and instant messaging accounts around the world, many of them belonging to Americans
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E-Commerce Giant Sets Up Shop Inside Warehouses of Suppliers
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Facebook today announced new custom audience features that let advertisers and market target users who have previously visited their website and or used their mobile app
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The European Space Agency has unveiled plans to "take 3D printing into the metal age" by building parts for jets, spacecraft and fusion projects.
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If you value having the opinion of your friends and family at your disposal whenever you need it, or maybe you struggle to make decisions about the little (or big) things in life, then you might want to check out Tiinkk.
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Graphen retains its properties even when coated with silicon
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The brain’s ability to preserve or alter memories lies at the heart of our basic human experience.
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Students in Matamoros, Mexico, didn’t have reliable Internet access, steady electricity, or much hope—until a radical new teaching method unlocked their potential.
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Economist Simon Johnson says governments will feel the urge to suppress the crypto-currency Bitcoin.
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Researchers were able to artificially increase the levels of irisin in the blood to activate genes involved in learning and memory.
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Ironing can be filed somewhere alongside washing the dishes and mowing the lawn; nobody actually enjoys it, but it’s one of those things that just has to be done.
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OpenRemote is an open-source Internet of Things platform that could help spur smarter homes and cities.
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Does the name Ada Lovelace ring any bells? No? Seeing as you’re reading this on a computer, tablet or smartphone, it should. The Victorian mother-of-three, born 1815, was the world’s first ever computer programmer.
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An intriquing alternative ending that ultimately ended up on the DVD..
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How do you discover what's new and share information with this growing and active DIYbio community?
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touch-sensitive prosthetic limbs that one day could convey real-time sensory information to amputees via a direct interface with the brain.
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October 8, 2013
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by the end of this year, there will be 6.8 billion mobile connections, equal to the number of people living on earth today.
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Scientists from the 135 partner institutions meeting in Switzerland this week
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While crowdsourced data presents some security and reliability concerns, it’s the best way to keep people informed and safe during flu season in the absence of official alerts.
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Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
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UCLA engineers have created a 1/2-pound, portable smartphone attachment that can be used to perform sophisticated field testing to detect viruses and bacteria
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The days of keeping the iPad or Kindle off while a commercial flight is under 10,000 feet could end if U.S. aviation authorities heed an advisory panel.
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Making things at home on a 3D printer uses less energy — and therefore releases less carbon dioxide — than producing it in a factory and shipping it to a warehouse.
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Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers have developed a simple technique of fundus (retinal) photography in human and rabbit eyes using a iPhone, an inexpensive app, and instruments that are readily available in an ophthalmic practice
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Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine by using the 2009 pandemic to study why some people seem to resist severe illness.
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Mobile communications can help bridge a huge knowledge gap and reimagine healthcare across Africa.
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Last week more than a dozen companies had IPOs and among them was an interesting bio-tech company called Foundation Medicine. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-led-to-foundation-medicine-2013-9#ixzz2gO8AbFk4
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2 million years ago a supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy erupted in an explosion so immensely powerful that it lit up a cloud 200,000 light years away
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Wearable technology’s potential to give animals a voice has led to the program Facilitating Interactions for Dogs with Occupations (FIDO).
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A group of Sasquatch researchers who have been collecting over 100 pieces of evidence over the past five years screened “never before seen HD video” of the alleged creature at a news conference in Dallas on Tuesday.
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Researchers from three universities are proposing to add a dimension to 3D printing by developing “4D” materials that can exhibit behavior that changes over time.
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The Pentagon is looking ahead several decades toward future fleets of rotorcraft -- and working now to lay the plans for getting there.
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The dream of igniting a self-sustained fusion reaction with high yields of energy, a feat likened to creating a miniature star on Earth, is getting closer to becoming reality.
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The left and right hemispheres of Albert Einstein’s brain were unusually well connected to each other and this may have contributed to his brilliance
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Emotional Intelligence for Positive Change
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October 1, 2013
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The government shutdown comes at an ironic moment for Yosemite: today is the park’s birthday, and it won’t be open for its own party.
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Spotify did it for music. Netflix did it for movies. And now, Trip Adler and Scribd are doing it for books.
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“About 2 percent of the soil on the surface of Mars is made up of water, which is a great resource, and interesting scientifically.” The sample also released significant carbon dioxide, oxygen and sulfur compounds when heated.
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Nasa is planning to launch a 3D printer into space next year to help astronauts manufacture spare parts and tools in zero gravity.
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This is the first look at cloud structures on a distant world.
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The moon is quite a bit younger than scientists had previously believed, new research suggests.
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NASA would have to knowingly expose astronauts to possibly lethal levels of space radiation.
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Will robot-dog games replace cat videos?
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a radical holistic view of health — seeing it as a cooperative state among cells, while they see disease as result of cells at war that fight with each other for domination.
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Google sent a team armed with Street View Trekker cameras to create an entirely new 360 degree Street View experience that makes three major islands, a fragile tortoise breeding area and coastal areas, available to visitors located anywhere
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A brighter, better, longer-lasting dental implant may soon be on its way to your dentist's office.
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The agency heads to Maker Faire to pitch tinkerers on its new low-cost brainwave monitors
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A new radar-based technology named Finding Individuals for Disaster and Emergency Response (FINDER) can detect a heartbeat of a human buried beneath 30 feet (9 meters) of crushed material
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Professor Stephen Hawking has predicted that it could be possible to preserve a mind as powerful as his on a computer - but not with technology existing today.
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September 24, 2013
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FaceTime Audio is the latest of these, VoIP calling built on the back of its FaceTime video chat service, which is tightly integrated to the phone app to make placing free international calls almost a pleasant surprise for those looking to connect
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The panel is stacked with a slurry of insiders, former insiders, and a previous colleague of the president.
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Apple's new security features could cut down on theft
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The non-religious Assembly is perhaps the fastest growing church in the world -- and it's coming to a mall near you
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A rather disturbing but prevalent use of social media
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Elon Musk has decided that the next step for Tesla Motors cars is to go (mostly) autonomous.“ We should be able to do 90 percent of miles driven within three years,” [Musk] said.
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A global computer-based communication network has fundamentally changed our social, cultural, and political landscape over the past 20 years.
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Any company that wants to sell software to enterprise in the next few years might be wise to start thinking about data.
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From 1953 to 1964, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted dozens of experiments on the effects of biological and chemical agents on American citizens without their knowledge in Project MKUltra.
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This 50-bulb string of lights can be set to run a range of display programs in 16,777,216 colors, as controlled by you via a mobile, tablet or Web app.
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In total, 58 percent of the House uses an iPhone — more than twice as much as the 23 percent using a BlackBerry device — while Android phones rank last, with only a mere 4 percent of the House members saying they use one.
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Dalio is known for having one of the most refined understandings of the economy in the financial industry.
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Here’s an interesting feature on “machine language,” put together by The Verge.
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An interesting display of the average woman's face in different countries.,
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The online html version of Volume 1 of the Feynman Lectures on Physics (FLP) is released! Now anyone with Internet access and a web browser can enjoy these unique lectures for free.
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New Zealand's Martin Aircraft is making progress towards production of what it calls the first practical jetpack, with manned and unmanned flight tests of its latest prototype.
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Interdisciplinary team creates 'microbial battery' driven by naturally occurring bacteria that evolved to produce electricity as they digest organic material.
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Google announced Calico, a new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.
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Occipital just launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Structure, a portable 3D sensor that straps to the back of your iPad. It should ship by next February for $329 (early adopter package).
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Imagination lies in a widespread neural network — the brain’s “mental workspace” — that consciously manipulates images, symbols, ideas and theories and gives humans the laser-like mental focus needed to solve complex problems and come up with new ideas
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A good documentary of the evolution and state of the art in current drone technology.
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Within as few as 60 days, Tepco will begin trying to remove more than 1500 spent fuel rods from a badly damaged area of the nuclear reactor.
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September 17, 2013
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Recently, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich made a step toward building a working quantum computer by teleporting bits of information across a computer chip.
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On Wednesday morning a privately owned robotic spaceship, the Cygnus, will blast off from Wallops Island, Va., to deliver cargo to NASA astronauts living on the International Space Station.
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Talk-radio legend Art Bell launched Monday night his new nightly radio show, Dark Matter, with guest Dr. Michio Kaku.
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The FBI yesterday acknowledged that it secretly took control of Freedom Hosting last July, days before the servers of the largest provider of ultra-anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors.
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With news that Twitter has filed to become a publicly traded company, we took a look back at some of the key moments from its brief history.
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Cost of Advanced Battery-Technology Remains Hurdle to Building Longer-Range Vehicles
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Estrogen, the female sex hormone, turns out to play a much bigger role in men’s bodies than previously thought.
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A naturally occurring substance found in human skin could yield a viable alternative to existing mosquito repellent, scientists say.
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A new skyscraper will soon be a part of the skyline in Seoul, South Korea — but you may not be able to see it.
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For the first time, scientists have recorded an enormous wave the size of a skyscraper breaking at a key location at the bottom of the South Pacific Ocean.
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Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Life, a networked encyclopedia of all the world’s knowledge about life.
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Ultrasound frequencies were used for levitating these objects to music.
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Here’s an incredibly useful trick for anyone who lives in a country that restricts access to websites, or uses a controlled version of the Internet at work or school.
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When a lot of folks think of fingerprint-scanning technology, they often assume there's a single way to do it, but nothing could be further from the truth
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Today, cyber means war. But back in the 1990s, it meant sex — at least, the kind of sex you can have in a chat room. Why did the word change, and where did it originally come from?
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Tesla Motors is getting serious about building self-driving cars.
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Making the case that Apple's innovation engine is still humming along.
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Now, an explosion of cheap and easy new tools and services makes crowdfunding more democratic than ever, by empowering fundraisers to bypass portals like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo entirely.
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Almost every measure of solar activity flatlined over the weekend. The event, though not unprecedented, is odd considering that our local star has just passed what is supposed to be the peak of its solar cycle, when activity is at its highest.
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Consider the Friedmann equation, which describes the universe. This shows that quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity really can be unified.
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New technology aims to offer security that is more convenient and more effective
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Using the talents of over a thousand people (and computers too numerous to count), we get an inside look at how restorationists clean the source print frame by frame to remove years of scratches and dirt.
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This video demo is genuinely jaw-dropping stuff. It takes us through a series of photographs, showing how with just a few clicks of the mouse, 3-Sweep can turn the objects inside them into resizable, turnaroundable 3-D models.
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model any building that is already on the AD Classics section, upload it to Sketchfab, and submit it using the following form. You’ll have two opportunities to win
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September 10, 2013
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Chrome: Wikipedia and YouTube are both bursting with helpful information, and Wikitube brings them both together to make your research more efficient
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Meet Oyster, the book subscription app that wants to do for books what Netflix did for movies and what Spotify did for music; provide an all-you-can-read experience for a monthly fee.
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A new Kickstarter project aims to liberate the composer's music from its copyright confines.
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Some daytime scenes from around the playa at Burning Man 2013. Be sure to watch in HD at full screen for maximum awesomeness!
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After touch screens, researchers demonstrate electronic recording and replay of human touch
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To crack down on rampant iPhone theft, Apple supercharges the home button on the iPhone 5S with a built-in fingerprint sensor called Touch ID.
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Taking advantage of Chrome’s ability to handle hardware accelerated graphics, the phone becomes a tool for dynamically mediating what you see on screen.
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Lee McCormack -With so many Spiritual films, paths and practices and so many teachers, gurus,and leaders taking a talking heads approach to happiness and transformation we thought we'd create an offering that includes a group of people actually going for
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September 3, 2013
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"Cerebral organoids” can model complex human brain disorders and the earliest stages of brain development
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New evidence has emerged which supports the long-debated theory that life on Earth may have started on Mars.
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Hundreds of megabits/second laser transmission planned; could be used for telepresence communication from Earth in future asteroid missions
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NASA‘s Mars rover Curiosity has used autonomous navigation for the first time, which lets the rover decide for itself how to drive safely on Mars.
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It includes a six-wheeled lunar rover, which will work on the surface for about three months.
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In the last year, former Department of Defense and intelligence agency operatives have headed to Silicon Valley to create technology start-ups specializing in tools aimed at thwarting online threats
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The largest 3-D printed rocket engine component NASA ever has tested blazed to life Thursday, Aug. 22 during an engine firing that generated a record 20,000 pounds of thrust.
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Dr. Christopher Kaeding, a surgeon at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, is the first in the U.S. to consult with a distant colleague using live, point-of-view video from the operating room via Google Glass.
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Smartphones are too often a colossal distraction to motorists, but Honda sees a way of using them to protect pedestrians from inattentive drivers.
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The wait is almost over. Apple on Tuesday sent invitations to the media for a press conference in San Francisco on September 10t
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If you've ever purchased physical books from Amazon, you'll soon be able to buy those same titles for your Kindle at virtually no cost.
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Vimeo is very serious about being a major distribution channel for independent small production films Read more at http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/03/vimeo-offering-indie-film-makers-10k-to-distribute-their-movies-via-vimeo-first/#HXid21i6qCEEKzDq.99
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You can browse a great many of these files, now declassified, in The Vault, the FBI’s “new electronic reading room,
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He’s eager to start asking questions and conducting experiments in the quest for a new “golden era” at The Post.
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August 27, 2013
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The researchers say it acts as a safe house for good bacteria, which can be used to effectively reboot the gut following a bout of dysentery or cholera.
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New findings may help neuroscientists pinpoint better targets for antianxiety treatments.
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A NASA spacecraft that discovered and characterized tens of thousands of asteroids throughout the solar system before being placed in hibernation will return to service for three more years starting in September.
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NASA released Aug. 22 new photos and video animations depicting the agency's planned mission to find, capture, redirect, and study a near-Earth asteroid.
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Iris — an advanced quadcopter with full GPS-guided autonomous capabilities
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The new study counters a previous study of 217 subjects over a three-year period that found that recognition of the subjects’ irises became increasingly difficult, consistent with an aging effect.*
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Haptix, a little camera device that promises to turn regular surfaces into 3-D multi-touch controllers, has exceeded its Kickstarter goal of $100,000 in just five days.
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Meta expects to have the virtual equivalent of a MacBook Air and iPhone built into a pair of 3D, augmented-reality Ray-Bans controlled by your hands within the next two years.
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The way people with schizophrenia interpret their own hallucinations has changed over the course of the 20th century, keeping pace with changes in technology.
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Because we tend to become more like our friends the more time we spend with them, our brains are hardwired to place ourselves in their shoes.
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Weekly data from 10,272 movies in 50 countries over the period 2007-2013 and found that the box office for a majority of movies didn’t increase, while the effect on a mid-range of pics was negative.
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Secret documents from the intelligence agency show that the Americans spy on Europe, the UN and other countries.
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Started as a Kickstarter project just a few days ago, the Micro Phone Lens has already blown through its goal of $5,000 and is currently sat at just over $27,000 with 15 days left to go.
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An unmanned aerial vehicle tumbled from the sky and crashed into a crowded stand of spectators on Saturday while shooting video of the event at the Virginia Motorsports Park.
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Federal prosecutors have formally dropped demands that a child-porn suspect give up his encryption keys in a closely watched case, but experts warn the issue of forced decryption is very much alive
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Warrior Web aims to develop a soft, lightweight undersuit that would help reduce injuries and fatigue and improve Soldiers’ ability to efficiently perform their missions
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Project Loon is looking for folks in California’s Central Valley who are willing to have a Loon Internet antenna installed on their house or small business building to help test the strength of the Loon Internet balloon connection
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Berkeley Lab scientists have helped to develop a tiny chip that has big potential for quickly determining whether someone has been exposed to dangerous levels of ionizing radiation.
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August 20. 2013
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Soon you’ll be able to find this info instantly in Google Search if it’s in your Gmail, Google Calendar or Google+. For example, just ask or type, “What’s my flight status?” or “When will my package arrive?”
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We might be one step closer to an Internet-of-things reality. University of Washington engineers have created a new wireless communication system that allows devices to interact with each other without relying on batteries or wires for power.
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an old and highly controversial theory that simply changes the law of gravity can explain a key property of galaxies better than the standard dark matter theory
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Iran has claimed its airspace is being constantly infiltrated by foreign drones as it announced a programme to train school students to spot and report aerial surveillance.
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The federal ministry of finance recognized Bitcoins as “units of account” — the cryptocurrency is therefore be considered as “private money”.
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Is intelligence related to an increased likelihood of recreational drug use? It's an interesting hypothesis, and one that's been gaining momentum in recent years.
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Ever wondered what an enlightened person looks like? Probably not what you’ve imagined.
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Makers and alpha geeks have found meaningful applications for the internet of things but there is still a big gap between them and the average user who doesn’t want to hack. How do we design for everyone?
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"Greetings Beleaguered Space Traveler. Welcome to the Universe's First Celestial Charging Station," was etched right onto the satellite's side.
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According to the auto industry wonks at R.L. Polk, 52 percent of EVs in the country are based in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.
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A completely autonomous quadcopter has been designed at the Vienna University of Technology. All the required computing power is provided by an off-the-shelf smartphone.
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The robot is equipped with an IMU, camera, and laser scanner with deflective mirrors. All computations are performed onboard using a 1.6GHz atom processor. The robot is able to navigate autonomously in indoor or outdoor, GPS-denied environments.
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This project is to develop inexpensive lidar from affordable components - laser pointer, small single board computer running linux and a webcam.
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Polyworld is a cross-platform (Linux, Mac OS X) program written by Larry Yaeger to evolve Artificial Intelligence through natural selection and evolutionary algorithms.
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Category: Philosophy Location: Summertown, TN Discussions on topics focused on the coming Vingean Singularity, Entheogenic Exploration, the re-localization of community & agriculture, and Individual Conscious Autonomy.
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Ape Reality covers a number of topics including artificial life meta-theory (for example, artificial life as a critique of contemporary science), maintaining an open source development (for example, working with third party companies and individuals), and
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August 13, 2013
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to protect their customers’ data from federal authorities, the two companies essentially committed suicide.
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Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP, in a wide-ranging interview talks about the corrupting nature of big data, the end of privacy and the rise of the surveillance society.
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The world’s first handheld point-and-shoot, full color 3D scanner available for under $1,000.
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Worried about the NSA snooping on your email? Maybe you need to start creating your own personal internet
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'I want to show you what it's like to be there as best I can, even if that ends with me running full-speed into a cafe and rubbing lemons all over my face after being tear-gassed'
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega.co.nz is working on a highly-secure email service to run on a non-US-based server.
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An international team led by astronomers from Kyoto University, the University of Tokyo and the University of Oxford has released its first version of a 3D map of the Universe
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Our global economic model is reliant on scarcity with respect to supply and demand but technology creates abundance. Technological progress and economic growth are actually in inverse proportion, though they are commonly assumed to be in direct proportion
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Researchers from Boston Children’s Hospital have created injectable oxygen microparticles for patients with breathing impairments.
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Wiring diagram of retinal neurons is first step toward mapping the human brain.
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Wattpad, the Toronto-based social network based on writing and reading, has just announced a new crowdfunding platform called “Fan Funding”
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NBC News has taken a step to incorporate eyewitness accounts into its news coverage — by buying Stringwire, a Web service that will enable live video to be streamed to the broadcaster
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Photographer Bruce W. Berry takes us on a tour around the planet from orbit, created from images taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station and expertly de-noised, stabilized and smoothed to 24 frames per second.
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CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta cuts through the smoke and travels around the world to uncover the highs and lows of cannabis.
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Hackers and security researchers are moving away from simply trying to break into — or protect — people’s e-mail accounts, stealing credit cards and other dirty digital deeds.
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What form will these new AI agents take and what does it mean when these agents grow to embody their data?
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It would transport passengers in individual aluminum pods powered by turbines and solar energy in above-ground tubes, cost $6-10 billion to build, and make the trip from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 35 minutes.
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Workers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant say that contaminated water has most likely been seeping into the sea since the disaster two-and-a-half years ago.
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Easily accessible through an online app, the maps help neuroscientists quickly scan what is already known and plan their next study.
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The first bionic eye to be approved for patients in the U.S. is getting software upgrades.
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Molecules could soon be “scanned” in a fashion similar to imaging screenings at airports, thanks to a detector developed by University of Pittsburgh physicists.
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Mathematical image processing creates a 3D movie of any scene, using just two frames from a stationary camera or microscope
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During the summer of 1963, Earth looked a tiny bit like Saturn.
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When the United States went to war with Spain in 1898,Newton Harrieson, editor of Electrical Age, proposed a simple way to defeat the Spanish: tip the Earth onto its side and freeze them.
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Frank Pietronigro was the first American artist to create ‘drift paintings,’ a form of space art in which the artist floats, weightless, in a zero gravity, three-dimensional environment while painting
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August 6, 2013
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Residents across California were startled overnight by cellphones that came to life in screeches and buzzes, awaking some and unsettling others with the state's first Amber Alert via text message.
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The world’s first lab-grown burger was cooked and eaten at a news conference in London
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A prominent hacker who discovered a way to have ATMs spit out cash and was set to deliver a talk about hacking pacemakers and other wireless implantable medical devices has died in San Francisco
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Monash University researchers have developed a completely new strategy to engineer graphene-based supercapacitors (SC), making them viable for widespread use in renewable energy storage, portable electronics and electric vehicles.
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The Kite Patch is a little square sticker that emits a cloak of chemical compounds that block a mosquito's ability to sense humans.
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Supertoy Robotics Ltd. has created Supertoy, aka “Teddy” — a cute, talkative robot teddy bear with a New-York-comedian attitude and a surprisingly realistic voice
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The Cyberpunk master spins a tantilizing view of the whole security state enchilada.
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A new game will connect Glass wearers to a virtual ant colony vying for prizes by solving real-world problems that vex traditional crowdsourcing efforts.
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The idea is to scan (and later, print) a 3D object as easily as printing a document, using just a depth camera (such as a Kinect*) and computer browser.
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How easy would it be to monitor the movement of everyone on the street by a private citizen with a few hundred dollars to spare?
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Help ground-breaking filmmaker Robert Greenwald complete this documentary and help change the U.S. Drone policy
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a car is not a simple machine of glass and steel but a hackable network of computers
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A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals.
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Solar energy could supply one-third of all electricity demand in the Western US by 2050 while and massively cutting emissions
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personal manufacturing, like personal computing before it, is about to enter the mainstream in a big way.
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NASA has begun studying how remotely-operated vehicles may one day help astronauts explore other worlds.
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Online psychotherapy is just as efficient as conventional therapy, University of Zurich clinical researchers have found in a study of online psychotherapy vs. conventional face-to-face therapy.
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AGL Energy, one of the big three power utilities in Australia, says that 9,000MW of fossil-fuel baseload capacity needs to be taken out of the national electricity market (NEM) to bring it back into balance.
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Durham University Astronomers have found a new way of measuring the spin in supermassive black holes, which could lead to better understanding about how they drive the growth of galaxies.
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Large hollow magnetic cage molecules could one day be used in medicine as a drug delivery system to non-invasively treat tumors
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researchers have identified an entirely new approach to enhance normal tissue growth, a finding that could have widespread therapeutic applications.
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The ostensible bionics (exoskeleton technology) and special effects for this film are mesmerizing.
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Why are “Pound” and “Ounce” Abbreviated as “lb” and “oz”?
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July 30, 2013
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After a three-year legal battle and months-long trial, former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning was found not guilty today of the most serious charge he faced — aiding the enemy.
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The House voted 217 to 205 not to rein in the NSA’s phone-spying dragnet. It turns out that those 217 “no” voters received twice as much campaign financing from the defense and intelligence industry as the 205 “yes” voters.
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The movement to crack down on government surveillance started with an odd couple from Michigan
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Living in a one-superpower world (or Edward Snowden vs. Robert Seldon Lady)
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Strategy Analytics reported today that Apple is clinging to only 28.3 percent of the tablet market, down from 47.2 percent at the same point last year.
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A groundbreaking project called Aireal lets you feel virtual objects
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Leap Motion’s low-cost gesture-control device is not as easy to use as you might think.
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Check out the the "Cornucopia" or Digital Fabricator, a "personal food factory" able to print food from specified ingredients, with no waste at the point of cooking.
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NASA engineers built two subscale injectors with a specialized 3-D printing machine and completed 11 mainstage hot-fire tests, accumulating 46 seconds of total firing time at temperatures nearing 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit while burning liquid oxygen an
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Also known as the peer-to-peer (P2P) movement, the collaborative economy basically stems from technological developments enabling consumers to bypass corporations and big brands to transact directly with each other.
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BMW has finally made a real EV.
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An animal study in the journal Nature Biotechnology showed the part of the eye which actually detects light can be repaired using stem cells.
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MIT study also pinpoints where the brain stores memory traces, both false and authentic.
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The information carried by the electrical activity of neurons is a mixture of stored memories, environmental circumstances, and current state of mind.
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Galaxies a trillion times brighter than our Sun were observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope inside enormous blobs
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Scientists have know that something in space accelerated particles in the Van Allen radiation belts to more than 99 percent the speed of light, but they didn’t know what that something was.
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Observing the birth of one of the largest stars in our galaxy. The behemoth lies at the heart of a dusty cocoon containing more than 500 hundred times the mass of our Sun.
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Quantum entanglement works for photons, and even molecuiles, but what about larger objects?
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If photons can die, they could give off particles that travel faster than light.
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Due to its stainless steel body, it can be sterilized using Hydrogen Peroxide gas, for work in sterile environments.
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How do you get a 2,200-pound robotic submarine – a craft packed with 27 sensors and tools – through a hole just 30 inches in diameter?
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In older men, a natural antioxidant compound found in red grapes and other plants – called resveratrol – blocks many of the cardiovascular benefits of exercise
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Surprise finding shows oxytocin can strengthen bad memories and can increase fear and anxiety
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The slightest variation in a sequence of DNA can have profound effects. Modern genomics has shown that just one mutation can be the difference between successfully treating a disease and having it spread rampantly throughout the body.
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It’s basically a tall structure with a small platform at the top, with a notch off to one side to hold your camera.
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“I wonder if visualizing the layers of music helps teach our ears to be able to pick apart those individual pieces–to literally get a little better at listening,”
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July 23, 2013
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Most people generate enough power to continuously transmit data at a rate of 1 Kb/s, say researchers who have audited the harvestable energy from human motion
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Scientists desalinate seawater with "water chip" and electricity, set to scale up with help of startup. Read more: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Blog/2013/07/01/Water-chip-can-desalinate-seawater-with-electrical-field/6671372680213/#ixzz2ZC9xgzAB
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As the Obama administration dials back the number of drone attacks in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, the U.S. military is shifting its huge fleet of unmanned aircraft to other hot spots around the world
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National Security Agency Deputy Director Chris Inglis said that the NSA’s probing of data in search of terrorist activity extended “two to three hops” away from suspected terrorists
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a pair of astrophysicists consider the possibility that intelligent alien beings could have built a fleet of self-replicating space probes that use gravity to sling themselves from star to star.
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What entrepreneurs find most exciting about 3D printing
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night-time pedestrian detection, road-edge and barrier detection, new-gen adaptive cruise control, and—here’s the kicker—autonomous parking.
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Apple’s developer website is still down this morning after being inaccessible for long periods last week and being completely shut down by Apple yesterday afternoon due to a successful hacking attack that penetrated Apple systems
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It is becoming more and more wearable and it looks damm good!
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License plate recognition technology developed for law enforcement and embraced by the auto repossession industry is being opened to wider use through a Florida company that lets its clients track the travels of millions of private vehicles
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It's capability is akin to the user interfaces found in popular sci-fi movies such as Minority Report and Iron Man 3.
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Old mine tailings piles may contain a group of versatile minerals the periodic table called rare earth elements.
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Here’s a short one minute time-lapse video that took nine months to create
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The documents describe how the NSA gave Germany one of its spying programs, called XKeyscore, and a trip in which NSA experts briefed German intelligence officers in a “strategic planning conference” on American surveillance capabilities.
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NASA has released a picture of Earth taken by the Cassini spacecraft, which is currently orbiting Saturn. Guess what? We're a tiny blue dot engulfed in the vastness of space. Pretty cool.
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new research shows that dolphins respond selectively to recorded versions of their personal signatures, much as a person might react to someone calling their name.
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July 16, 2013
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Go to any family restaurant and you'll be surrounded by kids. Some will be antsy, others will be well-behaved and a lot of them will be playing on their phones and iPads. Oh, and one in ten of them have ADHD.
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Scaremongers play on the idea that robots will simply replace people on the job. In fact, they can become our essential collaborators, freeing us up to spend time on less mundane and mechanical challenges.
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an app that uses the accelerometer in your smartphone, and turns it into a simple seismometer (device that detects the vibrations from earthquakes).
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Researchers, in a step toward analyzing Mars for signs of life, find that gene-sequencing chip can survive space radiation.
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Here are 10 of the most extreme black holes, from the smallest to the largest and from cannibals to rogues.
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Researchers are now designing robots for these most delicate crops
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Glide through part of the largest canyon on Mars, Valles Marineris, in this stunning visualization from ESA’s Mars Express.
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University of Southampton researchers have discovered a novel way of killing cancer cells by leaves healthy cells undamaged, unlike traditional therapies such as radiotherapy.
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A layer-by-layer fabrication tool lets researchers quickly form complicated biological tissue in three-dimensional space.
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Merchant and colleagues successfully utilized crowdsourcing in a recent study to locate and catalog the locations of lifesaving automated external defibrillators (AEDs) throughout Philadelphia in the MyHeartMap Challenge.
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China plans to add 10 gigawatts of solar power a year during the next three years, according to a statement from the State Council posted on the government’s website today
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A new way to look at cancer — by tracing its deep evolutionary roots to the dawn of multicellularity more than a billion years ago
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ETH researchers can make objects such as particles and liquid droplets fly in mid-air by letting them ride on acoustic waves. They can also control their movement and merge droplets, which can react chemically or biologically.
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Artificial and natural knowledge researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems to see how intelligent it really is.
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Musk has been hinting at an idea he calls the Hyperloop—a ground-based transportation technology that would get people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in under half an hour, for less than 1/10 the cost of building the high-speed rail line.
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Single-cell DNA sequencing unlocks trove of microbial diversity.
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On June 13th, 2013, the AeroVelo‘s Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter captured the long standing AHS Sikorsky Prize with a flight lasting 64.1 seconds and reaching an altitude of 3.3 metres
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MIT researchers discover a new phenomenon that could lead to new types of lasers and sensors.
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The DIY (Drone It Yourself) v1.0 kit offers you the opportunity to turn any object into a drone*, simply by attaching four motors and a control unit – no technical know-how needed.
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The storage allows unprecedented parameters including 360 TB/disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1000°C and practically unlimited lifetime.
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If Monsanto is the Microsoft of food supply, perhaps the time has come for the agricultural equivalent of Linux, the open-source operating system that made computer programming a communal effort
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Larger habitable zone suggests 60 billion planets could sustain water, life
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Neptune has a new moon, and its existence is an enigma. The object, known for now as S/2004 N1, is the first Neptunian moon to be found in a decade
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When asked whether the President is given any secret files on extraterrestrials while in office, Medvedev not only replied that extraterrestrials are visiting the Earth, but that some are actually living among us.
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Edward J. Snowden, the former intelligence contractor on the run from American authorities, formally applied on Tuesday for temporary asylum in Russia, citing fears that he could face torture or the death penalty if extradited to the United States
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a whimsical vision for how Humanity might one day populate the solar system (asteroids and comets) with artificially evolved creatures. These creatures are evolved digitally on the surface of a virtually modeled asteroid within the EvoGrid Simulation Cube
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3D real time simulations, the human NEO mission study & design project, planetary protection, astronaut safety and much more.
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July 9, 2013
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According to the NTSB there was no discussion of any aircraft anomalies by the pilots and the engines appeared to be working normally.
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Attention all Santa Cruz musicians. Our library system is amazing and is ready to pay you to make your music available via download with an Santa Cruz Public Library card.
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.Most of the Sam Adams Associates are former senior national security officials who, with the other members, understand fully the need to keep legitimate secrets.
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metadata reveals a ton, and even ‘coarse datasets’ provide almost no anonymity.
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Physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have built a tabletop particle accelerator that can generate energies and speeds previously reached only by major facilities that are hundreds of meters long and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build
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Harvard researchers have released a massive database of more than 2 million molecules that might be useful in the construction of solar cells that rely on organic compounds for construction of organic solar cells for the production of renewable energy.
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Guillemot eggs have special structures on their shells that make them self-cleaning, according to new research.
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A study conducted by a US military adviser has found that drone strikes in Afghanistan during a year of the protracted conflict caused 10 times more civilian casualties than strikes by manned fighter aircraft
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an ambitious new project designed to attack nicotine dependence in a radically new way.
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A unique new instrument at Gemini South in Chile takes the removal of atmospheric distortions (using adaptive optics technology) to a new level.
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On July 4th, documentary filmmaker named Chris Barrett captured the first fight and subsequent arrest using the Google Glass extended video recording option on the Jersey Shore boardwalk
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Wireless vehicle networks could make driving safer and more efficient, but the cost of deployment will be significant.
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A device that trains the brain to turn sounds into images could be used as an alternative to invasive treatment for blind and partially-sighted people researchers in the Department of Psychology have found.
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How many times have you wished for more hours in a day? Though adding time isn't possible, it is possible to trick your brain into feeling like the day is longer
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Puzzled about why Google closes successful products such as Reader while backing others such as self-driving cars? A former Apple and Palm executive explains
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set out on its first big road trip, a long journey that will traverse miles of Red Planet scenery over the course of the next year or so.
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The process, called Synth[e]tech[e]cology, would be accomplished by outfitting a building with exterior carbon fiber, steel, and titanium dioxide nanotubes. In addition to creating fuel, the building would also collect airborne dirt particles
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Before this study, we didn't know what brain regions were associated with ideas that become contagious, and we didn't know what regions were associated with being an effective communicator of ideas
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July 2, 2013
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iPhones in September with iPads and iWatch in October
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A revolutionary engine that can turn an aircraft into an orbiting spaceplane has won fresh backing from the British Government.
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Recent research has shown that memories are not unchanging physical traces in the brain. Instead, they are malleable constructs that may be rebuilt every time they are recalled
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The Argus II is the first and only “bionic eye” to be approved in countries throughout the world, including the U.S. It is used to treat patients with late stage retinitis pigmentosa (RP)
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New contact lens design may improve sight of patients with macular degeneration, switches between magnified and normal vision
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The U.S. government’s decision to end its support of most medical experiments on chimpanzees came after decades of impassioned, often bitter debate — yet in some ways, it was an easy decision.
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Will help drive chip making to new levels of miniaturization and complexity
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Atom-thick photovoltaic sheets could pack hundreds of times more power per weight than conventional solar cells
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Because this beam is in the infrared region, it’s invisible to human eyes. But it can illuminate deep information in materials.
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Trapped in an earthquake? Don't panic. Hissing roaches with backpack WiFi, microphones, and speakers are coming for you. OK, that might make you panic.
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Apple has committed to investing up to $1 billion in the data center it’s building in Reno, Nevada, and GigaOM has confirmed that the site will be powered by an 18 to 20-megawatt solar panel farm.
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WikiLeaks’ legal advisor in the Edward Snowden matter, Sarah Harrison, submitted by hand a number of requests for asylum and asylum assistance on behalf of Edward J. Snowden, the NSA whistleblower.
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The ability to control one quantum particle by manipulating another somewhere else sounds like the stuff of science fiction. Now physicists say they know how to do it
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In addition to filing a trademark for the name “iWatch” in Russia and Japan, Apple has requested a trademark for “iWatch” with Mexico’s Institute of Industrial Property.
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Signs that resemble a slightly naughty ad the full text herebit of internet slang
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He actually said that he was an "infrastructure analyst" who had previously worked for the CIA as a systems administrator and telecommunications systems officer.
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Robert Reich on why the gap between the rich and poor is as wide as it's been since the Great Depression
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After weeks of online ballot casting, the namesake of Spock's home planet has been named the clear winner, with a total of 450,324 votes cast since February 11.
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June 25, 2013
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Besides novels, Matheson wrote directly for the screen, penning 16 episodes of "The Twilight Zone" and one of "Star Trek." He wrote the screenplay of "Duel," directed in 1971 by Steven Spielberg.
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a new algorithm that can accurately measure the heart rates of people depicted in ordinary digital video by analyzing imperceptibly small head movements that accompany the rush of blood caused by the heart’s contractions.
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a battery with anodes made of tin-coated wood that are a thousand times thinner than a piece of paper.
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A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great detail.
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He does reveal a vast, systemic, institutionalized, industrial-scale Leviathan surveillance state that has clearly gone far beyond the original mandate to deal with terrorism—far beyond.
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Spray the silicone-based coating on electronics, clothing, or almost any surface and it'll become almost completely impervious to moisture.
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Star Wars has become the first major motion picture to be translated into a Native American language.
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Scientists have identified three new planets around a star they already suspected of hosting a trio of worlds.
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“Mr. Snowden is a free man,” Mr. Putin said, according to Russian news services traveling with him. “The faster he chooses his ultimate destination, the better for us and for him.
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Does caffeine "cramp creativity"? It shouldn't. More likely the opposite, if you do it right.
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THE WHOLE INDUSTRY IS BUILDING IPAD APPS THAT INTEGRATE WITH TELEVISION. BUT NIELSEN’S LATEST REPORT GETS HARD NUMBERS ON WHETHER OR NOT THIS TREND ACTUALLY MAKES SENSE.
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with technology growing by leaps and bounds, why does the username-and-password formula -- a relic of computing's Jurassic era -- remain the norm?
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An astronomical artist has created eye-opening illustrations imagining what the night sky would look like if the moon was replaced by the other planets in the solar system. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2345679/Photographer-Ro
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/digital-diary-instagram-video-and-death-of-fantasy/
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Potluck, which launched to the public Tuesday, is a pared down social network that simply asks users to share links — no witty comments, no back-and-forth banter, just links.
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NSA Leaks Help – Rather than Hurt – the United States
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People on the cutting edge are swallowing ingestible smart pills containing minuscule sensors and transmitters to monitor a range of health data and wirelessly share this information with a doctor
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June 18, 2013
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Apple's full accounting of its interactions with government spies in the past year or so. Here's what went down.
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Lone Signal believes that crowd sourcing messaging to intelligent life (METI) is the ideal approach to establishing a stable, cohesive, and well-resourced interstellar beacon on Earth.
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The idea of offering people free Wi-Fi in exchange for their physical coordinates began at Facebook as a one-off experiment
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The Supreme Court justices held that human DNA isolated from a chromosome cannot be patented because it is a product of nature.
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The RoboRoach, a Kickstarter project, is the “world’s first commercially available cyborg” — part cockroach and part machine.
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Watch this short sci-fi video, R'ha, made almost entirely by 22-year-old Kaleb Lechowski. It centers on the eternal struggle between robots and aliens, and it's got fantastic animation, amazing sound and is essentially just a damn good watch.
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High concentrations of boron have been found in a Martian meteorite. When present in its oxidized form (borate), boron may have played a key role in the formation of RNA, one of the building blocks for life.
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Medical centers are testing new, friendly ways to reduce the need for office visits by extending their reach into patients’ homes.
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It may be possible to alter memory simply by suggesting different information, but timing and context are key.
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A father’s search to find the healthiest building materials leads him to the completion of the nation’s first hemp house.
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Personalized regenerative medicine breakthrough
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an easier and more effective method for inserting genes into eye cells that could greatly expand gene therapy to help restore sight to patients with blinding diseases ranging from inherited defects like retinitis pigmentosa to degenerative illnesses
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enables smartphone users to diagnose serious diseases such as diabetes or lung cancer quickly and effectively by simply breathing into a small gadget, a nanofiber breathing sensor, mounted on the phones.
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As part of its effort to promote expanded access to high-quality online learning opportunities around the world, Stanford helps launch the OpenEdX open-source platform and begins offering summer coursework on it.
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For most creatives there is a “Goldilocks” zone of just the right amount of noise, but not too much.
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A living wall, or a green wall, is a garden that grows vertically, as opposed to horizontally, which can exist inside or outside the home.
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The outlawing of psychoactive drugs amounts to the worst case of scientific censorship in modern times, a group of leading scientists have argued.
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"Here, for the first time, Dennis gives his account of the ideas, adventures, and anguishes he and Terence shared—and some they didn’t.
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June 11, 2013
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Edward Snowden brought his information first to Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian, illustrating the passion an opinion-driven journalist can bring to a breaking news story at the same time it raises questions about fairness.
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Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg calls the revelations by a government contractor on U.S. secret surveillance programs the most "significant disclosure" in the nation's history.
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Against a backdrop of ongoing revelations around the US Prism programme, mass surveillance dominated the discussion at the Index on Censorship event
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We are calling on Congress to take immediate action to halt this surveillance and provide a full public accounting of the NSA’s and the FBI’s data collection programs.
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ParaShoot is a compact, wearable prototype camera that can record at intervals or continuously.
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Why combat the power of the crowd when it can be harnessed instead?
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Gone are the skeuomorphic designs and 3D effects, replaced by Sir Jony Ive’s “flat design.”
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Now the books you’ve already downloaded on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch will automatically appear in iBooks on your Mac.
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iTunes Radio is integrated into Apple’s Music app, providing curated streaming radio stations and custom stations that improve as you listen and download new music
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Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway-like robotic vehicles.
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a new noninvasive system that allows people to control a flying robot using a brain-computer interface.
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The administration claims authority to sift through details of our private lives because the Patriot Act says that it can. I disagree. I authored the Patriot Act, and this is an abuse of that law.
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Cave stalagmites collected from Borneo show that the western tropical Pacific responded very differently to abrupt climate change events.
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June 4, 2013
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Mars One says it has received applications from more than 78,000 people in more than 120 countries for the Mars One astronaut selection program, in hopes of becoming a Mars settler in 2023.
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A neuroscientist is getting a brain scan twice every week for a year to try to see how neural networks behave over time.
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A French company is preparing to test a complex artificial heart that combines biology with machinery.
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NASA and a Texas company are exploring the possibility of using a "3D printer" on deep space missions in a way where the "D" would stand for dining.
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Google will not allow apps that implement facial recognition on its Google Glass product
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A new class of imaging device with no lens and just a single light sensitive sensor could revolutionise optical, infrared and millimetre wave imaging
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Stanford scientists have developed inexpensive silicon-based electrodes that dramatically improve the charge storage capacity of lithium-ion batteries.
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Interconnected wireless body sensors could use sonar to treat diabetes, heart failure and other ailments
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A scanner packed with sensors designed to read your vital signs and send them wirelessly to your smartphone in a few seconds, any time, anywhere.
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With everyone from Audi to Google to Volvo developing autonomous vehicles, the federal government is cautiously getting behind the wheel to regulate how self-driving cars should be operated and legislated
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The story of how Dr. Kagan established and maintained life after death communication with your bad boy brother.
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May 14, 2013
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Amazon.com Inc. is developing a high-end smartphone featuring a screen that allows for three-dimensional images without glasse
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Researchers find hints of supernova iron in bacteria microfossils
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The battle for control of dangerous digital shapes may have just begun.
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Working with NASA and JPL, Cerf has helped develop a new set of protocols that can stand up to the unique environment of space, where orbital mechanics and the speed of light make traditional networking extremely difficult.
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Based on the best-selling, award winning science-fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, ENDER’S GAME is an epic adventure starring Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, Viola Davis, with Abigail Breslin and Harrison Ford.
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UCLA life scientists have identified a gene previously implicated in Parkinson’s disease that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies. The research, they say, could have important implications for aging and disease
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A record-setting blast of gamma rays from a dying star in a galaxy about 3.6 billion light-years away has wowed astronomers around the world — the highest-energy light ever detected from such an event.
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Canadian astronaut who performed Bowie hit Space Oddity as orbital swangsong lands safely with two other crew
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As the solar cycle of sunspot activity reaches its peak, the sun's activity is expected to increase, seen in some recent outbursts.
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Resource page on Global Villages, aggregated by our guest this week, Franz Nahrada
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May 7, 2013
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Ray Harryhausen, whose dazzling and innovative visual effects work on fantasy adventure films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963) augured the explosion of effects-driven cinema over the last 30 years, died in London
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on what it takes to turn around an internet giant. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs on building a world where everything is connected. Twitter and Medium cofounder Evan Williams on the future of publishing, communication. Free Stream!
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Paul Hellyer, former Minister of Defense of Canada who reveals in official testimony about the reality of UFO's the organizations that control the Earth. Awesome revelations to formally come forth now from a very high ranking former government official.
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Until now, Viber has been a mobile-only play that sits somewhere in between Skype and WhatsApp. Now it’s on the desktop too, and the different platform versions are very tightly integrated
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Google Glass is redrawing social boundaries. And society is so worried about its implications, that two communities have taken steps designed to keep Glass in its place
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MicroGen has developed a “piezo-MEMS” (piezoelectric microelectromechanical systems) device that gathers ambient vibrations and converts them into electrical energy.
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First detection of the spin of a single atom using a combined optical and electrical approach
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A quantum internet capable of sending perfectly secure messages has been running at Los Alamos National Labs for the last two and a half years, say researchers
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A doctor says people can be revived several hours after they have seemingly died, BBC News reports. Should this change the way we think about death?
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How to create a glowing plant- Natural lighting with no electricity or CO2 (or radioactive elements)Now you can your own glowing plant at home, using synthetic biology and computer software.
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Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have discovered a hormone that holds promise for a dramatically more effective treatment of type 2 diabetes, a metabolic illness afflicting an estimated 26 million Americans.
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a new gene therapy approach that may one day stop Parkinson's disease (PD) in its tracks,
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Galaxy HFLS3, 12.8 billion light-years from Earth, is producing the equivalent of nearly 3,000 Suns per year, a rate more than 2,000 times that of our own Milky Way.
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Using haptics to improve outcomes for people given visual prosthetics
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Scientists at Princeton University have used a 3D printer to create a functional ear that can “hear” radio frequencies up to microwave frequencies.
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Camera with 'many small eyes on one big eye' delivers unmatched field of view
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A maverick neuroscientist believes he has deciphered the code by which the brain forms long-term memories
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The XPrize Foundation has teamed up with Sony Pictures Entertainment and Overbrook Entertainment to launch a robotics competition celebrating the release of After Earth, in theaters May 31.
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Magnetic field measurement techniques have long enabled scientists to probe the internal structure of biological and material samples.
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Everything around us is getting smarter. Researchers are developing systems that can analyze people’s needs to determine the best way to achieve their goals.
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“Google’s self-driving car gathers 750 megabytes of sensor data per SECOND!
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Internationally, Sweden is regarded as being at the forefront of research and development into green technology and work towards achieving a sustainable environment.
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April 30, 2013
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Apple Inc wowed the debt markets on Tuesday with the largest non-bank bond deal in history, offering a whopping $17 billion for sale as the U.S. computer giant switches strategy to placate restless shareholders.
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Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo went supersonic over the Mojave desert during its first powered flight this morning, a major milestone for the company’s plans for commercial suborbital flights.
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A 3D telepresence technology that started life as a Microsoft research project may soon become an official product
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Google has announced the integration of app activities into Google search, with early launch partners that include Deezer, Fandango, Flixster, Slacker Radio, Songza, SoundCloud and TuneIn.
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CERN has brought back the very first website back to life at its original URL.
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Cinema tech better innovate fast to keep up with picture quality in the living room
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taking a closer look at the next quantum leap in textile design: computerized fabrics that change their colour and their shape in response to movement.
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln materials engineers have developed a structural nanofiber that is both strong and tough, a discovery that could transform everything from airplanes and bridges to body armor and bicycles.
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NEW YORK, Monday, 22nd April 2013 - Mars One is happy to announce the launch of its astronaut selection program today. The search has begun for the first humans to set foot on Mars and make it their home.
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Is this the century we begin to build starships? Why go to the Stars? Can we? Should We?
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Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.
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Soon, we might interact with our smartphones and computers simply by using our minds.
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For the first time, human embryonic stem cells have been transformed into nerve cells that helped mice regain the ability to learn and remember.
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An electronic patch can analyse complex brainwaves and listen in on a fetus’s heart
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Lab-grown livers have come a step closer to reality thanks to a 3D printer loaded with cells
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April 23, 2013
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Amid a huge volume of digital evidence, one agent watched same video 400 times.
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This week the Google Fiber team is in Provo, Utah, where Mayor John Curtis just announced that we intend to make Provo their third Google Fiber City.
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"Google Fiber is not a test, it's a takeover plan.”
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They’ll be widening by a huge order of magnitude the search for planets outside our solar system.
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University of Auckland researchers have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets in our galaxy and they anticipate that the number will be on the order of 100 billion.
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NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone,"
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The three firms hope to fund a community of developers to make Google Glass the next major computing platform.
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A group of top American libraries and academic institutions launched a new centralized research resource today, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), making millions of resources (books, images, audiovisual resources, etc.) available in digital fo
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From Surveillance cams to robots, this was the highest tech operation ever.
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Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills, including attention, focus, stress management, impulse control, and self-awareness.
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The Astronomer Royal believes humanity's future lies in the stars. But, as he tells Paul Bignell, we will first have to change our ways
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A radical concept could revise theories addressing cognitive behavior.
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North Star Biofuels, is about to start production of biodiesel at a new $15 million, 20,000-square-foot plant in Watsonville, Calif., about 60 miles south of San Francisco.
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An amazingly elegant new flying rolling robot machine. Form and function synergize to create a new class of vehicle!
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At the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Psychedelic Science 2013 conference in Oakland this weekend there were mind-boggling displays of psychedelic art; tables full of books on LSD, MDMA, peyote, ayahuasca, and other, stranger
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We have more info about Glass, after Google released the tech specs of its upcoming smartglasses.
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The White House’s budget promises millions of dollars to build a solid foundation for additive manufacturing
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Only a few discoveries of the 20th century have had such a crucial and meaningful influence on science, society and culture as LSD; this mysterious and extremely potent substance which causes profound changes of consciousness in very small doses
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Authors of Mystic Chemist - The Life of Albert Hofmann and His Discovery of LSD
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April 16, 2013
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Oswalt's eloquent thoughts about the attacks, which he posted Monday afternoon to his Facebook page, have been widely passed around the Internet as an inspiring testament to humankind's inherent goodness in the face of evil.
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Unconfirmed reports and frequent commentary — including those warning about premature speculation — have been flying across Twitter, compressing the cycle of reaction to the disaster.
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Jason Calacanis, one of the top pundits for Silicon Valley, asks the question, " Is college worth the money?"
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Amazon's X-Ray allows viewers watching certain movies or TV shows on certain devices to touch the screen for instant actor identification
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Google has finally made it official: Austin will be the second city, after Kansas City, for Google Fiber
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Increasingly, experts believe we can be truly addicted to sugar.
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How does it work, Google's new Glass? Why can you see with it a sharp image-layer? How does the image overlay the image of reality? The following infographic illustrates the optical principle
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In the year 2154, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.
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Phoning and driving increases the risk of crashes four-fold, with hands-free and handheld devices equally dangerous; equivalent to driving with a blood alcohol content at the legal limit of .08
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As part of the new BRAIN research initiative, DARPA plans $50 million in 2014 investments to increase understanding of brain function and create new capabilities.
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An advance in micromotor technology akin to the invention of cars that fuel themselves from the pavement or air, rather than gasoline or batteries, is opening the door to broad new medical and industrial uses for these tiny devices
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Researchers have proposed using the International Space Station (ISS) to test the limits of this “spooky action” and potentially help to develop the first global quantum communication network.
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Mormon transhumanists are persuaded that we will become like God — through science and technology — in a progression without end
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CodeSpells, an immersive, first-person player video game designed to teach students in elementary to high school how to program in the popular Java language, has been developed
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Over the last nine months a number of new smartwatches have emerged that could change consumers’ perceptions.
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How Apple created its first disk OS, a chapter of Silicon Valley history critical to its later success.
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E-books are getting the Spotify subscription model.
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April 09, 2013
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These amusing animations actually edutain you quite a bit in a minute!
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an audio recreation of the Big Bang that started our universe nearly 14 billion years ago.
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Welcome to a parallel world of pseudo-academia, complete with prestigiously titled conferences and journals that sponsor them.
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WikiLeaks has published over 1.7 million US diplomatic records from the 1970s today, coined the Kissinger Cables, to coincide with the launch of a new searchable database for all of its released materials.
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The world's first clinical trial designed to explore using a hallucinogen from magic mushrooms to treat people with depression has stalled because of British and European rules on the use of illegal drugs in research.
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Fear may be felt in the heart as well as the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the likelihood of someone taking fright.
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This is an EXPERIMENTAL live data feed from an outdoor & indoor radiation monitors.
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Every 30 seconds or so, an algorithm developed by Narrative Science produces a computer-written news story
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The finding would explain why even lean meat poses a heart risk
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Professor Michael Blaber and his team produced data supporting the idea that 10 amino acids believed to exist on Earth around 4 billion years ago were capable of forming foldable proteins in a high-salt (halophile) environment.
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A team of Virginia Tech researchers has discovered a way to extract large quantities of hydrogen from any plant, a breakthrough that has the potential to bring a low-cost, environmentally friendly fuel source to the world
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A custom-built programmable 3D printer can create materials with some the properties of living tissues
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The lip-smacking vocalizations gelada monkeys make are surprisingly similar to human speech
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Billions of years ago, Mars was a significantly warmer and wetter world
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To what extent can the shape of a thing be known from the sound of its acoustic vibrations?
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Humans’ closest animal relatives, chimpanzees, have metacognition — knowing what one knows
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More than 100,000 Israeli websites have come under attack from Anonymous hacktivists around the world.
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Major U.S. bank websites have been offline a total of 249 hours in the past six weeks, perhaps the clearest indication yet that American companies are prime targets in an unrelenting, global cyber conflict.
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An innovative new study from Scotland confirms the observation that you can ease brain fatigue simply by strolling through a leafy park,
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Today the Facebook status update box began offering the option to “share how you’re feeling or what you’re doing” through a drop-down menu of emoticons and media.
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One of the most creative minds of interactive multimedia is now experimenting on 'the other side.'
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ExTEDxWestHollywood has risen to take the place of TEDxWestHollywood. The same outstanding speakers and performers have been relocated to the Vortex Dome
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April 2, 2013
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Robotic aircraft to pilot future of farming
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Homes and buildings chilled without air conditioners? Car interiors that don't heat up in the summer sun? Tapping the frigid expanses of outer space to cool the planet? Yes.
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Our collection includes exhibits of local history, tied in with local Bigfoot sightings, Popular Culture as it relates to the public view of Bigfoot, and actual evidence in the form of plaster foot and hand prints
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Low-energy terahertz radiation could potentially enable doctors to see deep into tissues without the damaging effects of X-rays, or allow security guards to identify chemicals in a package
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Short yet powerful bursts of terahertz radiation can damage DNA and also increase the production of proteins that help the cells to repair this damage.
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Stanford University bioengineers have taken computing beyond mechanics and electronics into the living realm of biology by creating the “transcriptor”
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Let’s say you have a incurable illness, and someone has developed a controversial stem-cell treatment that has led to a cure in about 80 patients. Do you have a right to ignore government regulations prohibiting its use?
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Hitachi has launched the self-driving Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System (Ropits) car, developed for elderly and disabled drivers
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So which specific speakers does TED object to? “The names of note they wanted us to qualify for them were Marianne Williamson, Russell Targ, Larry Dossey, and Marilyn Schlitz,” says organizer Taylor
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Bitcoin set a new record for itself yesterday afternoon as the price listed on the largest online exchange rose past US $92. With nearly 11 million Bitcoins in circulation*, this sets the total worth of the currency just over one billion dollars.
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It was the largest online attack ever reported. Over the course of the past week, servers belonging to an international non-profit company called The Spamhaus Project, which fights email spammers, were inundated with up to 38 gigabytes of traffic each sec
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The "smelling screen", invented by Haruka Matsukura at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology in Japan and colleagues, makes smells appear to come from the exact spot on any LCD screen that is displaying the image of a cup of coffee, for example.
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Before the ubiquity of GPS, drivers had to look at maps and memorize directions. Blind people experience a similar problem when walking through unknown territory, but there hasn’t been an easy way for them to “look” at a map in preparation for a trip.
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Scientists have replicated the behavior of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots
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Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around the world.
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Energ2’s nanostructured carbon anodes can boost lithium-ion battery capacity by 30 percent.
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By analyzing a surprisingly simple set of facial tics, a depth camera can see right into your soul.
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March 26, 2013
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Russian Internet mogul Dmitry Itskov is looking for backers for the world's first immortality research center.
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Leave a flower for a deceased Google product.
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New printing technology significantly reduces the time corporations spend prototyping fresh designs and now consumer-level machines could make engineers of us all
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Using a nanoscale drum, scientists have built a laser that uses sound waves instead of light like a conventional laser.
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Proof-of-principle study raises hope for personalized regenerative medicine, possible future Parkinson's treatment
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Stand on Zanzibar is that rarity among science fiction novels — it really made accurate predictions about the future.
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Seeing as the Voyager-1 spacecraft has been in the news recently, here’s the story of a very special photograph that it took 23 years ago known as “The Pale Blue Dot”.
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Shapes of binding sites could help drug discovery and the study of consciousness.
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The hype has never been hotter for the Internet's No. 1 virtual currency. Is this the beginning of the end?
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Dr. Pearl is helping to foster a form of collaborative group intelligence in the healing process.
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March 19, 2013
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An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.
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Defense Distributed have worked towards a controversial goal: To make as many firearm components as possible into 3D-printable, downloadable files. Now they’re seeking to make those files searchable, too.
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Using a handsfree kit or sending text messages is the same as being above the legal alcohol limit
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In the 1950s, a small team of engineers set to work on a secret program called Project 1794—a supersonic craft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. Now a trove of declassified documents reveals the audacious mission to build a flying saucer.
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In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind.
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People suddenly have the tools and the desire to record the lives of almost everybody. The ancient problem that bedeviled historians — a lack of information — has been overcome.
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Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) researchers have engineered an artificial human liver that mimics the natural tissue environment closely.
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We tend to feel closer to the future because we feel like we’re moving toward it
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We perceive the future as closer than the past. Except for when we're moving in reverse.
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New imaging tools penetrate bright starlight to image planets; could help identify candidate habitable planets for 100YSS expedition
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The number of potentially habitable planets is greater than previously thought, according to a new analysis by a Penn State researcher, and some of those planets are likely lurking around nearby stars.
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A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun
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March 12, 2013
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The rocket launched, hovered over Texas approximately 34 seconds and returned to the pad with its most accurate landing to date
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The SpaceX founder talked about subjects ranging from space-travel technologies to solar power to electric cars. But what the SXSW Interactive attendees were mostly there to hear about were his exploits in outer space.
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The most talked-about start-ups this year include the maker of a camera that automatically takes a photo every 30 seconds, a new game console and a gadget that lets people control their computers and devices by waving their hands.
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Quantum-dot photovoltaics offers the potential for low-cost, large-area solar power.
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Called the Nogo Receptor 1, the gene is responsible for shutting down neuronal plasticity once an organism reaches adulthood.
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When transplanted into mice, these human glial cells could influence communication within the brain, allowing the animals to learn more rapidly.
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Tired of the tyranny of data caps on your bandwidth usage? Check out what's really going on..
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While the “Zero TV” household could also refer to those who simply don’t watch video content at all, most (67%) still do watch video content. Thirty-seven percent do so on a computer, 16 percent via the Internet, 8% on smartphones and 6% on tablets.
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Video of the Party Projector in action, amazing wireless video with FX capability,updated this week. This would have blown away the pioneers of the field!
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Radio is great, but what's next when it comes to audio entertainment and information?
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An advance in efforts to develop a method to replace missing teeth with new bioengineered teeth generated from a person’s own gum cells.
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A really good piece that goes through the whole history of the program up to the preparations for powered flights later this year.
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March 5, 2013
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Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles
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Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth. What he found was a new way to power the world.
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Researchers use a DVD burner to fabricate micro-scale graphene-based supercapacitors — devices that can charge and discharge a hundred to a thousand times faster than standard batteries
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architect and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits showed how the process allows objects to self-assemble.
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Mars may get hit by a comet called C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring), around Oct. 19, 2014, missing the planet by 37,000 km (23,000 miles)
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The brain activity map is really a project to enable us to read from and write to individual neurons in complex networks
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Scientists of the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) have successfully performed cryopreservation — freezing and thawing oocytes (egg cells) from different cat species at minus 196 degrees Celsius.
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We are talking about the ability to record video of the people, places, and events around you, at all times.
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It would solve our energy needs overnight. But with huge technological and financial challenges, can space-based solar power ever take off?
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A satellite with an Android Google Nexus One smartphone at its heart is now orbiting the Earth at an altitude of 785 kilometers.
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Explores scientific and medical research on the emerging uses of psychedelics to enrich mind, morals, spirituality, and creativity
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Neurocomics is certainly a product of its era and Leary's obsessions, blending evolutionary science, mysticism, Jungian psychology, notions of panspermia, cybernetics research, and psychedelic experiences.
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The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States’s ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today. Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/03/pentagon-cuts-coul
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I heard the rumblings on Twitter, and then on the blogs. It was telepathy. No, it wasn’t telepathy, but it was close. It was like the Borg. No it wasn’t. It was a mind meld! Ok, maybe.
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Telltale evidence of ancient liaisons with Neanderthals and other extinct human relatives can be found in the DNA of billions of people.
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How did this happen? What to do?
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A graphic example of how our society hates to be videoed. To accompany our conversation about Google Glass privacy issues this week.
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How a guy might use Glass to court a young lady..Hilarious!
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February 26, 2013
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With power divided on Capitol Hill, bipartisan solutions are necessary.. But how?
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Drone companies try to convince the public there's more to them than spying and killing
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What was once science fiction is not as far off as people think, say Nobel laureates and scientists
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Google Inc. is preparing to break ground on a 42-acre campus called Bayview that promises to elevate the pampering of its hard-driving, type-A workers to a whole new level.
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The Inspiration Mars Foundation, led by Dennis Tito, the first space tourist, will announce on Wednesday Feb. 27 a planned mission to Mars in 2018.
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Most of you have heard of TED or watched the talks online, but do you know about BIL, the quirky, populist, unconference taking place nearby?
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The Obama administration is planning a decade-long scientific effort to examine the workings of the human brain and build a comprehensive map of its activity, seeking to do for the brain what the Human Genome Project did for genetics.
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Reality is a mathematical structure, says MIT physicist Max Tegmark — his “mathematical universe hypothesis.”
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A spectrally selective approach could let tablets, e-readers, and windows turn light into power.
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A new method of capturing images based on a flat, flexible, transparent, and potentially disposable polymer sheet has been developed
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British-developed technology differs from Google's, using 3D laser scanner on front of vehicle rather than GPS navigation
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uses GPS to guide the user who now doesn’t have to use a smartphone with the other hand. It also integrates a small heart rate meter right into the handle
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Yeast research takes a step toward production of alternatives to gasoline.
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tanford researchers are the first to demonstrate that sophisticated light resonators can be inserted inside living cells without damage to the cell.
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The evolution of the famous and empowering Hypercard goes Open Source!
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The film, Inocente, about a 15-year-old homeless girl and aspiring artist, won the little gold man in the Best Documentary (Short Subject) category
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Examines the intertwined lives of softball pitchers Dave Blackburn and Eddie"The King" Feigner. Dave is a longtime technology visionary.
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February 19, 2013
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The technologist speaks about an ambitious plan to build a powerful artificial intelligence.
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A very good recording of the sound of the Russian meteor air burst last week.
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The new classrooms take advantage of the fact that students are bringing their own technology – such as laptops – to class. The classrooms also include mobile infrastructure, where whiteboards, desks and tables can be reconfigured according to the needs o
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Google installed a voice recognition system based on what’s called a neural network — a computerized learning system that behaves much like the human brain.
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Google hosted its 2013 Solve for X event, where they gathered 50 experienced entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world who are taking on moonshots — proposals that address a huge problem, suggest a radical solution that could work.
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Scientists have discovered a molecule that accumulates with age and inhibits the formation of new neurons. The finding might help scientists design therapies to prevent age-related cognitive decline.
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A Kinect game controller and Microsoft software could cut the U.S. healthcare bill by up to $30 billion by allowing physicians and other medics to interact with patients remotely.
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Argus II is first approved prosthesis to restore limited vision to those blinded by retinitis pigmentosa
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Transcranial alternating current stimulation (TACS) — cancels out the brain signal causing the tremors by applying a small, safe electric current across electrodes on the outside of a patient’s head.
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A supernova remnant called W49B 26,000 light-years away may contain the most recent black hole formed in the Milky Way galaxy.
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Satellites show that the recent ozone hole over Antarctica was the smallest seen in the past decade.
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The meteor that tore across the skies over Russia's Chelyabinsk region early Friday led some suspicious Russians to conclude that it was a stealth military attack by either the U.S. or China.
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Engineers and physicists are developing acoustic versions of metamaterials that steer sound, which could be used to steer seismic waves around high-value buildings such as nuclear power stations or airports.
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Big news in the search for dark matter may be coming in about two weeks, the leader of a space-based particle physics experiment said Feb. 17 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Hod Lipson, an associate professor and the director of the Creative Machines Lab at Cornell, said “3D printing is worming its way into almost every industry, from entertainment, to food, to bio- and medical-applications."
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December 18, 2012
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Chinese astronauts may get fresh vegetables and oxygen supplies by gardening in extraterrestrial bases in the future, an official said after a just-concluded lab experiment in Beijing.
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UMass Amherst biophysicists, using a unique microscope, have improved upon earlier studies that used too-simple models not able to account for the densely crowded, dynamic conditions of a active transport in a real cell
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Company's hiring of Ray Kurzweil will have implications far beyond Google's fun projects. His machine-learning know-how could affect networks, data centers, and algorithms too.
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Dr. Liao, 40, the director of the bioethics program at New York University, deploys the tools of philosophy, history, psychology, religion and ethics to understand the impact of neuroscientific breakthroughs.
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For the last two weeks some of the planet’s most oppressive regimes have faced off against some of the most powerful Internet advocates in an effort to rewrite a multilateral communications treaty
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This new app allows speakers to write Twitter messages, or tweets, and release them at appropriate moments during a talk. The messages may contain links, photos or video clips to provide additional information about the subject.
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23 and me announced today Ancestry Composition, a new service that will reveal the geographic origins of your DNA, included in 23 and me’s new $99 one-time price (was $299).
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FlyVIZ, designed by French engineers, lets you experience a real-time 360° vision of your surroundings.
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Johnny Depp will play Will, a scientist whose brain is uploaded into a supercomputer in Transcendence (2014
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Have you been endorsed recently? If you have a LinkedIn profile, there’s a good chance you have been. Endorsements have exploded since they launched in September
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An international team of scientists led by Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researcher Andrew Larner, M.D., Ph.D., has successfully reversed obesity in mice by manipulating the production of an enzyme known as tyrosine-protein kinase-
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As we speak, millions of algorithms created by computer scientists are frantically running on servers all over the world, with one sole purpose: do whatever humans can do, but better.
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Dr. Bruce shares his insights into Terrence's psyche, and his skeptical perspective on many things future.
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December 11, 2012
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here needs to be some kind of Moore’s law analog to capture the tremendous advances in the speed of password cracking operations.
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This supplements have noticeable improvements to your learning abilities, memory, mental clarity, and mood
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Driverless vehicles will safely wiz through intersections at the full speed limit, according to researchers from Virginia Tech Transportation Research.
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Since the dawn of humankind, telling stories has been one of our most fundamental communication methods
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Physicists led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have smashed yet another series of records for data-transfer speed.
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Instead of being limited to printing small components like a bike helmet or pedal, engineers can now print an entire bike frame in one shot.
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil
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Hundreds of dead Humboldt squid mysteriously washed up on beaches along Rio del Mar Sunday.
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Some of the waste that humans flush away every day could become a powerful source of brain cells to study disease, and may even one day be used in therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.
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Bill Andrews has spent two decades unlocking the molecular mechanisms of aging. His mission: to extend the human life span to 150 years--or die trying
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Two dietary supplements straight off the health food store shelf put the spark back into aging rats, and might do the same for aging baby boomers
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A massive research project in California is beginning to show how genes, health habits and the environment can interact to cause diseases.
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Scientists have pinpointed the exact part of our DNA that links stress to aging. Danielle Friedman on how your doctor will soon test you for it—and 10 ways to turn back the clock now.
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A major anti-aging research scientist shares here work on Telemeres
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Ethan Bearman and Dr. Future try to change the fate of a mysterious sea creature
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December 4, 2012
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The American Psychiatric Association have just announced that the new diagnostic manual has been approved by the board of trustees.
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There's no memory at Twitter: everything is fleeting. So many are taking advantage of that..
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You don’t often hear Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos mentioned in the same breath...
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Tom Nardone runs MakerLove, a website where he posts sex toy designs for 3D printer owners to try out.
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DIY Drones are here and now. See the latest!
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The little creature of the sea that appears to debunk the most fundamental law of the natural world: you are born, and then you die.
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Critical tests have been successfully completed on the key technology for SABRE, an engine which will enable aircraft to reach the opposite side of the world in under 4 hours, or to fly directly into orbit and return, taking off and landing on a runway.
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A completely new method of manufacturing the smallest structures in electronics could make their manufacture thousands of times quicker, allowing for cheaper semiconductors.
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Now you can place your Minecraft 3D creations into the real world for other people to find.
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A University of Washington team claimed a $100,000 prize in the first 3D4D Challenge, an international contest to use 3-D printing for social benefit in the developing world.
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Unlike your standard "dumb" cases, the popSLATE won't just protect your phone, but also provides a rear-facing 4-inch E-Ink display that's capable of displaying images, slideshows and even app alerts.
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Within two or three decades the difference between automated driving and human driving will be so great you may not be legally allowed to drive your own car
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Physicists say there may be some evidence that it's actually true. In a sense.
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From 2002 to 2007, two-thirds of all income went to the richest 1%. Then, in the first year after the recession, a startling 93% of all new income went to the richest 1%.
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To test your mental acuity, answer the following questions
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10 top film directors will choose crowd submitted pics for creating a film from the still.
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The pseudo-democracy of Facebook has invited its billion-plus users to vote on their own rights
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November 27, 2012
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Conservationists in Brazil are poised to try cloning eight animals that are under pressure, including jaguars and maned wolves.
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The New Conservationists - becoming architects, engineers, and contractors for entire ecosystems
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Samsung is pushing ahead with plans to start mass production of displays using plastic rather than glass, a move that will make mobile devices unbreakable, lighter and bendable.
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Momentum Machines says it’s created a new robot that can make about 360 burgers an hour in a 24-square foot area and that they plan to use it in “the first restaurant chain that profitably sells gourmet hamburgers at fast food prices.”
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Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers there for perhaps $500,000 a trip
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Combustion experiments conducted in zero gravity yield surprising results
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Michael and Ann Mithoefer are evaluating MDMA for trauma.
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The age of the password is over. We just haven’t realized it yet.
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a team of scientists, using samples of strange, unknown hair, found in the wild, have confirmed the existence of a novel hominin hybrid species, commonly called “Bigfoot” or “Sasquatch,” living in North America.
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Scientists have found ways to generate electricity from the body’s rhythms that could provide a vital source of energy
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using ROS in an industrial connection?
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The Pentagon wants to make perfectly clear that every time one of its flying robots releases its lethal payload, it’s the result of a decision made by an accountable human being in a lawful chain of command.
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This weekend the Board of Trustees of the American Psychiatric Association will vote on whether to adopt a new diagnostic system for some of the most serious, and striking, syndromes in medicine: personality disorders.
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A silly copyright notice is sweeping Facebook today, with users attaching pseudo-legalese to their status updates in a misguided effort to prevent Facebook from owning or commercially exploiting their content.
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Steve Blank's collection of free and almost free tools, class syllabi, presentations, books, lectures, videos in the hope that it can make your path as an entrepreneur or educator easier.
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In the event you have a Mac with no protection. This was recommended by listener Bobby Wilder.
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Recommended by Captain Crunch as a tool for checking to see if your machine is a slave to a bot net, possibly run by the Chinese or Russians.
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A firewall protects your computer against unwanted guests from the Internet. But who protects your private data from being sent out? Little Snitch does!
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November 20, 2012
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Knowledge—the collection of "accepted facts"—is far less fixed than we assume. In every discipline, facts change in predictable, quantifiable ways.
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The authors of a new scientific study took the number of Nobel Prize winners in a country as an indicator of general national intelligence and compared that with the nation's chocolate consumption.
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Chris Anderson, former Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, believes home-based "replicators" will transform our future.
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The challenge of figuring out how the mind works is too complicated for even the smartest of entrepreneurs to solve on their own.
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No, you do not, in fact, use just 10% of your brain, and "learning styles" make no difference in the classroom.
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Artist Trevor Paglen micro-etched one hundred photographs selected to represent modern human history onto a silicon disc encased in a gold-plated shell that was designed at MIT and Carleton College.
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Startup founder: "It’s unbelievable. I’m probably not going to leave the house."
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Google's ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online. Will the Ivy League succeed where Silicon Valley failed?
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Officials at two companies that have built multimillion-dollar factories say they are very close to beginning large-scale, commercial production of these so-called cellulosic biofuels.
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An international team led by the University of Edinburgh has discovered a new gene called miR-941 that helps explain how humans evolved evolved from apes by playing a crucial role in human brain development
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John poses undercover as a taco vendor to investigate why he is wanted for the murder of his neighbor.
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November 13, 2012
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McAfee, 67, is the prime suspect in a murder discovered Sunday morning in Belize. Convinced that he’ll be killed if he’s taken into custody for questioning, the millionaire antivirus pioneer has gone into hiding.
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Blending case studies, personal experience and clinical observation, “Hallucinations” is, like much of Sacks’ work, an investigation into neurology, psychology, the border line between mind and body.
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Author Rosa Montero talks to Ars about her new future-noir thriller.
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As the third brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon, the space station is easy to see if you know where and when to look for it.”
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Writing in the Nov.-Dec. issue of the Soil Science of America Journal (SSSA-J), an interdisciplinary team led by Richard Terry, a Brigham Young University soil scientist, now describes its analysis of maize agriculture in the soils of Tikal.
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There are about 4 billion dollar software tech companies founded every year, with the exception of 2000-2002.
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A thin, flexible electrode developed at the University of Michigan is 10 times smaller than the nearest competition and could make long-term measurements of neural activity practical at last.
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a series of experiments illustrating that it expands our perception of time, alters decision making, and enhances well-being.
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The still-nascent field of telerobotics, where humans operate robotic surrogates from afar, means that our next exploration efforts will be quite unlike anything seen before.
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Several different organizations will provide live webcasts of the total solar eclipse,
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An Instagram project aims to raise awareness of military drone strikes by posting a drone's-eye-view of strike locations on the photo-sharing service.
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team of Stanford chemists and engineers has created the first synthetic material that is both sensitive to touch and capable of healing itself quickly and repeatedly at room temperature. The advance could lead to smarter prosthetics or resilient personal
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Congenitally blind people have learned to ”see” and describe objects, and even identify letters and words, by using a visual-to-auditory sensory-substitution algorithm and sensory substitution devices (SSDs
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The famous co-founder of Apple appears to be moving forward with his plans relocate to Australia or New Zealand, seeking new adventures.
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The world’s first “3D printing photo booth” is set to open for a limited time at the exhibition space EYE OF GYRE in Harajuku, Japan
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November 6, 2012
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Writing science-fiction stories about encounters with imaginary worlds and futuristic devices could have a decisive influence on innovation
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What makes the film is how the three writer/directors have approached the project not as recorders of a visual audiobook, but as interpreters, or translators.
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it’s actually a clever tale, with some relatively solid science in it.
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Finland will use a “citizen’s initiative” that requires the Eduskunta (Parliament) to vote on any citizen-drafted law that garners 50,000 votes of support through the Open Ministry platform – which is open-source and available on GitHub.
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Peter Thiel is leading a large investment into an air energy storage startup called LightSail Energy.
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a fascinating interview, but what sets it apart from other films on the famously charismatic and articulate Feynman is the inclusion of a conversation he had with the eminent British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle.
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Astronomers have created a new competition that asks the general public to generate algorithms that can help spot dark matter in Hubble images.
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New Scientist is teaming up with emotional computing company Affectiva to gauge readers' emotional reaction
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What about an embedded device that gently bathed your brain in electrons and boosted memory and attention?
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Students anywhere are being offered free instruction online. What will that do to the trillion-dollar education business?
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We've identified three city and state measures, as well as two races for elected office whose outcomes are likely to affect startups, some very large tech companies and the future of free speech on the internet.
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How is Ohio breaking? What’s the current Electoral College math? Stay on top of all the election-day craziness with these apps for on-the-go political news.
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The only time Mitt Romney managed to be himself was when he thought no one was looking.
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Mary Meeker Gives Mid-Year Internet Trends Report: Android Adoption Ramping Up 6X Faster Than iPhoneAndroid phone adoption is ramping up six times faster than iPhone, and Android surpassed Windows as the #1 OS for Internet-enabled devices in Q1 2012.
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October 30, 2012
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Iranian drones have the ability to transmit data while in flight.
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it takes advantage of the mind’s basic pleasure in tidying up and uses it against us.
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Titan is ORNL's new Cray XK7 supercomputer, a transformed version of Jaguar with a hybrid architecture and at least 10 times the number-crunching power of its predecessor.
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After detaching from the International Space Station, the company’s unmanned spacecraft parachuted into the water about 250 miles off the coast of southern California at 12:22 p.m. local time yesterday.
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Germany is set to advance a bill Wednesday imposing a spate of new rules on high-frequency trading, escalating Europe's sweeping response to concerns that speedy traders have brought instability to the markets.
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A bold experiment by the One Laptop Per Child organization has shown “encouraging” results.
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A recent weapons flight test in the Utah desert may change future warfare after the missile successfully defeated electronic targets with little to no collateral damage.
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Multicellular bacteria transmit electrons across relatively enormous distances
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Brain scans during sleep can decode visual content of dreams.
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While powerful magnetic stimulation of the frontal lobe of the brain can alleviate symptoms of depression, those receiving the treatment did not report effects on sleep or arousal commonly seen with antidepressant medications
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Big-name websites Gawker, Gizmodo, The Huffington Post, and BuzzFeed experienced outages on Monday after a Manhattan data center apparently lost power due to Hurricane Sandy.
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October 23, 2012
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Shapeways, an online 3-D printing company, opened an enormous "Factory of the Future" in Queens, New York that could house 50 industrial printers and churn out millions of consumer-designed products a year.
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Brain wave-controlled robot suits that allow wearers to don heavy radiation protection without feeling the weight could eventually be used by workers dismantling the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.
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Hackademics abandon society’s linear path to success and bend institutions to fit their own reality. Stephens shows how he and dozens of others have hacked their education, and how you can too.
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Patrick Bailey, founder of Harmonic Innerprizes gives an in-depth explanation of Etherium Gold, Etherium Black, Etherium Red, Etherium Pink and Aulterra Monatomic products at a presentation to the Staff of Life, September 13, 2012 in Santa Cruz, CA
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New report from MIT and Caltech notes gains in voting-machine technologies, but warns they could be cancelled out by errors introduced through mail and Internet voting.
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Apple is jumping into a space already populated with a number of options, some of them quite good. Can Apple trounce these existing players like it did with pre-iPad era tablets?
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In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton University researchers have developed a method that may allow for quick, reliable transfer of quantum information throughout a computing device.
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J. Craig Venter may have just started a race to discover alien life on the Red Planet.
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Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted
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Kim Suozzi, 23, has terminal brain cancer that is highly aggressive and growing rapidly in a location that makes surgery impossible, and her final wish is to be cryopreserved.
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As animals get bigger, so do their brains. But the human brain is seven times bigger than that of other similarly sized animals.
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Sending scientists to prison for misstating earthquake risk is not a great way to encourage others to take responsibility in future
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Iceland’s citizens were given a chance to help forge a new constitution for their country through Facebook and Twitter, so it’s not surprising that they backed the resulting draft.
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Once in our history, the world-wide population of human beings skidded so sharply we were down to roughly a thousand reproductive adults. One study says we hit as low as 40.
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The story of the Norwegian customer who had here entire collection of books on her Kindle wiped carries on.
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October 16th, 2012
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a battery pack for electric vechicles that can be fully charged in less than a minute.
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Is the time of the $1K Genome over? What's more important?
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Today we’re pleased to announce the discovery of the first confirmed planet discovered by Planet Hunters, and it’s a fabulous and unusual world.
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Microsoft's wrist sensor controls smart phones, video games and other electronics via hand and finger gestures
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Cool Graphic showing skydiving from the edge of space!
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it raises all kinds musical possibilities
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Long-term, humanity will be 'left in the dust by the machines,' who will be deciding our next billion years
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The company's data stockpile and investment in AI means a smartphone helper that answers queries before you even ask them.
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The author of The Book of Questions claims that humankind and technology have merged into a new global entity, a living extension of humankind acting through a complex system of computers and offering a promise of ever-greater prosperity.
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US intelligence agencies hope the "wisdom of the crowd" can help them predict the future.
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They’re cheaper and easier to transport than laptops, yet they’re more substantial and full-featured than smartphones.
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October 9, 2012
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A team of Penn State researchers were recently awarded a sizable grant to search the universe for intelligently created spheres large enough to fit a planetary system inside
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Google’s venture fund is planning to invest $1 billion in a wide-range of start-ups over the next five years and seeks entrepreneurs that “have a healthy disregard for the impossible,” with forward-thinking ideas, especially in biotech.
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If you place 32 metronomes on a static object and set them rocking out of phase with one another, they will remain that way indefinitely. Place them on a moveable surface, however, and something very interesting (and very mesmerizing) happens.
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http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/biomedical/devices/a-revolutionary-cancer-treatment-device-inspired-by-the-mosquito
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There are plenty of “Steve” stories that you haven’t heard around, and a year after Jobs’ death on Oct. 5 at the age of 56, a few friends and colleagues shared their memories of the technology industry’s most notable luminary.
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A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on a neural circuit that makes us likelier to remember what we’re seeing when our brains are in a more attentive state.
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Using the innocuous M13 bacterial virus, bioengineers at Stanford have created a biological mechanism to send genetic messages from cell to cell — which they term the “biological Internet,” or “Bi-Fi.”
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Indie films, finding it harder to compete at the box office, are turning to video on demand. 'Bachelorette' made $418,000 in theaters, $5.5 million in VOD rentals.
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A new Mayo Clinic study confirms the use of smartphones medical images to evaluate stroke patients in remote locations through telemedicine.
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3Gear Systems has announced a software development kit for adding gestures to applications, using your entire hand (fingers, thumbs, wrists and all) for user interaction.
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As part of ongoing research to help prevent and mitigate disruptions to computer networks on the Internet, researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in California have turned their attention to smartphones and other hand-held computing devices.
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What we call reality might actually be the output of a program running on a cosmos-sized quantum computer
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The Prospect of Immortality is a six-year study by UK photographer Murray Ballard, who has traveled the world pulling back the curtain on the amateurs, optimists, businesses, and apparatuses of cryonics, the preservation of deceased humans in liquid nitro
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It is the maiden flight in a sequence of 12 missions that California's SpaceX company is performing for Nasa.
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A US court is to consider a case that could determine whether digital media files can be resold.
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A French and an American scientist won the Nobel Prize on Tuesday for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them, which could make it possible to build a new kind of computer far more powerful than any seen before.
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Battery technology is by far the biggest limitation when it comes to modern technology
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Epic’s site creates oversized waveform images of famous speeches and quotes from the likes of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, and of course, President Obama and Mitt Romney.
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October 2, 2012
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Crowdsourcing has raised over 1.4 million dollars to fund a Tesla Science Center and Museum at his original complex in Long Island, NY.
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The well-funded Planetary Resources Corp has just posted a call for people: “We’re looking for passionate college students for paid coop positions to help us mine asteroids this spring and summer,”
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Desktop-manufacturing company Stratasys pulled the lease on a printer rented out for Wiki Weapon, the internet project lead by Wilson and dedicated to sharing open-source blueprints for 3-D printed guns.
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Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a proposal to create a website that will allow students to download digital versions of popular textbooks for free.
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Parallel computing for everyone promised with 16- and 64-core boards.
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Formlabs’ new Form 1 3D printer could bring professional-grade 3-D prints to the home workshop.
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Now that scientists have belatedly declared that mammals, birds and many other animals are conscious, it is time for society to act
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One of NASA's newest missions has recorded the radio waves coming from our magnetosphere.
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Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency. It does not depend on any particular organization or a person and is not backed by any commodity like gold or silver.
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It would help alleviate a coming deep-space network traffic jam that’s had NASA scientists worried for several years now.
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Our senses, and the brain centers that control pleasure, are easily fooled by expectations -- and price
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This death mask is one of several prepared shortly after Newton’s death
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The value in the desktop web is increasingly an illusion. Given the rate at which mobile devices are improving, a plunge is rapidly approaching.
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Keeping tabs on an old flame after a breakup generally makes it harder to move on in the real world, and social-network cyber spying is no different.
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Ultimately, the ability to spy on people is what brought me back.
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Rdio music subscription service plans to launch a new payment system that gives money directly to artists for attracting new customers to the service.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Susan Sontag, Harper Lee, and Other Literary Greats on Censorship
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September 25, 2012
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Bunpei Yorifuji's Wonderful Life with the Elements offers a cartoon view of chemistry, illustrating each element as a little man bearing an afro, tighty whities, a bushy beard, a luminescent glow, whatever identifies the properties of that element.
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After studying how trees branch in a very specific way, Aidan Dwyer created a solar cell tree that produces 20-50% more power than a uniform array of photovoltaic panels
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The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that controls the rover Curiosity is using NVIDIA 3D Vision glasses to see Mars in 3D and plan rover missions in a virtual, game-like environment.
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After a two-year study, an international team of researchers concludes that the probability of dark energy being real stands at 99.996 percent.
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) unveiled a new laboratory designed to demonstrate that a typical-looking suburban home for a family of four can generate as much energy as it uses in a year
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Super-users, hobbyists, and gadget fans are investing in innovations they want, and creating a new generation of entrepreneurs along the way.
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An ultra-low cost scanner that can be plugged into any computer to show images of an unborn baby has been developed by Newcastle University engineers.
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MIT scientists: Bacteria plays different social roles, including attacking and defending other bacteria
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The former chief technology officer of Microsoft on why he's backing the nuclear energy startup TerraPower
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A New Scientist reporter experiences the highs, lows and psychedelic purple doors involved in taking MDMA while having his brain scanned
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Researchers at Purdue and Adobe’s Advanced Technology Labs have jointly developed a program that automatically imparts strength to objects before they are printed.
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The human brain’s evolutionary past is not just some cute story we can leave on the shelf if we so please. Every cell in our brains—every moment of our mental lives—is intimately connected to entire history of life on this planet.
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Evidence that a new light boson may exist has recently been published. Such a boson is not part of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics.
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Apple's latest smartphone gets a bigger screen, LTE, and more power — but does it keep the crown?
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FREE iPhone 5 Social Pro Cases
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Taylor is our all things Apple pundit, who says we can save beaucoup bucks with this company. See our recent chat with Taylor..
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Toyota has unveiled a new assistant robot designed to help the disabled live more independently
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Check out our new 1 min promo for KOMY 1340 !!
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September 8, 2012
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Which should you get? Check out the specs and pricing here..
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Technology and the Web are destroying far more jobs than they create. We will need to develop a “Third Way” based on community rather than the Market or the State to adapt to this reality.
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The first commercially licensed grid-connected wave-energy device in the nation, designed by Ocean Power Technologies, is in its final weeks of testing before a planned launch in October.
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A new book, Visual Strategies, by Felice C. Frankel and Angela H. DePace is “a guide to graphics for scientists and engineers, but it will be useful for anyone who wants to make clear presentations of data of any kind.
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Seismologists using Twitter to detect tremors say the social network beat their own advanced equipment in spotting an earthquake off the Philippines.
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Catch Dava looking at the history of space suits and her design for a sporty Martian suit using a skin pressure approach adopted from early NASA experiments, from Pop Tech..
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Ill Gotten Games‘ Pocket Tactics is the first open-source miniatures game designed to be manufactured on a 3D printer, Wired Design reports.
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California on Wednesday stepped on the accelerator toward a futuristic highway filled with robot cars as the Legislature sent to Gov. Jerry Brown a bill that would allow driverless vehicles to hit the road later this decade.
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“The history of civilization is a story of evolution in our ability to build complex ‘multicellular minds,‘” says Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media (books, conferences, foo camps, Maker Faires, Makemagazine.)
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Artist Trevor Paglen's project The Last Pictures sends into orbit a time capsule of photographs capturing life on Earth
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What would scientists learn if they could run studies that lasted for hundreds or thousands of years—or more?
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August 28, 2012
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Unreasonable at Sea, a floating incubator for tech startups, has selected its first group of companies to expand their business operations while cruising through the high seas.
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A jolt of support from a popular Web cartoonist has re-energized a decades-long effort to restore a decrepit 110-year-old laboratory once used by Nikola Tesla, a visionary scientist who was a rival of Thomas Edison and imagined a world of free electricity
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Quantum Tantra is Dr. Nick Herbert's long term project to discover a more intimate physics-based way of connecting with nature.
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SF Writer Rudy Rucker gets really cool..
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Scientists have discovered that certain harvester ants work the same way Internet protocols do
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Singularity University is planning to exponentially advance itself, transforming from a provider of short supplemental classes into an innovation pipeline
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New robotic sensors expand the possibilities of ocean exploration, and a new iPad app brings sharks into your living room.
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Bernie Meyerson, IBM’s vice president of innovation, envisions a voice-activated Watson that answers questions, like a supercharged version of Apple Inc.
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August 21, 2012
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For the first time, engineers at the University of New South Wales have demonstrated that hydrogen can be released and reabsorbed from a promising storage material, overcoming a major hurdle to its use as an alternative fuel source.
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McGill researchers uncover crucial link between hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (Dr. Future's alma mater, along with William Shatner)
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Posing a question or asking for help from a large group of people. Coined as a term in 2006, crowdsourcing has taken off in the internet era.
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Facebook users has climbed from 680 million to over 900 million. Social media and “big data” have become the two most valuable new sources of open source intelligence. And the role of Human Language Technology (HLT) in intelligence acquisition is key!
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple has a set-top box in the works that would allow viewing of live cable television as well as other content.
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There are many remaining mysteries in the Gauss and Flame stories. For instance, how do people get infected with the malware? Or, what is the purpose of the uniquely named “Palida Narrow” font that Gauss installs?
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Despite centuries of promise, flying cars remain largely confined to films and fiction. But a host of new projects hope to finally let them fly.
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Stanford's self-driving Audi TTS, Shelley, hit 120 mph on a recent track test. Combined with new research on professional drivers' brain activity, the car's performance could get even better.
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Jay Bradner believes that cancer can be defeated through control of epigenetics — and he is not shy about spreading the word.
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H.265 video, which will deliver video quality in half the file size of the old H.264 standard, and open the door for the Retina-quality video formats of the next ten years.
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Mike Olson runs a company that specializes in the world’s hottest software. He’s the CEO of Cloudera, a Silicon Valley startup that deals in Hadoop, an open source software platform based on tech that turned Google into the most dominant force on the web.
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Drones are moving out to sea -- above it and below it. They're growing increasingly autonomous, no longer reliant on a pilot with a joystick staring at video feeds from their cameras.
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A bioengineer and geneticist at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have successfully stored 5.5 petabits of data — around 700 terabytes — in a single gram of DNA, smashing the previous DNA data density record by a thousand times.
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A previously unrecognized system that drains waste from the brain at a rapid clip has been discovered by neuroscientists at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
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Nick Herbert - "Wonderful review by Steve Silberman of Bill Craddock's "Be Not Content" as reissued by Rudy Rucker plus an extended meditation on the role of psychedelics in American culture."
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Patients with bipolar I disorder performed better in neurocognitive assessments when they had a history of marijuana use
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Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called "Coronation."
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August 11, 2012
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The uniform size of the small gravel at the surface suggests material carried from the crater rim by water rather than debris blown out of nearby smaller impact craters.
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It's not immediately obvious what links Nasa, the price of meat and brass bands, but all three are playing a part in shaping what we will eat in the future and how we will eat it.
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A special glass coating, inspired by spider webs, has been used in the UK for the first time.
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Computers and clever maths enable traders to buy and sell in the blink of an eye. But does high-frequency trading make matters worse when things go wrong?
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Researchers studying fossils from northern Kenya have identified a new species of human that lived two million years ago.
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All the software Curiosity needed for the exciting entry, descent and landing (EDL) is now just surplus code taking up valuable memory.
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Hints of the future of retail are already being used every da
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Pericles - Shakespeare: The Final Frontier! This fresh production of Pericles takes our hero on an epic journey where no prince has gone before—into outer space.
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July 17th, 2012
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Migratory birds and fish use the Earth’s magnetic field to find their way. LMU researchers have now identified cells with internal compass needles for the perception of the field – and can explain why high-tension cables perturb the magnetic orientation.
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Semiautonomous system takes the wheel to keep drivers safe.
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A team of British plant scientists has won a $10m (£6.4m) grant from the Gates Foundation to develop GM cereal crops.
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Dengue fever, borne by mosquitoes, kills around 20,000 people a year. Oxford-based scientists think they can solve the problem by disrupting breeding in high-risk areas with genetically modified insects.
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Using a gloves fitted with flex sensors, touch sensors, gyroscopes and accelerometers a Ukrainian team in a Microsoft competition has built a system called EnableTalk that can translate sign language into text and then into spoken words.
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Cornell researchers have developed a new method of generating terahertz signals on an inexpensive silicon chip, offering possible applications in medical imaging, security scanning and wireless data transfer.
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Genia Photonics has developed a programmable picosecond laser that is capable of spotting trace amounts of a variety of substances, including explosives, chemical agents, and hazardous biological substances at up to 50 meters
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Almost 100 studies on a revolutionary approach to developing new medicines and treatments to target both the human and non-human components of people is reviewed in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research.
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Images from spy planes and sensors that detect wires that trigger explosives have helped to mitigate the No. 1 threat to U.S. troops in Afghanistan — roadside bombs — over the past year.
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he nation is in a sharing mood — and start-ups are capitalizing on it.
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The Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore invites entries for Quantum Shorts 2012 - a competition to produce the best short film inspired by quantum physics.
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British company Screenreader, has created what it calls the first true smartphone for the blind and those with vision impairments. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-07-company-true-smartphone-video.html#jCp
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Michael Gosney is a veteran "new edge" media producer and impresario whose productions and events have defined the emergent integrative culture for 25 years
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July 10, 2012
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An American scientist is to unveil details of work on the brain patterns of Prof Stephen Hawking which he says could help safeguard the physicist's ability to communicate.
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According to Ford the self-driving car will be here within five years, using technologies available today.
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A new algorithm lets networks of Wi-Fi-connected cars, whose layout is constantly changing, share a few expensive links to the Internet.
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Mobile carriers responded to a staggering 1.3 million law enforcement requests last year for subscriber information, including text messages and phone location data.
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Could lead to new tools for creating advanced biofuels and therapeutic drugs
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Graphene sheets with precisely controlled pores have potential to purify water more efficiently than existing methods.
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Can be switched on when needed, producing medicines that cannot be taken orally or are toxic and would harm other parts of the body
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A team of bioengineers and biochemists from Penn State University has demonstrated a device about the size of a dime that is capable of manipulating objects, including living materials such as blood cells and entire small organisms, using sound waves.
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Researchers in Israel and the U.S. are working to uncover the secret to the naked mole rat’s long — and active — lifespan.
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Scientists theorize that either the dust fell into the star or that dust was blown out of the system by explosive impacts.
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By utilizing the hardware rendering power of a modern gaming PC, the SFM allows storytellers to work in a what-you-see-is-what-you-get environment so they can iterate in the context of what it will feel like for the final audience.
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University of Arizona (UA) researchers are continuing to improve groundbreaking technology to produce solar electricity at a price competitive with non-renewable energy sources.
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The invention of the motion picture enabled visual storytelling and at a mass scale unimaginable before. The equivalent to that moment is happening right now with the advent of wearable computing.
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The present age of sophisticated technology for multiple media formats brings in a new entertainment concept called Transmedia Storytelling
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Our interview with a young dula following her passion in the new politics of today, including Occupy.
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A powerful view of America today
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July 3, 2012
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The recently sequenced genome of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) reveals commonalities with other large-brained mammals,
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Scientists have been secretly hoping all along that, when they finally found the Higgs, it would be an interesting particle with unexpected behaviors — even somewhat unruly. A perfectly well-behaved Higgs leaves less room for new, exciting physics
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A company called LightSail Energy aims to store the world’s excess energy in giant tanks of compressed air.
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Leap Motion‘s motion-tracking system is more powerful, more accurate, smaller, cheaper, and just more impressive than Kinect.
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Scientists and engineers at the U.S Army’s Picatinny Arsenal are developing a device that can shoot lightning bolts down laser beams to destroy its target.
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A group of Italian and Swedish researchers may have solved the problem of radio congestion by cleverly twisting radio waves into the shape of fusilli pasta, allowing a potentially infinite number of channels to be broadcast and received.
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A multi-national team led by USC with researchers hailing from the U.S., China, Pakistan and Israel has developed a system of transmitting data using twisted beams of light at ultra-high speeds – up to 2.56 terabits per second.
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It is the changing features of tissue in old age that promote higher cancer rates in the elderly, not the accumulation of cancer-causing mutations.
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Our guest today on the announcement of the Higgs Boson
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Your source of Higgs Info, including live coverage of the press conference on July 4
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June 26, 2012
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Microsoft is planning to introduce its $299 next-generation Xbox console ( ”Xbox 720″) in 2013, with improvements like SmartGlass, a Metro dashboard, Kinect 2 hardware, and Xbox TV apps,
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NanoSatisfi is launching a Kickstarter project to send an Arduino-powered satellite into space, and you can send an experiment along with it.
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Robotic technology is close to reaching a new phase of mainstream consumer adoption.
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Cosmo Wenman went to the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, took hundreds of pictures, documenting busts and reliefs from every accessible angle, and turned the photos into three-dimensional digital maps.
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)’s IBM Blue Gene/Q Sequoia supercomputer is the new world’s fastest high-performance computing system, at 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today awarded contracts for the creation of three new centers tasked with responding to the threat of future pandemics and biological attacks.
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Participants in the latest version of Stanford's popular iPhone and iPad apps online course will find help and inspiration 24 hours a day through Piazza, a peer-to-peer social learning site.
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Japanese scientists have used induced stem cells to create a liver-like tissue in a dish.
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New research shows brain has distinct regions for identifying different sized objects
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University College London (UCL) neuroscientists have found that there is a simple pattern that describes the tree-like shape of all neurons.
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New type of photovoltaic device harnesses heat radiation that most solar cells ignore.
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It was a mystery: sponges had evolved a protosynapse — the beginning of a nervous system — but never actually developed a real synapse.
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An international cyber sting led by the FBI attracted criminals from around the world and led to 24 arrests in what is believed to be a multi-million online financial fraud case
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June 19, 2012
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Two Bucknell University professors are working with a U.S. Department of Defense contractor to develop faster and more sophisticated technology and methods to detect land mines
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The top five brainy clusters: Charlottesville Virginia, Lafayette Indiana, Anchorage Alaska, Madison Wisconsin, and the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose area
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Using scientific theories, toy ecosystem modeling and paleontological evidence as a crystal ball, 21 scientists predict we’re on a much worse collision course with Mother Nature than currently thought.
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Microsoft has announced a deal with Encyclopaedia Britannica to add entries from the prestigious reference work to Bing search results.
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For the last six months, the Atlanta native and his team of six have been working on the MakiBox, an easy-to-assemble 3D printer that will retail for about $300.
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A group of 3D printing enthusiasts from the MakerBot community has visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and scanned 34 sculptures with 3D capture software loaded on their phones,
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Analyzing medical records from thousands of patients, statisticians have devised a statistical model for predicting what other medical problems a patient might encounter called a “hierarchical association rule model.”
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The University of Michigan will outfit 3,000 drivers with V2V devices to study the technology's reliability and efficacy in preventing car crashes
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Implantable fuel cell built at MIT could power neural prosthetics that help patients regain control of limbs.
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The “Digital Bill of Rights” debuted at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York City on Monday
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Phil Zimmermann released PGP for free, but he's planning to charge about $20 a month for his new Silent Circle encryption service. It's unlikely to be applauded by encryption-wary law enforcement agencies.
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May produce "interesting" molecules like amino acids, the building blocks of life
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UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) scientists have, for the first time, used genetic engineering and molecular evolution to direct the enzymatic synthesis of a semiconductor.
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a presidential advisory committee has urged President Obama to issue an executive order to adopt new “cognitive” or “agile” radio technologies to make better use of a huge swath of the radio spectrum now controlled by federal agencies.
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Microsoft has applied for a patent for targeting ads to users based on their emotional state, using a Kinect type device
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Genome sequencing creates first reference data for microbes living with healthy adults
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Genetic sequence could solve mystery of why bonobos are more peaceful than other chimpanzees.
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June 12, 2012
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Apple still wowed the hardcore faithful.
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It's official: Apple iOS 6 is coming this fall, and with it some 200 updates and improvements
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How does Apple's latest and greatest compare to the latest and greatest out of the Android camp, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich?
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Here, Shostak, senior astronomer with the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif., offers five points about aliens that don't cut it in Hollywood
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Getting a master’s degree might cost just $100 from education startup Udacity, says Google Fellow and Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun.
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The beloved writer who who transformed the genre of flying saucers and little green men into literature exploring childhood terrors, colonialism and the erosion of individual thought, died June 5 in Los Angeles. He was 91.
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The integration of drones, or unmanned aerial systems (UAS), into the National Airspace System (NAS) needs to be expedited, the Senate Armed Services Committee said in its report on the FY2013 defense authorization bill last week
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A hacker says he's posted 6.5 million LinkedIn passwords on the Web -- hot on the heels of security researchers' warnings about privacy issues with LinkedIn's iOS app.
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a number of internet giants — Google and AT&T and Comcast and Facebook, to name a few — are turning on new gear that will help solve a very big problem.
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June 05, 2012
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THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one.
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Recent paleoseismic work has documented four surface-rupturing earthquakes that occurred across the Santa Cruz Mountains section of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) in the past 500 years.
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A new study in Biological Psychiatry this week confirms that a single dose of ketamine produced rapid antidepressant effects in depressed patients with bipolar disorder.
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Help wanted: astronaut. Must be willing to relocate to Mars — permanently. Hire date: 2013. Benefits: make history, start new planetary civilization, star in reality TV show. No return ticket...
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Inside the laboratories of biotechnology, a literal possibility of artificial life is taking hold: What if machines really were alive?
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Stanford University’s president predicts the death of the lecture hall as university education moves online
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Last year, a number of schools began “flipping” their classrooms, having students study Khan videos by night and do homework with teachers by day.
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Volvo’s autonomous cars travel 124 miles in Spain in ‘road train’
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Intrigued by the idea of eliminating human error from driving, a California legislator has introduced a bill to clarify that driverless cars are street legal. Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/06/03/4534103/californias-taking-the-lead-on.html#st
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With this app you can see Venus transverse the sun. And a new app called VenusTransit can help you record this "last such opportunity in our lifetimes."
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The marathon event lasts nearly seven hours and includes a handful of key events.
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See all kinds of celestial events including today's Venus Transit
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May 29, 2012
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Researchers may soon be exploring new ways to enhance sensory sensitivity and create a science devoted to happiness, fun and pleasure.
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Triggers turns your iPhone into a notifier, a motion or sound activated flashlight, a mini-strobe light, and more.
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This summer sees the release of several exciting science fiction films, some of which are steeped in the realm of the psychedelic (BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW) or the otherworldly unsettling (PROMETHEUS). In honor of the recent trend, here’s a look at five .
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Centre monitors new laboratory-made psychoactive substances that mimic effects of cannabis, amphetamine and ecstasy
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“Drone manufacturers are considering offering police the option of arming these remote-controlled aircraft with (nonlethal for now) weapons like rubber bullets, Tasers, and tear gas,”
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Jet-injected drugs could improve patient compliance, reduce accidental needle sticks.
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In the shallow waters of Gijon harbour, in northern Spain, a large, yellow fish cuts through the waves.
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sub-millimeter accuracy at user fingertips, offers control gestures like pinch-to-zoom, and promises new applications that make the Kinect and its kin look like yesterday's news.
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Remember Apple’s futuristic “spaceship” campus? Well, it looks like it’s gone beyond the fancy renderings stage to the ask-the-neighbors-for-permission stage.
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There’s a world record for “greatest distance by an autonomous wave-powered vehicle” at stake
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German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity per hour - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity
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Changes in sensory experience can cause massive rewiring of the brain, even as one ages
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A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyberespionage operation.
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May 22, 2012
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Today’s successful flight marks the third of the Falcon 9 rocket, the second flight of the Dragon capsule, and the first flight for a commercial spacecraft bound for the International Space Station (ISS).
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Shares of Facebook fell again on Tuesday, the social network giant’s third day as a public company, tumbling nearly 8 percent in morning trading.
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Now that Facebook is a $100 billion company, it doesn’t hurt Google to be number two in that space.
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Comcast is doing away with its 250 GB data cap, and will be moving to test out new plans will charge customers based on usage, rather than cutting them off.
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There are roughly 4,700 Potential Hazardous Asteroids, plus or minus 1,500, with diameters larger than 330 feet (about 100 meters). So far, an estimated 20 to 30 percent of these objects have been found.
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Exercise clears the mind. It gets the blood pumping and more oxygen is delivered to the brain. This is familiar territory, but Dartmouth's David Bucci thinks there is much more going on.
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File this in the "we-try-it-out-so-you-don't-have-to" category. So.cl is a derivative social network that may be useful to students, but it won't fly elsewhere.
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Older adults who drank coffee — caffeinated or decaffeinated — had a lower risk of death overall than others who did not drink coffee.
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A recent deal between the British satellite telecommunications company Inmarsat and one of the biggest global aviation suppliers, Honeywell, may help give in-flight connectivity speed a boost
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A group of students and professors from Yale University have found a fungi in the Amazon rainforest that can degrade and utilize the common plastic polyurethane (PUR).
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Apple will drop the Google Maps program running on iOS since 2007 in favor for a new Maps app with an Apple backend.
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IT’S MORE THAN SOME PARLOR TRICK; THIS DEMO COULD BE THE FUTURE OF USER INTERFACE.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University (NC State) have developed a new way to fine-tune wireless power transfer (WPT) receivers, making the systems more efficient and functional.
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Google has launched the Knowledge Graph, which it says will help you discover new information quickly and easily
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NASA is training a team of astronauts to land on an asteroid to explore its surface, search for minerals, and even learn the skills they may need to destroy it should one pose a threat to the Earth.
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The first anti-aging therapy potentially applicable in humans that acts directly on the genes
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As seen at the Maker Faire and in our Blog
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As seen in our Blog and at the Maker Faire
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As heard in our Blog and seen at the Maker Faire
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An invention kit for everyone, as seen at the Maker Faire
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A crowd sourced creation of tech to save the lives of premie babies, as seen at the Maker Faire
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Augmented Reality Conference this last week
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May 15, 2012
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If you have something to say, you can now go live in front of a global audience.
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Low-cost non-noble electrocatalyst efficiently generates hydrogen gas for fuel
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First it was the telephone, then web cameras and Skype, now remote "presence" is about to take another big step forward -
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A new speaker capable of projecting dolphins’ communication sounds, whistles, burst-pulse sounds, as well as detection sounds such as echolocation clicks.
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And "driver assistance" technologies are already helping to lower traffic deaths in cars you can buy now.
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Researchers have been able to store single images in a cloud of rubidium atoms for several years. Now they've gone a step further
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photoacoustics can detect and visualize breast tumors at higher contrast than X-rays and MRI while avoiding ionizing radiation and toxic contrast agents…
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Isolation Isn’t a Growing Problem
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More than 100 international tech companies have registered their interest in floating geek city Blueseed, to be launched next year in international waters outside of Silicon Valley.
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Could an extra copy of a brain-development gene that appeared in our ancestors’ genomes about 2.4 million years ago have allowed maturing neurons to migrate farther and develop more connections?
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Dr. Steven Greer, founder of the worldwide Disclosure Movement and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence is working with Emmy award winning filmmaker Amardeep Kaleka to produce a groundbreaking documentary.
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The truth may surprise you
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The creation of a social media videoconferencing platform geared towards healthcare might pave the way for enhanced use of social media in the world of healthcare
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Using tiny solar-panel-like cells surgically placed underneath the retina, scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine have devised a system that may someday restore sight to people who have lost vision.
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MBARI's wave-power buoy at Moss Landing
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May 8, 2012
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The growing interest in a market for personal data that shares profits with the individuals who own the data could change the business landscape for companies like Facebook
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Major research initiatives sometimes begin with a startling revelation.
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From China to the Congo, a new wave of volunteer science projects aims to allow amateur participants to actively gather data for the benefit of their communities.
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Nanoparticles heated by radio waves switch on genes in mice
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You may soon be sharing the road with intelligent, self-driving cars that promise to save time, fuel, cut traffic jams and prevent accidents.
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Astronomers plan to use the rare cosmic occurrence to analyze the sunlight passing through Venus' atmosphere to capture the fingerprint of its makeup.
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Technology is helping cities control everything from traffic to disease. But who should control the technology?
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Scientists who scanned the brains of men convicted of murder, rape and violent assaults have found the strongest evidence yet that psychopaths have structural abnormalities in their brains.
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Meet the new breed of technologist who's hacking the government at every level to make it work better for you
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So the dino-killing asteroid is still the leading theory for their demise, but their farts, which this study found amounted to 520 million metric tons a year and 2,675 liters a day, were "a key factor in the warm climate 150 millions years ago," -BBC
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Self-propelled “microsubmarines” designed to pick up droplets of oil from contaminated waters
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A new study supports the hypothesis that the metabolic benefits of the red wine ingredient known as resveratrol are largely due to its actions on the SIRT1 gene.
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University in Paris engineers have developed a 3D navigation system for the blind using a pair of glasses equipped with cameras and sensors like those used in robot exploration.
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Engineers at Brown University and QD Vision Inc. have created nanoscale single crystals that can produce the red, green, or blue laser light needed in digital displays.
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The story of a chiropractor who discovered miraculous healing..
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May 1, 2012
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On Tuesday, the Sea Dragon set sail from the Marshall Islands in the Pacific on the first leg of the expedition.
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The total payout from one unassuming asteroid? $20,000,000,000,000.
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a new paradigm for resource utilization that will bring the solar system within humanity’s economic sphere of influence
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Can a private company claim ownership of an asteroid based on sending a probe out to it?
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Synthetic strands with different backbones replicate and evolve just like the real thing.
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The projects involve digital brain reconstruction, reversible cryopreservation, human cell re-engineering, universal airborne contaminant detection, artificial protein therapeutics, and antimatter-based fuel.
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Do Intel's new third-gen Core i-series CPUs mean you should run out and buy a new laptop or desktop today? Not so fast!
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the distinction between televisions and other network devices has to go.
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We've rounded up some of the larger criticisms that might be keeping Drive from dominating, all areas that Google could stand to work on if it wants the prettiest cloud in the sky.
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USC scientists have developed a potential pathway to cheap, stable solar cells made from nanocrystals so small they can exist as a liquid ink and can be painted or printed onto clear surfaces.
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A novel energy system that increases the amount of energy harvested from microbial fuel cells (MFCs) by more than 70 times has been developed by University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver) scientists.
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Scientists have produced a colossal picture of our Milky Way Galaxy, to reveal the detail of a billion stars.
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MIT researchers find a way to make glass that’s anti-fogging, self-cleaning and free of glare.
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The onslaught of ultra-tiny technology is giving rise to one chip “printable spacecraft” consisting of electronic circuits, power generation, sensing, fluid handling, propulsion, telecommunications and mobility subsystems
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Netgear is poised to be the first networking company with a next-generation router on the market—one that has been shown to reach speeds of up to 1.3Gbps in the 5GHz band
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The small agricultural village in the state of Bavaria is generating an impressive $5.7 million in annual revenue from renewable energy.
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a simple, easily digestible picture of where we are in regards to CISPA, what might happen next, and what should be done.
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Here’s a collection of 3o vertical search engines which you should have up your sleeve when you need some specialist power.
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it's likely that 3-D printing will happen in your home sooner rather than later.
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Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have just revealed their plans to form a B&N subsidiary. It will cost Microsoft $300 million for a 17.5% stake
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An Australian billionaire wants the legend of the Titanic to live on, so instead of raising it, he intends to build an exact replica of the ill-fated cruise-liner and will call it the Titanic II — setting sail in just over four years time.
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We have Elizabeth Gummere, director of this year's Fest, in studio today to give us a taste of this year's offerings.
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April 24, 2012
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Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater.
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astronomers were able to map the motion of hundreds of stars around the sun, calculating the mass of material in the vicinity and finding no evidence of dark matter.
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This Tuesday, a group of billionaires and former NASA scientists will announce Planetary Resources Inc., the first asteroid mining company in history.
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New materials that have the potential to create acoustically shielded environments may be on the way.
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Top-Tier Institutions Choose Coursera to Reach Millions Worldwide
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Taking on Dropbox, Google’s upcoming Google Drive service will offer 5 GB of free storage
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Google spent $5.03 million on lobbying in the first quarter of the year
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substance over form and content over carrier.
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It appears as though the operating system is in choppy waters, and is suddenly facing a lot of trouble.
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Launching June 8 on the PROMETHEUS
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This year's challenge was for student teams to build a robotic system that would quickly rescue someone who fell off a bridge.
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The division of CISCO that sponsored this year's Tech Challenge at The Tech Museum in San Jose.
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Tim Ritchie is President of the Tech Museum and Ricardo Benavidez is Senior Manager of Community Relations at Cisco.
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The team is named "CRACK CITY," spelling out the girl's names, Christina, Rebecca, Annie, Colleen,Kosheen
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Embracing risk, the cheerful contraptions -- designed to pluck survivors from a model of an earthquake-ravaged Golden Gate Bridge -- lost wheels. Catapults crashed and spindles sank. Motors quit. Balloons burst. Tape snapped
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April 17, 2012
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The world's newest highly advanced online University
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Computer Modeling Supports Theory That Many Dementias Spread Like Prion Diseases
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Pulling frequent all-nighters, experiencing jet lag, and working night shifts can lead to diabetes in more than one way.
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EPFL scientists have measured a one-nanometer needle-like tip that some viruses use to attack bacteria.
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Trinity College researchers have constructed an artificial neural network model that demonstrates that human intelligence evolved from the need for social teamwork.
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Bankers must now surrender more information on their activities. Scientists should use it to build better system-wide financial models
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Life-carrying rocks ejected from Earth by asteroid impacts could have made their way to Jupiter and beyond, say astronomers
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Researchers use brain injury data to map intelligence in the brain
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Pen-sized, fast and easy to use, ScanStik is the most compact, sleek designed full page color scanner available on the market
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One construction technology that has great potential for low-cost, customized buildings is “contour crafting — a form of 3D printing that uses robotic arms and nozzles to squeeze out layers of concrete or other materials
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If you were ever a Twilight Zone / Rod Serling fan, this vintage Mike Wallace interview with Rod is quite engaging..
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NASA announced that all is well with SpaceX's Dragon capsule, and that an April 30 flight to the International Space Station (ISS) is possible.
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MGM has struck a deal with the folks in Mountain View to bring 600 of its titles to the streaming services
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin said that the openness and accessibility that led to the creation of the Internet is under serious threat.
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The Guardian is taking stock of the new battlegrounds for the internet. From states stifling dissent to the new cyberwar front line, we look at the challenges facing the dream of an open internet
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Have you ever opened an Apple MacBook Pro box, inhaled and thought, "If I only I could smell like the inside of this box, I'd be the coolest person ever"?
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What started as a Swedish protest movement against the criminalisation of file-sharing has grown into a tangible political body, setting its sights on continent-wide success in the 2014 European Parliament elections.
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the growth of the Pirate Party movement outperforms my wildest dreams.
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The Apple II was unveiled 35 years ago, and it ushered in the home computing revolution
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Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars, or for astronauts on a space station are some of the pioneering technologies that the European Space Agency (ESA) is working on for future exploration missions.
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1790: Benjamin Franklin dies.
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Pebble smartwatch, which launched on Kickstarter last week, has already raised more than $3.2 million. And it still has 32 days to go.
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Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 million of their peoples were in “extreme danger” of life-threatening radiation poisoning and could very well likely be faced with forced evacuations away
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Bruce brings us up to date on a few of his latest world adventures exploring life, the universe, and everything in it.
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April 10, 2012
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Could the next Ivy League grow online?
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Introducing MintChip, a digital form of currency that enables value transactions in the cloud.
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Typically, you don't know what it feels like to work at a company until you actually start the job. A new website wants to fix that.
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For robots that are human-like enough to navigate rough terrain, drive a vehicle and manipulate regular tools
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spotted by tech pundits Robert Scoble and Thomas Hawk rocking a prototype at a Dining in the Dark charity event for the Foundation Fighting Blindness
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The UK scientists who developed a prototype chocolate printer last year say they have now perfected it.
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The emergence of consciousness was found to be associated with activations of deep, primitive brain structures rather than the evolutionary younger neocortex.
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Innovative 3-D designs from an MIT team can more than double the solar power generated from a given area.
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WikiLeaks may be planning to escape its legal troubles, says Fox News, by putting its servers on Sealand, a World War II anti-aircraft platform seven miles off the English coast in the North Sea
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Our sponsor Java Fit, a somewhat unconventional commercial made by Dr.Mrs. Future, with Dr. Eliot Handelman as "Flower"
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Check out this remarkable animation of the final hours of the Titantic, with explanation by James Cameron.
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The $35 Aakash 2 will ship in two to three weeks
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Jack Tramiel, a huge figure in computer history and founder of Commodore, died on Sunday at the age of 83
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Free Flashback Checker finds out if your Mac is infected
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The days of teens yearning to get behind the wheel may be on the wane as online social networking replaces cars as the technological focal point for young adults.
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this project would make possible the construction of huge platforms from tens of thousands of small elements that can deliver remotely and affordably tens to thousands of megawatts using wireless power transmission to markets on Earth
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a handheld, battery-powered plasma-producing device that can rid skin of bacteria in an instant.
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The United States created the Stuxnet cyberworm attack on Iran’s nuclear fuel enrichment facility, says former counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke.
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Computer breaks new ground by incorporating a method of protecting against the noise that fouls up quantum systems
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MIT project, funded with $10 million NSF grant, could transform robotic design and production
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Just after midnight local time on 5 April, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, based near Geneva, Switzerland, shattered its own world record by smashing protons together with a combined energy of 8 teraelectronvolts (TeV).
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Woodpeckers' head-pounding pecking against trees and telephone poles subjects them to enormous forces — they can easily slam their beaks against wood with a force 1,000 times that of gravity.
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Instagram thrived because Flickr dropped the ball on mobile. Badly
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The Maya have asked to share their ancestral understanding of this time with their own voice.
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WATSONVILLE - A cattle rancher and a fuel producer are teaming up to turn animal fat into 65,000 gallons of biodiesel daily at a $6 million plant on the city's west side.
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On the Gyre Cleanup and the TrashNFashion Show
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April 3, 2012
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IBM and ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, have announced an initial 32.9 million EURO, five-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer systems for the international Square Kilometre Array (SKA).
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German scientists are developing a technique that allows for very precise positioning anywhere in space by picking up X-ray signals from pulsars.
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A gel can be resuscitated in a fashion similar to a medical cardiopulmonary resuscitation, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120329225228.htm
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Artificial synapses could lead to advanced computer memory and machines that mimic biological brainsIn a step toward computers that mimic the parallel processing of complex biological brains, researchers from HRL Laboratories, LLC, and the University of Michigan have built a type of artificial synapse
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More colleges offering courses in ‘hot’ drone field as students drawn to sky’s-the-limit salaries
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There could be many billions of planets not much bigger than Earth circling faint stars in our galaxy
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Google's video showing a blind man taking a ride to a Taco Bell in a self-driving car was legal, according to Google
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Stephen Wants His Tacos Delivered By Aerial Drone Helicopter
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Heaps of “smart sand” that can assume any shape, allowing spontaneous formation of new tools or duplication of broken mechanical parts.
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Microscopic traces of wood ash, alongside animal bones and stone tools, were found in a layer dated to one million years ago at the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa.
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figure out which of these stories are fake or real.
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An app for talking with Apes..
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March 27, 2012
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Thousands of New Agers descend on mountain they see as haven from December's apocalypse
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The MESSENGER probe‘s latest findings, 57 papers presented two days ago at conference, bring new weirdness to our understanding of the planet closest to the Sun.
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South Korea’s Sooam Bioengineering Research Institute signed an agreement Tuesday with Russia’s North-Eastern Federal University to clone a mammoth
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Got a cool idea for a research project, but need funding? Check out Petridish.org, which has just launched crowdfunded science and research projects.
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Google is making ground-level images of the rivers, forest and communities in the Rio Negro Reserve in the Amazon Basin available through the Street View feature on Google Maps.
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A battle that has raged for over a decade between advocates of open science and publishers of traditional scientific journals is coming to a head.
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A very interesting article on the biology of the internet from the pov of self-replicating code.
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Range Anxiety - the term given to drivers of electric cars that are struck by the sudden fear that their vehicle does not have enough charge to reach its destination
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A single drug can shrink or cure human breast, ovary, colon, bladder, brain, liver, and prostate tumors that have been transplanted into mice
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A Japanese ghost ship, a 150-foot long squid-fishing boat that's just been found, a year after the tsunami, near the coast of Canada.
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this fun graph comparing condom names and Android phones. As you can see, most swing both ways and where there isn’t crossover, like in the condom called Tingle
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Amazon is set to expand its Kindle tablet range with the launch of three new models in 2012, debuting two new 7-inch devices and an 8.9-inch tablet that target low, medium and high-end markets.
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Explorer-filmmaker reaches Mariana Trench on deepest ever solo sub dive.
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March 20, 2012
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Following news that Apple will issue its first stock dividend in over a decade, the tech company announced that it sold 3 million new iPads in its first weekend of sales.
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Worried consumers are flocking to Apple’s forums to offer comments and observations on the new iPad, which reportedly runs hotter than previous models
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Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco City — the world’s largest eco-city — is an experimental model for how Chinese cities could develop and solve some of the enormous problems facing them.
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Darpa director Regina Dugan will soon be stepping down from her position atop the Pentagon’s premiere research shop to take a job with Google
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“Earth Now,” a new free iPhone/iPad app from NASA, provides dramatic visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA’s Earth science satellites.
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The last print version is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds, priced at $1,395.
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The latest version of the Wolfram|Alpha app for iOS adds the ability to use photos and other images as input.
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The Pirate Bay (TPB), which allows users to share media files via BitTorrent, plans to avoid shutdown by Hollywood by putting some of its servers in GPS controlled drones hovering over international waters
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Russia plans to send probes to Jupiter and Venus, land a network of unmanned stations on Mars and ferry Russian cosmonauts to the surface of the Moon — all by 2030
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The year is 2032. You have just celebrated your 80th birthday and you have some tough decisions ahead. You can either keep repairing your current body or move into a new one.
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The "transhumanist" movement says better technology will enable you to replace more and more body parts—even your brain
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March 13, 2011
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brain damage, wrought by a traumatic brain injury during an earlier deployment, might have been a contributing factor.
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The iPad's new screen is a stunner. The the main thing you need to know..
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SXSW has helped launch Twitter and Foursquare, and at this year's gathering, no topic is more buzzed about than location-based social network app
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One dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s.
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In Silicon Valley, the line between computing and biology has begun to blur in a way that could have enormous consequences for human longevity.
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Results show that humans are closer to gorillas than we'd realized.
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Developed by Microsoft Research, Wearable Multitouch Interaction turns any surface in the user’s environment into a touch interface.
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Scientists at Duke will share a $14 million grant from DARPA to study biological clocks
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scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory have formed an interdisciplinary team to develop a humanoid robot that could fight fires on the next generation of combatants.
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Microsoft Research has developed a new approach to text-to-speech, turning monolingual TTS into multi-lingual one.
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TED Curator Chris Anderson announced Monday TED’s new new educational initiative TED-Ed, featuring the TED-Ed YouTube channel.
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The active region unleashed another strong flare on March 13th, an M7-class eruption that peaked around 1741 UT.
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phone: 831 423-6363 email: blessing@energistx.com
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email: mz@ksco.com phone: 831 475-1080
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March 06, 2012
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Muscle grown in factories could soon be appearing in a supermarket near you
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The hope of Britain's future computer science industry is gathered around a tiny device in a school classroom in Cambridgeshire.
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A new effort under way at the world's largest museum and research institution could eventually mean more of its 137 million objects will be publicly available, even if just via 3D digital models.
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Physicists have designed several wild experiments to see if humans can see quantum images.
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A novel form of renewable energy can generate electricity from waste-water treatment.
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Organovo's 3-D printer creates human tissues that could help speed drug discovery.
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Brain Boosting could give Big Pharma a run for their $$$
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Welcome to the brave new world of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) — a tool for democratizing higher education.
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The Bionic Bodies series on the BBC News website will be looking at how bionics can transform people’s lives.
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The National Security Agency (NSA) has developed and built 100 ultra-secure but low-cost Android “Fishbowl” phones that allow U.S. Government staff to discuss top-secret subjects, with a “kind of police app” designed to monitor operations on the device.
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The suspected leader of the hacking group Lulzsec has pleaded guilty to carrying out high profile attacks on several companies.
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NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has “sniffed” molecular oxygen ions around Saturn’s icy moon Dione, confirming the presence of a very tenuous atmosphere.
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Our guest Scott Catamas, discusses the future of conflict resolution.
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February 28, 2012
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Apple has announced an event on 7 March at which the company is expected to launch its latest iPad tablet.
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They're expecting to break $150 million (this past year it was closer to $80 million), while the NEA has $146 million to give out.
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Nomad planets don't circle stars, but may carry bacterial life, say researchers from Kavli Institute.
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Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space.
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Mozilla is expected Wednesday to announce plans for its own app store, to be called the Mozilla Marketplace, offering mobile apps that could run equally well on an iPhone, an Android phone or a Windows Phone device.
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a pair of Google-made glasses that will be able to stream information to the wearer’s eyeballs in real time.
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a half-ounce unit about the size of a cigar stub that clips on to a collar or sunglasses of an officer and can record two hours of video during a shift
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an electric car that has a 300-mile range and could cost around $25,000 to $30,000.
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Wikileaks has published five million emails from Stratfor, an intelligence company based in Texas
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WikiLeaks is the target of a US Justice Department investigation ''unprecedented both in its scale and nature'' and suggested that media reports that a secret grand jury had been convened in Alexandria, Virginia, are ''likely true''.
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The two most important startups in the world: AngelList and Kickstarter.
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Both e-book sellers are having trouble doing business with publishers.
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The Navmii app operates allows users to access its maps, regardless of whether or not the phone has a data connection.
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Can internationally renowned museum dynamo Nina Simon take the Museum of Art & History into the new millennium?
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February 21, 2012
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.
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The state that makes its livelihood off gambling is making a safe bet that self-driving cars won’t cause mayhem on the highways of Nevada
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The next step in the evolution of connected cars is making cars intelligent.
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Clinical trial of the programmable, implantable device shows promise in treating osteoporosis.
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A new generation of biologists embraces the do-it-yourself ethic of computer programming.
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Erakat's videos, in which he dresses up like his parents, belly dances in Apple stores and generally pokes fun at Arab stereotypes, have received more than 31 million views
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YouTube is enlisting Hollywood's help to reach a generation of viewers more familiar with smartphones than TV remotes.
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Study suggests erasing neuronal memories may help control persistent pain
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The Swiss Space Center at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has announced CleanSpace One, a project to develop and build the first of a family of satellites specially designed to clean up space debris.
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The European Space Agency (ESA)’s Planck mission has revealed that our Galaxy contains previously undiscovered islands of cold gas and a mysterious haze of microwaves.
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Flying drones for commercial purposes, police say, violates federal aviation rules.
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Software eliminates need to look at mobile screen
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Intersections of the future won’t need stop lights or stop signs, or even roundabouts.
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1947: The Land camera is demonstrated for the first time by its inventor, Edwin Land.
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The U.S. Air Force's Airborne Laser (ABL) has finally been put out of its misery
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The smallest transistor ever built has been created using a single phosphorous atom by an international team of researchers
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February 14, 2012
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At a sneak preview in Hawthorne, Calif. on Thursday, electric car maker Tesla unveiled its third car, an all-electric SUV, minivan hybrid called the Model X, for the first time
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Two million-dollar projects, a major political speech involving Kickstarter, an amazing band launching a project for a comeback 20 years in the making
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They provide a display with a heads up computer interface. There are a few buttons on the arms of the glasses, but otherwise, they could be mistaken for normal glasses.
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Solve for X is a place where people can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems.
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Wonder material graphene has been touted as the next silicon, with one major problem – it is too conductive to be used in computer chips. Now scientists from The University of Manchester have given its prospects a new lifeline.
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Photovoltaic panels made from plant material could become a cheap, easy alternative to traditional solar cells.
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The Laser Relativity Satellite, or LARES, a tungsten sphere with reflectors mounted in 92 holes punched into its surface, is the latest space probe tasked with measuring general relativity, one of the cornerstones of modern physics.
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Scientists have developed a new kind of tiny motor — which they term a “microrocket” — that can propel itself through acidic environments, such as the human stomach, without any external energy source
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install a browser extension that sends all of your browsing data — the websites you visit and how you use them — directly to Big G
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The Kepler space telescope, which has its eye on 150,000 stars, is beginning to home in on Earth-size planets.
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A new breed of biotech start-ups, scientists, and prominent investors are beginning to tackle prevention of agng.
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'MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available.
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Bitcasa has created a new cloud service that promises “infinite storage” in the cloud for Windows and Mac.
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February 7, 2012
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Researchers in the US have, for the first time, cloaked a three-dimensional object standing in free space, bringing the much-talked-about invisibility cloak one step closer to reality.
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anyone with $300 can compete with Jack Bauer. Online, and soon in big-box stores, you can buy a device no bigger than a cigarette pack, attach it to a car without the driver’s knowledge and watch the vehicle’s travels — and stops — at home on your laptop
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NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has captured the best and most complete glimpse yet of what lies beyond the solar system.
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These scientists have succeeded in decoding electrical activity in the brain’s temporal lobe – the seat of the auditory system – as a person listens to normal conversation.
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Mouse skin cells can be converted directly into cells that become the three main parts of the nervous system,
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An international team of scientists has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby star — the new best candidate to support liquid water and, perhaps, life as we know it
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a small pair of lips stuck to a circular body that you can plug into your computer via a USB cord while you’re Skyping with your partner far across the world.
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Sandia National Laboratories researchers have built a prototype of a four-inch-long, small-caliber bullet capable of steering itself towards a laser-marked target located approximately 2,000 meters (1.2 miles) away.
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A gravity-mapping spacecraft orbiting the moon has beamed home its first video of the lunar far side, a view people on Earth never see.
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The European Southern Observatory (Eso) has linked up its four telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory to form a virtual mirror of 130m (424ft) in diameter that will give scientists a much more detailed look at the Universe
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More than two months after authorities shut down a massive Internet traffic hijacking scheme, the malicious software that powered the criminal network is still running on computers at half of the Fortune 500 companies, and on PCs at nearly 50 percent of
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The device consists of a thin film of salmon DNA embedded with nano-sized particles of silver and then sandwiched between two electrodes.
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In India, electricity from solar supplied to the grid is now cheaper than that from diesel generators.
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The University of Hasselt (Belgium) has announced that Belgian and Dutch scientists have successfully replaced a lower jaw with a 3D printed model for a 83 year-old woman
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Futurist Thomas Frey predicts that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030, roughly 50% of all the jobs on the planet.
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new interactive wiki identifying the essential global stories we are telling about our species today:
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She is the author of The Female Brain, published in 2006, and The Male Brain, published in 2010
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January 31, 2012
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Early in December, 42 radio telescopes, the Allen Telescope Array, in Hat Creek, California went back into operation.
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Security researcher Brendan O’Connor is building a sensor-equipped surveillance-capable computer that’s so cheap it can be dropped from a drone and sacrificed after one use
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It’s no Watson, but Evi, created by True Knowledge, a Cambridge, U.K.-based semantic technology startup, like Siri, can answer questions posed by voice in a conversational manner or by typing.
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Sent hurtling into orbit by a nuclear blast in 1957
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“If a full-surveillance world prevents us from speaking, then we need to make another platform where freedom of speech and freedom of thought can be maintained,”
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A campaign to free up spectrum hoarded by old media bears fruit.
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Lab scientists and international collaborators have created the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved,
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Cultured meat, developed in the laboratory, could have a dramatic effect on global hunger and climate change
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The Pirate Bay, one of the world's most infamous online piracy and file-sharing sites, is now hosting a type of mock-up file that allows your 3D printer to create physical objects.
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New Research Seeks to Map Billions of Neural Links That Make the Mind Work
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odecademy, the white-hot startup that teaches even total novices how to code, has launched a new tool: Creators
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Divorce can get ugly. It ruins lives, traumatizes children, and confuses cats. Now, it can also destroy an Intrepid-class starship, apparently.
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The President of the United States held a Google+ Hangout today. He fielded questions selected from over 130,000 submissions as well as from five lucky Americans selected to hang out with him live.
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January 24, 2012
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A powerful solar eruption blasts a stream of charged particles toward Earth
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The Supreme Court said Monday that law enforcement authorities might need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move
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Anonymous message on the Megaupload takedown
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sport a high-definition screen, run a faster processor and work with next-generation wireless networks, according to three people familiar with the product.
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Apple introduced iBooks 2 in a media event Thursday. A “GarageBand for e-books.
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Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity - an online educational university.
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A "directors cut" of a fan-made version of Star Wars has passed one million views on YouTube.
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Bitcoin software could prove at least as useful as the Bitcoin online peer-to-peer currency itself by underpinning a number of important new technologies
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Physicists predict that metamaterials ought to generate an entirely new kind of force that can be turned on and off with the flick of a switch
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The Raven — originally developed for the American army by Dr Hannaford and Jacob Rosen of the University of California, Santa Cruz as a prototype for robotic surgery on the battlefield — is compact, light and cheap at around $250,000
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Researchers have created new "microtweezers" capable of manipulating objects to build tiny structures, print coatings to make advanced sensors
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major Internet service providers (ISPs), home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are participating in World IPv6 Launch to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by June 6, 2012.
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The authors make a compelling case for optimism. We are introduced to dozens of innovators and industry captains making tremendous strides in healthcare, agriculture, energy and other fields.
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An excellent video on the issue by Khan Academy
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ACTA is an international treaty (39 countries) that, according to this website, would force ISPs to monitor online communications and is being negotiated behind closed doors rather than being democratically debated in national legislatures
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Robot and Frank, a touching and futuristic film from first-time director Jake Schreier about a gruff old man whose grown son gives him a caretaker robot.
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NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look at the best possible solutions for dealing with a big asteroid or comet on a collision path with our planet.
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Scientists have developed a new way to create Terahertz waves (T-rays) that may one day lead to biomedical detective devices similar to the 'tricorder' scanner used in Star Trek
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With conventional sources of money drying up, some scientists are turning to crowd-funding.
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While BMW insists this is just a research project and won’t be in their cars for a long time, they also are expected to soon produce a traffic jam autopilot to compete with the offerings from Mercedes and Audi.
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Visionary Space Artist and Animator who won an EMMY award for his ground-breaking work in the classic PBS series COSMOS, and worked on PBS' Planet Earth and Space Age series.
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“A two-night literary audiovisual blowout that brings together a wide range of freak artmakers, steampunk engineers, corset-bound fashionistas, postmodern cabaret musicians, cross-genre dancers, and many more.” - SF Weekly
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January 17, 2012
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Inspired by ten 100-year predictions made by American civil engineer John Elfreth Watkins in 1900
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Members of the public are being asked to join the hunt for nearby planets that could support life.
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BioCurious, a 2,500-square-foot community lab in a low-slung office building in Sunnyvale, opened in November as a place where scientists, entrepreneurs and others can meet to conduct biology experiments and innovate on everything from bacteria to thermal
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DIYBio.org, an online hub for sharing ideas on DIYbio (do-it-yourself biology) has grown to more than 2,000 members since its inception.
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Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced it is taking orders for the new benchtop Ion Proton™ Sequencer that is designed to sequence the entire human genome in a day for $1,000.
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Google has launched the second annual online Google Science Fair, the largest online science competition in the world, open globally to students ages 13–18.
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The eye is going bionic, and companies are competing fiercely to develop the best technologies that can restore vision to the blind.
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At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s top television manufacturers are proposing a whole new approach to television:
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French researchers have developed a self-driving vehicle,
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This 15 min documentary chronicles the first monkey head-transplantation and a series of other similarly controversial experiments that were performed in Cleveland, Ohio during the 1960s and 70s by world-renowned neurosurgeon Dr. R. J. White.
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The first peer-to-peer car rental network
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3D printers are now being pitched at consumers.
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New features add personalized results to its searches, and could lure users to Google+.
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This is the first instance that a terabit/s channel generated from a single laser source has been transmitted over a long distance.
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Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That’s the technology envisioned by this competition, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics.
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Earth observation satellites have completely mapped the entire land surface of Earth for the first time in a German Aerospace Center (DLR) project designed to create the world’s first single-source, high-precision, 3D digital-elevation model of Earth .
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Apple plans to introduce tools to help create interactive e-books at its special media event on Thursday, January 19 and expand its current platform to distribute them to iPhone and iPad users — a “GarageBand for e-books.”
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Two innovative audio technologies introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) offer hearing improvements, IEEE Spectrum Tech Talk reports.
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Eyeglasses that overlay data and imagery onto the real world will unlock new kinds of mobile computing.
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University of Illinois materials scientists have developed a new silver ink for printing high-performance electronics on ubiquitous, low-cost materials such as flexible plastic, paper or fabric substrates.
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Starting out two and a half years ago with a handful of content creators and three or four people working production, the studio has since swelled to more than 200 partners and a full-time support staff of 140, with plans to ramp up to 1,000 partners
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January 10, 2012
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In research that promises to extend Moore’s law by several generations, the smallest wires ever developed in silicon — just one phosphorus atom tall and four atoms wide — have been shown to have the same current-carrying capability as copper wires.
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Imagine a high-quality 3-D camera that provides more-accurate depth information than the Microsoft Kinect, has a greater range, and works under all lighting conditions — but is so small, cheap and power-efficient that it could be incorporated into a cellp
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Scientists have discovered a a new culprit likely involved in Earth’s greatest extinction event 250 million years ago (when rapid climate change wiped out nearly all marine species and a majority of those on land): an influx of mercury into the ecosystem.
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Study uncovers physiological nature of disgust in politics
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Five years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone at Macworld Expo. The company has since delivered five generations of new hardware and iOS software as its mobile competitors have scrambled to defend their positions and take share back. Five yea
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The One Laptop Per Child Foundation (OLPC) is showing its XO-3 tablet prototype at CES this year in partnership with Marvell, who provide the brains of the 8-inch tablet with their Armada PXA618 SoC.
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Microsoft and the University of Washington are in the final stages of development for a new augmented reality project that may change the way people see the world.
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myFC’s new PowerTrekk portable, water-powered fuel-cell charger
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Parrot unveils AR.Drone 2.0 - iPhone-controlled helicopter gets upgraded camera
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3D Systems will start selling a new Cube 3D printer priced at $1299 that comes with a cartridge of plastic available in ten colors.
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Sam Blackburn has been responsible for the technology which allows Stephen Hawking to communicate for the past five years
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A superlens (a perfect lens) would let you see a virus in a drop of blood and open the door to better and cheaper electronics.
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The virtual body, introduced last month at N.Y.U., represents an unusual collaboration between industry and academia.
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Several products that eliminate remote controls and other awkward interfaces are being shown at the Consumer Electronics Show this week, or are in the labs.
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will include an integrated camera and microphone
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Commercial production will allow scientists, academia opportunity for use in cancer studies
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The four-day conference on technology, society, and utopia, offered lectures and workshops on effects of technological advances on society.
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Breakthrough ambulatory technology
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Personal Portable Satellite-based Data Uplink
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January 3, 2012
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More devices flooded into eager customers’ hands than in any previous holiday season.
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President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law today. The statute contains a sweeping worldwide indefinite detention provision.
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Melville House has introduced a new series, HybridBooks, to meld the e-reading and traditional book cultures
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Blueseed says U.S. immigration law is choking the flow of “bold and creative” entrepreneurs into Silicon Valley. So it’s building a floating IT fortress where entrepreneurs can be bold and creative right next to Silicon Valley without actually setting foo
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The Chinese government on Thursday announced an ambitious five-year plan for space exploration that would move China closer to becoming a major rival at a time when the American program is in retreat.
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New helicopter-style drones with 1.8 gigapixel colour cameras are being developed by the US Army.
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Roboticists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) are designing robots the emulate the jumping and gliding talents of grasshoppers, locusts, and bats
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Circuits could be woven from conductive and semiconducting natural fibers
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Computer hackers plan to take the internet beyond the reach of censors by putting their own communication satellites into orbit.
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This year, commercial spaceflight will really take off
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Stanford University is offering a course on Natural Language Processing free and online to students worldwide, January 23 to March 18.
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In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs.
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As our cars become networked—to the Internet and to one another—new trends in technology and society will redefine transportation. What's certain: tomorrow's automobiles will provide experiences that go well beyond driving.
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With over 30 years experience, Astrology Dusty Park gives us a download on 2012..
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December 27, 2011
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From emotional honeybees to particles flying faster than Einstein's theory of relativity ought to allow, 2011 abounded in findings that posed new questions and expanded frontiers of possibility.
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With 3-D printing, manufacturers can make existing products more efficiently—and create ones that weren't possible before.
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In another Minority Report-like research finding, a UCLA research team has made crucial advances in “brain reading,” using fMRI and machine learning methods to predict reactions of smokers experiencing nicotine cravings.
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People can use lucid dreaming (ability to “wake up” while still in a dream) to improve decision-making and physical skills, even to help regain mobility following a stroke, recent studies suggest.
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CERN researchers have observed a new particle — the Chi-b(3P) — in the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, University of Birmingham and Lancaster University researchers just announced.
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Creating three-dimensional objects on a printer is still complicated, but it's getting easier.
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Exhaustive reference system and interactive toolkit could revolutionize materials research, potentially enabling new types of manufacturing.
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Stream TV Networks‘ new autostereoscopic Ultra-D tech will convert 2D content to 3D and without glasses and will work with various formats, including Blu-ray, DVD, PC games, Internet, cable, and satellite, with conversion done in real time, he company cl
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When one tiny circuit within an integrated chip cracks or fails, the whole chip – or even the whole device – is a loss. But what if it could fix itself, and fix itself so fast that the user never knew there was a problem?
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Mapping how our neural circuits change under the influence of anesthesia could shed light on one of neuroscience's most perplexing riddles: consciousness.
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Would you look at the world through Google Glasses? If you did, what would you see? That may be an option soon, if a reliable report today that the company is in "late prototype stages" on just such a product, proves accurate.
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In a scene out of the movie Fantastic Voyage, Dr. Gabor Kosa of Tel Aviv University has developed a wireless “capsule endoscope” that can be remotely steered through the digestive tract to detect problem like hidden tumors or wounds, or allow for treatmen
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Over the last year, Apple and Google have secretly begun working on projects that will become wearable computers, based on the smartphone, which is becoming the hub for our information sharing and gathering, New York Times Bits reports.
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MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available.
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December 20, 2011
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And no sooner did Kim Jong-il pass from the earth than his military practiced the belligerence Kim preached: It test-fired a missile. Subtle.
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Carnegie Mellon University spin-off BirdBrain Technologies has developed a device called Brainlink that adds a wireless Bluetooth link to robots and other gadgets, allowing users to remotely control them with an Android-based smartphone or computer.
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Coffee & Power has opened its first official workclub in Santa Monica, CA. It's the first expansion of the "meta-company" outside the San Francisco Bay Area
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A new system grows tissue in 3-D without protein matrixes
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Artist Andy Gracie is attempting to breed a strain of fruit fly that could survive on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon
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BGI, the world’s largest genomics institute, has slashed the time to analyze batches of DNA sequencing data from nearly four days to just six hours using a NVIDIA Tesla GPU-based server farm.
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NVIDIA has announced that it will provide the source code for the new NVIDIA CUDA LLVM-based compiler to academic researchers and software-tool vendors, enabling them to more easily add GPU support for more programming languages and support parallel-compu
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Google X engineers are developing Google’s response to Apple’s Siri, code-named Majel
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Could this be the “Limitless” breakthrough we’ve been looking for?
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With a sustained data rate of 186 gigabits per second, high-energy physicists demonstrate the efficient use of long-range networks to support cutting-edge science
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Defending against an attack is so hard that some think a stronger offense is required.
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Military personnel will pop a pill to wipe away the fear they associate with traumatic memories
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a subcutaneously implanted touch-screen that operates as a cell phone display, with the potential for 3G video calls that are visible just underneath the skin.
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Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen indicated he is prepared to commit $200 million or more of his wealth to build the world's largest airplane as a mobile platform for launching satellites at low cost, which he believes could transform the space indust
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The public is being kept in the dark about the viability of solar photovoltaic energy, according to a study conducted at Queen’s University.
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By using optical equipment in a totally unexpected way, MIT researchers have created an imaging system that makes light look slow.
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Dr. Kriger is the Founder & Executive Director of SAVE THE FROGS!, America's first and only public charity dedicated to protecting amphibians.
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Within five years, science fiction is going to turn into non-fiction. We'll be able to read each other's minds, forget all our passwords, and create all our own homes' energy.
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December 13, 2011
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Iran will probably need help from arms exporters Russia and China in breaking down the flying-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
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Researchers at the CERN particle accelerator have found "intriguing hints" of the Higgs boson, a moment of major progress in years of previously unfruitful searching for the elusive subatomic particle.
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New research suggests it may be possible to learn high-performance tasks with little or no conscious effort
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MagnetU is a $24 device that broadcasts your social media profile to everyone around you.
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For the first time, scientists have altered natural bioelectrical communication among cells to directly specify the type of new organ to be created at a particular location within a vertebrate organism.
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People who eat baked or broiled fish on a weekly basis may be improving their brain health and reducing their risk of developing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer’s disease
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet environments on Mars.
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Some sources say that the next iteration of the Kinect will be so precise that it can lip read.
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Terrapower is pushing ahead with a reactor design that uses a nearly inexhaustible fuel source.
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Stefan Eckert has teamed with motion-graphics designer Tom Jockel and director Florian Sigl for his German couture fashion label to create what may have seemed to be an innovative show.
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For tomorrow’s Web, iconoclast Ted Nelson predicts louder and more intrusive content, with more interruptions, more security threats, more monopolies and, worse interfaces.
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Technologists will become the next drug dealers, administering narcotics through brain stimulation, according to Rohit Talwar, the founder of Fast Future Research, speaking at Intelligence Squared’s If conference.
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Intel Corporation has launched Intel Innovators, a Facebook platform that encourages 18- to 24-year-old entrepreneurs in the U.S. to share (for the next 3 months) their business ideas, grow a fanbase, and receive real-time feedback for the chance to win
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They work, in more than 9 out of 10 patients, but remains a niche therapy, practiced only by gastroenterologists who work for broad-minded institutions and who have overcome the ick factor
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Davis-based Moller International, developer of the Skycar flying vehicle and other aircraft, said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with a joint venture partner in China to develop, manufacture, distribute and sell its products in that nation.
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A federal safety board called Tuesday for a nationwide ban on the use of cell phones and text messaging devices while driving.
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A great Physics Blog
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December 6, 2011
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It looks like bone. It feels like bone. For the most part, it acts like bone.
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f the FAA approves, the tiny robotic craft will find a place in law enforcement, agriculture and other civilian uses.
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Robotic neurosurgery multiplies surgeon ‘hands’
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New online courses set to start in January 2012 include Software as a Service and Computer Science 101, as well as primers on entrepreneurship
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Architect of Reactor 3 warns of massive hydrovolcanic explosion
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There are good reasons to question Iran’s story — or at least parts of it.
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Behind the storm of controversy over software that silently captures many smartphone users' every click.
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scientists at Harvard have created genetically altered neurons that light up as they fire
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Scientists and engineers have proven the worth of quantum cryptography in telecommunication networks by demonstrating its long-term effectiveness in a real-time network.
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rumors are flying about a possible new particle discovered at the Large Hadron Collider with a mass of 126 GeV. First question: Is it really there? Second: Is it the long-awaited Higgs particle?
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Does it have to do with the economy?
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A longtime friend on the school board of one of the largest school systems in America did something that few public servants are willing to do.
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We can unleash innovation in government and allow pioneers to peacefully test new systems of government on the ocean. Those found to be successful will inspire change in governments around the world.
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For the first time, astronomers using NASA's Kepler space telescope have confirmed a roughly Earth-size planet orbiting a sun-like star in the so-called "Goldilocks" zone where water can exist in liquid form on the surface and conditions may be favorable
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Weaving together breakthroughs in science, consciousness and activism, THRIVE offers real solutions, empowering us with unprecedented and bold strategies for reclaiming our lives and our future.
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November 29, 2011
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Robot wardens are about to join the ranks of South Korea's prison service.
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Why Americans should fight for their rights and consider ways to protect themselves with encryption and defensive digital technologies.
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A Silicon Valley startup that collates threats has quietly become indispensable to the U.S. intelligence community
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MIT Media Lab alumni Supermechanical have built Twine, a sleek 2.5″ rubber square which connects to Wifi and allows objects to “communicate”
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Researchers make magnetic nanoparticles that can latch on to harmful molecules and purge them from the blood.
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Most Americans don't know what medical procedures cost until after the fact. One startup aims to change that.
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DNA barcoding essentially means identifying a species of animal, based on a snippet of DNA
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Federal agencies shut down websites they said were illegally selling counterfeit goods or copyrighted works. But it is easy for bad guys to set up shop under a new name.
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Roddenberry put 'Star Trek' light-years ahead
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the real story of a scientist who created a virus with the power to litter the Earth with billions of dead bodies.
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Audrey has built up a dedicated following over 25 years in the spiritual field
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November 22, 2011
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The new material redefines the limits of lightweight materials because of its unique “micro-lattice” cellular architecture
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ionized plasmas like those in neon lights and plasma TVs not only can sterilize water, but make it antimicrobial – able to kill bacteria – for as long as a week after treatment
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SceneTap, a new app for smart phones, uses cameras with facial detection software to scout bar scenes.
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Microbes in our bellies may be telling us to eat more, determining how much we move, and making us anxious.
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Northwestern University engineers have created an electrode for lithium-ion batteries — rechargeable batteries such as those found in cellphones and iPods — that allows them to hold a charge up to 10 times greater and charge 10 times faster than current b
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Stanford joins BrainGate team developing brain-computer interface to aid people with paralysis
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Medieval texts suggest the Vikings arrived in the New World more than 1,000 years ago.
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Jeff Bezos’ super-secretive commercial space program has opened up a bit, releasing a brief video showing low-altitude testing of its New Shepard suborbital space vechicle.
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Forget Forget Forget Forget you walked through that last doorway..
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Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have succeeded in creating photons from a vacuum.
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The wavefunction is a real physical object after all, say researchers.
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A few days ago four Wave Gliders—self propelled robots, each about the size of a dolphin—left San Francisco for a 60,000 kilometer journey
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TAU model discovers adaptable decision-making in bacteria communitie
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Clever Photoshop artists have turned the image of a police officer pepper-spraying Occupy Wall Street protesters into a fast-spreading internet meme.
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The Rise of the Global Citizen
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November 15, 2011
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Software reveals how the Occupy Wall Street idea spread across to the social Web as protesters took to the streets.
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See what's happening now, live from the occupation
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Ray Kurzweil, singularity expert, will help with script
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camera allows users to customize each individual photo between snap and share
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Trapit, a startup that personalizes content with the same artificial intelligence technology that powers Apple’s Siri,
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In a top-secret lab in an undisclosed Bay Area location where robots run free, the future is being imagined.
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TELESAR V, a “telexistence” robot system being researched at Keio University, aims to free people from time and space constraints by using remotely operated robots to interact with the remote environment
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Not only will 3D printers change the nature of manufacturing, but it will further challenge our concept of ownership and copyright.
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New software tool provides unprecedented searches of sound, from musical riffs to gunshots
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New photos have appeared in Google Maps showing unidentified titanic structures in the middle of the Chinese desert.
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A major rethinking of how Government 3.0 could be by our guest this week, Dr. Bruce Damer.
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November 08, 2011
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Cheap, printable photovoltaics might finally live up to their early promise.
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A laser powerful enough to tear apart the fabric of space could be built in Britain as part major new scientific project that aims to answer some of the most fundamental questions about our universe.
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NASA plans to offer a cloud storefront where scientists will be able to determine their computing needs and access cloud services from a central location
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Google revised its methods on Thursday to make the answers timelier.
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MIT researchers have found evidence of a massive network connecting bacteria from around the world: 10,000 unique genes flowing via horizontal gene transfer (HGT) among 2,235 bacterial genomes.
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Eliminating “deadbeat” cells that accumulate with age could prevent or delay the onset of age-related disorders and disabilities, Mayo Clinic researchers have shown.
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research reveals that many autistics – not just “savants” – have qualities and abilities that may exceed those of people who do not have the condition
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Queensland University of Technology (QUT) engineers have developed tiny flying robots with multiple cameras that can zoom to hard-to-reach places and make deliveries.
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By analyzing tumors, Foundation Medicine helps oncologists, pharma companies, and researchers combat the disease.
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A team of NASA scientists has won funding to study the concept of Star Trek-style tractor beams — the ability to trap and move objects using laser light — for remotely capturing planetary or atmospheric particles and delivering them to a robotic rover or
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Google TV is revamping its software, but doesn't plan to put out new hardware until next year.
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The StreetScooter is a $7,000 EV with a 74 mph top speed and an 80-mile range. It relies on leased batteries and uses a heat pump for heating and air conditioning, and shipping company DHL has already ordered 3,500 of them — but the most interesting thing
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AN APOCRYPHAL tale is told about Henry Ford II showing Walter Reuther, the veteran leader of the United Automobile Workers, around a newly automated car plant. “Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues,” gibed the boss of Ford
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Apple is still considering Siri port on iPhone 4. The report says that there’s a big chance that we see Siri coming to older devices officially from Apple itself.
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Microsoft's gesture interface Kinect turns one year old this weekend; it was the 4th of November 2010 when it was first publicly available.
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The makers of the new film One Millionth Tower reinvent the documentary format.
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It turns out the brain is a key player in regulating glucose (sugar) metabolism in humans
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A cargo carrier designed for low Earth orbit could provide a cheap route to the red planet.
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An asteroid the size of an aircraft carrier is to soar past the Earth today
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The Kindle Fire isn't out yet, but it's already got some serious competition. Read more: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-33198_7-57319054-286/kindle-fire-vs-nook-tablet/#ixzz1d82IGU5a
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November 01, 2011
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The insects were created with the aim of controlling dengue fever, but opponents worry that not enough testing has been done to warrant release into the wild.
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The boundless number of applications using Siri will explode.
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In the wake of rising scam reports, the company has launched new protective measures and released statistics on attacks.
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Amazing magic! Notice the crowds reaction to this demo..
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Researchers improve the efficiency of devices that stimulate damaged nerves, reducing potential side effects.
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In the hectic world of a hospital, a computer-simulated nurse can be surprisingly comforting.
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Nth Degree Technologies plans to replace bulbs with lights that can be printed on large, flexible surfaces.
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How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm
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a new system called HoloDesk that allows users to pick up, move and even shoot virtual 3D objects
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VanRoekel said that he wants to overhaul the federal bureaucracy to become more agile in an age of services delivered via mobile apps, and where information is atomized so that it can be mashed up by anyone to provide deeper insights.
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A British man has become the world's first ever patient to have a smartphone docking system built into his prosthetic arm.
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A new app lets users capture visual and audio input with a smart phone and search for related information.
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Dreams activate the brain in a similar way to real actions
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In an Army-backed experiment called “Power Dreaming,” Naval Hospital Bremerton in Washington State will help traumatized troops battle their nightmares — with soothing, digitally-made dreams crafted in virtual worlds.
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Plugging in an electric car — or parking it on a charging mat — may soon be a thing of the past.
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Earth's biggest cities are visible from space at night thanks to street lighting. ET's probably are too, say astronomers
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The strange features spotted by the MESSENGER spacecraft may be caused by hydrogen venting from the planet's interior, says planetary geologist
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The innermost planet around 55 Cancri A is almost certainly an exotic waterworld with a radius about twice Earth's, say astronomers
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October 25, 2011
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An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, mainly banks, with disproportionate power over the global economy.
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There's a new application called Iris (Siri backwards, heh) that kind of, sort of poorly emulates what Siri does.
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Europe's first satellite-navigation spacecraft have been sent into orbit.
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A faltering economy explains much of the job shortage in America, but advancing technology has sharply magnified the effect, more so than is generally understood
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Software & Apps · $1 introductory price, $30 full price · Moog Music
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The festival will feature bands, panel discussions, art exhibitions, film screenings, and workshops by and for electronic music geeks.
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Surely if flying saucers existed, they would float around like the disc in this video.
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Once a secret project, Google's autonomous vehicles are now out in the open
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Now that we can rewrite the code of life, Darwinian evolution can't stop us, says investor Juan Enriquez.
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Last week, Paul Allen and a colleague challenged the prediction that computers will soon exceed human intelligence. Now Ray Kurzweil, the leading proponent of the “Singularity,” offers a rebuttal
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Researchers develop an innovative radar system that locates people behind concrete walls
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Thanks to an invention from two EPFL laboratories, patients and their doctors can now immediately be made aware of heart rate anomalies and can thus quickly take any necessary medical measures.
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Imperial College London researchers have demonstrated that they can build AND, NOT, and NAND digital logic gates out of E-coli bacteria and DNA, which could lead to a new generation of biological computing devices that, for example, swim inside arteries,
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Pessimists, anti-capitalists, conservatives and greens, take note – we are much more peaceful now than we used to be, says the psychologist
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a brief guide to what we currently do – and don't – know about the planet's most burning issue.
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October 18, 2011
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Social media can identify and help prevent dangerous situations from occurring during elections
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Cornell University researchers have demonstrated that it’s possible to cloak a singular event in time, creating a “history editor.”
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Mapping real-world motions to “self-animated” virtual avatars, using body tracking to communicate a wide range of gestures, helps people communicate better in virtual worlds like Second Life
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The personality and sense of humor of Siri, the new voice control technology found in the iPhone 4S, was a carefully thought out decision made by one of the largest software teams at Apple.
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New York University researchers have created webs of DNA, which made copies of themselves. This is a step towards self-replication in materials fabrication.
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The Microsoft cofounder and a colleague say the singularity itself is a long way off
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New technique produces one hundred-fold increase in efficiency in reprogramming human cells
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The new technique uses electricity to “shoot” bits of therapeutic biomolecules through a tiny channel and into a cell in a fraction of a second.
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Mobile MIM, made by MIM Software, can turn an iPhone or an iPad into a diagnostic medical instrument
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First it was chess. Then it was Jeopardy. Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself
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Using skin cells from patients with mental disorders, scientists are creating brain cells that are now providing extraordinary insights into afflictions like schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease
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Twist per muscle length is over a thousand times higher than for previous artificial muscles and the muscle diameter is ten times smaller than a human hair
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Read all about the latest news about our garbage in space
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Singularity Summit looks at serious work done to regenerate body parts
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Researchers From Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon Create OmniTouch Technology
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Uncovering a vast gene regulatory network (“mPR network“) in mammalian cells that could explain why there is such genetic variability in cancer.
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Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery
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October 11, 2011
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Device can be used for medical diagnostics, to image cell growth continuously
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keeping imagination and education connected for the future
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October 4, 2011
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The Bolshoi simulation is the most accurate cosmological simulation of the evolution of the large-scale structure of the universe yet made
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Johns Hopkins study of ingredient in “magic mushrooms” found participants exhibited more “openness”
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September 27, 2011
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An updater page from New Scientist on the latest in neutrino ftl research
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Listen to influential thinkers in the mobile space — people like Square’s Keith Rabois, Twitter’s VP of Engineering Michael Abbott and Pandora’s CTO Tom Conrad — about the key areas of mobile growth, such as the app economy, and use of tablets
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a miraculous, Nobel Prize-winning, one atom-thick carbon nano-material, for use in next generation electronic devices
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A new app superimposes imagery over your smart-phone view, and lets you interact with it via hand gestures.
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A grain of salt or two may be all that microbial electrolysis cells need to produce hydrogen from wastewater or organic byproducts, without adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere or using grid electricity
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Remember your high school programming? Here's an easy way to look back and wonder, wtf??
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Printing a car? Can I print some fuel to go with it?
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September 20, 2011
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A bold, new Apple TV set would replace today’s cable systems, game consoles, and 3D goggles—and launch a war with cable providers
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A new MEMS device generates energy from small vibrations.
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Q&A with the Harvard geneticist.
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MIT research continues to push the boundaries of the burgeoning technology of 3-D printing.
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Intel shows an experimental chip that can run at under 10 milliwatts
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a fully functional smartphone brain scanner consisting of a low-cost 14-channel EEG headset with a wireless connection to a smartphone (Nokia N900)
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Berkeley Lab releases “Tracking the Sun IV,” a report on PV systems from 1998 to 2010.
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NONINVASIVE METHOD TO WATCH FOR SIDS, HELP SURGERY PATIENTS
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September 13, 2011
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How Egyptian and Tunisian youth hacked the Arab Spring.
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Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological “computer” network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer cells using logic combinations of five cancer-spe
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Efficient, economical molecule could speed evaluation of some anti-cancer treatments
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Researchers are developing hacking drones that could build a wireless botnet or track someone via cell phone.
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Mac OS and iOS app takes photo editing/sharing to the cloud
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Regulatory framework needs to be updated to keep pace with effects of technology
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TheSkyNet project will use the idle time of thousands of PCs to create grid computing power to process massive radio astronomy data sets
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Allowing anyone to design compelling video games and characters could open up a new world of gaming
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Tormach PCNC 770 $6400 and up
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A new documentary film by Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth. Just in time for the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks. 9/11/11
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September 6, 2011
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Scientists from the University of York have played a pivotal role in a discovery which could finally unlock the full potential of waste plant matter to replace oil as a fuel source.
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Retired engineer nabs $25k Air Force prize for technology that stops high-speed car chases
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Entire GPS systems, including batteries and wireless transmitters for downloading data, are now no bigger than a coin
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August 30, 2011
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The bitcoin, a virtual medium of exchange, could be a real alternative to government-issued money—but only if it survives hoarding by speculators.
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Supercomputer experiment supports cosmological model of a "cold dark matter" universe
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August 23, 2011
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A team led by researchers at Stanford and Harvard universities has not only created a new material for high-speed organic semiconductors, it has come up with a new approach that can take months, even years, off the development timeline.
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For the first time ever, scientists are using computers and genomic information to predict new uses for existing medicines.
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Modified ecstasy could one day have a role to play in fighting some blood cancers, according to scientists.
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Solid-state energy storage takes a leap forward
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Sunspots spawn solar flares that can cause billions of dollars in damage to satellites, communications networks and power grids. But Stanford researchers have developed a way to detect incipient sunspots as deep as 65,000 kilometers inside the sun, provid
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Our guest's home page
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August 16, 2011
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Data-driven Approach Sub-divides Model Into Independently Trained Regions
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$1.5 billion Star Trek attraction in Jordan planned
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Metabolism in reverse: Making biofuels at full-throttle pace Rice University engineers reverse E. coli metabolism for speedy production of fuels, chemicals
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Post-PC era? Microsoft says no
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Privacy invasion by default
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See Denise Gallant's productions
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August 09, 2011
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Data are traveling by light
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Graphene-based thin films may lead to flexible displays
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A review of the Rise of the Planet of the Apes-style research into brain boosting.
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. For the first time, you can take this course, along with several hundred Stanford undergrads, without having to fill out an application, pay tuition, or live in a dorm.
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The rollout of NFC payments in the U.S. has been so sluggish that a superior technology—biometrics—is about to catch up.
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"Mocap" No Longer Confined to Studio, Say Disney, Carnegie Mellon Researchers
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Physicist Brian Greene explains how properties at the black hole’s surface—its event horizon—suggest the unsettling theory that our world is a mere representation of another universe, a shadow of the realm where real events take place.
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New optical disc aims for consumer market first, then corporate archives
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Startup Brightsource announces a new system that could allow future solar plants to run at night.
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Aug 2, 2011
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Berkeley Lab researchers create graphene nanocomposite for high energy storage
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For the first time, researchers have used brain signals to predict when a driver is about to slam on the brakes.
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How Commotion Wireless plans to enable digital communication in the face of an Internet shutdown
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Bioinspired Aquatic Microrobot Capable of Walking on Water Surface Like a Water Strider”
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Why aren't the oldest living people getting any older?
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Hybrid energy storage device is as small as it can possibly get
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A new twist on an old solar cell design sends light ricocheting through layers of microscopic spheres, increasing its electricity-generating potential by 26 percent.
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Materials engineered to give off precisely tuned wavelengths of light when heated are key to new high-efficiency generating system.
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MIT team designs concentrated solar thermal system that could store heat in vats of molten salts, supplying constant power.
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July 26, 2011
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Tiny robots may monitor underground pipes for radioactive leaks.
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Heirs to the shuttle /CST-100 /Dragon Dream Chaser /MPCV /Space vehicle
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Unlike other systems, Ion Torrent's technology promises to improve in step with advances in electronics—and it's already proving useful for public health.
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Group has spent 30 years exploring ideas like UFOs, psychokinesis
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Molecular Soup Exhibits Brainlike Behavior
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Physicists have created a "hole in time" using the temporal equivalent of an invisibility cloak.
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Researchers say liars under scrutiny can't completely suppress facial expressions
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As everyday as a document, but as interactive as an app, the new standard dramatically broadens the author-reader communication pipeline
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July 19, 2011
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A fraud prevention system erroneously revoked his license, and now he’s suing for his hardship
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Its Japanese developers call it the "Futuristic Circular Flying Object" and it's designed to go where humans can't.
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More than 270,000 organic farmers are taking on corporate agriculture giant Monsanto in a lawsuit
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Robots have been considered too unpredictable and dangerous to work alongside humans in factories. Advances in artificial sensing and motion could change that.
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The human body is a habitat for a huge range of harmless and beneficial microbes, which may be the key to fighting disease without antibiotics.
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Current Google Plus Hangouts to visit, most with video..
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July 12, 2011
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Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Aubrey de Grey, Phyllis Diller, Ray Kurzweil, Jack LaLanne, John Robbins, Willard Scott, Suzanne Somers, Marianne Williamson and Buster Martin
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Not for the feint of heart...
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World renowned Magikican
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July 5, 2011
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How a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s and helped open up the frontier of quantum information.
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4.5M-strong botnet 'most sophisticated threat today' to Windows PCs
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South Korea will redefine primary school education within three years while creating a massive market for home-grown electronics
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Has Google been making us stupid? Are young people nothing but mindless husks, helplessly addicted to Facebook?
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June 28, 2011
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Genome Wowser provides an iPad-enabled view of the human genome
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Outstanding Research Supports Work To Develop Renewable Energy Using Bacteria and Microtechnology
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Late last week reports uncovered a plan by Apple, manufacturer of the iPhone, to patent technology that can detect when people are using their phone cameras and shut them down.
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June 21, 2011
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Our existing information technology infrastructure is surprisingly robust, at least for now. But what's left if something really big happens?
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A research breakthrough toward odor-generating TV
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But some consumers, concerned about rising prices and privacy, would rather their electricity meters stayed dumb.
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Mechanical engineers work to develop intelligent onboard transportation systems that can prevent car crashes.
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Feedback loops are powerful tools that can help people change bad behavior. Just as important, they can encourage good habits, turning progress itself into a reward.
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June 14, 2011
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makes it easier to develop direct human-to-machine interfaces
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Apple wants to put up a single, circular building to house 12,000 employees on a new campus in Cupertino
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June 7, 2011
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Photos, songs, and documents created on one Apple device will soon magically appear on others you own.
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Pentagon Sets Stage for U.S. to Respond to Computer Sabotage With Military Force
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The future of mobile gaming will merge the virtual and real worlds.
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Cisco Visual Networking Index Projects Network-Connected Devices Will Outnumber People 2 to 1; a Million Minutes of Internet Video to Be Transmitted Per Second
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Significant advance in battery architecture could be breakthrough for electric vehicles and grid storage.
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we should be able to see the oscillations generated by the collision, say astrophysicists
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May 31, 2011
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Johns Hopkins team discovers brain defense in mice and a possible new strategy for treating neurologic disorders
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The US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity building a system to understand human metaphorical speech
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May 24, 2011
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26 terabits per second on a single laser beam
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Using bacteria to generate energy is a significant step closer following a breakthrough discovery by scientists at the University of East Anglia.
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A research project at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) could turn futuristic 3D-printers into affordable everyday items.
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A handful of scientists aim to satisfy the world's growing appetite for steak without wrecking the planet.
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Warning: This is about a brain game. If you don’t consider thinking hard to be an entertainment experience, Portal 2 is not for you.
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based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
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May 17, 2011
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Is Thomas Drake an enemy of the state?
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Win the Tricorder X PRIZE, a $10 million prize to develop a mobile solution that can diagnose patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians
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The cosmologist shares his thoughts on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence
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A device that projects anatomical images onto the body could help patients "see" their injuries—and encourage them to do their exercises.
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When people can learn what others think, the wisdom of crowds may veer towards ignorance
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The World's Largest DIY Festival
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When pipe dreams come alive / Maker Faire lets amateur inventors strut their creations
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May 10, 2011
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interview with Dr. Robert Jacobs - Video report
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A new algorithm ensures that robotic environmental sensors will be able to focus on areas of interest without giving other areas short shrift.
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A prototype flexible smartphone made of electronic paper has been created by Canadian researchers.
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An experimental interface from Microsoft turns any wall into an interactive surface.
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New system for flat-panel solar power could be combined with hot water systems for greater performance.
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Web Links to Dr. Future
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The complete audio archives of the Dr. Future Show, hosted by Allan Lundell, with Awake Media's 3 Evolutionary Agents Sun Lundell, Nada Miljkovic, & Lakshmi Narayan,. Recorded at the historic KSCO oceanfront radio station in Santa Cruz, California..
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A half hour radio show from UCSC radio station KZSC where host Toronada interviews Allan about his lifetime works pioneering cinema verite at the dawn of digital media. Early drug research studies, Journalist in Silicon Valley, Digibarn Computer Museum.
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Sept. 14 Links discussed on DrFutureShow on KSCO AM Radio 1080 in Santa Cruz.
Call in on 831-479-1080 to talk with us LIVE, Tuesday 2PM-4PM.-
marching inevitably toward an immersive model. Geospatial technologies
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Ideas to Computerize Democracy
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Free toolbar replaces advertisements with images of your choice.
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Sept 21 2010 Show Links
Hi Evolutionary Agents! Here are my favorite stories for the show. Call in at 831-479-1080 to talk with us LIVE on KSCO 1080 AM, Tuesdays 2PM-4PM in Santa Cruz, CA.-
OPX Biotechnologies uses genetic engineering to speed the development of organisms that make chemicals and fuel.
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SAN FRANCISCO 09.15.2010—In his keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum , Intel vice president and chief technology officer Justin Rattner focused on "context-aware computing," in which devices anticipate your needs and desires and help fulfill
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Nov. 2, 2010 Show Links
Dr Future Show on KSCO AM 1080. Live Call in to discuss 479-1080-
Sent in by our Evolutionary Agent Kelly from IONS
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Getting a Grip on the Brain's Alarm System
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Ex-Soldier Paul Epley wants to get a few things off his conscience.
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a search engine opens to the public on Monday, search results from only useful, trustworthy sites.
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A Phone, a wristband, a PING, and sleeping couples sleep better.
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UM researchers are studying child-mother interactions to design robots with social skills
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Half the Size, Lower Power and 50% Faster Than World's Top Supercomputer
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Nov. 9, 2010 links. Join in LIVE 2pm-4pm KSCO 1080
Guest this week: Historian of the Future, Charles Ostmann On the 11:11 experiment this week www.newrealitytransmission.com Call in at (831)479-1080 if you have a comment to share.-
A device containing piezoelectric nanowires can now scavenge enough energy to power small electronic devices.
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Nov. 16, 2010
Links for the Inventions & Social Inventors Show.-
The Web 2.0 Summit brings together leaders of the Internet Economy to debate and determine business strategy. The conference is being held November 15-17 in San Francisco. You can watch the Web 2.0 Summit live via streaming and archives.
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Nov. 23, 2010
TSA Backlash, Vitamins, Spooks, Avatars, Fashion & other random stuff-
HZB researchers can take images of small cellular components in their natural environment -- while the cell remains intact
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The tiny propellant-free satellite will conduct astrobiology research.
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Schneier on Security A blog covering security and security technology.
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A phone built into the sleeve of a dress. Gloves that enable you to swipe a touchscreen on the ski slope. Solar-powered backpacks. Here are nine examples of apparel that blurs the line between clothing and tech gear.
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Weill Cornell Medical College researchers have built a new type of prosthetic retina that enabled blind mice to see nearly normal images. It could someday restore detailed sight to the millions of people who’ve lost their vision to retinal disease.
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Nov. 30, 2010
Dr. Future's First Wild Ride Around the Web!-
A new handheld ultrasound device could be the first that can connect directly to cell-phone and Wi-Fi networks.
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"Building blocks" containing gels turn cells into different types of tissue.
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These jobs will NEVER be outsourced... they are in the CLOUD! Cyber people are reinventing reality.
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Hackerspaces are community-operated physical places, where people can meet and work on their projects.
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Hacker Dojo is a community center in Mountain View which is about 1/3rd coworking space, 1/3rd events venue, and 1/3rd a big social living room.
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Nope, this is not about Dr.Future... but maybe some day!
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Dr & Mrs Future have been interviewed by Agent Nada, the host of Artists On Art. This is a repository of treasures of the emerging digital culture of our time. Copy Forward, and look for us in a hundred and a thousand years!
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Dec. 07, 2010
Poetic Futures and Lingerie Landscapes-
This the Collaborative art piece that Sun, Abbie, JJ Webb, and several others collaborated..
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Expressive Pleinair Landscapes, Watercolors, Oils and Sensual Figurative Art
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Dec.14, 2010
Creating New Media and Your Digital Rights-
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6324646,00.html
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Dec. 21, 2010
Superpowers, Paganism, and the Origins of Holiday Traditions-
Adding sensory feedback could help spinal cord injury patients operate computers, robots
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Hilarious Holiday Nativity Movie... Enjoy! Thanks Dr.Toy
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Dec. 28, 2010
Intentions and Predictions for 2011 -
January 4, 2011
New Year, New Science, and Strange Mysteries to Explore-
Nature looks at key findings and events that could emerge from the research world in 2011.
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January 11, 2011
CES, Galen Brandt-
Dr. Future says THIS WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING IPHONE FOREVER!
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Electronics TakeBack Coalition, A Project of the Tides Center 60 29th Street #230, San Francisco, CA 94110 415-206-9595
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In white paper, MIT scientists discuss potential for revolutionary advances in biomedicine and other fields.
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From the western province of Alberta, moving east to Quebec City, and in cities and towns in between, thousands of Canadians have hit the streets in trucks, tractors, cars and on foot to protest the nation's Covid-19 restrictions.
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January 18, 2011
ATT vs Verizon, Freeze Steve, Neantherthal crossbreed, Junk Art Scramble-
Biologically derived method could help organize wireless sensor networks
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Scanning prints at two meters could mean safer security checks.
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New technology will allow broad screening for prospective parents.
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Scientists develop a method to film nanostructures
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How Google's Voice Search is getting so good.
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Population of highly active neurons could provide insight into the neocortex
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2441 Online TV channels listed
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January 25, 2011
Desalinization, Laser rocketry, Android Sats, new Venture Capital ventures-
An alternative view of the best way to create a sustainable watershed is offered by EcoArtist/Scholar/Professors Helen & Newton Harrison at http://www.theharrisonstudio.net/about.html
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Stone and fellow commissioner John Leopold both traveled to Sacramento to speak to lawmakers about the project. “The acquisition of the Branch Rail Line assures us of pursuing transportation options for the community that can meet greenhouse gas emission
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Summary: An advanced rocket propulsion concept calls for heating a rocket’s propellant by focusing energy on it from ground-based lasers or microwave sources. The technology could cut the cost of putting payloads into orbit by a factor of five or more.
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Professor Zelkha's course in Venture Capital failures
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A successful crowd-sourcing work site
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Hire, manage, and pay a distributed team as if everyone were in your office.
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Logo design, web design & more
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Mass. General-led study shows changes over time in areas associated with awareness, empathy, stress
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Self healing machines are coming soon!
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Blood-vessel cells can combat aggressive tumors, helping to prevent them from spreading through the body, new study finds.
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February 1, 2011
Access Egypt , Energy, and beyond -
February 8, 2011
Verizon iPhone, Egypt Revolution, Open Leaks, Future of Libraries -
February 15, 2011
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“Jeopardy!” challenges even the best human minds. Can a computer win at “Jeopardy!”?
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Long time eco-activist
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These links will also be discussed. www.montesuenos.org drbrianoleary.wordpress.com montesuenos.wordpress.com
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Google has launched the Google Translate for iPhone app, with all of the features of the web app, plus speech synthesis.
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February 22, 2011
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IBM will split its total winnings between each of the following charities: World Vision: World Vision is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential.
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March 1, 2011
What's up with the Frogs?-
Medtronic is using microelectronics to make a pacemaker so small it can be injected
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Amphibian Expert
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March 8, 2011
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Author of "The Watchman's Rattle"
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March 15, 2011
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Japanese Emergency Info
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Microsoft software recognizes organs and other structures in medical images.
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Use news of earthquake, tsunami to solicit donations, trick users into downloading fake AV software
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Tenaska Solar Ventures Selects Soitec’s Concentrix CPV Solar Power Technology To Produce 150 Megawatts of Clean Energy For San Diego Gas & Electric
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Website of guest Hallelujah Blessing
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March 22, 2011
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Regulators join forces with developers to speed up approval of transformative devices
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March 29, 2011
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Two recent developments—a plastic processor and printed memory—show that computing doesn't have to rely on inflexible silicon.
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A lens made of frosted glass is the secret behind this entirely new type of microscopy
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New 'Virtual Reality' Techniques Could Help Solve The Age-Old Problem of Saving for Retirement
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TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, and the nonprofit brings in the outliers, doers of great deeds, people who may do great things but aren't necessarily in the public eye.
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April 5, 2011
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Remote-controlled robots will be used at damaged Fukushima Daiichi facility
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Best view yet of global gravity
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Mapping data shows enhanced activity in the 'perception' part of the brain
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April 12, 2011
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U.S.-Japan security treaty fatally delayed nuclear workers' fight against meltdown
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A novel approach to design and construction could save materials and energy, and create unusually beautiful structures
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The latest version of Google's Chrome shows the potential of HTML5
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Human rights organization Breakthrough has created an alternative reality puzzle that hits us where we live: Online
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intriquing, and quite well done, if fake..
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Lighter, more flexible electronics for 'artificial muscles'.
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Towards a Talking Newspaper
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April 19, 2011
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iRobot devices gather data on radiation
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After making its mark with pre-recorded videos, YouTube takes business live
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The Allen Human Brain Atlas reveals more than 90 percent similarity among humans and details genes at work throughout the brain to advance scientific research and medical outcomes
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Stimulation Shown to Improve Potential to Learn New Skills in Lab Tests
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April 26, 2011
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In his new book Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life, Marcus Wohlsen explores the new movement in garage-based biotech.
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MIT graduate student is working to make water available for the world’s poor by refining the tools and techniques of fog harvesting.
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Time-lapse GigaPans Provide New Way To Access Big Data
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The notion that bacteria can transmit radio waves is controversial. But physicists now say they know how it could be done
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Research explores possible link between early musical study and cognitive benefits
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Half of federal agencies will be in the cloud within 12 months, according to our new cloud computing survey.
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Decoding Human Genes is the Goal of a New Open-Source Encyclopedia
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Regarding a decoding given to the NSA by Dr. Howard Campaigne regarding the decoding of extraterrestrial messages that had been received
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Captain Crunch's early exploits with the founders of Apple.
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Very cool simulation of the universe!
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May 3, 2011
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Forecasters tackle the extremely deep future
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Berkeley Lab-led BOSS proves it can do the job with quasars
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/226667/privacy_lost_the_amazing_benefits_of_the_completely_examined_life.html
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Your photos, status updates and tweets will fascinate future historians. Will these online remains last forever?
