MIT researchers close in on bionic speed
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Robots, both large and micro, can potentially go wherever it's too hot, cold, dangerous, small or remote for people to perform any number of important tasks, from repairing leaking water mains to stitching ...
Researcher challenges movies unscientific aliens
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Is there life on other planets? And if so, are they the little green men of science fiction? Professor Ian Stewart from the University of Warwick thinks there is life on other planets and while it could be ...
Giant ape co-existed alongside humans 100,000 years ago, researcher finds
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A gigantic ape, measuring about 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds, co-existed alongside humans, a geochronologist at McMaster University has discovered.
Iceberg B15A no longer Earth's largest
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What was the Earth's largest free-floating object for five years -- the B-15A iceberg -- has broken into smaller pieces off Antarctica's Cape Adare.
In Short-Term Memory, Faster Is Not Better, Study Shows
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For years, researchers have said that the short-term memory increases as children mature, which is important because the memory serves as an index for intelligence and mental maturation. It has been proposed that a person's ...
Magic Trick with Gold and Glass
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Even the ancient Romans were familiar with processes for coloring glass by adding gold. Initially colorless, the glass takes on a ruby-red color when heated in a controlled fashion. The source of this color is finely divided ...
Mapping alcohol brain damage
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University of Queensland biochemists are working with American researchers to pinpoint why only some parts of the brain are damaged in alcoholics.
Fast and totally secure communication in quantum
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A new era of totally secure communication and information sharing is within reach, with physicists at ANU achieving possibly the world’s fastest transmission of 'unhackable' data using bright lasers to generate an absolutely ...
Japanese spacecraft to make history
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A Japanese spacecraft will reportedly make history by the end of the month when it touches down on an asteroid 180 million miles from Earth to gather dust.
Nano World: National ranking in nanotech
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The United States, Japan, Germany and South Korea dominate nanotechnology today, but in 2012 Taiwan should also leap into a leading role, with China making dramatic gains and France sliding into the minor leagues, experts ...
Researcher Unearths Iron Age Skeleton
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Archaeologists have discovered a Shetland burial ground dating back over 2,000 years. Experts who started work on the site on Unst two months ago have managed to rescue a number of artefacts and a human skeleton.
'Flu Chip' May Help Combat Future Epidemics, Pandemics
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A novel "Flu Chip" developed at the University of Colorado at Boulder that can determine the genetic signatures of specific influenza strains from patient samples within hours may help world health officials ...
Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Starts Shipping
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Nokia today announced that it has started deliveries of the first device in its new Internet Tablet product category, the Nokia 770. The sleek, pocket sized device is Nokia's first Linux-based terminal product ...
K-State Physics Professor Says Evolution Debate Damaging State's Educational Reputation
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There are worse jobs than being a science teacher in the state of Kansas. But not much. According to Popular Science Magazine, only two jobs -- a manure inspector and a human lab rat -- rank lower than a Kansas biology tea ...
Epson Introduces Multilingual Text to Speech Synthesis Chip
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Epson today announced availability of its multilingual text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis chip for embedded applications. The S1V30100 is a highly integrated companion chip that provides a complete decode path from text input ...
