DARPA's Smart BLADE Will Cut Enemy Communications on the Battlefield
Further solidifying its reputations for cutting edge battlefield tech and badass acronyms, DARPA has awarded BAE systems $8.4 million to develop its BLADE
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For Sale Now: One 762-Horsepower, Bright-Yellow Amphibious Hot Rod, Barely Used
Amphibious cars aren't for everyone, but if you happen to be in the market for a car that runs on both land and water AND you prefer your mode of transit in canary yellow AND you have $777,000 in a PayPal account, Rick Dobbertin's HydroCar is available on eBay
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Worldwide Telescope Network WIll Allow Global Full-Sky Observations of Astrophysical Events as they Unfold
By linking together three massive radio telescopes in Europe, South Africa and Western Australia a University of Southampton professor is taking the lead in a global effort to capture astrophysical events across the entire sky for
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Time-Lapse Video: Last Night's Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse
For those who slept through it
Lunar eclipses, like pretty much all readily visible astronomical events, are indisputably awesome. They're also commonly scheduled for the middle of the night, a rather inconvenient hour to be hanging around outdoors, particularly in the
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IceCube Observatory Installs its Final Sensors, Making it the World's Largest Neutrino Detector
After a decade of planning, testing, and boring massive holes in the Antarctic ice with a huge hot water drill, National Science Foundation researchers and their partners completed the IceCube
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The Navy's Next-Gen Electromagnetic Catapult System Hurls its First Planes Skyward
The official performance results aren't available yet, but General Atomics confirmed this afternoon that it's next-gen aircraft carrier launch system successfully launched an F/A-18E Super Hornet on Saturday, not with steam but with its new
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Russia Approves First Animal-to-Human Transplant Procedure
Pig cells wrapped in seaweed will be implanted into diabetes patients
Russian authorities have approved the first xenotransplantation treatment - the implanting
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With No Reply From NanoSail-D Satellite, NASA Wonders If It Actually Launched at All
Last week's launch of NanoSail-D - NASA's solar sailing nanosatellite that was reportedly launched from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite
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You Are Here: How Digital Maps Are Changing the Landscape of the 21st Century
Mapmakers have more power than ever. But who are the mapmakers?
Buried beneath November's headlines depicting rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula, European economic woes, and the brazen disclosure of confidential State Department cables, a meaningful geopolitical
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Japanese Venus Probe Misses the Planet, May Get Another Chance In Six Years
A Japanese probe bound for Venus has missed its orbit and been seized by the sun's gravitational pull, in a major setback for Japan's shoestring space program. The probe, called Akatsuki,
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Tunnel vision. Is the Mercedes Gullwing stunt real?
German car maker Mercedes-Benz has online car enthusiasts in a blather about whether or not a video of the new SLS Gullwing sports car looping the inside of a tunnel is real or fake. The climax of the three minute video (the tunnel stunt) by Mercedes-Benz is widely tipped to be the work of
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Proof-of-concept carshark software hacks car computers, shutting down brakes, engines, and more
Using homemade software and a standard computer port, a team of scientists has figured out exactly how easy it is to hack into a modern car -- scary news for motorists already wary of faulty brake and accelerator systems.
The research team wrote code that allows
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Five Contests That Recognize The Science Achievements of the Everyman
There's a long tradition of offering big cash prizes to entice talented and creative individuals to solve problems that have stymied industry and governments for decades. For example, in 1810, French cook Nicolas Appert won a 12,000-franc government prize for a food preservation
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Perfect Timing
Build an Atomic Clock
Time: 2 Hours
Difficulty: Hard
Buy or build a clock enclosure.
Follow the schematic to build the circuitry (download it from here), and attach the
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Wii-Powered Robot Chair Lets Infants Zoom Around On Their Own
"Independent mobility is crucial in the development of typical infants," says the research
A baby transporter for mobility-impaired children would ensure confidence, independence and proper cognitive development, researchers say. So they recommend babies start driving
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New Nanospheres are the Stiffest Biological Materials Ever Created, Surpassing Kevlar
Protein tougher than metal could be used to print out body armor
Printable body armor, better bulletproof glass, and tougher steel are just a few of the applications for a new materials technology developed by Israeli researchers. A team of scientists there have developed
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Acoustic Fingerprinting Software Turns Any Cell Phone into a Touch-Sensitive Device
Cambridge, UK, firm Input Dynamics is trying to take the bite out of iPhone envy with a new software fix that turns any "dumbphone" into a touchscreen device.
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Hacking Microsoft's Kinect: Two Weeks In, Six Amazing Projects
The most futuristic device you can have in your living room...hacked
Microsoft's Kinect is amazing. The first time you try the "crank that" Soulja Boy dance on Dance Central, or slam a ping-pong ball in Kinect Sports using only your awkward, flailing arms--those are
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Long-Awaited Barefoot Running Study Finds Sneakers Are Harmful
Shoes change the human foot strike and may lead to more running injuries...
All
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Planned Portuguese Eco-City Is Controlled By A Central Computer Brain
A new eco-city planned in Portugal takes a cue from biology, using a centralized computer "brain" to control functions like water use, waste processing and energy consumption. It's the biggest attempt at
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Won’t somebody please think of the movie buffs?
It wasn’t so long ago that I was lamenting over the advancements in sci-fi ‘technology’ (or lack thereof) and the effect they have on inspiring
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Australians to reap the perks of a late iPhone 4 release
As a geeky tech junkie I often feel the pain of living in a comparatively small Australian market. Our population of just over 21 million people doesn’t really cut the mustard when compared to other developed nations that have anywhere from double to 10 times the population. What this usually
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Time travel: now much safer than it used to be
If, like me, you’ve spent altogether too much time being ‘educated’ by the (questionable) logic of science fiction shows, movies, books or even some form of heated discussion among geeky interested friends, you’ve doubtlessly had the
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The dubious importance of memory
Amid the plethora of qualities I am proud to call my own—the most important of which is humility—is my memory. Because life is all about applying a ‘once burned, twice shy’ mentality, in order to be able to rack up a tally of ‘I told you so’s’ that’s longer than anyone else
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Iran's Boat-Plane-Thing Would Strike Fear Into Other Flying Military Boats if Any Existed
Iran's Sacred Week of Defense (celebrating its eight-year resistance to the Iraqi invation of the 1980s) is never without a healthy dose of pomp and ceremony, but this week Iran's defense ministry took the usual military parade to the waterfront. Yesterday Iran unveiled
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Physicists Prove Teleportation of Energy Is Possible
Over five years ago, scientists succeeded in teleporting information. Unfortunately,
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The Hummer is Dead
GM's buyout negotiations with a Chinese firm have failed, ceasing production of the storied gas-guzzler
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The Future of...the Hot Dog?
According to both common sense and the US Academy of Pediatrics, there are two truths about hot dogs which neither science nor industry can afford to ignore: kids love hot dogs, and hot dogs are the perfect size and shape for a child to choke
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Video: Apocalypse-Fearing Folk Can Seek Shelter in Futuristic US$10 Million Doomsday Bunker
A doomsday bunker envisioned by California company Vivos can offer you, your family, and 4,000 other people the chance to escape the end of the world in a network of 20 underground shelters. Surely even the sceptics can't resist the allure of scary music played over scenes of comfortable underground
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Although It's Been Said Many Times, Many Ways: The iPad is the Future
After a weekend using the iPad, I've realised I'm not interested in hedging my reaction to it with careful considerations of its lack of a USB port or webcam. It's not every day, or every year or maybe even every decade that we're able to see a piece of technology that takes a familiar human
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