The vast amount of information at our fingertips these days can be as distracting as it is useful. Tracking something like the movement of an index on the stock market by feverishly checking a ticker all day is often more than you want to deal with. So this cube lets you display data it receives
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JAXA, the Japanese space agency, has released the first photographs of the interior of the Hayabusa probe. Last week, we were starting to fear that the seven-year mission had returned to Earth without the crumbs of asteroid Itokawa that it had been sent for.
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Science has recently confirmed what many women may have long suspected: the male habit of comparing attributes to impress a potential sexual partner can be traced to the Stone Age and beyond.
Several prehistoric creatures, including one of our own distance ancestors, developed elaborate
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A year behind schedule, a team of French engineering students is finally preparing to send Nephelios, the solar-powered manned airship they've developed, on its maiden voyage across the English channel.
The ambitious project had aimed to accomplish
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One of the richest men in history is spreading his wealth around again. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced its fourth round
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CERN's Large Hadron Collider is currently the biggest science experiment in operation, but it may have to pass that mantle on soon enough. A collaboration between NASA and the ESA plans to launch
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Texas is known for its wide open spaces and a certain enthusiasm among its citizens for traversing them by automobile. So it's appropriate that IBM and the Department of Transportation are planning an upgrade for car culture in the Lone Star State. Texas will serve
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The ability to quickly detect and identify viruses and bacteria is key in fields ranging from antiterrorism to medical diagnosis to pharmaceutical safety. A novel 7.6cm device created at Lawrence Livermore National
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Many of the pavilions at the 2010 Expo in Shanghai are phenomenal, both inside and out. The USA pavilion, however, is neither. But far worse than being visually unimpressive (which it is), the essence of our representation at the largest World's Fair carries an even sadder message.
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In a breakthrough that could lead to significant advances in materials science and tissue engineering, researchers at the U. of British Colombia have engineered a solid biomaterial that mimics the elasticity of muscle.
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Science has recently confirmed what many women may have long suspected: the male habit of comparing attributes to impress a potential sexual partner can be traced to the Stone Age and beyond.
Several prehistoric creatures, including one of our own distance ancestors, developed elaborate
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In the world of IT, it really doesn't matter how much data you can transmit if you can't send it safely and securely. Now, Toshiba researchers in the UK have created the first high-speed network connection that is theoretically
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In a breakthrough that could lead to significant advances in materials science and tissue engineering, researchers at the U. of British Colombia have engineered a solid biomaterial that mimics the elasticity of muscle.
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Considering all the nasty politics that have been dragged into today's eco debate, it's nice to see someone out there worshipping Mother Nature the old-fashioned way: by building a humongous,
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One of the richest men in history is spreading his wealth around again. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced its fourth round
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In a breakthrough so hot it's cool, Spanish researchers have figured out how to make water freeze at room temperature. By artificially manipulating the mechanisms by which
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A laser-obsessed entrepreneur whose mosquito-zapping project demoed at the TED 2010 conference has bigger plans for energy beams. Tom Nugent envisions using lasers to deliver energy over long distances -- whether that means juicing up an aerial drone's batteries or beaming solar space power
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Many of the pavilions at the 2010 Expo in Shanghai are phenomenal, both inside and out. The USA pavilion, however, is neither. But far worse than being visually unimpressive (which it is), the essence of our representation at the largest World's Fair carries an even sadder message.
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Texas is known for its wide open spaces and a certain enthusiasm among its citizens for traversing them by automobile. So it's appropriate that IBM and the Department of Transportation are planning an upgrade for car culture in the Lone Star State. Texas will serve
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Shigeru Kondo spent some $18,000 to build a desktop Windows computer that, over the course of three months, shattered the world record for calculating pi. Running in the 54-year-old system engineer's home, where he lives with his wife and mother, the machine calculated pi to 5 trillion
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Top threats include toxic contamination, loss of wildlife habitat and invasive species
Pollution
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Efficient space-born recipe requires no metal
Carbon nanotubes may push future innovations
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Hong Kong researchers have combined simple latex with some plastic buttons to create metamaterial
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What would you do with $25 million? If you answered "create a center to research the development
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And Cassini was there to see it
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has repeatedly taken the plunge into
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Earth lacks a living neural network that connects all living things, as seen in Avatar's Pandora.
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Electronics geeks hacking oscilloscopes fall, for me, into the same category as support
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If the thought of a Wiimote-controlled robot drum circle sounded vaguely disturbing, prepare
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Fermi would approve
A new formula allows computers to simulate how new materials
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If you fall into the niche category of eco-conscious boating enthusiast with a desire
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