Is the World's Most Intelligent Music Composing Software as Creative as Bach?
If the thought of a Wiimote-controlled robot drum circle sounded vaguely disturbing, prepare
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An Awesome Oscilloscope Serial Terminal. But Why?
Electronics geeks hacking oscilloscopes fall, for me, into the same category as support
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Bacteria Colony May Grow Nanowires to Create Giant Living Biogeobattery
Earth lacks a living neural network that connects all living things, as seen in Avatar's Pandora.
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Saturn's Moon Spews Ice In Magnificent Plumes
And Cassini was there to see it
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has repeatedly taken the plunge into
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NSF Puts Up $25 Million to Research Biological Machines
What would you do with $25 million? If you answered "create a center to research the development
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Acoustic Metamaterials Could Make Ultra-Thin, Ultra-Effective Noise-Cancelling Panels
Hong Kong researchers have combined simple latex with some plastic buttons to create metamaterial
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Stars Can Teach Us a Thing or Two about Manufacturing Carbon Nanotubes, NASA Finds
Efficient space-born recipe requires no metal
Carbon nanotubes may push future innovations
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Obama Pledges $475 Million to Rescue Great Lakes
Top threats include toxic contamination, loss of wildlife habitat and invasive species
Pollution
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World's First Junctionless Transistor Could Revolutionize Chip Industry
Transistor junction, what's your function now? Irish researchers at the Tyndall National Institute have fabricated the world's first junctionless
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Born Again Rocketeer's DIY Crayon Rockets
Who says rockets should just be black and white?
Commercial spaceflight may
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World's Most Sensitive Neutrino Experiment Launches, To Seek Answers About Matter's Origins
The questions that plague particle physicists and cosmology buffs seem fundamental,
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British Scientists Create First-Ever Room-Temperature Magnetic Monopole
Late last year, English scientists created the first real-world instance of spin ice, a long-hypothesized type of crystal that can behave as a magnet with only one pole. These monopole magnets could form the basis of quantum computing memory, so it was disappointing to find out that the spin
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Salad Science: Devices Self-Assemble Using Oil-Water Repulsion
What happens when you add 64,000 tiny components to a base of oil and water? Depending on the nature of the components, you might end up with a delectable vinaigrette. University of Minnesota researchers found something even more tantalizing: a
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Molecule-Sized Computer Mimics Human Brain At Work
A team of researchers from Japan and the US have built a molecular computer whose operation mimics a human brain. The tiny circuit, comprised of organic molecules on a gold substrate, is capable of super-fast concurrent calculations that
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Using Lasers to Steam-Clean Buildings After a Radioactive or Chemical Attack
The initial fallout from a chemical or radiological attack would be devastating enough, but the cleanup of such an incident would be equally hazardous. While HAZMAT teams and other authorities have methods of scrubbing radiological and chemical waste, the porous nature
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Coming This Summer: A Multitouch Skin That Can Make Any Surface A Touchscreen
Think that 9.7-inch iPad display is all the touchscreen you need? Portuguese company Displax would
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Dynamite Dissection: Television
Ever wonder what's inside your television? Lots of very small pieces, it turns out.
We decided
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Born Again Rocketeer's DIY Crayon Rockets
Who says rockets should just be black and white?
Commercial spaceflight may
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World's Largest Solar Powered Boat Unveiled, Global Voyage Slated for 2011
If you fall into the niche category of eco-conscious boating enthusiast with a desire
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Obama Pledges $475 Million to Rescue Great Lakes
Top threats include toxic contamination, loss of wildlife habitat and invasive species
Pollution
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The Seed Cathedral: A Fibre-Optic Shrine to Mother Nature's Reproductive Prowess
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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Video: MIT Students' DIY "Minority Report" Glove Mouse
Many augmented reality projects like to cite Minority Report as an inspiration, but MIT's Glove Mouse project takes a very direct cue from the touch-free display manipulations of Tom Cruise's character in the film. In a new video, the glove mouse shows off its wireless stuff.
MIT
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Superheavy Element 117, Long Anticipated, Briefly Shows Itself in Russian Lab
We've already added elements 116 and 118 to the periodic table, and now a collaboration of Russian and U.S. scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, has created the superheavy element 117 that is about 40
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British Scientists Create First-Ever Room-Temperature Magnetic Monopole
Late last year, English scientists created the first real-world instance of spin ice, a long-hypothesized type of crystal that can behave as a magnet with only one pole. These monopole magnets could form the basis of quantum computing memory, so it was disappointing to find out that the spin
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Pyroelectric Crystals Could Enable the First Truly Portable X-Ray Machine
Like many pieces of modern medical equipment, X-ray machines are as bulky and energy dependent as they are vital. Even "portable" X-ray machines remain too heavy to carry across rough terrain, and too energy hungry to run off batteries. That's why Radius Health's portable,
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Russia Plans Cupertino 2, a Scientific City Modelled on Silicon Valley
Russia's oil reserves have given the nation considerable political muscle, but Russian leaders also want to resurrect some scientific grandeur. Now they hope to build its first scientific city since the Berlin Wall came down, and they're looking to California's Silicon Valley for inspiration,
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Tiny Titanium Origami Highlights New Method Of Micro-Construction
While three-dimensional printing has come a long way, engineers still struggle with fabricating objects smaller than a 20-cent piece. In those small structures, the upper layers crush and distort the weak lower ones. To solve this problem, researchers at the University of Illinois in the US
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Solving the Mystery of the Green LED for Pure, Efficient White Light
While scientists have long been able to produce red and blue LED lights, the essential third ingredient for creating good, brilliant white light—green–has proven elusive. But researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in the US have finally cracked
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Tiny Metal Beads Suspended in Electric Fields Make Cheaper, Simpler Motion Sensors
MIT's experimental motion sensor would use simple physics to create a tiny, six-dimensional sensor that would cost ten times less than the usual motion sensors found in smartphones and air bag systems. It does that by replacing the intricate ballet of moving parts in motion sensors with a simple
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This Chip Can Sift Martian Soil For Alien DNA
Someday, microfluidics chips like this one might suss out life on Mars. The chip, developed by Gary Ruvkun, a professor of genetics at Harvard University, would ride along on a soil-collecting rover and search for microscopic life within Martian dust. It
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