Some Japanese Patients Shun Robot Helpers, Throwing High-Tech Future of Elder Care Into Doubt
In Japan, robot-led weddings, robot factory workers and even squeaky robot pets
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Some Japanese Patients Shun Robot Helpers, Throwing High-Tech Future of Elder Care Into Doubt
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Water Flea Genome is the Most Complex Yet, and May Help Scientists Study Organisms' Response to Stress
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National Health Detective Squad Uses Genomic Tools to Diagnose its First Mysterious Disease
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Using Special Crystals, Researchers Make a Paper Clip Invisible
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Bat Ears Could Inspire New Sensing Technology For Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
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Chip-Sized Particle Accelerators Could Lead to Cancer-Fighting Ray Guns
Forget the gigantic Large Hadron Collider - how about a particle-accelerator-on-a-chip?
OK, so it can't reach the energies produced at
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Water Flea Genome is the Most Complex Yet, and May Help Scientists Study Organisms' Response to Stress
A microscopic, see-through water flea is the most complex creature ever studied, genomically speaking. Daphnia pulex is the first crustacean to ever have its genome
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National Health Detective Squad Uses Genomic Tools to Diagnose its First Mysterious Disease
Medical detectives National Institutes of Health have just cracked their first case wide open, a result they hope to repeat with a slew of other uncharacterized illnesses and conditions. The Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP), a sleuthing agency set up within the NIH
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Scientists Mine Dormant Bacterial Genes For New Antibiotics
Streptomyces coelicolor, a soil-dwelling bacterium, has one of the best-understood genomes in its genus. Even so, a computational analysis of its genome has led researchers to a surprise: a new antibiotic compound. By tinkering with the bacteria, researchers at
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Israelis Trading Airport Security Dogs for Highly Trained Mouse Teams
Engineers are always looking for ways to pare down the size of technologies, and apparently that penchant for miniaturization extends to bomb-sniffing canines as well. Israeli researchers are trading in their dogs for mice trained in explosive detection, using teams
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Using Special Crystals, Researchers Make a Paper Clip Invisible
Metamaterials have long been thought the key to creating the working, visible spectrum "invisibility cloak" promised us by sci-fi, but it might be time for metamaterials to move over. Two independent labs-one at the University
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes
Genetically engineered mosquitoes could even spread genes to other insects
As carriers for diseases such as malaria, dengue fever and yellow fever, mosquitoes are the deadliest creatures on the planet, responsible for millions of human deaths every year. And as the planet
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Malaysia Releases 6,000 Genetically Modified Mosquitoes into the Wild
Over the protests of environmental groups and NGOs, Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into the wild,
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Bat Ears Could Inspire New Sensing Technology For Robots and Autonomous Vehicles
Bats - you know we love ‘em - have a remarkable ability to turn, swirl and dive on a dime while in mid-flight, dodging obstacles and grabbing food from the air. Engineers would like to give robots and autonomous
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Science Confirms the Obvious: Men Look At Porn
Also: The Sky is Blue, Water is Wet?
An overseas study into the differences between the
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At physics conference, scientists say they are closing in on 'God particle'
As particle physicists gather this week for a conference in Paris, they're reporting progress toward finding the elusive Higgs boson, with two groups suggesting a Higgs discovery may not be far off.
Physicists from Fermilab in Illinois announced they combined the results of two experiments
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Dog Poo Powers a Streetlight In Massachusetts Park
Good dog parents might think they're doing their part by using biodegradable baggies to pick up after their pooches. But after Fido's feces go in the trash can and to a landfill, they release methane gas, a significant contributor to the greenhouse effect. A dog
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New Electric Skin Could Bring the Human Touch to Robots, Artificial Limbs
Human skin is primed for touch - even minuscule pressure from a fly is enough to make you flinch. This ability does not yet extend to artificial limbs, however, and robots are a long way from having sensitive tactile abilities.
Now two California research teams have announced
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Munich Deploys Custom Bacteria at Oktoberfest to Devour Ubiquitous Stink of Stale Beer
Bavarian beer purveyors concerned about a smelly Oktoberfest are hoping bacteria can make the experience more enjoyable. They plan to pour a solution of live bacteria on the
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The Shocking Truth: How To Make High-Voltage Sparks
I've always thought it would be funny to build scale-size exploding grain silos for a model train
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Please, Don't Let This Be the Future of Air Travel
On your last flight, did you stare with envy at the people sitting in the exit row? Did you get a charley horse from trying to cross your legs under your tray table? Consider yourself lucky, pal. Your next budget flight might ask you to fly horseback style, squeezed
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First Mars Landers Might Have Found Organic Material In 1976, and Destroyed It By Accident
The building blocks of life might exist in Martian soil after all, according to a new study. Evidence from the late Phoenix Mars lander suggests its Viking forebears might have found
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FYI: What Would Happen If Every Element On The Periodic Table Came Into Contact Simultaneously?
There are two ways to go about testing this, neither of which are practical. One requires the energy of dozens of Large Hadron Colliders. The other could yield a cauldron-full of flaming plutonium. Both, however, would probably create carbon monoxide and a pile of rust
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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 approach to treating human disease wins top international computational science prize
Dr Peer Bork, a bioinformatician from
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At physics conference, scientists say they are closing in on 'God particle'
As particle physicists gather this week for a conference in Paris, they're reporting progress toward finding the elusive Higgs boson, with two groups suggesting a Higgs discovery may not be far off.
Physicists from Fermilab in Illinois announced they combined the results of two experiments
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The Shocking Truth: How To Make High-Voltage Sparks
I've always thought it would be funny to build scale-size exploding grain silos for a model train
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Video: An incredibly accurate (working!) hoverboard replica would make future-Marty proud
The closer we get to the year 2015, the louder people lament that our world hardly resembles the one depicted in Back to the Future II. Although it will be awhile before any of us coast around in a flying Delorean, we've piped down our complaints, as a young
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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 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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The Future Is Clear Now
While Toyota and Volkswagen – the world’s two biggest car makers – are locked in a battle for global sales leadership over the next decade, driven by a new generation of hybrid and electric cars, Japanese maker Honda is working on technology that may well leapfrog them both. Most big
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'Imaginary' hardware interface lets users wield their own fantasy peripherals to control a real device
Imagine a gesture-based mobile device with no screen, no keyboard, and no other peripheral inputs or outputs, a mobile device that's not really a device at all. Can you see it in your mind's eye? If so, you're probably picturing something akin to a new
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Liquid mirror breakthrough could make state-of-the-art optics cheap
A $136 million Earth-based telescope using brand new adaptive optics just trumped Hubble's deep space image clarity three-fold, but such high tech optics aren't just reserved for high-dollar observatories. A breakthrough in deformable liquid mirror technology
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Satellite creates first global gravity map of Earth
Using only two months of data, the GOCE gravity-tracking satellite has built the first-ever full map of Earth's gravitational field.
The map, called a geoid, reflects the bumps and valleys of Earth's gravitational effects. The map shows what the Earth would look
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