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Robots

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April 1, 2010

Ford Focus Battery Electric Vehicle

Gear

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April 1, 2010

Tiny Buckyballs Could Put Fast-Spreading Cancer Cells into Suspended Animation

Cancer

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March 31, 2010

Video: MIT Students’ DIY “Minority Report” Glove Mouse

Technology

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March 31, 2010

Designer Reverse-Engineers Face-Detection Tech to Develop Camouflage Makeup

Technology

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March 31, 2010

Mobile Nuclear Reactors Could Provide Power and Jet Fuel for Military, DARPA Says

DARPA

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March 31, 2010

For the First Time, Simulation Predicts Precisely How Materials Fracture

Environment

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March 30, 2010

Human Bones Successfully Grown in Lab From Stem Cells

Health

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March 30, 2010

U.S. Government Launches Official Agency to Manage Biometric Database

Technology

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March 29, 2010

Found: Smallest Superconductor Ever; Could Enable Next-Gen Nanoscale Electronics

Technology

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March 29, 2010

Interactive 3D Viewing Box Lets You Browse and Control Virtual Worlds Without Glasses

Gear

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March 29, 2010

Flexible Sensor Array Wraps Beating Hearts to Map Cardiac Activity in Real Time

Health

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March 27, 2010

With Processor Speeds Stagnating, Researchers Look Beyond Silicon Toward Computing’s Future

Gear

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March 27, 2010

Beijing Deploys Giant Deodorant Cannons to Freshen Up City Landfill

Technology

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March 26, 2010

When Its Mission Ends, CubeSail Satellite Commits Ritualistic Suicide

Science

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March 26, 2010

Watch the iPhone Control a ‘Mars’ Rover on Earth

Technology

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March 26, 2010

New Robots Build Prototype Solar Cells in 30 Minutes, Then Evaluate Their Own Work

Technology

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March 25, 2010

Video: Photoshop’s Content-Aware Fill is Magical

Gear

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March 25, 2010

Autonomous Oceanic Modules Could Self-Assemble Into Pirate-Fighting Bases, Like Legos

Technology

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March 24, 2010

Printable Nanocircuits Promise to Make RFID Tags More Ubiquitous Than Bar Codes

Technology

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March 24, 2010

800-Year-Old Fossilized Brain Found Containing Intact Remnants of Brain Cells

Science

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March 23, 2010

World’s Most Efficient Insulation Made From Synthetic Crystal Could Keep Satellites Pinging From Deepest Space

Energy

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March 23, 2010

Self-Insulating Ceramics Could Replace Metal in Car Engines

Technology

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March 22, 2010

An Ultra-Thin Shape Memory Alloy For Stretchier Stents And Quake-Proof Buildings

Technology

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March 22, 2010

A Mariner’s Tool Could Help Astronauts Navigate Alien Worlds

Science

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March 19, 2010

Most Flawless Diamonds Ever Are Meant for Lasers, Not Rings

Technology

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March 19, 2010

Bluetooth-Enabled ‘Smart Hip’ Monitors Joint Implants from Within the Body

Health

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March 18, 2010

Australian Study Finds Possible Treatment to Make Smoking Healthier for Lungs

Health

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March 18, 2010

Video: GM Turning Car Windshields into Augmented-Reality Navigation Displays

Technology

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March 18, 2010

Video: Fastest Book Scanner Ever Captures Flipping Pages with High-Speed Camera

Robots

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March 18, 2010

Planck Satellite Illuminates Filaments of Cold Interstellar Dust

Science

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March 18, 2010

Shortage of Rare Earth Minerals May Cripple U.S. High-Tech, Scientists Warn Congress

Electric Vehicles

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March 17, 2010

Scientists Successfully Embed Silicon Chips Inside Human Cells

Health

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March 17, 2010

Air Force Calls for Airborne Electric Lasers That Can Target Land and Air

Technology

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March 17, 2010

NASA and U.S. Navy Pledge to Save Silicon Valley’s Massive Airship Hangar

Military

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March 17, 2010

Video Game Teaches Cambodian Kids to Avoid Real Landmines

Gear

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March 16, 2010

Video: Helicopter with Rocket-Powered Rotors Could Go on Sale This Year

Aviation

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March 16, 2010

New Lithium Batteries Could Remove Pesky Explosion Problem

Technology

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March 16, 2010

Rolling Martian Avalanche Greets the Spring

Science

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March 15, 2010

South Korean Scientists Transmit Broadband Signals Through Human Arm

Technology

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March 15, 2010

Flexible Nanocrystal Fibers Can Harness Tidbits of Waste Energy to Create Hydrogen Fuel

Technology

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March 13, 2010

Tiny Flaws Can Be Tracked to Make Mass-Produced RFID Tags Unique and Unclonable

Technology

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March 13, 2010

‘Quake Catcher’ Software Converts Laptops Worldwide into Earthquake Sensor Network

Technology

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March 13, 2010

Orange Dwarf Confirmed to be On Likely Collision Course With Our Solar System

Science

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March 12, 2010

International Space Station Appears Ghostly Blue in Radar Satellite Photo

Technology

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March 12, 2010

Computer Algorithm Uses Brain Scans to Pick Out Memories

Technology

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March 12, 2010

Super Mario Gets Real Pixelated in DIY Arduino 8×8 Version

DIY

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March 11, 2010

Oldest Known Flying Car is Up for Sale

Technology

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March 11, 2010

Transgenic Musclebound Trout with Six-Pack Abs Could Arrive Soon on Your Dinner Plate

Animals

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March 11, 2010

DARPA Plans Lightning-Based GPS for Underground Warfighters

DARPA

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March 10, 2010

China’s Moon Rocket May Take a Cue From the Saturn V

Technology

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March 10, 2010

This Car Runs on Coffee, in the Name of Science

Energy

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March 9, 2010

DARPA Seeks Prosthetics Directly Controllable Through Brain Implants

Technology

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March 9, 2010

Heat-Channeling Carbon Nanotubes Produce 100 Times More Energy than Li-ion Batteries

Energy

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March 8, 2010

Video: Boeing 747 Withstands Simulated What-If Underwear Bomber Blast

Technology

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March 8, 2010

Citizen Scientist May Be First to Have Found First Interstellar Dust

NASA

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March 6, 2010

Air Force’s Flying Assassin Robot Enters Final Development Stage

Aviation

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March 6, 2010

U.S. Cybersecurity Czar Says “There is No Cyberwar”

Technology

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March 6, 2010

China’s “Human-Flesh Search” Channels Netizen Rage Against Offline Targets

Gear

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March 6, 2010

Apple iPad Rollout, Slightly Delayed, Scheduled for April 3

Gear

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March 5, 2010

New Sensors Directly Track the Brain’s Chemical Messengers for the First Time

Technology

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March 2, 2010

A New Look at Newton’s Second Law Could Explain Away the Existence of Dark Matter

Physics

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March 2, 2010

Massive Solar Storms of the Future Could Reap Katrina-Scale Devastation

Environment

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March 1, 2010

VTOL Drone Would Land, Refuel and Take Off By Itself

Air Force

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March 1, 2010

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