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Mae Jemison, Who Was the First Black Woman in Space, Will Now Lead 100-Year Starship Project
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Mae Jemison, Who Was the First Black Woman in Space, Will Now Lead 100-Year Starship Project

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Leaping Lizards’ Helpful Tails Inspire New Robot Design
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Video: Leaping Lizards’ Helpful Tails Inspire New Robot Design

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: MIT Constructs Old-Age-Simulator Suit to Make Young People Feel Elderly
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Video: MIT Constructs Old-Age-Simulator Suit to Make Young People Feel Elderly

By Dan Nosowitz

Drill, Don’t Kill: Lessons From Two Underground Lakes
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Drill, Don’t Kill: Lessons From Two Underground Lakes

By Ryan Bradley

What We Know So Far About the Successor to the B-2 Stealth Bomber
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What We Know So Far About the Successor to the B-2 Stealth Bomber

By David Hambling

Video: Groombot Brushes Cat, Ushering in a New Era of Remote Robo-Petting
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Video: Groombot Brushes Cat, Ushering in a New Era of Remote Robo-Petting

By Clay Dillow

Best of What’s New, 2011
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Best of What’s New, 2011

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A Car Seat That Authenticates the Driver With Butt Recognition
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A Car Seat That Authenticates the Driver With Butt Recognition

By Dan Nosowitz

How a Decade of IEDs Has Reshaped Bomb Disposal Tech
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How a Decade of IEDs Has Reshaped Bomb Disposal Tech

By Clay Dillow

DARPA’s ‘Membrane Optics’ Spy Satellite Could Capture Close-Up Video of Earth from Orbit
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DARPA’s ‘Membrane Optics’ Spy Satellite Could Capture Close-Up Video of Earth from Orbit

By Clay Dillow

Marines in Afghanistan Execute the World’s First Cargo Resupply with an Unmanned Helicopter
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Marines in Afghanistan Execute the World’s First Cargo Resupply with an Unmanned Helicopter

By Clay Dillow

Wound-Treating Jelly Regenerates Fresh, Scar-Free Skin
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Wound-Treating Jelly Regenerates Fresh, Scar-Free Skin

By Rebecca Boyle

Amateur Radio Balloon Flies From California to Algeria
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Amateur Radio Balloon Flies From California to Algeria

By Rebecca Boyle

Modified Cotton Cleans Itself When Exposed to Sunlight
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Modified Cotton Cleans Itself When Exposed to Sunlight

By Rebecca Boyle

Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean
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Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean

By Rebecca Boyle

Brand-New Stratolaunch, the Biggest Plane in the World, Could Replace the Space Shuttle
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Brand-New Stratolaunch, the Biggest Plane in the World, Could Replace the Space Shuttle

By Rebecca Boyle

Download Knowledge Directly to Your Brain, Matrix-Style
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Download Knowledge Directly to Your Brain, Matrix-Style

By Rebecca Boyle

For the First Time, Predator Drones Participate in Civilian Arrests on U.S. Soil
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For the First Time, Predator Drones Participate in Civilian Arrests on U.S. Soil

By Clay Dillow

Video: Iran Puts Its Captured RQ-170 Drone on Display
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Video: Iran Puts Its Captured RQ-170 Drone on Display

By Clay Dillow

Video: Researchers Watch Type 1 Diabetes As It Unfolds, in Real Time
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Video: Researchers Watch Type 1 Diabetes As It Unfolds, in Real Time

By Rebecca Boyle

The Army’s Latest Innnovation: A Sandwich That Stays Fresh for Two Years
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The Army’s Latest Innnovation: A Sandwich That Stays Fresh for Two Years

By Clay Dillow

A Surf Park High In the Pyrenees
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A Surf Park High In the Pyrenees

By Tetsuhiko Endo

Capturing Electricity with a Shoe
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Capturing Electricity with a Shoe

By Tom Krupenkin, engineer at the University of Wisconsin, as told to Flora Lichtman

DARPA’s Impossible-Sounding Shredder Challenge is Already Solved
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DARPA’s Impossible-Sounding Shredder Challenge is Already Solved

By Clay Dillow

New Map Imposes New York City Grid System on the World
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New Map Imposes New York City Grid System on the World

By Sean Kane

China Daily: There Should Be a Beijing-Washington Hotline to Avoid Cyber-Misunderstandings
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China Daily: There Should Be a Beijing-Washington Hotline to Avoid Cyber-Misunderstandings

By Clay Dillow

Video: The World’s First Stretchable, Elastic Electrical Cord
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Video: The World’s First Stretchable, Elastic Electrical Cord

By Clay Dillow

Algorithm Can Detect When Cars Are About to Run a Red Light
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Algorithm Can Detect When Cars Are About to Run a Red Light

By Rebecca Boyle

Blue Devil Airship is Getting a Super-High-Speed Optical Laser Downlink Upgrade
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Blue Devil Airship is Getting a Super-High-Speed Optical Laser Downlink Upgrade

By Clay Dillow

Bacterial Lamp Can Eat Your Sewage and Light Up Your House
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Bacterial Lamp Can Eat Your Sewage and Light Up Your House

By Rebecca Boyle

An Art Installation Sculpted by a Team of Swarming Autonomous Flying Robots
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An Art Installation Sculpted by a Team of Swarming Autonomous Flying Robots

By Clay Dillow

Driven: The All-New 2012 Porsche 911
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Driven: The All-New 2012 Porsche 911

By Jon Alain Guzik

Nation’s Densest Network of License Plate Data-Trackers Raises Privacy Concerns
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Nation’s Densest Network of License Plate Data-Trackers Raises Privacy Concerns

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: An Augmented-Reality Bananaphone, With a Real Banana (or Anything Else)
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Video: An Augmented-Reality Bananaphone, With a Real Banana (or Anything Else)

By Dan Nosowitz

Invented: World’s Lightest Material, 99.99 Percent Air
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Invented: World’s Lightest Material, 99.99 Percent Air

By Dan Nosowitz

Russian Hackers Breach Springfield, Illinois (?) Water Utility and Destroy Pump
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Russian Hackers Breach Springfield, Illinois (?) Water Utility and Destroy Pump

By Sean Kane

The Most Exciting Things We Saw at the 2011 LA Auto Show
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The Most Exciting Things We Saw at the 2011 LA Auto Show

By Jon Alain Guzik

Archive Gallery: Single-Wheeled Vehicles Trundle Through The Decades
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Archive Gallery: Single-Wheeled Vehicles Trundle Through The Decades

By Julie Beck

Image Recognition Software Can Help Cops ID Gang Graffiti Automatically
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Image Recognition Software Can Help Cops ID Gang Graffiti Automatically

By Rebecca Boyle

North Face’s ThermoBall Wants to Revolutionize Jacket Insulation
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North Face’s ThermoBall Wants to Revolutionize Jacket Insulation

By Berne Broudy

Video: Japanese Robotic Polar Bear Gently Smacks Snorers in the Face
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Video: Japanese Robotic Polar Bear Gently Smacks Snorers in the Face

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: DARPA’s FastRunner is a Robo-Ostrich Capable of 30 MPH Sprints
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Video: DARPA’s FastRunner is a Robo-Ostrich Capable of 30 MPH Sprints

By Clay Dillow

3-D Projection Tech Makes Images Hover in Mid-Air, No Screen Necessary
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3-D Projection Tech Makes Images Hover in Mid-Air, No Screen Necessary

By Clay Dillow

You Built What?! A Remote-Controlled Hacker Drone
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You Built What?! A Remote-Controlled Hacker Drone

By Clay Dillow

Video: Adorable Robot Rides Fixed-Gear Bicycle
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Video: Adorable Robot Rides Fixed-Gear Bicycle

By Dan Nosowitz

Video: One of the Most Slippery Materials Ever
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Video: One of the Most Slippery Materials Ever

By Sean Kane

What the Defense Department Wants For Christmas
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What the Defense Department Wants For Christmas

By Stuart Fox

Actual Robot Sportscaster Could Replace Robotlike Human Sportscasters
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Actual Robot Sportscaster Could Replace Robotlike Human Sportscasters

By Dan Nosowitz

Operation Ghost Click, the Biggest Cyber-Bust Ever, Shuts Down Estonian Bot Ring
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Operation Ghost Click, the Biggest Cyber-Bust Ever, Shuts Down Estonian Bot Ring

By Clay Dillow

MIT Meter Measures the Mood of Passers-By
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MIT Meter Measures the Mood of Passers-By

By Susannah F. Locke

Sleek Urban Hive Lets You Keep Bees in the Comfort of Your Apartment
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Sleek Urban Hive Lets You Keep Bees in the Comfort of Your Apartment

By Rebecca Boyle

New Super-Black Material Absorbs 99 Percent of All Light That Dares to Strike It
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New Super-Black Material Absorbs 99 Percent of All Light That Dares to Strike It

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: A Steerable Remote ‘Telexistence’ Robot that Transmits Sight, Sound, and Touch to the Operator
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Video: A Steerable Remote ‘Telexistence’ Robot that Transmits Sight, Sound, and Touch to the Operator

By Clay Dillow

How Computer Modeling Lets Doctors Predict Heart Attacks Before They Happen
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How Computer Modeling Lets Doctors Predict Heart Attacks Before They Happen

By Clay Dillow

Mask-Bot Displays 3-D Human Faces With a Plastic Superstructure
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Mask-Bot Displays 3-D Human Faces With a Plastic Superstructure

By Rebecca Boyle

And Yet… And Yet…
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And Yet… And Yet…

By Lawrence Weschler

The Greatest Data Thefts in History
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The Greatest Data Thefts in History

By Dan Nosowitz

How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America
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How Dubuque Is Becoming The Smartest City In America

By Clay Dillow

Four Lessons About Data From Ireland’s Biggest Bookmaker
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Four Lessons About Data From Ireland’s Biggest Bookmaker

By Clay Dillow

Q&A: Stephen Wolfram on the Power and Challenge of Big Data
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Q&A: Stephen Wolfram on the Power and Challenge of Big Data

By Mark Jannot

Video: A Company’s Algorithms Reveal Hidden Connections Among All That Data
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Video: A Company’s Algorithms Reveal Hidden Connections Among All That Data

By Stuart Fox

A Texas Sheriff’s Department is Launching an Unmanned Helodrone that Could Carry Weapons
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A Texas Sheriff’s Department is Launching an Unmanned Helodrone that Could Carry Weapons

By Clay Dillow

Can Technology Save the Military From a Data Deluge?
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Can Technology Save the Military From a Data Deluge?

By Clay Dillow

Albino Robot Spider Clambers Through Dangerous Spots on 8 Legs
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Albino Robot Spider Clambers Through Dangerous Spots on 8 Legs

By Rebecca Boyle

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