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Evolving Robots Learn To Lie To Each Other
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Evolving Robots Learn To Lie To Each Other

By Stuart Fox

Wait for Approval
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Point. Click. Kill: Inside The Air Force’s Frantic Unmanned Reinvention

By Eric Hagerman

Jetpod Air Taxi Prototype’s Crash Claims Inventor’s Life
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Jetpod Air Taxi Prototype’s Crash Claims Inventor’s Life

By Jeremy Hsu

Eight-Wheeled, 230 MPH Electric Car to Spawn a Bus
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Eight-Wheeled, 230 MPH Electric Car to Spawn a Bus

By Mike Spinelli

New Batting Helmet Offers Protection from 100 MPH Heat
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New Batting Helmet Offers Protection from 100 MPH Heat

By Stuart Fox

Orbis Scooter Concept Shrinks Your Segway
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Orbis Scooter Concept Shrinks Your Segway

By Corinne Iozzio

First Internet-Connected Pacemaker Successfully Implanted
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First Internet-Connected Pacemaker Successfully Implanted

By Molika Ashford

The Future of Farming: Eight Solutions For a Hungry World
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The Future of Farming: Eight Solutions For a Hungry World

By Hilary Rosner

On the left, a steel washer and a small peace-sign earring made out of tin. On the right, a round, carved piece of metal that's a microturbine for a water pump.
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Carve steel with salt water, electricity, and a tin earring

By Theodore Gray

Another League Under the Sea: Tomorrow’s Research Subs Open Earth’s Final Frontier
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Another League Under the Sea: Tomorrow’s Research Subs Open Earth’s Final Frontier

By Abe Streep

Floating Apartment Complex Takes the Worry Out of Rising Seas
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Floating Apartment Complex Takes the Worry Out of Rising Seas

By Clay Dillow

A man using a water-powered jetpack to rise into the air near some trees under a blue sky.
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A water-powered jetpack

By Rena Marie Pacella

Laser-Powered Lightcraft “At the Cusp of Commercial Reality”
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Laser-Powered Lightcraft “At the Cusp of Commercial Reality”

By Jeremy Hsu

DARPA Readies an Ultra-Fast Mini-Sub
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DARPA Readies an Ultra-Fast Mini-Sub

By Stuart Fox

Automatic Aromatherapy to Keep Drivers Awake
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Automatic Aromatherapy to Keep Drivers Awake

By Dan Smith

Scientists Design Versatile Self-Assembling Nanogears
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Scientists Design Versatile Self-Assembling Nanogears

By Stuart Fox

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Takes On Thunderbirds Stripes
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F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Takes On Thunderbirds Stripes

By Clay Dillow

President Convinces Congress To Scrap Additional F-22 Order
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President Convinces Congress To Scrap Additional F-22 Order

By Stuart Fox

Coca-Cola Freestyle Is the Most Advanced Soda Fountain Ever
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Coca-Cola Freestyle Is the Most Advanced Soda Fountain Ever

By Adrian Covert

Your Next Touchscreen Might Bulge With Inflatable Buttons
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Your Next Touchscreen Might Bulge With Inflatable Buttons

By Dan Smith

Navy Wants High-Powered Laser for Fending Off Small Boats
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Navy Wants High-Powered Laser for Fending Off Small Boats

By Jeremy Hsu

Darpa’s Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests
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Darpa’s Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests

By Jeremy Hsu

Coffee Drinkers, Say Hello to Scald-Proof Nanofabric
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Coffee Drinkers, Say Hello to Scald-Proof Nanofabric

By Anna Maria Jakubek

Biking Downtown Could Help Power The Bus That Gives You A Ride Home
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Biking Downtown Could Help Power The Bus That Gives You A Ride Home

By Dan Smith

Video: Taser Tests New Tri-Fire X3 On Their Own Employees
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Video: Taser Tests New Tri-Fire X3 On Their Own Employees

By John Mahoney

Bored With PCs, Bill Gates Sets His Sights On Controlling the Weather
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Bored With PCs, Bill Gates Sets His Sights On Controlling the Weather

By Jeremy Hsu

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Video: Antares DLR-H2 Becomes the First 100% Fuel-Cell Powered Plane
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Video: Antares DLR-H2 Becomes the First 100% Fuel-Cell Powered Plane

By Adrian Covert

Twendy-One Nursebot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O
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Twendy-One Nursebot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O

By Corey Binns

Cyclone Biomass Engine Takes Next Step in Powering DARPA’s EATR Bot, a Hungry Hungry Sentinel
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Cyclone Biomass Engine Takes Next Step in Powering DARPA’s EATR Bot, a Hungry Hungry Sentinel

By Jeremy Hsu

Turkish Students Create Hydrogen-Powered 1300-MPG Car
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Turkish Students Create Hydrogen-Powered 1300-MPG Car

By Adrian Covert

The First Artificial Nerve Cell That Uses Real Neurotransmitters
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The First Artificial Nerve Cell That Uses Real Neurotransmitters

By Stuart Fox

Test Drive: Zero Motorcycles’ Electric Zero S
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Test Drive: Zero Motorcycles’ Electric Zero S

By Matthew Cokeley

An orange rocket-shaped remote-control car with Schumacher written on the side in white text. There is a blurry person in the background as the car passes by on flat desert terrain.
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The world’s fastest remote-control car

By Gregory Mone

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Darpa’s First Robotic Ornithopter Hovers, Flies Like a Hummingbird

By Anna Maria Jakubek

How to Lose Traffic and Alienate People: The Revenge!
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How to Lose Traffic and Alienate People: The Revenge!

By Tom Conlon

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Speech Recognition iPhone App Translates Arabic On the Fly

By John Brandon

A man wearing a black firesuit and black helmet driving a jet turbine-powered ATV through a stream in the woods.
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So we put a jet turbine on our ATV…

By Mike Haney

Army’s Most High-Tech Infantry Unit Set to Touch Down in Afghanistan
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Army’s Most High-Tech Infantry Unit Set to Touch Down in Afghanistan

By Adrian Covert

F-22 + Sonic Boom = Pretty Pictures
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F-22 + Sonic Boom = Pretty Pictures

By John Mahoney

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World’s Fastest R/C Plane Hits 392MPH–With No Engine

By John Mahoney

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Starscream
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Depiction vs. Reality: The Air Force Hardware of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

By Jeremy Hsu

Next-Gen Firefighting Technology Arrives Just in Time to Combat Wildfires
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Next-Gen Firefighting Technology Arrives Just in Time to Combat Wildfires

By Corey Binns

Color-Picking Pen Concept Imagines Real-World Photoshop Eyedropper Tool
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Color-Picking Pen Concept Imagines Real-World Photoshop Eyedropper Tool

By Stuart Fox

Noah Fulmor and Erin Finnegan tie the knot aboard the Vomit Comet
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The World’s First Zero-Gravity Wedding

By John Mahoney

Giant Solar Plane Will Stay Aloft for Five Years Straight
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Giant Solar Plane Will Stay Aloft for Five Years Straight

By Kara Platoni

Google Analyzes Your Vacation Snaps to Figure Out Where You Were
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Google Analyzes Your Vacation Snaps to Figure Out Where You Were

By Jeremy Hsu

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Finding Nature’s Most Efficient Flight Mechanism

By Rebecca Boyle

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Virtual-Reality Dental Training Is as Gory as You’d Expect

By Laura Silver

Move Over, Silicon; Here Come Quantum Bismuth Chips
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Move Over, Silicon; Here Come Quantum Bismuth Chips

By Stuart Fox

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Magnetochromatic Material Changes Color on Command

By Taylor Hengen

A Lightweight Display Brings Instant Army Intelligence to Your Wrist
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A Lightweight Display Brings Instant Army Intelligence to Your Wrist

By Arnie Cooper

Firefighting 747 Supertanker Dumps 20,500 Gallons of Water from 500 Feet Up
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Firefighting 747 Supertanker Dumps 20,500 Gallons of Water from 500 Feet Up

By Rob Cockerham

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A Word With the Inventor of the Battlefield Snakebot and the Wall-Scaling Snailbot

By John Pavlus

New Evidence Suggests That Using the Internet Might Make You Smarter, Not Rot Your Brain
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New Evidence Suggests That Using the Internet Might Make You Smarter, Not Rot Your Brain

By Michael Rosenwald

DARPA’s “Programmable Matter” Project Creating Shape-Shifting Materials
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DARPA’s “Programmable Matter” Project Creating Shape-Shifting Materials

By Dan Smith

India’s $2,500 Tata Nano Minicar Coming to US?
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India’s $2,500 Tata Nano Minicar Coming to US?

By Mike Spinelli

A large steel mecha exoskeleton built by Carlos Owens.
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Army mechanic’s garage tinkering yields 18-foot mecha exoskeleton

By Charles Crain

A Nylon Sheath For Your House, to Quench Fires
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A Nylon Sheath For Your House, to Quench Fires

By Corey Binns

New Army Rifle Fires Laser-Guided Smart Bullets With Onboard Targeting Chips
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New Army Rifle Fires Laser-Guided Smart Bullets With Onboard Targeting Chips

By Dan Smith

Dean Kamen Won’t Be Satisfied Until He Reinvents Us All
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Dean Kamen Won’t Be Satisfied Until He Reinvents Us All

By Rena Marie Pacella

Analysts: Obama’s Much-Touted New Cybersecurity Plan Is Full of Holes
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Analysts: Obama’s Much-Touted New Cybersecurity Plan Is Full of Holes

By Stuart Fox

What the Sotomayor Nomination Means for Technology
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What the Sotomayor Nomination Means for Technology

By Stuart Fox

Invention Awards: The World as a Web Interface
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Invention Awards: The World as a Web Interface

By Gregory Mone

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