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The construction of the proposed Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea has shown us that culture and science aren't as mutually exclusive as you might think.

It's impossible to watch the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) Finals without getting frustrated. What the robots are expected to do in the open-air course at the Fairplex in…

Hydra wasn't finished in time for the DARPA Robotics Challenge. That's a shame, since this promising powerhouse of a robot is the coolest-looking machine here.

You’re on an expedition with a research team out in a desert wilderness. All of a sudden, a major dust storm hits. You and the group scramble to get to safety, when flying…

For thousands of years, nothing on Earth was deadlier with a sword than a human. People have since largely moved on from slicing weapons to firearms and explosives, but the…

It’s said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If so, then Apple was sure flattering its competitors at the annual Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC)…

Apple introduced a new initiative called Proactive—which spans across both Siri and Spotlight—that will bring contextually based search results to both services. It will use…

As genetic sequencing has become more affordable and commonplace, scientists have been trying to decipher how genes relate to disease. Past studies have indicated that only…

Apple Watch apps will become much quicker in coming months, thanks to developer tools that allow native apps to run on the Watch itself, Apple announced today at its WWDC…

Apple announced a new streaming music service for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, Apple TV, and Android called Apple Music.

DJI's sleek white modest Phantom quadcopters are close to the Model T of the home drone revolution, though with great ubiquity comes greater chance for error. A quick youtube…

The race is on to provide the first truly reusable rocket for travel to lower Earth orbit, and now Airbus has decided to enter the growing fray. The international aerospace…

It seems like Mars has just about everything: auroras, water, and now... glass?In a paper published recently in Geology researchers announced that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance…

Identifying microbial symbiosis and antagonism in the gut is incredibly difficult. Now researchers have used computerized models to identify alliances.

There are surveillance cameras everywhere--on street corners, in airports, and even in the middle of the Serengeti.Researchers set up 225 camera traps in the Serengeti…

Researchers at France's Institut Charles Sadron and Aix-Marseille Universite have built binary data into a strand of synthetic polymer, a minuscule chain of chemical information about 60,000 times thinner than a strand of hair.This technology promises to take the future of data storage down to nanometers in coming years, says researcher Jean-Francois Lutz, deputy director of Institut Charles Sadron and researcher on the article published in Nature Communications.Right now, storing one zettabyte (1 billion terabytes) takes roughly 1000 kilograms of cobalt alloy, the material used in hard…

The LifecarePSA is a drug infusion machine for hospital patients, designed to correctly administer the right dosage of medicine straight into the arm of a person in need.

From the House of Representatives to live-streamed weddings in Sonoma, having a drone film a couple's first moments as newlyweds is all the rage. A search for "drone wedding"…

The amazing diversity of colors produced by molds and other fungi can vary regionally, says Sara Robinson, a researcher at Oregon State University. Blues and greens are…

For a while, it felt like LightSail would never get to stretch out its mylar wings. After suffering two worrying bouts of communication snafus in lower Earth orbit, the…

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