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China took delivery of the world's most powerful tank cannon. Oh, and you can't find it on the university website anymore…

Philadelphia’s Dock Street Brewery likes to drink their beer with music, and on a whim they decided to combine the two for a bit of an experiment. The team will pump house…

Google's servers drive the much of the world's data, and apparently, they dream as well, according to a Google blog post by two Google software engineers and an intern.Google’s artificial neural networks (ANNs) are stacked layers of artificial neurons (run on computers) used to process Google Images. To understand how computers dream, we first need to understand how they learn. In basic terms, Google's programmers teach an ANN what a fork is by showing it millions of pictures of forks, and designating that each one is what a fork looks like. Each of network's 10-30 layers extracts…

Tonight the first of the European Space Agency's (ESA) identical twin environmental monitoring Sentinel satellites will be blasted into orbit. The launch will take place in…

In 2013, a 60-foot-wide meteor exploded over Russia, and no one saw it coming. The Chelyabinsk impactor was relatively small by interplanetary standards, but the blast…

On the ground in West Africa, aid workers encounter Ebola and other tropical diseases. Plus, insects unlike anything many of us had ever seen.

Hoverbikes are the stuff of literal science fiction. Perhaps best known for their role in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, hoverbikes are as imagined one-person…

Marijuana may be one of the most popular drugs in the world, but marijuana is notoriously difficult to research, particularly in the United States. Access to cannabis plants…

Technology can reconstruct video based on a person's thoughts and even anticipate your moves while you drive. Now, a brain-to-text system can translate brain activity into…

Owls are some of the most gifted and silent hunters on the planet, able to swoop down on prey without a sound. Their stealth is all in the wings, which are specially…

Thanks to the art of paper cutting, Kirigami, soon stretchable plasma displays and batteries will become a more viable reality.Material design teams across the country are…

Skinny jeans may be all the rage, but those things are really tight--in a physical sense. One woman in Australia found out the downside of her chic-yet-tight-fitting trousers…

Just as we talk and fight amongst ourselves, so do our microbes. “Your dirty bag hit my leg,” snarled a manspreader as I squeezed into an adjoining seat on the NYC subway…

The Gemini program taught NASA how to really live and work in space. And a new book is showcasing unseen images.

Want to have your very own drone wedding, without getting pilot's license? Fly4Me can hook you up. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company is designed for people who want to hire a drone and crew on a per-use basis, the service matches customers with pilots and drones, creating a market of sorts. Approved by the FAA in the spring, Fly4Me launched in beta mode last week.Places like the Boston Globe’s BetaBoston blog are calling Fly4Me an “Uber for drones,” and there’s an element of truth to that. Like Uber’s original innovation of turning idle car-service drivers into phone-summoned…

Frog skin has been linked to wound healing for over a decade. Research now shows some factors - antimicrobial peptides - may have more benefit than realized.

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From the almost mythical taco-copter that never was to Amazon’s long-in-the-works Prime Air drone delivery system, the idea of carrying goods to people by flying robot…

At first, Instagram was the app for picture people. Photographers who saw the app’s potential early on in its life cycle, like David Guttenfelder and Michael Christopher Brown…

In Pakistan, nearly 700 people, many of them elderly, have succumbed to heat stroke in the midst of an awful heat wave. If climate change continues to progress along its…

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