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You Could Own This Freaky NASA Robot From The 1960s

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A bizarre piece of space history goes up for auction later this month

Each ‘Power Driven Articulated Dummy’ was a 230-pound robot that NASA engineers designed to test space suits.

Machine-Learning Algorithm Generates Videos From Stills

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It examines a photo and extrapolates what happens next

MIT has used machine learning to create video from still images, and the results are pretty impressive. As you can see from the above image, there's a lot of natural…

Google Is Making It Harder To Pick Out Fake Voices

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Robotic human speech is becoming less robotic and more human.

Google's DeepMind AI is learning how to talk. And learning how to do it like a person, not a computer. DeepMind has a lot of learning projects going on, but the newest…

Second Asteroid In A Month Sails By Without Us Detecting It First

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Do you want extinction? This is how you get extinction.

Know what's really comforting? When a completely unobserved asteroid snuck up on earth and went whizzing by our planet like a golf ball, without so much as a "Fore!"…

Protein In Your Hair Is Better Than DNA At Identifying You

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It may even replace DNA sequencing in forensic investigations

Until now DNA has been the highest bar for identification in forensics. But when it comes to hair samples of missing persons or those found at crime scenes, sequencing…

Meet the Creepiest Android NASA Ever Built

Researchers Train AI To Defeat Face Blurring Technologies

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The scary thing is, they say almost anyone can do it

Machine learning researchers at Cornell Tech and the University of Texas at Austin have developed software that makes it possible for users to recognize a person’s…

Nicotine Only Controls You Because You Believe In It

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Man smokes alone on a roof

In the battle of you versus cigarettes, your brain has more power than you think

No ifs, ands, or butts: if you stop thinking that cigarettes control you, they don't.

Watch This Drone Slip Through A Narrow Window

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Drone Flies Through Window

Fortunately it can't open windows, yet

Window drone…

Cone Snail Venom Could Help Create Speedy Diabetes Treatments

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A fast-acting insulin sea snails use to stun prey may help people

Scientists in Australia and the United States have unlocked the structure of an insulin that cone snails use to stun their prey.

Apple's iOS 10 Update Screws Up iPhones Of Early Adopters

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Why it pays to wait, sometimes

Wondering what new features iOS 10 will bring to your phone? Well if you download it today, you might end up with zero features. Like the Brick app. You know, because…

A New Map Will Help Predict Earth's Response to Space Weather

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Helping the Earth combat solar storms

The Earth's magnetic field protects the planet from solar storms. But the planet's crust plays a role, too…

Solar Tuk Tuk Arrived in the UK This Week

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Naveen Rabelli in his solar-powered tuk tuk

The journey had its setbacks -- especially 250 miles from the end

Naveen Rabelli travele 6000 miles, from India to the UK, in a solar-powered tuk tuk he designed.

The Pentagon Wants To Get Better At Spotting Photoshop

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Identifying modified images is a priority for intelligence

The Pentagon is pursuing new technology to help them identify images that have been modified or edited, as part of its growing intelligence-gathering needs.

The Military Wants A Way To Track Drones Flying Over Cities

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Aerial Dragnet Concept Art

Who watches the drones? Other drones

DARPA drone dragnet…

Ice Cores From Melting Glaciers Will Be Stored In Antarctica

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A frozen trove for future research

Scientists from France and Italy are building a library of samples taken from melting glaciers.

Your Blue Jeans Can Trace Their Origins To Peru, 6,000 Years Ago

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Blue Jeans

People have been coloring cloth blue for much longer than we thought

A new study published in Science Advances today found that people in Peru have been dying fabrics with indigo plants for over 6,000 years, 1,500 years earlier than the…

This Robotic Tank Wants To Kill Mosquitoes With A Laser

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Laser Movable Mosquito Killer Robot

Blows your puny bug zapper away

Mosquito killing laser robot tank…

Science Press Site 'EurekAlert!' Offline After Being Hacked

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Don't worry, we'll keep writing about science

And now for a bit of inside baseball.

Chevy Will Give You Free Gas, But Only If You're Happy On Social Media

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How much is your attitude worth?

Chevrolet's new campaign uses the processing power of IBM's Watson to determine how positive you are. And you may be able to get some free gas out of it, if you're…
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