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Nano-Firefly Tech Could Make Lights That Need No Electricity
Firefly in Flight art farmer via Flickr Fireflies light up summer lawns at dusk through chemical reactions, which take place between a light-emitting substance and its related enzyme. Luciferin and...
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Video: Soft, Floating Robots Connect to Form Larger Squishy 'Bot
Modular Softbot (Rendering) Laboratory of Intelligent SystemsThe future is modular and very, very soft The future of robotics is soft and modular, or at least that's they way some of the robotics gurus...
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Video: Lab-on-a-Chip Sorts Particles in Blood Using Pinball-Machine-Like Ramps
Tumbling Down the Ramps This image shows magnetically labeled tumor cells (yellow spheres), together with red and white blood cells and platelets. The ramps act as speed bumps, slowing the tumor cells...
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Where Are They Now? Invention Award Winners From Years Past
We've had dozens of Invention Award winners over the years, and we found ourselves wondering: what's going on with some of those past winners? We tracked down five of our favorites to find out their...
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Microsoft Announces Its First Real Tablet: The Surface
Microsoft Surface Tablet Microsoft Right now in Los Angeles, curiously late in the evening, Microsoft is showing off its very first modern (read: post-iPad) tablet. The family will be called the...
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The Goods: June 2012's Hottest Gadgets
Smart Board Pressman Toy recently released a series of apps that turn iPad screens into board games. To use them, players need a set of four game pieces, all of which are made from a metal-and-plastic...
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Chinese Construction Company to Build World's New Tallest Building In a...
Tallest Buildings in the World China's planned new skyscraper will be the tallest building in the world, overtaking the Burj Khalifa by 10 meters. CNNGo The world's tallest building took five years to...
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Oxygen-Monitoring Glasses Could Let You Read People's Moods Right Through...
The ability to read other people is largely perceived to be intuitive--some people just have a talent for "seeing" what other people are thinking or feeling. But what if you could augment yourself with...
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Stressed-Out Grasshoppers Can Damage the Entire Ecosystem
Grasshopper Wikimedia CommonsSoothe a grasshopper, save the planet In the same way humans might be tempted to binge on some junk food when they're under stress, grasshoppers head for the...
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Liquid-Filled Robot Finger More Sensitive to Touch Than a Human's
Add to the list of things robots now do better than humans: feel. Researchers at the U. of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering have designed a robot finger that can outperform humans in...
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Video: Introducing Burritobot, the 3-D Printer that Fabricates With Frijoles...
Burritobot via Marko Manriquez The beauty and promise of 3-D printing is really all tied to the end-user experience--if you can think of something, you can have it made specifically the way you want it...
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Video: Single-Seat Amphibious FlyNano Makes its Maiden Flight
FlyNano From the Cockpit FlyNano This Finnish-built flying boat made its maiden flight a few days ago, taking off from a lake and soaring into the air. The FlyNano, made by a startup by the same name,...
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This Is What Your Brain Looks Like When You Lose Your Self-Control
Self-Control Lost MRI A brain depleted of self-control University of Iowa You are not a bastion of self-control. Everyone has a set amount of the stuff, and when life saps it, people can break. Now...
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Approved: The First Swallowable Electronic Devices
Smart Pills Proteus BiomedicalDigital pills that monitor you from within No matter how fast pharmaceutical companies can churn out drugs to prevent or cure illnesses, health insurance doesn't cover the...
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Turn Animated Characters From Games Into Movable 3-D Printed Beasts
3-D Printed Spore Creatures The new software optimizes the virtual model (top) and creates strong, articulated joints for 3D printing (bottom). The creature emerges fully assembled. Moritz Bächer...
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Scientists Engineer "Chimera" Primates to Combat Human Ailments
Monkey Mash Oregon Health and Science University Roku, Hex and Chimero are the world's first primate chimeras-individual monkeys made from multiple fertilized eggs of the same species. Each animal has...
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The Ten Instruments That Mars Rover Curiosity Will Use to Investigate the Red...
Curiosity Will Work as a Geologist and Chemist NASA/JPL-CaltechA rock-analyzing laser, a neutron bombarder, and more Mars Rover Curiosity is the latest in a robotic chain of explorers created by...
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Nine Unsuspecting Scientists Win $27 Million in Suddenly Announced...
Exploding Universe Andrei Linde, a cosmologist at Stanford University who studies cosmic expansion and created this visualization, is one of nine $3 million winners of a new Fundamental Physics Prize....
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Panasonic's Artificial Photosynthesis Turns Water, Sunlight, and CO2 into...
Artificial Photosynthesis Yielding Formic Acid Panasonic Artificial photosynthesis--the idea that we might be able to create energy and other useful thing from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide, as...
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Video: The Navy's Autonomous X-47B Warplane Makes its First East Coast Test...
X-47B in Flight at NAS Patuxent River Northrop Grumman PopSci's favorite autonomous warplane is having a big week at Naval Air Station Patuxent River. The first of the two aircraft has been...
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