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An interesting advance has been made towards the next generation of supercomputers. But it wasn\’t in an electronics laboratory or a shadowy Redmond bunker - it was in a beetle crawling around Brazil,
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Anyone picking up a copy of Lego Indiana Jones when it ships will find this ad on the back of the game\’s instruction booklet. Yes, a Lucasarts game based on an upcoming Star Wars property.
Bernie Krause listens to nature for a living. The 69-year-old is a field recording scientist: He heads into the wilderness to document the noises made by native fauna — crickets chirping in the Amazon rain forest, frogs croaking in the Australian...
Artist Chris Jordan creates artwork that uses statistics as a major part of it. Each image represents something in the world that we all should take note of. The photographs are beautiful and the statistics are fascinating. He hopes these images will...
A perfect combination is often desired but rarely achieved. The Luna watch, we can say has achieved this.
Dean Kamen showed some video of the impressive, mind-controlled prosthetic robot arm he\’s invented today at D6 in Carlsbad. Kamen has been showing the arm off since early 2007, usually via video clips like what he showed today.
The next wave in health care may include a brigade of medical nanobots, devices tiny enough to ride the flow of blood through the body\’s arteries to a problem area. The bots might arrive at a clot, for example, and then using an internal power...
It turns out that the Earth, just like it’s inhabitants, “burps” every once in a while, and when it does it’s anything but discreet.
The Great Filter is the idea that there is some single, almost insurmountably improbable barrier on the path to the stars that explains why we\’ve never seen any sign of alien life.
Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal and chairman of electric car company Tesla, recently said that he believed most of the world\’s power would come from solar by 2040. That seems remarkably optimistic to me.
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