Showing posts with label general news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label general news. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Robotic Butlers, Oily Wrecks And Avatars

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From New Scientist: This month on New Scientist TV, you can see a robotic butler being tested in the real world for the first time. Nick Haw...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

New Tech Sees Dead People

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Using hyperspectral imaging, scientists from McGill University have found unmarked animal graves with special cameras that measure changes i...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

X-ray Voted Most Important Modern Discovery By Public

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Photo: X-rays can reveal broken bones and build up more detailed pictures of outer space. From The Daily Mail: The X-ray has been voted the...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Recycled Plastic Bridges Can Support Tanks

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Heavy Artillery: U.S. Marines clean an M1A1 Abrams main battle tank at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif. Bridg...
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Facial Profiling

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From Slate: Can you tell if a man is dangerous by the shape of his mug? On Nov. 27, 2008, Indian police interrogators came face to face wit...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Computer Program Proves Shakespeare Didn't Work Alone, Researchers Claim

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From Times Online: The 400-year-old mystery of whether William Shakespeare was the author of an unattributed play about Edward III may have ...

Clever New Device Sees Through Walls

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Researchers had a person walk around a square of 28 radio transceivers mounted on plastic pipes. The person creates shadows in the radio wav...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

New Technology Detects Chemical Weapons In Seconds

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Preparation of a solution of sensor nanoparticles. (Credit: Image courtesy of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) From Scien...

In Search of Chinese Science

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The New Atlantis: One of my schoolmasters was fond of saying that there are only two worthwhile forms of worldly immortality: to get a poem ...