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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 5th, 2013
First Helium-Filled Hard Drive Hits the Market, Holds 50 Percent More Data

First Helium-Filled Hard Drive Hits the Market, Holds 50 Percent More Data

The gas significantly reduces friction within the drive itself

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 4th, 2013
Miniature Black Hornet Drone Unveiled at Military Expo

Miniature Black Hornet Drone Unveiled at Military Expo

The instrument can be operated effectively by a single soldier

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 4th, 2013
Letting Errors Slip Could Lead to Faster Computers

Letting Errors Slip Could Lead to Faster Computers

New framework for processing data could also be more energy-efficient

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • October 31st, 2013
SpaceX Founder Proposes New Vehicle for Mass Transport

SpaceX Founder Proposes New Vehicle for Mass Transport

The Hyperloop would travel from L.A. to San Francisco in 35 minutes

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  • By Sebastian Pop
  • February 27th, 2013
Rare Look at True Invisibility Cloak – Video

Rare Look at True Invisibility Cloak – Video

It is made of two optical crystals that are found in nature

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  • By Sebastian Pop
  • February 14th, 2013
Scientists Give Lab Rats a Sixth Sense via Implants

Scientists Give Lab Rats a Sixth Sense via Implants

Implants let the animals detect light in the infrared spectrum

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  • By Sebastian Pop
  • January 26th, 2013
Working Tractor Beam Invented, It's Very Small Though

Working Tractor Beam Invented, It's Very Small Though

Scientists only tug very tiny particles, but at least they proved the concept is viable

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  • By Sebastian Pop
  • November 14th, 2012
Brain-Machine Interface Controls Humanoid Robot Successfully – Video

Brain-Machine Interface Controls Humanoid Robot Successfully – Video

Allows people to transfer their consciousness, so to speak

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  • By Sebastian Pop
  • October 11th, 2012
Bonn Scientists Can Test If We Live in The Matrix or Not

Bonn Scientists Can Test If We Live in The Matrix or Not

A test exploits an inherent feature of simulations: discretization

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  • By Sebastian Pop
  • October 8th, 2012
US Air Force Really Did Design a Flying Saucer

US Air Force Really Did Design a Flying Saucer

Files concerning “USAF Project 1794” have been declassified

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • October 2nd, 2012
Landsat Data Make Their Way onto Postal Stamps

Landsat Data Make Their Way onto Postal Stamps

USPS introduces new stamps to mark upcoming Landsat mission

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 24th, 2012
New Technique Determines When LED Need Replacing

New Technique Determines When LED Need Replacing

Figuring this out is currently very difficult to do

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 24th, 2012
New, Wearable Sensor Creates 3D Maps of Buildings [Video]

New, Wearable Sensor Creates 3D Maps of Buildings [Video]

The device could come in handy for emergency situations

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 20th, 2012
Dual Auditory Prosthetics Enable Binaural Processing in Deaf People

Dual Auditory Prosthetics Enable Binaural Processing in Deaf People

Traditionally, deaf patients only receive a single implant

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 19th, 2012
Improving 3D Printers to Produce Stronger Objects

Improving 3D Printers to Produce Stronger Objects

Thus far, the things they manufacture tend to be rather fragile

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 11th, 2012
Sensitive Robotic Arm Developed at Harvard University

Sensitive Robotic Arm Developed at Harvard University

The device can pick up a flower without turning it into paste

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  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 10th, 2012
Water-Based Computing Could Be the Way of the Future

Water-Based Computing Could Be the Way of the Future

Experts say that computers don't have to run on electricity

 
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