In a matter of days, a geologist unlike any on Earth will venture into alien territory. It has six legs and one arm. Instead of feet, it rides around on metal wheels as thin as cardboard. Its brain is in its belly, where ...
Space Exploration
Jul 25, 2012
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Before the use of robots, technicians at Spirit AeroSystems, wearing welders' jackets and hoods, sprayed hot flames on certain airplane parts to increase their durability.
Robotics
Jul 25, 2012
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The new version of Microsoft Office has some cool new features, but it suffers from taking design cues from the upcoming Windows 8.
Software
Jul 25, 2012
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Scientists have discovered a thriving population of Mediterranean earthworms in an urban farm in Dublin, Ireland.
Ecology
Jul 25, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A team of researchers at Boston University (BU), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a number of other institutions recently observed that certain materials undergo an insulator-to-metal transition ...
Condensed Matter
Jul 25, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- A collaboration of physicists from Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, LMU, Harvard and Caltech detect Higgs-type excitations in a low-dimensional system of ultracold atoms at the transition between different ...
General Physics
Jul 25, 2012
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In theory, quantum computers should be able to perform certain kinds of complex calculations much faster than conventional computers, and quantum-based communication could be invulnerable to eavesdropping. But producing quantum ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 25, 2012
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Our solar system exhibits a remarkably orderly configuration: The eight planets orbit the sun much like runners on a track, circling in their respective lanes and always keeping within the same sprawling plane. In contrast, ...
Astronomy
Jul 25, 2012
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For monarch butterflies, redder wings are correlated with better flight performance, according to research published July 25 in the open access journal PLoS ONE.
Plants & Animals
Jul 25, 2012
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A 500-year-old frozen Incan mummy suffered from a bacterial lung infection at the time of its death, as revealed by a novel proteomics method that shows evidence of an active pathogenic infection in an ancient sample for ...
Archaeology
Jul 25, 2012
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