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This Is the R2-D2 Robot Toy I've Dreamed About Since I Was a Kid
Like millions of other kids around the world, after seeing the original trilogy, R2-D2 instantly became my favorite Star Wars character. He seemed like the perfect sidekick, but the real Artoo was from...
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Abundant Robotics aims to upset the apple cart
Each year, on average, there are 240 million bushels of apples in the U.S. that need to be picked. Backed by a $10 million investment from Google Ventures, Yamaha Motor Company, and others, Abundant...
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Senator Jeff Sessions, in line to become attorney general, offered no hints at any legal workaround that would allow President-elect Donald J. Trump to bring back the brutal interrogation tactic. As a...
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Launch
The Droid Inventor Kit is brought to life with littleBits - electronic blocks (called Bits) that snap together with magnets, making inventing simple and accessible. Kids use their brains & hands to...
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Reproducibility: Check your chemistry
The Novartis chemical library in Basel, Switzerland, contains roughly 3 million molecules. Stefan Knapp's results made him feel like he was riding a roller coaster. Knapp, a pharmaceutical scientist at...
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Why People May Have Pig Organs Inside Them One Day
MusicTaylor Swift Will Premiere Her New Video at the VMAs. And Katy Perry Is HostingcelebritiesThe New Taylor Swift Lyrics Everyone Is Talking AboutCOMPARECARDSSPONSOREDhurricane harveyAirbnb Is...
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Industrial robots in China up, up and away!
China has rapidly become a global leader in robotics and automation. 2016 annual sales of industrial robots reached the highest level ever for any single country: 87,000 units (up 27% from 2015) and...
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Robert Mueller Just Took Away President Trump’s Best Leverage
Donald Trump’s ability to issue presidential pardons has been the ultimate weapon looming over Robert Mueller’s investigation. Trump could potentially pardon himself of any crimes. More importantly, he...
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Therapy Drones Are Helping Injured Falcons Fly Again
The gyrfalcon stretched out its wings and gave two powerful flaps, forcing its handler to duck out of the way. Leather ties kept the large grey falcon with a white speckled breast from flying off just...
View ArticleScientists offer help to labs hit hard by Harvey, even tending to their fruit...
Days after his home town of Port Aransas, Tex., was slammed by Hurricane Harvey, microbiologist Brett Baker finally got a status report on his third-floor laboratory at the University of Texas at...
View Article‘This is crazy,’ sobs Utah hospital nurse as cop roughs her up, arrests her...
By all accounts, the head nurse at the University of Utah Hospital’s burn unit was professional and restrained when she told a Salt Lake City police detective he wasn’t allowed to draw blood from a...
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White House walks back promise about Trump donating his ‘personal money’ to...
On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that President Trump would donate $1 million of his “personal money” to Hurricane Harvey victims. But on Friday, she...
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A single-molecule room-temperature transistor made from 14 atoms
Columbia Engineering researchers have taken a key step toward atomically precise, reproducible transistors made from single molecules and operating at room temperature — a major goal in the field of...
View ArticleHow economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers – Alan Jay Levinovitz
Since the 2008 financial crisis, colleges and universities have faced increased pressure to identify essential disciplines, and cut the rest. In 2009, Washington State University announced it would...
View ArticleThe Merchandising of Virtue
(Excerpts from Skin in the Game) Sontag is about Sontag — Virtue is precisely what you don’t show I will always remember my encounter with the writer and cultural icon Susan Sontag, largely because it...
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Ray Kurzweil: A Strategy for Keeping the World Safe From AI
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video, Kurzweil discusses AI ethics and risk. Films and...
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Google’s AI guru says that great artificial intelligence must build on...
by Jamie Condliffe July 20, 2017 Demis Hassabis knows a thing or two about artificial intelligence: he founded the London-based AI startup DeepMind, which was purchased by Google for $650 million back...
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Programs to boost women in STEM may be backfiring
Most discussions around the dearth of women in STEM careers and education — the acronym stands for “science, technology, engineering and math” — focus women themselves are the problem: Women and girls,...
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Doubts raised about CRISPR gene-editing study in human embryos
Doubts have surfaced about a landmark paper claiming that human embryos were cleared of a deadly mutation using genome editing. In an article posted to the bioRxiv preprint server on 28 August, a team...
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Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay
President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his...
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