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John Green: The nerd's guide to learning everything online
Some of us learn best in the classroom, and some of us ... well, we don't. But we still love to learn, to find out new things about the world and challenge our minds. We just need to find the right...
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This 11-Year-Old Fit a Gaming System into an Altoids Tin
Elijah wanted to make some unique gifts. (To see more of his work, you can check out his website.) He wanted a retro-game console that could be playable both on the road in hotels, guest houses, and...
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This Telepresence Robot from the 1800s Helps Promote Metal Shop
Most telepresence bots share a sleek monochromatic form factor. AR-Duo, on the other hand, is a rolling hulk of steampunk’d, metalshop’d glory. In addition to functioning as a 4-foot-tall telepresence...
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Promise of Nanowires in Optoelectronics Realized By Getting Them Connected
Supramolecular electronics has been solidifying as the bridge between molecular electronics—in which molecules become the basic building blocks of electronics—and the use polymers for the fabrication...
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Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the...
Book of the week: Meet the human computers in heels who juggled science and family, says Margaret A. Weitekamp July 28, 2016 They were always there. Women making history have always existed, present in...
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Robots Are Actually Helping People To Buy More Stuff
It's not just about the labor that robots can save; it's also how much they can create. Automation allows companies to reduce product costs, and, ultimately, lower prices, which means more people can...
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Robot Arms, a Radar Antenna, and a Stick-On Docking System: Finally, My...
In 1965, Ed White became the first American to perform a spacewalk when he stepped out of the Gemini IV capsule and floated in space for about 20 minutes. He liked it so much, he said, that returning...
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Build Your Own Fighting Robot Without Any Electronics Skills
With BattleBots back on TV, you’ve probably got a lot of armchair opinions on how to build a bot that would easily win the tournament. The only problem is your complete lack of electronics and...
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An open source 3D Scanner made with Raspberry Pi
Posted on Saturday, July 30th, 2016 in 3D fabrication, open source, R-Pi by DP Boris Landoni from Open Electronics writes about a new open source 3D Scanner made with Raspberry Pi: This being said, we...
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Microsoft stored an OK Go music video in strings of DNA
Hundreds of years from now, today’s DVDs, web servers, and flash drives will all be long dead. But one copy of a music video — for alternative rock band OK Go’s song "This Too Shall Pass" — could still...
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US Health Care Reform: Progress and Next Steps
Online First > Special Communication | [+-] Author Affiliations 1President of the United States, Washington, DC JAMA. Published online July 11, 2016. doi:10.1001/jama.2016.9797 Text Size: A A A...
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Cancer-fighting bacteria
Researchers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have recruited some new soldiers in the fight against cancer — bacteria. In a study appearing in the July 20 of Nature, the...
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We Should Not Accept Scientific Results That Have Not Been Repeated
A few years ago, I became aware of serious problem in science: the irreproducibility crisis. A group of researchers at Amgen, an American pharmaceutical company, attempted to replicate 53 landmark...
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A Famed Hacker Is Grading Thousands of Programs
At the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in 2014, industry luminary Dan Geer, fed up with the prevalence of vulnerabilities in digital code, made a modest proposal: Software companies should either...
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Video Friday: Artificial Evolution, Legged Machines, and Delivery Robots in...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your soft-bodied Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two...
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Nursing Home Bills Are Swamping Medicaid
Donna Nickerson spent her last working years as the activity and social services director at a Turlock, Calif., nursing home. But when she developed Alzheimer’s disease and needed that kind of care...
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Japan's latest humanoid robot makes its own moves
Japan's National Science Museum is no stranger to eerily human androids: It employs two in its exhibition hall already. But for a week, they're getting a new colleague. Called "Alter," it has a very...
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What Babies Know About Physics and Foreign Languages
In 2013 David Buttelmann and his colleagues did yet another version. First, the babies heard the experimenter speak the same language they did or a different one. Then the experimenter tapped her head...
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NIWeek 2014
Take an inside look at the highlights from last year’s conference and get a feel for the collaboration, creativity, and innovation that this one-of-a-kind event offers. NIWeek 2014 will be held from...
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