They say life imitates art, but any scientist knows that the best designs imitate life. Researchers from the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies...
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To try to understand—let alone guess—the future of video advertising, one needs to start by looking at the biggest trend in media...
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Mother Nature has outpaced science once again: the bare human foot is better for running than one cushioned by sneakers. What about those...
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Google, copyright, and our future.
In early 2002, the filmmaker Grace Guggenheim--the daughter of the late Charles Guggenheim, one of America’s greatest documentarians, and...
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A major hurdle to producing fusion energy using lasers has been swept aside, results in a new report show.
The controlled fusion of atoms...
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Synthetic biology has allowed scientists to tweak E. coli to produce fuels from sugar and, more sustainably, cellulose
The bacteria responsible for most...
Engineers from Princeton University have developed power-generating rubber films that could be used to harness natural body movements such as breathing or walking...
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After months of feverish speculation, Steven P. Jobs introduced Wednesday what Apple hopes will be the coolest device on the...
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"Le livre, comme livre, appartient à l’auteur, mais comme pensée, il appartient—le mot n’est pas trop vaste—au genre humain. Toutes les...
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Good Advice . . . not just if you are American
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
The most striking feature of Barack Obama’s campaign for the...
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Last December, Saul Hansell left his job as a veteran reporter and blogger at the New York Times to become the programming director...
The Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR) in Kiel, Germany, recently obtained the biggest fleet of so-called gliders in Europe. These instruments can explore the...
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A consortium of European researchers, coordinated by the Computer Vision Centre (CVC) of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has developed HERMES,...
The team at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS) are aiming to send a specially-equipped robotic Audi at break-neck speed up the tight bends that lead to Pikes Peak without a driver … something that hasn’t been done before.
Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, sits atop a 12.4-mile Rocky [...]
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