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Gadget Genius - nanotechnology breakthrough is big deal for electronics : The Universit... - 2 views

www.uakron.edu/...news_details.dot

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Quote: "This is exactly what we are pursuing - self-assembling materials that organize at smaller sizes, say, less than 20 or even 10 nanometers"

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They Finally Tested The 'Prisoner's Dilemma' On Actual Prisoners - And The Results Were... - 2 views

au.businessinsider.com/rs-dilemma-in-real-life-2013-7

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... and on students as well, who should actually know better!

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San Francisco - the weather of one year - 3 views

apod.nasa.gov/ap130724.html

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Mosaik Time Lapse video of the San Francisco Sky taken over one year.

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'Impossible' material made by Uppsala University researchers - 1 views

www.uu.se/...press-release-document

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Something for our Nano structure fans. Funniest remark: "One of the researchers got to take advantage of his Russian language skills since some of the chemistry details necessary for understanding the reaction mechanism was only available in an old Russian PhD thesis."

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World's first telescopic contact lens gives you Superman-like vision | ExtremeTech - 1 views

www.extremetech.com/...gives-you-superman-like-vision

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Now we just need an x-ray mode and we are done.

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MIT constructs synthetic analog computers inside living cells | ExtremeTech - 0 views

www.extremetech.com/...-computers-inside-living-cells

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Just a small step till we can compute trajectories in our blood cells...

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Slime mould could make memristors for biocomputers - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...mristors-for-biocomputers.html

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Slime powered transistors with memory.

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Klingons Choose ARKYD - 2 views

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Qapla'!

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NASA's GRAIL Mission Solves Mystery of Moon's Surface Gravity - 1 views

www.nasa.gov/...grail20130530.html

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Uneven gravity patterns on moon probably caused by asteroid impacts.

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Gene switches make prairie voles fall in love : Nature News & Comment - 2 views

www.nature.com/...rie-voles-fall-in-love-1.13112

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Is love just an epigenetic mechanism?

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The Fold-and-Cut Problem (Erik Demaine) - 3 views

erikdemaine.org/foldcut

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How many shapes can be obtained by folding a paper and applying just one straight cut? You'll be surprised...

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Pouring Milk All Over Yourself: The Next Extremely Bizarre Trend? - 1 views

www.theatlanticcities.com/...4030

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So... who is in?

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Human stem cells created by cloning - 3 views

www.nature.com/...lls-created-by-cloning-1.12983

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It was about time...

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2045 Initiative - 1 views

2045.com

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Quite ambitious russian version of the future. Immortality is quite on the edge in the next 15 years! Don't miss the superheroic Youtube-video on that page! :)

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New Techniques from Google and Ray Kurzweil Are Taking Artificial Intelligence to Anoth... - 1 views

www.technologyreview.com/...deep-learning

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Winter is coming... and deep learning, too!

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Government Lab Reveals It Has Operated Quantum Internet For Over Two Years | MIT Techno... - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...ontinuously-for-over-two-years

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They already surfing in the quantum web...

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Small in size, big on power: New microbatteries a boost for electronics - 2 views

news.illinois.edu/...icrobatteries_WilliamKing.html

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I want one for my smartphone...

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Google neural network teaches itself to identify cats - 1 views

www.eetimes.com/...neural-network-identifies-cats

FUN INF AI

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Its already "old" news but kinda nice...

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Mars Mission May Use 'Poop Shield' to Block Cosmic Rays | News & Opinion | PCMag.com - 1 views

www.pcmag.com/...0,2817,2416220,00.asp

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Quote: "It's a little queasy sounding, but there's no place for that material to go, and it makes great radiation shielding"

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NASA spy telescopes won't be looking at Earth - 1 views

www.newscientist.com/...-wont-be-looking-at-earth.html

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Now I feel more safe.

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