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Self-Assembling Robots Ready to Jump, Climb, End the Human Race

A team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has unveiled a new self-assembling robot that has already drawn humorous comparisons to Optimus Prime and the T-1000 robot from Terminator 2. While the small, cube-shaped robots…

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China’s Synthetic Gas Plants Would Choke Out 21 Billion Tons of Carbon Dioxide

Synthetic Gas Plants being planned in China present a host of ecological worries. China’s government has permitted construction of nine such plants in northern and western China. These plants are able to generate more than…

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Carbon Combines Web’s Spider-Man Stretch with Man of Steel Strength

Scientists at Florida State University’s MagLab facility have successfully turned spider silk into microscopic wires that can conduct electricity. This nanotubes-coated spider silk is tough and can stretch and shrink with humidity. Almost all modern…

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Old CDs Spin a New Tune as Sewage Water Treatment

There’s a new use for the CDs you abandoned for MP3 files. At this month’s Frontiers in Optics meeting in Florida, Taiwanese researchers will present an intriguing new way of breaking down sewage – spinning…

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What Lies Beneath Lake Vostok’s Sheet of Ice?

In a major achievement hailed by scientists around the world, Russian scientists finally reached the surface of pristine Lake Vostok after more than two decades of drilling. The lake water is considered to have been…

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Carbon Nanotubes Look to Sideline Silicon

For decades, the transistors in computer chips have been based on silicon. These transistors control the electricity flow in computer microchips and have been getting smaller and smaller over time. But engineers are quickly approaching…

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Algae-Powered Building Redefines Going Green

An innovative apartment block has been unveiled at the international building exhibition in Hamburg, Germany. This 15 unit apartment block – The Bio Intelligent Quotient (BIQ) house is the world’s first building that generates heat…

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Armband Taps into Muscle Power to Control Electronics

Myo is the world’s first gesture-controlled armband, an innovative new piece of technology that harnesses electrical activity in your muscles to control computers, phones and other electronics via Bluetooth. Developed by Thalmic Labs in Waterloo,…

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Battery Life Stretches to Meet Consumer Demands

The laptop and smartphone market is saturated and shows no signs of slowing down, especially with the latter and Apple’s recent unveiling of the iPhone 5S and 5C. People are on the go or telecommuting…

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NASA Goes Sungazing with Latest Satellite

In late June, NASA launched a new satellite, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), into space to investigate how the sun energizes its atmosphere. The IRIS has one main objective: find new information on the…

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Self-Assembling Robots Ready to Jump, Climb, End the Human Race

China’s Synthetic Gas Plants Would Choke Out 21 Billion Tons of Carbon Dioxide

Carbon Combines Web’s Spider-Man Stretch with Man of Steel Strength

Old CDs Spin a New Tune as Sewage Water Treatment

What Lies Beneath Lake Vostok’s Sheet of Ice?

Carbon Nanotubes Look to Sideline Silicon

Algae-Powered Building Redefines Going Green

Armband Taps into Muscle Power to Control Electronics

Battery Life Stretches to Meet Consumer Demands

NASA Goes Sungazing with Latest Satellite

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