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Self-sculpting sandBoston MA (SPX) Apr 03, 2012 Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model. That may sound like a scene from a Harry Potter novel, but it's the vision animating a research project at the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL) at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. At the IEEE International Conference on Robotics ... read more |
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 Whether grasping Easter eggs or glass bottles - this robotic hand uses tact It may be difficult to imagine, but pouring juice into a plastic cup can be a great challenge to a robot. While one hand holds the glass bottle firmly, the other one must gently grasp the cup. Resea ... more | .. |
  Honeycombs of magnets could lead to new type of computer processing Scientists have taken an important step forward in developing a new material using nano-sized magnets that could ultimately lead to new types of electronic devices, with greater processing capacity ... more | .. |
  The role of physics in the sinking of the Titanic A century on from the sinking of the Titanic, science writer Richard Corfield takes a look at the cascade of events that led to the demise of the 'unsinkable' ship, taking into account the maths and ... more | .. |
 Hong Kong to restrict foreign homebuyers from 2013 US judge OKs partial settlement in e-book case Nordic-Baltic states seek more cooperation Outside View: Jobs outlook grim Empire-style computers? Frenchman takes PCs to lap of luxury Google-Microsoft field smartphones to take on iPhone 5 EU businesses urge China's new leaders to speed reforms |
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 UMass Amherst computer scientist leads the way to the next revolution in artificial intelligence As computer scientists this year celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematical genius Alan Turing, who set out the basis for digital computing in the 1930s to anticipate the elect ... more | .. |
  New material cuts energy costs of separating gas for plastics and fuels A new type of hybrid material developed at the University of California, Berkeley, could help oil and chemical companies save energy and money - and lower their environmental impacts - by eliminatin ... more | .. |
 UC San Diego Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter. In a paper published in the March 29 issue of the journal ... more | .. |
 New understanding of how materials change when rapidly heated Collaboration between the University of Southampton and the University of Cambridge has made ground-breaking advances in our understanding of the changes that materials undergo when rapidly heated. ... more |
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Underappreciated threat of nanoplastic pollution revealed in Atlantic Ocean study
Deadly China-Nepal flood caused by glacial lake: experts
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  Reducing cash bite of wind power The State of Illinois is facing an important renewable energy deadline in 2025, and Northwestern University's Harold H. Kung has a piece of advice for Springfield to consider now: Investment Tax Cre ... more | .. |
 UCLA Engineering researchers use electricity to generate alternative fuel Imagine being able to use electricity to power your car - even if it's not an electric vehicle. Researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have for the first tim ... more | .. |
  World Bank chief backs BRICS bank idea Outgoing World Bank president Robert Zoellick on Tuesday gave his backing to a new development bank proposed by the leaders of the BRICS emerging countries. ... more | .. |
  Groupon's star dims with revised earnings report Online discount deals firm Groupon saw its fledgling stock price sink Monday as word spread that it overstated its quarterly earnings, a move reportedly being scrutinized by US regulators. ... more |
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Settlement talks fail in Google vs. Oracle patent case A federal judge in the heart of Silicon Valley said Monday that Google and Oracle have failed to settle a patent dispute out of court and that the case will head to civil trial. ... more | .. |
 Uruguay mulls offering Iran rice for oil Uruguay is considering offering Iran rice shipments in return for oil in apparent disregard of U.S.-led sanctions regarding Iran's disputed nuclear program. ... more | .. |
 Total losing $2.5 mln a day from North Sea gas leak rig French energy giant Total said Monday a gas leak in the North Sea platform is costing it $2.5 million (1.87 million euros) a day, as Greenpeace said the rig was surrounded by an oily sheen. ... more | .. |
 Tourism, fishing, wool fuel Falklands economy Historically, the Falkland islands lived off sheep and whaling, but 30 years after Argentina and Britain went to war over the disputed islands, tourism, fishing and wool are the economic mainstays. ... more |
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Skimming the Sun, probe sheds light on space weather threats
Are Unlocked Phones Any Good? Unlocked vs. Locked Phone Benefits
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 Visa drops US payment handler after breach Global Payments on Monday said that Visa has dropped the US-based payment processor after data from as many as 1.5 million credit cards was looted from its system. ... more | .. |
 Iraq rows with Kurds over oil and fugitive VP Iraq was at loggerheads with Kurdistan Monday over the autonomous region's move to stop oil exports and allow Baghdad's fugitive vice president to visit Qatar despite terror charges against him. ... more | .. |
 Novel filter material could cut natural gas refining costs Measurements taken by a team including National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) scientists show that a newly created material has the ability to separate closely related components of n ... more | .. |
 Supercomputing the difference between matter and antimatter An international collaboration of scientists has reported a landmark calculation of the decay process of a kaon into two pions, using breakthrough techniques on some of the world's fastest supercomp ... more |
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 How quantum physics could make 'The Matrix' more efficient Researchers have discovered a new way in which computers based on quantum physics could beat the performance of classical computers. The work, by researchers based in Singapore and the UK, implies t ... more | .. |
 Ultrafast laser pulses shed light on elusive superconducting mechanism An international team that includes University of British Columbia physicists has used ultra-fast laser pulses to identify the microscopic interactions that drive high-temperature superconductivity. ... more | .. |
 Physicists Explain the Collective Motion of Particles Called Fermions Some people like company. Others prefer to be alone. The same holds true for the particles that constitute the matter around us: Some, called bosons, like to act in unison with others. Others, calle ... more | .. |
 Oscillating Gel Acts Like Artificial Skin, Giving Robots Potential Ability to "Feel" Sooner than later, robots may have the ability to "feel." In a paper published online in Advanced Functional Materials, a team of researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and the Massachusetts ... more |
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Ukraine 'shouldn't target' Moscow: Trump
Trump gives Russia 50 days to make Ukraine deal
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 Fusion presents low proliferation risk American researchers have shown that prospective magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used for the production of weapon-usable materials than nuclear fission reactors ... more | .. |
  2-in-1 device uses sewage as fuel to make electricity and clean the sewage Scientists have described a new and more efficient version of an innovative device the size of a home washing machine that uses bacteria growing in municipal sewage to make electricity and clean up ... more | .. |
China vows faster, cheaper Internet China has said it will aim to bring faster and cheaper Internet access to more people, following complaints that a near monopoly by state-backed firms had hurt service. ... more | .. |
  Italy to cut renewable energy subsidies Italy will move to reduce taxpayer subsidies to its renewable energy sector after last year's boom in solar power, Industry Minister Corrado Passera says. ... more |
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  Walker's World: Euro crisis not over Once again, the countries of the eurozone have met, agreed to new funding and declared that with their new trillion-dollar firewall the euro crisis is resolved. And once again they are mistaken. ... more | .. |
 Oil higher in Asia on Chinese demand hopes Oil prices were higher in Asia on Monday as dealers were boosted by figures showing a rise in manufacturing activity in China, the world's largest energy user, analysts said. ... more | .. |
 US firm to make pay-out for China oil spill: report ConocoPhillips and its Chinese partner will pay around 305 million yuan ($48 million) to fishermen in a northern port city over a major oil spill last year, a state-backed newspaper said Monday. ... more | .. |
  Engine failure forces Cathay jet to turn back A Cathay Pacific jumbo jet bound for Paris was forced to return to Hong Kong early Monday following an engine failure shortly after take off, a spokesman for the Hong Kong flag carrier said. ... more |
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