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Your next rainy day, you now have no excuse to be bored. You're welcome
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NASA's 3-D printer is the 3-D printer your 3-D printer wishes it could be
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For heart attack victims, life expectancy decreases by about 10 percent for every minute that ticks by after an emergency
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Construction equipment operators have to go through apprenticeships and training to learn to maneuver machines. But one company thinks that's all too hard
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The details of the new high school curriculum remain elusive, but the plan was likely inspired by the drones being deployed to the Middle East these days
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If everybody tasted differently, can you actually objectively evaluate how food tastes?
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During the Cold War, filling space with tiny copper bits didn't seem like such a bad idea
Right now, the Okeanos Explorer has a rover in the water about 600 meters below the ocean. You can join it by watching this live stream
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if you install a computer in something, a skilled hacker can probably take it over
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Does it look like a ton of fun? You bet. Is its use on a broad scale a good idea? Officials aren't so sure
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Robots are getting better at everything. Including sex
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The conversationalist robot Kirobo has just been launched into the abyss, and is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station by August 9
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Forget stuffed animal replicas or little plastic figurines, this team just made a real, life-sized Wall-E Robot
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New pressures have engineers turning to old ideas, and Rolls-Royce is working on a sailing ship
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In the near future, it may become both cheaper and greener to fly small planes
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When electricity came around, it wasn't immediately seen as a necessity
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The Mississippi and Alabama governors say they hope to draw upon knowledge and best practice insights established in Alberta
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Next time you get a hand written note from your hostel mate in a language you can't understand, you can turn to Google Translate
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Not so much the dream of the far future, agricultural robots are nearly ready for prime time
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