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  Mind-controlled robotic arm achieves 'unprecedented performance'

  By Ben Kersey on December 17, 2012 06:57 am + 21 comments

  Scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have achieved an "unprecedented" amount of fine motor Continue reading…

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  Help identify African wildlife captured on remote camera from your browser

  By T.C. Sottek on December 15, 2012 07:02 pm + 10 comments

  Over the past few years, scientists from the University of Minnesota have collected millions of Continue reading…

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  Quantum imaging could be the end of radar jamming

  By Aaron Souppouris on December 14, 2012 04:41 am + 52 comments

  Physicists have used quantum mechanics to create an unjammable imaging system that could be used in Continue reading…

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  First human trials involving reprogrammed stem cells could come next year

  By Chris Welch on December 13, 2012 04:31 pm + 24 comments

  John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka earned a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs that came from their Continue reading…

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  Watch this: the beautiful Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight

  By Kimber Streams on December 13, 2012 12:05 pm + 11 comments

  Beginning around 11PM EST tonight, the yearly Geminid meteor shower is set to pass through the Continue reading…

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  Johnny Depp assumes the role of artificial intelligence in new sci-fi flick 'Transcendence'

  By Kimber Streams on December 12, 2012 04:27 pm + 17 comments

  Johnny Depp will play a scientist whose consciousness is uploaded to a supercomputer in the upcoming Continue reading…

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  North Korea successfully launches satellite into orbit

  By Sam Byford on December 11, 2012 08:31 pm + 135 comments

  The secretive state of North Korea has made its second attempt to fire a rocket into space this Continue reading…

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  US 8th graders fail to score in global top 10 for math and science

  By Ben Kersey on December 11, 2012 08:20 am + 265 comments

  Results from the 2011 Trends in International Maths and Science Study show that the United States is Continue reading…

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  MIT researchers may have found a replacement for silicon processors with new transistor

  By Kimber Streams on December 10, 2012 06:45 pm + 24 comments

  Researchers from MIT's Microsystems Technology Laboratories claim to have created the smallest Continue reading…

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  DARPA-funded research could block internal bleeding with expanding foam

  By Adi Robertson on December 10, 2012 06:05 pm + 27 comments

  DARPA has awarded more funding to researchers who are testing a type of expandable foam that could Continue reading…