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China tests new maglev traindChina successfully tested a locally made magnetic levitation train, the first time the country has achieved the feat without using foreign technology, state media reported Monday. |
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Japanese researchers invent completely transparent materialIn a breakthrough that could benefit fields as diverse as networking, photography, astronomy, and peeping, science-types at Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research have unveiled their prototype of a glass-like material that they claim to be 100% transparent. |
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Leave the driving to the carCruise control? How very 90s. These cars can brake -- even park -- themselves. The predictions of futurists have often fizzled on the subject of robots, which can vacuum floors and play chess but not drive a car. |
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Robots at new airport handle baggage, peopleAn employee pretending to be an arriving passenger got on one of the wheeled, box-shaped machines to move around the airport, which opened March 16. The other unit, which is smaller, was used to carry her baggage. |
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Roll Over, Aibo: Meet S.Korea’s Robot DogA South Korean company is stepping into to the gap left by Sony's decision to end production of its mechanized canine Aibo with a new robot hound that can recognize spoken commands and act as a watchdog with a camera built into its snout. |
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Boffins invent landmine-proof robo-shoeScientists have developed a robotic shoe that will allow people to walk through minefields unharmed. |
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‘Bloodless’ surgery avoids risks of transfusionPennsylvania Hospital is now able to offer so-called "bloodless surgery" to 90 percent of its patients who want it, joining a small but growing number of bloodless medicine programs around the country that also serve the general public. Advocates put the number at about 120. |
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AIDS Cocktail Could Be Soon Down To Just One PillIn a unique collaboration, two pharmaceutical companies have developed a one-a-day, single-pill anti-retroviral cocktail taken to treat the virus that causes AIDS. |
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Insect eye inspires future visionAn artificial insect eye that could be used in ultra-thin cameras has been developed by scientists in the US. |
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Robotic legs could replace wheelchairsA Japanese researcher demonstrated in Tokyo Wednesday a pair of robotic legs that can negotiate stairs and could eventually find use as a wheelchair substitute. |
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Study: World’s digital divide is narrowingThe digital divide is narrowing as citizens in emerging markets get online via computers and mobile phones, with some regions now on a par with developed nations, a ranking of Web-savvy countries showed Wednesday. |
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Glow-in-the-Dark Creature to Provide View Inside Human BodyTiny semiconductor crystals called quantum dots may soon light their own paths through the human body. |
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“Neogeography” Blends Blogs With Online MapsNeed to know where to find a mountaintop castle in Japan? How about the best fried cheese sticks along U.S. Route 66? |
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Holographic concentration of sunlight could cut solar panel costsThe main limitation of solar power right now is cost, because the crystalline silicon used to make most solar photovoltaic (PV) cells is very expensive. |
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- Bar Codes Apps Allow Consumers To Make Socially Conscious Choices
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- New technologies detect seizures, and could possibly even eliminate them
- Floating wind turbines to produce low cost renewable energy
- Device invented that can detect infectious disease in minutes
- American Scientists Make Great Leap in Battery Technology
- New system could eventually ‘eliminate’ batteries
- Digital tools ‘to save languages’
- Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as first
- The Cleanweb Takes Off
- Personal medicine is a little bit closer: Sequence your genome for under $1000
- 2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by NASA
- New discovery could lead to better artificial hips
- New plasma “brush” may mean painless cavity filling
- First Earth-sized planets spotted
- Artificial Intestines near reality
- Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery—healing without cuts
- Harnessing desert sun to power Europe
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