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An Orange Pixel flickers on the horizon, sandwiched between the inky azure of the mid-Pacific and the robin’s-egg pale of the Hawaiian sky.
There is a deep and watery mystery on Mars.
Most of the country is still waiting for the sort of super-fast gigabit internet connections available in places like Kansas City, Kansas and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
ARPA-E is funding several projects that use liquid battery electrodes to cut costs and increase energy density.
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Scientists have found a new way of keeping track of whale populations. Using high-resolution images taken by satellites high up in orbit, scientists are now able to count individual whales in the world's oceans.
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Harvard researchers have developed robots that work like termites to build complex, three-dimensional structures, without depending on a boss.
Researchers at Yale have identified a protein from tarantula venom that can be used to treat pain.
NASA scientists found link between mysterious ‘ribbon’ of energy particles at edge of solar system and the interstellar magnetic field.
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Since 2010, DARPA has been kicking around the concept of giving us an Autobot-esque vehicle of our own. Initially, the project was simply called Transformer (TX for short).
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Physicists had to compress the fuel to twice the density of the core of the sun.
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At the 1983 Aspen International Design Conference, Steve Jobs gave presentation on the future of technology. He used an Apple Lisa mouse to navigate the presentation before contributing it to a time capsule that would be buried as part of the confere
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Tyson will pick up where Carl Sagan left off, hosting a continuation of the "Cosmos" TV series