News tagged with rubik s cube
The math of the Rubik's cube
Last August, 30 years after the Rubik’s cube first appeared, an international team of researchers proved that no matter how scrambled a cube got, it could be solved in no more than 20 moves. Although ...
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10.69 seconds: Robot Ruby breaks Rubik's record (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's fastest Rubik's Cube-solving robot has been developed by students at Swinburne University of Technology.
May 30, 2011 |
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University of Ulster celebrates acquisition of PR2 robot by having it solve Rubik's cube
(PhysOrg.com) -- Students and researcher’s at the University of Ulster’s Intelligent Systems Research Center (ISRC) watched (and filmed) as the newly acquired Willow Garage, Personal Robot 2 (PR2) ...
May 11, 2011 |
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Review: Rubik's TouchCube a little too touchy
(AP) -- Thirty years ago Erno Rubik took a puzzle he had been tinkering with and turned it into the must-have brain twister toy, the Rubik's Cube.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Transparent phone display has front-and-back touch
(Phys.org) -- Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo and Fujitsu attracted attention at this week’s 2012 Wireless Japan expo, with their transparent, dual-sided smartphone touchscreen. This is a see through ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 01, 2012 |
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Feb. 23 NASA mission to tote $28 million CU-Boulder instrument and tiny student satellite
A $28 million University of Colorado Boulder instrument developed to study changes in the sun's brightness and its impact on Earth's climate is one of two primary payloads on NASA's Glory mission set to launch ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 22, 2011 |
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Wireless advances could mean no more cell towers
(AP) -- As cell phones have spread, so have large cell towers - those unsightly stalks of steel topped by transmitters and other electronics that sprouted across the country over the last decade.
Feb 12, 2011 |
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The impact of sleep deprivation in children
We all know kids, especially, need a good night's sleep in order to thrive. After studying thousands of children, psychologist Mona El-Sheikh, a professor of child development, says children who don't get ...
Nov 16, 2010 |
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Study uncovers every possible Rubik's Cube solution
An international team of researchers using computer time lent to them by Google has found every way the popular Rubik's Cube puzzle can be solved, and showed it can always be solved in 20 moves or less.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 13, 2010 |
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Personalizing medicine to prevent pandemics
What makes some viral infections fatal and others much less severe is largely a mystery. It is thought that a part of the variability can be attributed to differences in how individuals respond to infection.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 29, 2010 |
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US toys in 2010 are 'green,' high-tech... and cheap
US toy makers are coming out of a long recession tunnel this year, hoping to ride the recovery wave with new lines of classic, "green" and high-tech toys, and a sales pitch centered on affordability.
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 16, 2010 |
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Powering cube satellites
Right now, 10 to 15 Rubik's Cube-sized satellites are orbiting high above Earth. Known as cube satellites, or "CubeSats," the devices help researchers conduct simple space observations and measure characteristics ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 03, 2010 |
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Vitamin B1 biosynthesis: Think Rubik's cube
(PhysOrg.com) -- A key enzyme in the biosynthesis of vitamin B1 has somehow evolved the ability to perform a complex series of some 15 to 20 steps, report two Cornell chemists.
Nov 20, 2008 |
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Networks of the Future: Extending Our Senses into the Physical World
(PhysOrg.com) -- The picture of a future with wireless sensor networks-webs of sensory devices that function without a central infrastructure--is quickly coming into sharper focus through the work of Los Alamos National Laboratory ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 13, 2008 |
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