Following India's maiden Mars probe launch earlier in the month, last week saw the successful launch of the Martian Atmospheres and Volatiles Evolution mission, or MAVEN for short.
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Plant breeders hunting for genes to combat new diseases or adapt to changes in climate can plumb the vast diversity of crops and their wild relatives using envelopes of seed banked in cold storage, but cattle breeders are ...
Other
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A $500 "nano-camera" that can operate at the speed of light has been developed by researchers in the MIT Media Lab.
Engineering
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Noel Sharkey, the chairman of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, argued his case against killer robots last Friday at Northeastern University, saying that autonomous machines should not be allowed to make ...
Robotics
Nov 26, 2013
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Structured-light 3-D scanning, an advanced measuring technology often used for fine art restoration and reproduction, helped create a "work of art" in the Cadillac Elmiraj concept car – appearing at the Los Angeles International ...
Engineering
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Theoretical physicist Ana Maria Rey uses the computer, as well as pencil and paper, to develop mathematical models that describe the behavior of ultra-cold atoms. The idea is to use these systems to learn more about condensed ...
Quantum Physics
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(Phys.org) —Many people look back at their time on the Great Barrier Reef by viewing holiday snaps. Scientists have taken an even longer look back at the Great Barrier Reef via another image caught in time - deepwater fossils ...
Earth Sciences
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When night falls over Geneva and technicians, engineers and physicists finish their work in the Large Hadron Collider tunnel to go home, Gunter Kniesche and his colleagues take the helm. They are non-destructive testers – ...
General Physics
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(Phys.org) —NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed full science operations on Saturday, Nov. 23.
Space Exploration
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(Phys.org) —You may have thought that NASA's Kepler spacecraft was finished. Well, think again. A repurposed Kepler Space telescope may soon start searching the sky again.
Astronomy
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