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Before scientists can capture and recreate the fusion process that powers the sun and stars to produce virtually limitless energy on Earth, they...
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Earthquakes pose a profound danger to people and cities worldwide, but with the right hazard-mitigation efforts, from stricter building requirements to careful zoning,...
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Nanoparticle manufacturing, the production of material units less than 100 nanometers in size (100,000 times smaller than a marble), is proving the adage...
Tech: Laser breakthrough has physicists close to cooling down antimatter — (Report)
For the first time, physicists at CERN have observed a benchmark atomic energy transition in anithydrogen, a major step toward cooling and manipulating...
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Tech: Talking to an android: Meet ERICA, she wants to listen to you (Report)
Researchers have significantly upgraded the interaction system for the conversational android ERICA, by implementing 'backchanneling' and 'attentive listening' ability.
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Antibiotics -- medicines that treat bacterial infections -- have saved millions of lives worldwide since their discovery in the early 20th century. When...
Tech: Developing efficient method to characterize quantum computers — (Report)
A Rice University computer scientist and his colleagues have proposed a method to accelerate and simplify the imposing task of diagnosing quantum computers.
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Tech: Stars memorize rebirth of our home galaxy — (Report)
The Milky Way galaxy has died once before and we are now in what is considered its second life. Calculations by Masafumi Noguchi...
Tech: Researchers unravel the path of electrical discharges on phenomenally small scales — ...
Innovations in microscale electronics, medicine, combustion and scores of other technologies depend on understanding and predicting the behavior of electricity on the smallest...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
