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Trekking and Backpacking Club Peru: Maya Wall Calendar …

Maya Wall Calendar Discovered – Science News. Continue reading

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Even the Maya Didn’t Think the World Would End in 2012

Mayan Cave Paintings Photograph by Tyrone Turner, National Geographic National Geographic has a new feature up today in which they discuss the new finding of a cave in the midst of an unexplored Mayan megacity–a cave with very particular glyphs on the walls. Continue reading

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Pentagon: That Fictional Drone From That Unreleased Video Game Sure Looks Cool

Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 The Pentagon’s place for new drone ideas. Continue reading

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Using Facial Recognition to Identify Unknown Subjects in History’s Great Portraits

Agents in the war on terror attempt to identify unknown persons each and every day, but technology developed to battle criminality around the globe could soon be identifying persons of questionable identity going back centuries. Continue reading

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Using the Microsoft Kinect to Detect Autism

Kids Playing Flickr user Michale There are five Microsoft Kinects set up all around the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development, but they’re not for playing games (or any of the other stuff the Kinect can do with an Xbox). Continue reading

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Blueseed, the Floating City for Startups, Has More Than a Hundred Firms Ready to Ship Out

When startup Blueseed floated the idea to create a seaborne startup community in international waters off the coast of northern California, we were intrigued. Continue reading

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Microsoft’s Newest Gestural Interface Captures Hand Motions By Listening to Them

Using Sound to Capture Motion Microsoft Research Like Kinect, but with a microphone and no camera WIth the Kinect, Microsoft opened up the world of gestural controls to the masses, allowing users to manipulate video games and otherwise control their devices with simple motion controls. Continue reading

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NASA and SETI Rent a Giant Zeppelin to Hunt for Meteorite Over Nevada

Airship Ventures’ Zeppelin Airship Ventures Back on April 22, residents of California and Nevada had their day interrupted by a series of sonic booms and a huge daytime fireball in the sky, products of an incoming minivan-sized asteroid that came slamming into the atmosphere, breaking up on its way to the ground. Continue reading

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Using Magnetic Bacteria to Construct the Biocomputer of the Future

Magnetospirilllum magneticum University of Leeds As computer components grow smaller and smaller it becomes more and more difficult to manufacture them by conventional means, meaning the nano-hard-drives of the future are going to come at a cost. Continue reading

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South Korea Targets Smuggled Capsules of Human Flesh

Unmarked Pills No telling what’s in there. Continue reading

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