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Technological Challenges Aside, Is Asteroid Mining Legal?

Posted on April 24, 2012 by admin

Asteroid Eros This spud-shaped rock is asteroid 433 Eros. Continue reading →

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Intrepid Michigan Tween Restores Her Own Future Car

Posted on April 18, 2012 by admin

When I was a kid in Buffalo, N.Y., the route back to my parents’ house passed a Pontiac dealership with a red Fiero displayed on the corner. Continue reading →

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Intrepid Michigan Tween Restores Her Own Future Car

Posted on April 18, 2012 by admin

When I was a kid in Buffalo, N.Y., the route back to my parents’ house passed a Pontiac dealership with a red Fiero displayed on the corner. Continue reading →

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Q+A: SpaceX Engineer Garrett Reisman on Building the World’s Safest Spacecraft

Posted on April 13, 2012 by admin

Garrett Reisman, Aboard STS-132 Now at SpaceX, Reisman is using his spaceflight know-how to help build what the commercial space company hopes will be the safest spacecraft the world has ever known. Continue reading →

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Video: This Octobot Walks Using Shape-Memory Alloy Tentacles

Posted on April 10, 2012 by admin

OCTOPUS As IEEE Spectrum notes this morning, the octopus–with its near lack of bones, fine motor control, and dexterity–is the ideal biological model in the field of soft robotics. Continue reading →

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Photo Artists Use Filter "Normally Used by NASA" to Remove People From Crowded Urban Places

Posted on April 5, 2012 by admin

Columbus Circle, Deserted Lucie & Simon “Silent World,” a photography project by Parisian artists Lucie & Simon, takes the most crowded parts of New York City, Paris, and Beijing, and alters them in a basic (but technically incredible difficult) way. Continue reading →

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Video: Design, Program, and Build a Customized Army of Robots In a Day

Posted on April 3, 2012 by admin

Origami Fish This fish is an example of how to produce programmable machines on-demand, using refined 3-D printing techniques. Continue reading →

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Crunching the Big Bang With the Greatest Supercomputer Ever Built

Posted on April 2, 2012 by admin

Listening to the Skies Part of South Africa’s Karoo Array Telescope, or MeerKAT, a project designed to demonstrate the country’s capability to host the Square Kilometer Array. Continue reading →