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Researchers at MIT are investigating how to turn houses in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into mini-power plants
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Can you tell the difference between a replica and the real thing? Does it matter? A curator at Natural History talks about copies, 3-D printing and museums
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Durable and rechargeable, the new battery can be stretched to 300 percent of its size and still provide power
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A new fleet of nanosatellites is zooming through space
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The air quality in China's biggest cities is famously atrocious, but designers think they may have found a way to combat the issue
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The White House wants to fund a huge project that would allow scientists to see, in real time, how a brain does its work
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Cornell scientists used computerized scanning, 3D printers and cartilage from cows to create living prosthetic ears
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Last week's close encounters with space rocks have raised concerns about how we deal with dangerous asteroids. Here's how we would try to knock them off course.
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There are more than 14 billion pages on the web, but they are linked by hyperconnected nodes, like Hollywood actors connected through Kevin Bacon
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Innovative architects are experimenting with small unmanned aerial vehicles to prove that drones can do more than cause destruction
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Don't understand love? Not to worry. Scientists continue to study away to try to make sense of it for the rest of us
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They have recently been the subject of a lot of scrutiny, but the American military first began developing similar aerial vehicles during World War I
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As drones become common as tools of the military and intelligence agencies, how are architects and designers responding?
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The debate over drones stirs up questions about whether robots can learn ethical behavior. Will they be able to make moral decisions?
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For designers, the battle over what it means to be private in a very public world is a new frontier to be conquered
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A juried competition honors photographs, illustrations, videos, posters, games and apps that marry art and science in an evocative way
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Pro football is turning to screens--some massive, others on smart phones--to try to keep its fans entertained.
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While scientists work toward perfecting the invisibility cloak, one designer has already developed a line of clothing that makes people invisible to robots
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When was the first-ever rocket built?
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Scientists are busy tracking the sources of stolen uranium in the hopes of deterring crime—and prevent the weapons getting into the wrong hands
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