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Futurists' report reviews dangers of smart robots - Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewScientists are preparing to publish a report this month that examines, in part, whether robots could eventually become so smart they pose a threat to society. The report will include concerns some researchers have voiced about the legal and ethical use of artificial intelligence. Most computer ...
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LaserMotive's Robot Is The First Ever To Win NASA's $900,000 Space Elevator Prize - Space Elevator - GizmodoLaserMotive's Robot Is The First Ever To Win NASA's $900,000 Space Elevator Prize LaserMotive's photovoltaic-powered machine became the first in the 3-year history of NASA's space elevator contest to climb a 2,953-foot-long ribbon, securing a prize of $900,000. However, they fell short of ...
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The New Science of Temptation: Scientific AmericanThe New Science of Temptation What happens when Harvard scientists use a brain scanner to look for the devil inside? The power to resist temptation has been extolled by philosophers, psychologists, teachers, coaches, and mothers. Anyone with advice on how you should live your life has ...
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Before Flowers, Odd Bugs Pollinated Plants - Yahoo! NewsThese results come from an examination of fossils from 11 extinct species of scorpionflies (from three different families) that lived during the Mesozoic, which lasted from 251 million to 65.5 million years ago. Such insects have elongated heads that resemble snouts and are tipped with ...
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Image DisplayThe image at right is Hubble's close-up view of the myriad stars near the galaxy's core, the bright whitish region at far right. An image of the entire galaxy, taken by the European Southern Observatory's Wide Field Imager on the ESO/MPG 2.2-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile, is shown at left. ...
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No joke: Large Hadron Collider shut down by speck of bread | DVICEHere's one for the books. CERN's Large Hadron Collider has once again been shut down. No catastrophic helium leak or failing magnets this time. The culprit? A speck of bread, which officials believe was originally part of a larger baguette. To make it all the more ridiculous, it's thought that ...
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Caught in the act: Scientists find butterflies splitting into two speciesPolymorphic mimicry in Heliconius cydno alithea in western Ecuador, where the white form mimics the white species Heliconius sapho and the yellow form mimics the yellow species Heliconius eleuchia. Credit: Marcus Kronforst and Krushnamegh Kunte Breaking up may actually not be hard to do, say ...
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Map of Human Bacterial Diversity Shows Wide Interpersonal DifferencesA University of Colorado at Boulder team has developed the first atlas of bacterial diversity across the human body, charting wide variations in microbe populations that live in different regions of the human body and which aid us in physiological functions that contribute to our health. The ...
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Nanoparticles may cause DNA damage across a cellular barrierScientists have shown in the laboratory that metal nanoparticles damaged the DNA in cells on the other side of a cellular barrier. The nanoparticles did not cause the damage by passing through the barrier, but generated signalling molecules within the barrier cells that were then transmitted to ...
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Lose hope and be happier, study finds | The Daily TelegraphResearchers find 'dark side of hope' From: GIVING up hope can actually make some people living with a serious illness happier, according to US researchers who have found a "dark side of hope". A study by the University of Michigan Health Center for Behavioral and Decision Sciences in ...
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