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Image via Wikipedia Physicists give TRON filmmakers the lowdown on how to digitize a person and transport him into a computer game When Steven Lisberger made the original 1982 cult film TRON... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Five years ago, neuroscientist Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried of UCLA, and their colleagues discovered that... Read more
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Scientists from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a robot that’s just 4 nanometers... Read more
Enough sunlight bathes Earth’s daytime half in an hour to meet all human energy needs for a year. Sadly, there are several problems with meeting human energy demands by tapping such ab... Read more