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Research & Innovations

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Research & Innovations";"Understand how advancements in environmental research and innovation are changing the world.

  • Even non-amputees can feel a phantom limb

    Fri, Apr 12, 2013 3:38 PM by Charles Choi, LiveScience

    The brain can easily be fooled into feeling phantom limbs, even invisible hands.

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  • Mayan calendar suggests it was drought that doomed their civilization

    Fri, Apr 12, 2013 10:17 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    A century-old understanding of how the Maya and European calendars fit together appears to be correct.

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  • Software can predict your name just by looking at your face

    Thu, Apr 11, 2013 8:34 PM by Bryan Nelson

    Do you know someone who just looks like a 'Chris'? It turns out that a person's name can be predicted by analyzing their face.

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  • How an Android app could hijack a plane mid-flight

    Thu, Apr 11, 2013 3:16 PM by Paul Wagenseil, TechNewsDaily

    A hacker has discovered an easy way to hack into airplane communications systems and control them remotely through a smartphone app.

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  • Humanity's closest ancestor was pigeon-toed

    Thu, Apr 11, 2013 3:15 PM by Charles Choi, LiveScience

    The course of human evolution may be re-written as study on the Au. sediba fossils continues.

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  • An artificial leaf can heal itself

    Thu, Apr 11, 2013 2:42 PM by Julie Manoharan, TechNewsDaily

    Researchers have been striving to create a power source that can be used in remote areas that lack sources of energy, and the 'leaf' is a step in that direction.

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  • Francis Crick's DNA Nobel Medal auctioned for $2 million

    Thu, Apr 11, 2013 12:25 PM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    Heritage Auctions had valued the Nobel medal and diploma at a mere $500,000.

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  • 5 ways Obama's 2014 budget supports the sciences

    Thu, Apr 11, 2013 9:57 AM by Tanya Lewis, LiveScience

    Energy, cybersecurity and weather research are just some of the areas benefiting from the proposed budget.

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  • Bidder pays $6 million for Francis Crick DNA letter

    Wed, Apr 10, 2013 2:54 PM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    Crick's family plans to give half of the proceeds from the sale of the DNA letter to the Salk Institute.

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  • Fossil embryos show dinosaurs wriggled in eggs

    Wed, Apr 10, 2013 2:20 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    The tiny bones were filled with cavities that would have once allowed blood to flow and spurred on incredible growth.

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  • This pen writes in 3-D

    Wed, Apr 10, 2013 10:22 AM

    Video: Two Massachusetts inventors show off their 3-D product to affiliate WBZ. And their designs really jump off the page.

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  • Lazy? Your genes may be to blame

    Tue, Apr 09, 2013 8:40 AM by Live Science Staff

    Researchers are trying to zero in on which genes might play a role in the motivation to exercise.

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  • Meet PETMAN: The military robot that will walk right into your nightmares

    Sun, Apr 07, 2013 9:43 PM by Shea Gunther

    From the company that brought you Big Dog, the uber-creepy four-legged pack mule robot, comes PETMAN, a two-legged machine that eerily mimics the walking gait of a human. I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.

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  • Engineers unveil giant robot spider that you can drive

    Sat, Apr 06, 2013 6:53 PM by Bryan Nelson

    Imagine taking this bad boy out for a test drive: the Mantis, the world's largest all-terrain hexapod robot that can be driven by a human pilot.

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  • Scientists learn how to record your dreams and play them back to you

    Fri, Apr 05, 2013 7:51 PM by Bryan Nelson

    Subjects asleep in an MRI machine can now have their dreams recorded and later reconstructed for them to watch while awake.

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