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

  • 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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  • Computers can 'see' people's dreams

    Fri, Apr 05, 2013 9:26 AM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    Scientists use an awake brain's patterns to compare and contrast similar dreaming-related patterns to determine types of dream content.

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  • Zap a cocaine addiction ... with a laser?

    Thu, Apr 04, 2013 12:50 PM by Megan Gannon, LiveScience

    The laser treatment can also make those who don't use the drug into addicts.

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  • How will scientists confirm dark matter discovery?

    Wed, Apr 03, 2013 4:06 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience

    To definitively expose dark matter, physicists must look deep beneath the Earth instead of in outer space.

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  • Who will pay for Obama's ambitious brain project?

    Tue, Apr 02, 2013 1:50 PM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    After the president announced the launch of the BRAIN Initiative, the directors of the National Institutes of Health and DARPA took questions about project plans.

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  • Obama announces huge brain-mapping project

    Tue, Apr 02, 2013 11:20 AM by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience

    President Obama made a vague reference to the Brain Activity Map project in his State of the Union address, mentioning that it could 'unlock the answers to Alzheimer's.'

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  • Massive jellyfish robot could monitor the seas

    Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:08 PM by Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience

    Jellyfish provide models for engineers to mimic when building oceanic monitors in terms of movement in the water and sizes based on habitat.

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  • Shroud of Turin real? Debate resurrected

    Fri, Mar 29, 2013 11:20 AM by Marc Lallanilla, LiveScience

    The linen cloth, allegedly the burial shroud of Jesus, was closely examined in 1988 in laboratories in Switzerland, England and the U.S. using carbon-dating techniques.

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  • Secret to human evolution is brain organization, not size

    Thu, Mar 28, 2013 12:53 PM by Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer

    Scientists have established that humans' superior intelligence is all thanks to the brain's organization, not its size.

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