Culture
Robots seen as solution to Japan’s aging, shrinking population
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The wedding conductor spoke, her arms moving with slow jerky movements, as her large, egg-shaped, glowing eyes flashed from purple to blue to green and yellow. Strange?
Science
Nanotech spurs battery innovation
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While the rest of the world was waiting around for that better mousetrap, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a startling breakthrough in battery technology.
Science
Researchers edge toward artificial photosynthesis
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered a process that allows them to imitate photosynthesis—a potentially critical breakthrough in the search for clean, sustainable energy.
Science
Engineer paints it blacker than black
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This Purdue University electrical and computer engineering professor is undoubtedly running in the black, due to his creation of a blacker-than-black metamaterial that absorbs virtually all light.
Culture
Shear beams, engineering and the science of the new Bay Bridge
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Putting aside mind-blowing cost overruns, along with delays at a Chinese steel fabrication plant, engineers and scientists are following the equally mind-blowing construction feats in the eastern span of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
Culture
“The Last Supper” gets supersized
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Over the years, artists’ depictions of Jesus’ last supper have upped the ante on the portions—by a whopper-sized 69 percent.
Culture
Political website calls Einsteinian physics a ‘liberal conspiracy’
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Conservapedia list 28 “Counterexamples to Relativity” and associates the theory with the philosophy of relativism.
Science
Scientist studies sound sleepers, spindles
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A study conducted by Harvard neurologist Jeffrey Ellenbogen examines the makings of a sound sleeper.
Science
New tech turns ordinary windows into solar cells
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New thin-film technology could also be applied to other surfaces, turning buildings into power generators.
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Turks turn tires into ‘stardust’
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If successful, the process could prove instrumental in the vexing environmental challenge of dealing with landfill-hogging tires. In Europe alone, 325,000 tons of tires are buried in landfills each year.