Microsoft previews Surface tablet

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Microsoft took a bold step into the tablet market on Monday with the unveiling of a computer aimed squarely at bettering Apple?s market-leading iPad.

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Brain implant has therapeutic potential

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Studies suggest that neurotrophic factors, which play a role in the development and survival of neurons, have significant therapeutic and restorative potential for neurologic diseases such as Huntington's disease.

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Neutrons escaping to a parallel world

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An anomaly in the behavior of ordinary particles may point to the existence of mirror particles that could be candidates for dark matter responsible for the missing mass of the universe

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This is your brain with no self-control

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New pictures from the University of Iowa show what it looks like when a person runs out of patience and loses self-control.

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Robots get a feel for the world

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What does a robot feel when it touches something? Little or nothing until now. But with the right sensors, actuators and software, robots can be given the sense of feel ? or at least the ability to identify different materials by touch.

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Lockheed Martin ATC Delivers Flight Hardware For
Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

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Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jun 19, 2012
Engineers and scientists at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) have completed delivery of key hardware subsystems for NASA's Magnetosphereic Multiscale mission (MMS). The delivery comprised four flight subsystems and one flight spare unit. The prime contractor Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) partnered with Lockheed Martin to develop and build the Hot Pla

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Instrument Integration Begins at Goddard on MMS
Spacecraft

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The decks have arrived. Engineers working on NASA'S Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission have started integrating instruments on the first of four instrument decks in a newly fabricated cleanroom at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The MMS mission consists of four identical spacecraft, and each instrument deck will have 25 sensors per spacecraft. "This is the first time NAS

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First astronauts enter orbiting China space
module

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Beijing (AFP) June 18, 2012
Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network and a key step towards the nation's first space station. The astronauts, two men and a woman, passed into the Tiangong-1 ("Heavenly Palace") module a little under three hours after it docked with the Shenzhou-9 ("Divine Vessel") spacecraft. The Sh

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Boeing Completes CDR of MEXSAT Geomobile
Satellite System

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El Segundo CA (SPX) Jun 19, 2012
Boeing and its supplier partners have completed the Critical Design Review of the MEXSAT Geomobile Satellite Communications System with their customer, the Secretaria de Comunicaciones y Transportes of the government of Mexico. "The successful completion of this milestone review verifies that MEXSAT will operate as promised to deliver greatly enhanced telecommunications for Mexico," said C

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Fast square roots

I have always been puzzled about the way square roots calculations are taught in the elementary[...]

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