Bringing Pieces of Mars to Earth: How NASA Will
Do It

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From SPACE.com: Over the next few months, NASA will map out a strategy for returning bits of Martian rock and soil to Earth, so scientists can study them for signs of past Red Planet life. That ambitious goal should drive the space agency's next steps at Mars, according to a report re

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Game bots passes the Turing Test

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An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against.

The competition was sponsored by 2K Games and was set inside the virtual world of ?Unreal Tournament 2004,? a first-person shooter video game.

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Artificial Intelligence

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Zinc-Rich Motor Oil Formulated Specifically for
Classic Cars

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 27 September 2012 10:00:00 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

One of the biggest worries among car collectors today is what oil they should use in their cars. As the zinc and phosphorous content continues to drop in modern motor oils on the corner parts store shelves, the risk of damaging the engines in our collector cars continues to increase. The res

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Photo distance influences perception

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Caltech study shows that the distance at which facial photos are taken influences perception.

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Brain & Behavior

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Asteroid's troughs suggest stunted planet

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Enormous troughs that reach across the asteroid Vesta may actually be stretch marks that hint of a complexity beyond most asteroids.

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Remotely controlled cockroach cyborgs

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Dr. Alper Bozkurt, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has developed a technique that uses an electronic interface to remotely control, or steer, cockroaches.

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Robotics

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Can computers critique art

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Understanding and evaluating art has widely been considered as a task meant for humans, until now. Computer scientists Lior Shamir and Jane Tarakhovsky of Lawrence Technological University in Michigan tackled the question "can machines understand art?" The results were very surprising. In fact, an algorithm has been developed that demonstrates computers are able to "understand" art in a fashion very similar to how art historians perform their analysis, mimicking the perception of expert art critiques.

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Artificial Intelligence

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How attention helps you remember

New study finds long-overlooked cells help the brain respond to visual stimuli.

A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on a neural circuit that makes us likelier to remember what we?re seeing when our brains are in a more attentive state.

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Brain & Behavior

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Space freighter undocking set for Friday

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Paris (AFP) Sept 27, 2012
The undocking of a supply craft from the International Space Station (ISS) will take place Friday after a three-day delay, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. The robot freighter should have separated from the ISS on Tuesday, the first step towards a suicide plunge over the South Pacific. But the operation was postponed because the astronauts sent the craft a wrong identification code,

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A penetrating, double-ringed crater on Mars

Mars is weird. Right? I mean, it’s a whole other planet. So you expect it to be weird. But then I see pictures like this one from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s HiRISE camera, and I am reminded just how weird it is:[Click to[...]

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