NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic
Prototype Lander Takes 100-Foot Free Flight

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From Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories: With a whistle and a roar, the "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, sailed to an altitude of 100 feet during another successful free flight Aug. 28 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Read

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Flexible Batteries Power Flexible Displays

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From Design News: New materials for batteries can make them flexible and energy-dense enough to power displays on bendable, implantable, and wearable electronics. Read the whole article

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Intel Gives Peek Inside Xeon Phi at Hot Chips

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From EE Times: Xeon Phi aka Knights Corner packs more than 50 quad-threaded Pentium-class cores with 512-bit vector units and 25 Mbytes cache around a 512-bit, three-ring interconnect. Read the whole article

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BAFact Math: The Sun is mind-crushingly brighter
than the faintest object ever seen. Seriously.

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[BAFacts are short, tweetable astronomy/space facts that I post every day. On some occasions, they wind up needing a bit of a mathematical explanation. The math is pretty easy, and it adds a lot of coolness, which I'm passing on to you! You're[...]

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The Aircraft and Spacecraft of Neil
Armstrong's Career

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From Wired Top Stories: Armstrong flew more than 200 different types of aircraft from that simple Aeronca Champ to some of the most advanced experimental aircraft ever built. Walking on the moon was just the culmination of a long career spent as an engineer and test pilot that began at a

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York Scientists to Fit 1,000 Ants with Radio
Receivers to Learn How They Travel and Communicate

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From INHABITAT: Researchers from the University of York are fitting 1,000 northern hairy wood ants with tiny radio receivers in order to learn how they communicate and travel between their complex nests. The three-year research project will take place on the National Trustâ€™

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Dwarf Pair Pump Out Gravity Waves

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From BBC News - Science & Environment: Astronomers spot the first visible-light evidence for gravitational waves - ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein that have never been directly seen. Read the whole article

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Harvard Creates Cyborg Flesh That's Half
Man, Half Machine

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From ExtremeTech: Bioengineers at Harvard University have created the first examples of cyborg tissue: Neurons, heart cells, muscle, and blood vessels that are interwoven by nanowires and transistors.These cyborg tissues are half living cells, half electronics. As far as the cells are co

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Two job openings at UCB coming soon!

Two computational structural biologist job openings will be opening soon at UCB. Check out the Jobs Board for more information. Related postsProtein?protein interaction inhibitors get into the grooveJobs WantedScientist in Computational Protein Design Position at AdimabMolecular Modeling JobsLinkedIn groups related to macromolecular modeling

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Space Elevator Takes Baby Steps Towards Becoming
a Reality

From ExtremeTech: Kickstarter is a place where just about anyone can pitch their ideas to the public, no matter how lofty. However, one of the most recent pitches may be the loftiest of all: a proposal for a real-life space elevator. Read the whole article

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