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The World's Fastest Camera Can 'Freeze Time', Show Beams of Light in Slow Motion
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The World's Fastest Camera Can 'Freeze Time', Show Beams of Light in Slow Motion
When you push the button on a laser pointer, its entire beam seems to appear instantaneously. In reality, though, the photons shoot out like water from a hose, just at a speed too fast to see.
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Stephen Hawking Warned of Future 'Superhumans' Threatening The End of Humanity
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Stephen Hawking Warned of Future 'Superhumans' Threatening The End of Humanity
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Stephen Hawking Warned of Future 'Superhumans' Threatening The End of Humanity
It's been several months since the late Stephen Hawking passed away, but posthumous writings by the groundbreaking scientist show the great man still had much more to tell us.
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Anomalously Huge Planets Have Been Detected Orbiting a Bafflingly Young Star
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Anomalously Huge Planets Have Been Detected Orbiting a Bafflingly Young Star
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Anomalously Huge Planets Have Been Detected Orbiting a Bafflingly Young Star
A wee baby star at the tender age of just 2 million years has revealed itself to be quite the precocious little cosmic object.
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NASA Astronaut Describes What It Was Like to Fall to Earth When Soyuz Launch Failed
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NASA Astronaut Describes What It Was Like to Fall to Earth When Soyuz Launch Failed
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NASA Astronaut Describes What It Was Like to Fall to Earth When Soyuz Launch Failed
Last week, NASA astronaut Air Force Colonel Nick Hague faced death as he and his commander, Alexei Ovchinin, plummeted to Earth following an aborted Soyuz launch.
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Astronomers Have Found a Massive Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Lurking in The Early Universe
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Astronomers Have Found a Massive Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Lurking in The Early Universe
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Astronomers Have Found a Massive Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Lurking in The Early Universe
There's a lot of stuff out there in the dark, far-flung reaches of the early Universe that we're only just starting to discover. But this one's a real doozy - the early formation of a huge supercluster of galaxies, located 11 billion light-years aw
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We Just Received The First Experiment Results From The Coldest Spot in Space
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We Just Received The First Experiment Results From The Coldest Spot in Space
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For The First Time, Physicists Created a 'Fifth' State of Matter in Space
In January last year, a rocket carrying a tiny chip packed with rubidium-87 atoms was launched more than 200 kilometres (124 miles) above the planet's surface. The mission was brief, affording just six minutes of microgravity at its height.
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"World's Oldest Fossils" Might Actually Be Simple Rocks, And We're Here For The Drama
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"World's Oldest Fossils" Might Actually Be Simple Rocks, And We're Here For The Drama
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"World's Oldest Fossils" Might Actually Be Simple Rocks, And We're Here For The Drama
A contender for the world's oldest fossil may be out of the running, as recent evidence suggests it could simply be a rock and not a sign of biological life after all.
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This Chinese City Wants to Launch an 'Artificial Moon' to Replace Street Lights
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This Chinese City Wants to Launch an 'Artificial Moon' to Replace Street Lights
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This Chinese City Wants to Launch an 'Artificial Moon' to Replace Street Lights
The streets of Chengdu in western China could soon be lit up by an artificial satellite moon in the night-time, rather than the more conventional streetlights, if an ambitious plan by a private aerospace company gets the go-ahead.
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Insects Are Rapidly Disappearing Around The World, Leaving Scientists Horrified
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Insects Are Rapidly Disappearing Around The World, Leaving Scientists Horrified
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Insects Are Rapidly Disappearing Around The World, Leaving Scientists Horrified
Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a small but growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations.
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Europe And Japan Are About to Launch an Ambitious Mission to Mercury
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Europe And Japan Are About to Launch an Ambitious Mission to Mercury
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Europe And Japan Are About to Launch an Ambitious Mission to Mercury
The European Space Agency (ESA) will launch its BepiColombo mission to the planet Mercury from its spaceport near the equator in Kourou, French Guyana, on October 20.
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For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Have Observed a Black Hole Using a Magnetic Field to Feed
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For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Have Observed a Black Hole Using a Magnetic Field to Feed
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For The First Time Ever, Astronomers Have Observed a Black Hole Using a Magnetic Field to Feed
Black holes are a mystery - dense regions of space where there's so much gravity not even light can escape.
Scientists from the NUST MISIS Laboratory of Inorganic Nanomaterials together with their international colleagues have proved it possible to change the structural and conductive properties of nanotubes by stretching them. This can potentially expand nanotubes’ application into electronics and high-precision sensors such as microprocessors and high-precision detectors.
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Surprise Study Reveals Even Healthy Humans Are "Riddled" With Mutant Cells
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Surprise Study Reveals Even Healthy Humans Are "Riddled" With Mutant Cells
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Surprise Study Reveals Even Healthy Humans Are "Riddled" With Mutant Cells
If you thought your cell were mostly normal, it might be time to guess again. Your body may in fact be a shrine to colonies of mutant clones.
We created a OneSoil Map (https://map.onesoil.ai) that allows exploring and comparing fields, yields and crops both on a global and a field view. To make the agricultural information look so beautiful, we had to process 20 petabytes of various agricultural data with the help of machine learning technologies. This, we hope, will contribute to the development of AgTech sector and the growth of its popularity among farmers all over the world.
The map reveals new insights about local and global trends in crop production. It will help to predict market performance at all levels; and foster smart, real-time decision-making, precise statistics and predictions for everyone involved in agriculture.
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Autonomous Tidying-up Robot System
That's really cool: Robot system is the first of its kind that can automatically keep a cluttered room neat and tidy at a practical level, something that has been difficult to achieve using conventional robot system. Thanks to the rapid advancement of deep learning technology in recent years, PFN has utilized cutting-edge deep learning techniques to enable the robot to recognize objects and understand spoken language as well as controlling the robot. As a result, the robot is able to quickly and accurately grasp and place objects, how to plan its movements, follow human instructions, all of which are essential for a robot to work in the human living space.
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That's really cool: Robot system is the first of its kind that can automatically keep a cluttered room neat and tidy at a practical level, something that has been difficult to achieve using conventional robot system. Thanks to the rapid advancement of deep learning technology in recent years, PFN has utilized cutting-edge deep learning techniques to enable the robot to recognize objects and understand spoken language as well as controlling the robot. As a result, the robot is able to quickly and accurately grasp and place objects, how to plan its movements, follow human instructions, all of which are essential for a robot to work in the human living space.
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CEATEC Japan 2018: [Time Lapse] Autonomous Tidying-up Robot System
PFN will exhibit a fully-autonomous tidying-up robot system that uses advanced deep learning technology at CEATEC 2018.
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The robot system has been awarded the Semi-Grand Prix in the Industry/Market category…
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China Is About to Open The World's Longest Sea Bridge, And It's Absolutely Ridiculous
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China Is About to Open The World's Longest Sea Bridge, And It's Absolutely Ridiculous
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China Is About to Open The World's Longest Sea Bridge, And It's Absolutely Ridiculous
After nine years of construction and controversy, China is set to officially unveil the world's longest sea bridge on Tuesday at a ceremony in Hong Kong.
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Crows Can Build Compound Tools Out of Multiple Parts, And Are You Even Surprised
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Crows Can Build Compound Tools Out of Multiple Parts, And Are You Even Surprised
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Crows Can Build Compound Tools Out of Multiple Parts, And Are You Even Surprised
Well, we didn't think it was possible, but we should have had more faith in our feathered corvid friends: crows just got even cooler. Researchers have discovered that crows don't just use single objects as tools; they can also make them out of mult
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Astronomers Have Detected Radio Waves From Our Own Galaxy Bouncing Off The Moon
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Astronomers Have Detected Radio Waves From Our Own Galaxy Bouncing Off The Moon
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Astronomers Have Detected Radio Waves From Our Own Galaxy Bouncing Off The Moon
The entire time the Moon has been sitting up there, quietly orbiting Earth, it turns out it's actually been doing something incredible. Something that could help teach us about the early Universe.
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Asian Elephants May Have Maths Skills Closer to Humans Than Any Other Animal
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Asian Elephants May Have Maths Skills Closer to Humans Than Any Other Animal
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Asian Elephants May Have Maths Skills Closer to Humans Than Any Other Animal
There are plenty of animals that have the ability to count, even without the use of language. But of all the non-human species in the world, the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) appears to be the true mathematician.
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Physicists Discover That Strange 'Ferroelectric' Particles Actually Exist, And Could Change Computing
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Physicists Discover That Strange 'Ferroelectric' Particles Actually Exist, And Could Change Computing
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Physicists Discover That Strange 'Ferroelectric' Particles Actually Exist, And Could Change Computing
More than eight decades after they were predicted to exist, physicists have found evidence of discrete units of matter that could help us better understand the electrical equivalent of ferromagnetism.