Technoscience – Page 11

What’s a Lake Doing in the Middle of the Desert?
By the Editor on October 30, 2012
One place you don’t expect to see waves lapping against the shore is in the middle of a desert....
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Boeing Engineers to Develop Rocket to Take Humans to Mars
By the Editor on October 29, 2012
After having launched the space rover Curiosity to Mars, researchers at NASA are now planning to send people to...
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World’s Most Powerful Laser Beams to Zap Nuclear Waste
By the Editor on October 29, 2012
The European Union will spend about 700 million euros ($900 million) to build the world’s most powerful lasers, technology...
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How Paintballs Could Save Earth From Giant Asteroid Impact
By the Editor on October 27, 2012
An epic battle between paintballs and a giant asteroid could one day save the Earth from an apocalyptic space...
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Technology Close to Cracking Oldest Undeciphered Writing System
By the Editor on October 27, 2012
Scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton have created a technique called reflectance transformation imaging...
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New Microbe Forms Living, Deep-Sea Power Cables
By the Editor on October 25, 2012
The world’s deep seafloors are dark and airless places, but vast swaths may pulse gently with energy conducted through...
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DARPA Wants Robotics to Rise to the Challenge of Disasters
By the Editor on October 25, 2012
The DARPA Robotics Challenge kicked into high gear this week as the organization announced the top teams competing to...
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Antarctic Airstrip Melts
By the Editor on October 24, 2012
Researchers said global warming has caused the glacial ice on the runway to turn to mush just four years...
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Of Earthquakes and Human Responsibility
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
From Slate’s Future Tense blog: A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience indicates that human activity triggered a...
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Sex and Space Travel: Predictions From the 1950s
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Outside of science fiction, the topic of sex in space has received surprisingly scant attention. But it was science...
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