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			 by Evan Ackerman on  (#1JSC0) 
				Built in 1949, the giant Mont-Louis solar furnace could instantly ignite wood and melt through a steel plate in seconds 
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by Eliza Strickland on  (#1JR8G)
		A wearable device for the arm would only turn on when the user needs fine motor skills
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				An inherent band gap is bolstering the reputation of the hot new 2D material 
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			 by Dexter Johnson on  (#1JNTK) 
				A simple method involving only a UV light can reveal the authenticity of luxury watches 
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			 by Evan Ackerman on  (#1JNMP) 
				Overhead wires provide electricity for buses and trains. Could they work for trucks, too? 
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			 by Harish Krishnaswamy and Gil Zussman on  (#1JNMM) 
				A full-duplex chip—one that can send and receive simultaneously—could double phone-network data capacity 
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by Emily Waltz on  (#1JNGH)
		Cool trick, huh? says the algorithm
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			 by Terry Ngo on  (#1JMS6) 
				Neglected channels could add Wi-Fi capacity if router makers used them properly 
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			 by Evan Ackerman on  (#1JMS8) 
				We like the idea of an autonomous shopping cart, but getting it to work will be a challenge 
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by Evan Ackerman on  (#1JJEA)
		Cozmo promises intelligence, personality, and fun, but is it enough to hold your interest?
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			 by Amy Nordrum on  (#1JHZE) 
				Eyeing the space boom, the company plans to launch a constellation of CubeSats 
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			 by Eliza Strickland on  (#1JHMA) 
				Eyeglasses with EMG sensors can tell whether you're munching on cookies or Jelly Babies 
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			 by Dexter Johnson on  (#1JHH0) 
				Huge potential impact in regenerative medicine and electronic therapeutics 
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by Philip E. Ross on  (#1JHDF)
		The track is wet, the tires are racing slicks, and the outlook is cloudy
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			 by Stephen Cass on  (#1JH6N) 
				Autonomous underwater vehicles could survey pipelines—or perform military missions 
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			 by Philip E. Ross on  (#1JCQZ) 
				Will today's bug defeat the Ohio State student engineers? 
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by Dexter Johnson on  (#1J9M0)
		Could safe, durable and high-temperature Li-S batteries lead to EV applications?
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			 by Paul Wallich on  (#1J9B5) 
				An enticing idea turns out to be devilishly complex 
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			 by Evan Ackerman and Erico Guizzo on  (#1J95C) 
				Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos 
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			 by Eliza Strickland on  (#1J8RQ) 
				Researchers are taking different approaches in the drive to end conventional dialysis 
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by Philip E. Ross on  (#1J64X)
		And the bug of the day is a throttle that suddenly cuts out
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			 by Vaclav Smil on  (#1J5PZ) 
				Batteries are way too weak, and it’s easier said than done to turn vegetable oil into a kerosene substitute 
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			 by Evan Ackerman on  (#1J5MK) 
				A fun-sized version of Spot is the most domesticated Boston Dynamics robot we've seen 
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			 by Evan Ackerman on  (#1J5GV) 
				We want autonomous cars to be as safe for everyone as possible, as long as they're safest for us first 
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by Peter Fairley on  (#1J52E)
		A pair of innovative studies from UC Berkeley questions the accepted wisdom that electrification begets economic and social development
	by Philip E. Ross on  (#1J30G)
		To win this race you have to kill bugs faster than the competition can
	by Evan Ackerman on  (#1J2RH)
		Want to make some money with your drone? Here's what you'll have to do first
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			 by G. Pascal Zachary on  (#1J1YD) 
				Remote, real-time monitoring of animals lets wildlife conservationists get the drop on poachers 
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			 by Alexander Hellemans on  (#1J14R) 
				A 10-year-long megaproject will go beyond quantum computing and cryptography to advance other emerging technologies 
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by Philip E. Ross on  (#1J0C8)
		Yesterday's time trial teased out a teething pain—a noisemaking system that mysteriously goes silent
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			 by Dexter Johnson on  (#1HYC9) 
				Could an economically viable, emission-free hydrogen isolation technique be at hand? 
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			 by Theresa Sullivan Barger on  (#1HY78) 
				Companies find that boosting diversity can help the bottom line 
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by Megan Scudellari on  (#1HY22)
		The U.S. government’s Human Connectome Project moves into its second phase—and its brain scans are being used to predict individuals’ behavior and intelligence
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			 by Robert W. Lucky on  (#1HXBM) 
				Can we imagine an alternate history resulting in many isolated networks? 
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by Amy Nordrum on  (#1HTNK)
		The FCC Chairman wants to grant U.S. companies a “home field advantage†for 5G wireless by releasing high-frequency bands
	by Tekla S. Perry on  (#1HTJN)
		Want to know how to start a business? There’s a (free) school for that
	by Amy Nordrum on  (#1HTA4)
		Hundreds of threatened and endangered turtles wash ashore in Chesapeake Bay each year, and no one knows why
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			 by Eliza Strickland on  (#1HSX1) 
				As conventional storage technologies struggle to keep up with big data, interest grows in a biological alternative 
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by Rachel Courtland on  (#1HSX3)
		The 93-petaflop Sunway TaihuLight takes the top ranking
	by Peter Fairley on  (#1HSPA)
		Despite increasingly severe curtailment of Chinese wind farms in favor of coal-fired generation, a first-of-a-kind energy dispatch model finds that the country can accommodate a lot of additional wind power
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			 on  (#1HJ9N) 
				A serious blow to those who believe the blockchain is the future of commerce 
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			 by Philip E. Ross on  (#1HJ6W) 
				More than a century ago, the third-rail technology we still use was hammered out in the aftermath of a disaster 
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			 by Evan Ackerman and Erico Guizzo on  (#1HJ2M) 
				Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos 
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			 by Dexter Johnson on  (#1HHK0) 
				Shape-adaptive triboelectric nanogenerators can adapt to any geometrical shape 
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			 by Tekla S. Perry on  (#1HH6Y) 
				Study suggests that when engineers work in mixed-gender teams, women get the grunt work. Curriculum changes may be making it worse 
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by Dexter Johnson on  (#1HEJM)
		Dysprosium-cobalt promises heat-assisted magnetic recording that doesn't need much heat
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			 by Evan Ackerman on  (#1HE7Q) 
				These warehouse robots can pick (some) items directly off of shelves 
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			 by Mark Anderson on  (#1HE0D) 
				The FBI's iPhone case showcased a fixable problem at the agency, according to one cybersecurity expert 
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			 by Amy Nordrum on  (#1HDWN) 
				If left alone, ISIS supporters could form one mega-network through which to spread propaganda 
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by Evan Ackerman on  (#1H9TA)
		Doing some of the final assembly of a home robot could make you feel like it works better