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The addition of a single second can screw up half of the Internet
All of the atomic clocks in the world will pause for a single second on the midnight between June 30th and July 1st later this year in order to synchronize...
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is about to reach Pluto after 9 years
Nearly nine years ago, NASA sent its New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto. On Saturday, after all that time in transit, it will come out of hibernation for the last time...
HealthCare.gov is getting a cybersecurity upgrade
The launch of Healthcare.gov, the US government's health insurance website, was beset with technical problems so severe that only six people were able to enroll on its first day in...
Scientific fraud could be reduced by... video games?
Scientific error doesn't always come from botched equations or faulty theories but bad behavior, too, sometimes scientists crack under pressure and contaminate their results by crafting fraudulent, retrospective hypotheses or...
Scientists have developed a working invisibility cloak
Most invisibility cloaks require fairly exotic technology to work, such as fiber optics or light-altering metamaterials. That's not very practical, especially since the illusion still tends to break when you...
This robot can fly an airplane as well as a human pilot
Autonomous aircraft are likely to be the future of air travel, but we're not quite there yet; even with autopilot systems in place, most airplanes are designed with human pilots...
This program teaches computers how to understand music lingo
The vocabulary we use to describe music can be tough enough for a human to grok (really, what does it mean when a guitar riff is "crunchy"?) but a team...
A Japanese firm has made 3D images a bit more tangible
A tech firm in Japan recently introduced a technology that would make 3D images a little more tangible. Thanks to the use of haptic technology, which is used in everyday...
Scientists can now create artificial blood vessels with 3D printing
Sure, we can now 3D print stem cells and even whole organs like kidneys, heart, liver and lungs. But 3D printing blood vessels? Now that was a challenge. A team from Brigham and...
Illinois researchers develop material that actually regenerates
We do know that the LG G Flex smartphone does come with a kind of self-healing cover, but that material has not really made an appearance anywhere else. Well, fret not,...