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Brain Implant That Could Reanimate Paralyzed Limbs Secures $16M In Funding

The National Science Foundation recently awarded the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering at the University of Washington a $16 million grant for research that will h...

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Sustainable Development

Spacex Is The World’s Most Interesting Space Company Again

SpaceX is back in business. Monday night?s historic launch and landing of Elon Musk?s new, more powerful Falcon 9 rocket ticked off every box the company needed to prove to...

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Sustainable Development

Google Just Turned Android Smartphones Into Amateur VR Cameras

Google today released a new Android app called Cardboard Camera that lets users take VR photos with their smartphone, which are then viewable in the company&rsquo...

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Sustainable Development

How High Speed Communications Networks Are Making Remote Surgery Realistic

Imagine a future where surgeons no longer have to enter war zones to treat soldiers injured on the battlefield. Instead, they would just rig themselves up to a?surgical rob...

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Environment

Robots Will Make Leeds The First Self-Repairing City

The idea is to create a city that behaves almost like a living organism,? said Raul Fuentes, a researcher at the School of Civil Engineering at Leeds University, who is wor...

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Sustainable Development

How South Korea Imagines The Future Of Cars

Visitors travelling along the vast network of roads at Kia and Hyundai’s Namyang R&D centre are told not to take pictures. The facility, a two-and-a-half-hour dri...

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Sustainable Development

Tesla Cars Just Got An 'Autopilot' Mode.

It’s the most radical feature Tesla has ever delivered via an over-the-air update, downloaded to the car much like you’d download a new version of Android or iO...

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Sustainable Development

Tesla's Model X Is Now On Roads, And, Yes, It's Got Some Weird Features

The Model X is Elon Musks’s first foray into the SUV sector (it strikes me as more of a minivan, as you’re not going to be lugging two-by-fours in this thing), ...

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Sustainable Development

Jeff Bezos Is Building A Rocket Factory At An Old NASA Launch Site

“We’re not just launching from here, we’re building here,” Bezos, who also owns Amazon and The Washington Post, said at a press conference. “W...

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Thought Factory

Years Of Living Dangerously: Merchants Of Doubt hiding An Inconvenient Truth

The Climate Change debate has been active for close to thirty years now. James E Hansen was the first scientist to expose to dangers of climate change when he decided to of...

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