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Month: April 2013

SHARK robot for hunting submarines

8 April 2013 grant 0

Robots.net reviews The Pentagon’s latest unmanned drone program – heading underwater with robots named SHARKs (Submarine Hold At RisK):

The robot is designed for Distributed

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Science Art: Nazca Lines, Peru, 2000, NASA’s Earth as Art

7 April 2013 grant 0

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These are probably the world’s largest petroglyphs. They’re ancient rock carvings that we can see from space.

You can’t make out the funky checkerboards, or the hummingbirds… Read the rest “Science Art: Nazca Lines, Peru, 2000, NASA’s Earth as Art”

Cthulhu lives! He’s just really small. And kinda cute.

5 April 2013 grant 0

Science, Space & Robots brings the paralysis of inhuman knowledge, as creatures tiny and writhing cast their malevolent gazes up at the electron scanning microscope. Sleeping or… Read the rest “Cthulhu lives! He’s just really small. And kinda cute.”

Polar paradox: Warmer planet, larger ice cap.

4 April 2013 grant 0

Nature puzzles over an unforeseen consequence of global warming – an expansion of Antarctic sea ice as the climate warms:

While sea ice at the North Pole has shrunk substantially

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Tiki Brazil (Thor Heyerdahl was right! Maybe.)

3 April 2013 grant 0

Nature, in what was almost certainly not an April Fools’ gag, reports that there’s genetic evidence, now, that Polynesians traveled to the Amazon in days gone by – because… Read the rest “Tiki Brazil (Thor Heyerdahl was right! Maybe.)”

Real money. Virtual currency. Hard rules.

2 April 2013 grant 0

New Scientist adds up the arguments over bitcoins, the computer-generated form of money. We’re now seeing plans to regulate the imaginary currency:

Virtual currencies are to be

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Why is there something? Anything? Instead of nothing?

1 April 2013 grant 0

NPR asks the biggest question of all – the original question. Look around. Why is there something instead of nothing?:

The best answer we have at this point is that the Universe emerged

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