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Another Big Milestone For The X-47B: Its First Touch And Go Landing

The Navy’s unmanned and autonomous X-47B continues to hit new milestones. Less than a week after completing its first catapult launch from a carrier deck last Tuesday the Unmanned Combat Aerials System (UCAS) executed its fir...
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South Pole Lab Detects Elusive Deep-Space Neutrinos For The First Time

It looks like the IceCube Observatory neutrino detector at the South Pole has found what it was looking for just two years after opening. Neutrinos are strange subatomic particles that travel through the galaxy in straight line...
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Yahoo! Officially Acquires Tumblr For $1.1 Billion

Marissa Mayer, the new-ish CEO of Yahoo, announced this morning (though the purchase had been approved by Yahoo’s board a few days earlier) that Yahoo will purchase Tumblr, the image-centric blogging and social network be...
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Mars Rover Opportunity Travels Farther Than A NASA Vehicle Has Ever Traveled On Another Planet

Curiosity may be everyone’s favorite Mars robot these days, but it has a long way to rove if it’s going to catch up to the Mars rover Opportunity. Last week, Opportunity traversed 263 feet of Martian frontier near Endeavour...
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America’s Road To Energy Independence, Part 1

<!– By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C found at https://accounts.brightcove.com/en/terms-and-conditions/. –> Our series follows editor-in-chief Jacob Ward on a trip across...
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Video: MIT’s Cheetah Robot Trots, Then Gallops

Boston Dynamics’ Cheetah robot may be the fastest, but MIT’s version of the DARPA-backed quadruped robot is proving to be the most efficient. In a newly released video, MIT’s Biomimetic Robotics Lab shows off it’s new a...
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