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  'Green Brain' Project to Create an Autonomous Flying Robot With a Honey Bee Brain

  October 1, 2012 — Scientists in the UK are embarking on an ambitious project to produce the first accurate computer models of a honey bee brain in a bid to advance our understanding of artificial intelligence, and how ... > full story
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  Rehabilitation Robots Uncover Stroke Disabilities and Improve Care

  October 1, 2012 — Scientists have added a robot to help identify and customize post-stroke ... > full story
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  Mars Rover Opportunity Working at 'Matijevic Hill'

  September 30, 2012 — NASA's Mars rover Opportunity, well into its ninth year on Mars, will work for the next several weeks or months at a site with some of the mission's most intriguing geological features. The site, ... > full story
• Biotechnology and Bioengineering
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  Bioengineers Introduce 'Bi-Fi' -- The Biological 'Internet'

  September 28, 2012 — Bioengineers have created a biological mechanism to send genetic messages from cell to cell -- something they've nicknamed the biological Internet, or ... > full story
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  Electronics That Vanish in the Environment or the Body

  September 27, 2012 — Physicians and environmentalists alike could soon be using a new class of electronic devices: small, robust and high performance, yet also biocompatible and capable of dissolving completely in water ... > full story

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  • Disappearing Act: Biocompatible Electronics for Health Monitoring Vanish When No Longer Needed
  • Tiny Resorbable Semiconductors: Smooth as Silk 'Transient Electronics' Dissolve in Body or Environment
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  Why Common Explosive Sometimes Fails

  September 26, 2012 — The explosive PETN has been around for a century and is used by everyone from miners to the military, but it took new research to begin to discover key mechanisms behind what causes it to fail at ... > full story
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  Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test on Turing's Centenary

  September 26, 2012 — An artificially intelligent virtual gamer has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against. The victory comes 100 years after ... > full story
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  Intuitive Visual Control Provides Faster Robot Operation

  September 25, 2012 — Using a novel method of integrating video technology and familiar control devices, a research team is developing a technique to simplify remote control of robotic ... > full story
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  Viruses Help Scientists Battle Pathogenic Bacteria and Improve Water Supply

  September 24, 2012 — Infectious bacteria received a taste of their own medicine from researchers who used viruses to infect and kill colonies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, common disease-causing ... > full story
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  Wearable Sensor System Automatic Maps Building While Wearer Is Moving

  September 24, 2012 — Researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is ... > full story

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