Monday, 14 October 2013

How to Give Prosthetic Hands Touch Sense

Computer-generated signals might give prosthetics a human touch. Continue reading →



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Spaceship Earth: We Are Interstellar Travellers

Living deep inside our planet's protective biosphere, it sometimes takes some beautiful cosmic events to make us realize that we are orbiting the sun as the sun orbits the galactic core at breakneck speeds.



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Did Humans Arrive in Americas 30,000 Years Ago?

Cave art depicting early Americans’ sex lives suggests people inhabited Americas 18,000 years earlier than believed.



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DNews: Nobel Prizes: Who Won and Who Got Snubbed

The 2013 Nobel Prizes have been announced. This year's prizes went to people doing amazing work, but not everyone can win. Trace looks at who won, who was snubbed, and which deserving scientists from the past never took home a medal.



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'Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign' Review - Match-3 RPG in the Marvel Universe - Touch Arcade








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'Marvel Puzzle Quest: Dark Reign' Review - Match-3 RPG in the Marvel Universe

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Previous Puzzle Quest games relied too heavily on long, unstoppable cascades of matching jewels filling in from the top, a phenomenon that felt less like luck and more like cheating. In Dark Reign that happens less often, the enemy AI is less prescient ...





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Living Relatives of Iceman Mummy Found

The Austrian ice mummy has at least 19 living male relatives, according to a genetic study. Continue reading →



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Lee Billings' Five Billion Years of Solitude (Review)

Lee Billing' new book captures the excitement and humanity behind the search for exoplanets. Continue reading →



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