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BBC has a photo gallery of Shigeo Hirose's robotics lab.

A global network of small telescopes dedicated to photometry of cataclysmic variables.

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A social network for the life sciences.

Dr. Tom Jefferson argues that large-scale, long-term randomized controlled trials should be undertak

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Last June, Dr. Ishiguro's assistants pulled back a curtain before a handful of journalists to reveal

It's a plane that flaps like a bird.

The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have

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A British study finds the device that prevents shoelaces from fraying was more valuable than gold to

Tarantulas spin silk from their feet to walk on slippery surfaces

Phase one of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project (AHOB) discovered people were here 200,

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A gyromagnetic effect discovered by Albert Einstein and Dutch physicist Wander Johannes de Haas has