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British troops use mini-drones to find targets on the battlefield
British soldiers on the front lines in Afghanistan have been armed with pocket-sized spy drones that can give operators bird’s-eye views of the battlefield below. The little flying machine, dubbed Black Hornet Nano, is just 4 inches long and...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Kingdom, Wars and Interventions
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‘Star Wars’: Obama White House says no to Death Star petition
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comWhether you voted for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, it's good to know the president isn't a Sith Lord. After ...... -
Hopkins research offers Pa. woman new arm, 14 years after amputation
Over the 14 years since losing her right arm to a hollow-point bullet, Dana Burke was convinced she could feel herself pointing, pinching or waving as she motioned with the 5-inch-long limb the attack left behind.
Still, she had to relearn how to pull...Tags: Applied Physics, Medical Procedures and Tests, University of Pittsburgh, Science and Technology, Amputation
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River Hill team hoping for repeat in international robotics competition
When students in River Hill High School's Advanced Computer Science classes entered a worldwide high school robotics competition last year that involved programming International Space Station satellites, they figured their chances of winning were...
Tags: Science, Students, Applied Physics, Brevard County, Space Programs
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LTC (Ret.) Douglas Coleman Kline, Middletown, Va.
LTC (Ret.) Douglas Coleman Kline passed away unexpectedly at his home in Middletown, Va., on Nov. 20, 2012. Born March 1, 1943, in Somerset, he was preceded in death by father George E. Kline and mother Isabel (Coleman) Kline Mumbray. He is survived by...
Tags: West Point, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Washington, DC, Defense
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News of the Weird: New frontiers of heartlessness
Debbie Stevens, 47, filed a claim before the New York Human Rights commission in April alleging that she was fired in November by Ms. Jackie Brucia, a controller of the Atlantic Automotive Group of West Islip, N.Y., after Stevens failed to recover quickly...
Tags: West Islip, Politics, Abraham Lincoln, CNN (tv network), Human Rights
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MIT develops ketchup bottle that lets you use every drop
The research institution that brought you the fax machine and GPS has come up with another potentially world-changing invention: a bottle coating so slick that every last bit of ketchup slides out quickly and easily. In what could be a disruptive...
Tags: Ketchup, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Science and Technology, Google+, Research
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Paralyzed woman moves robotic arm with thoughts
Using just her thoughts, a 58-year-old paralyzed woman instructed a robotic arm to grasp a cup of coffee and guide it to her mouth where she sipped from a straw, the first drink she has been able to serve herself in 15 years. The woman is one of two...
Tags: Health, Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Aspirin (drug), Medical Research
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UCSD helps create revolutionary camera
Fox 5 San Diego ReporterSAN DIEGO – Researchers at a local university are working on part of a revolutionary new camera that will take the world’s most detailed still and video images. University of California San Diego researchers are collaborating, developing...Tags: Qualcomm Stadium, Science and Technology, University of California, San Diego
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Physicists devise 'time cloak' to stop the clock
NEWS COREPentagon-supported physicists said Wednesday they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable. The laboratory device manipulates the flow of light in such a way that for the merest fraction of a second an event cannot be seen,...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Cornell University, The Pentagon, Travel
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