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Thursday, August 7, 2014

Meet the former NASA engineer who wants to build a giant robot that can juggle cars(VIDEO)

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Baby universe picture brought closer to theory

The anisotropies of the Cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by Planck. The CMB is a snapshot of the oldest light in our Universe, imprinted on the sky when the Universe was just 380 000 years old. It shows tiny temperature fluctuations that correspond to regions of slightly different densities, representing the seeds of all future structure: the stars and galaxies of today. (Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration - D. Ducros) — The anisotropies of the Cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by Planck. The CMB is a snapshot of the oldest light in our Universe, imprinted on the sky when the Universe was just 380 000 years old. It shows tiny temperature fluctuations that correspond to regions of slightly different densities, representing the seeds of all future structure: the stars and galaxies of today. (Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration – D. Ducros)

Massive neutrinos may not bring about cosmological concordance after all

Scientists have found that tension among different data sets persists even after accounting for massive sterile neutrinos, possibly indicating systematic biases in the measurements. (Credit: Leistedt, et al. ©2014 American Physical Society)

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Grad student aims to improve particle accelerators

Siddharth Karkare, left, and Laurent Boulet '14 in the Newman Hall photocathode research lab. (Credit: Lindsay France/University) — Siddharth Karkare, left, and Laurent Boulet ’14 in the Newman Hall photocathode research lab. (Credit: Lindsay France/University)

Hubble finds supernova star system linked to potential ‘zombie star’

(Credit: NASA) — The two inset images show before-and-after images captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of Supernova 2012Z in the spiral galaxy NGC 1309. The white X at the top of the main image marks the location of the supernova in the galaxy. (Credit: NASA)

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Pew Finds Experts Divided On Whether Robots Will Be Good For Society

Nearly half of the respondents (48%) predicted that robots and AI will displace more jobs than they create over the coming decade. While that left a slim majority believing the impact of technology on employment will be neutral or positive. (Credit: Humanrobo/Wikimedia Commons)

NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Moves onto Two-Year Extension

Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech) — NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array Moves onto Two-Year Extension. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech)

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