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Live Longer, Look Younger with Telomerase

Throughout most of human history, looking young has not been a major problem, mostly because people were dying on average at age 30. Now that...

Butterflies move north due to hot summers

Once rare UK butterflies have been moving further north due to a pattern of hot summers, say researchers.   The brown argus, one of Britain’s...

Path to 14nm with directed self assembly

Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC), the world’s leading university-research consortium for semiconductors and related technologies, today announced that they have successfully created contact...

NASA Marshall Center Concludes Wind Tunnel Testing to Aid in SpaceX Reusable Launch System Design

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., completed wind tunnel testing for Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorn, Calif., to provide Falcon 9 first...

Visa Free Startup Community Off California Coast

And you thought Silicon Valley was exclusive?   Meet Blueseed, which, after it sets out to sea in 2013, will be the first-ever sea-based tech...

Nine Ways to Bias Open Source AGI Toward Friendliness

While it seems unlikely that any method of guaranteeing human-friendliness (“Friendliness”) on the part of advanced Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) systems will be possible, this...

Failure Is Not An Option: Why Kickstarter Hides Failed Projects

Dan Misener, in a fit of inspired data mining, scraped half of Kickstarter to find failed projects. He could not, it seems, find a single...

Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship

A robotic arm on the International Space Station (ISS) has grabbed and attached the Dragon supply vessel.   The arm pulled the ship into a...

Tesla Model S gets June release date and personalization updates

Tesla Motors has announced it will begin deliveries of its long-awaited Model S sedan next month. The first customers to slap down a reservation for...

Jury Finds That Google Did Not Infringe Oracles Patents

After a week of deliberations a jury has returned a verdict in the patent portion of the Google-Android fight to the death. Google is innocent...