On January 16th, 2021 with 128 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: In 2010, Austin Sendek, then a physics student at UC Davis, created a petition seeking recognition for...
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On December 25th, 2020 with 52 comments
The Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research(KSTAR), a superconducting fusion device also known as the Korean artificial sun, set the new world record...
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On November 12th, 2020 with 14 comments
schwit1 shares a report from Phys.Org: Forget glue, screws, heat or other traditional bonding methods. A Cornell University-led collaboration has developed a...
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On November 10th, 2020 with 52 comments
fahrbot-bot shares a report from CNN: A team of physicists at a university in the Netherlands have 3D-printed a microscopic version of the USS Voyager, an...
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On October 27th, 2020 with 38 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Network World: The Folding@home project has shared new results of its efforts to simulate proteins from the...
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On September 24th, 2020 with 34 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: Stomach ulcers and other gastric wounds afflict one in eight people worldwide, but common...
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On August 28th, 2020 with 28 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Solar cells can now be made so thin, light and flexible that they can rest on a soap bubble. The new cells,...
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On August 26th, 2020 with 51 comments
Elon Musk has said that his secretive neurotech firm Neuralink will demonstrate a working "device," presumably a brain-machine interface, at 6PM ET on Friday....
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On August 26th, 2020 with 95 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Something as simple as black paint could be the key to reducing the number of birds that are killed each...
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On August 12th, 2020 with 94 comments
Bricks are about as basic as architectural materials can get, yet these simple building blocks have hidden powers that can be leveraged to provide electricity,...
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On July 28th, 2020 with 38 comments
A tiny piece of Martian basalt the size of a 10p coin will be launched on board a U.S. robot probe on Thursday and propelled towards the red planet on a...
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On July 27th, 2020 with 21 comments
Scientists are conducting preliminary tests of COVID-19 drugs using 3D printed human organs, eliminating the need to perform tests on animals, or, of course,...
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On July 24th, 2020 with 36 comments
AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: China has launched its first rover mission to Mars. The six-wheeled robot, encapsulated in a protective probe, was lifted...
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On June 3rd, 2020 with 152 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: A new study published in Scientific Reports reveals that crystalline rocks, such as granite, have a...
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On May 9th, 2020 with 52 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader blackbearnh writes: Since the COVID-19 pandemic has made Personal Protective Equipment worth it's weight in gold, Makers have been...
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On April 5th, 2020 with 25 comments
"From face-shields to respirator valves, 3-D printer owners pitch in to the efforts to provide PPE to Australian hospitals," writes davecb (Slashdot reader...
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On March 19th, 2020 with 48 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: In a great example of what can happen when smart, technically-oriented people come together in a time of...
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On March 13th, 2020 with 14 comments
Europe and Russia have decided to push back the launch of their joint robotic rover to Mars until 2022, rather than launch this year as originally planned....
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On March 11th, 2020 with 42 comments
According to research published in the journal Physical Review Letters, permanent magnets akin to those used on refrigerators could speed the development of...
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On February 18th, 2020 with 112 comments
Slashdot readers fahrbot-bot and operator_error share a report from Phys.Org: Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a device...
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On January 24th, 2020 with 45 comments
UPDATE (1/25/2018): NASA has successfully unfrozen Curiosity, which will now live to rove another day.
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On January 15th, 2020 with 36 comments
Researchers from the University Hospital Zurich, ETH Zurich, Wyss Zurich and the University of Zurich have developed a machine that repairs injured human...
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On December 24th, 2019 with 11 comments
A new method for preserving genetically encoded data into common manufacturing materials is reported. From a report: The future of digital memory may be inside...
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On November 19th, 2019 with 86 comments
dryriver writes: In an episode of the BBC's Tomorrow's World broadcasted all the way back in 1984, a presenter shows hands-on how a laser hologram of a...
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On November 12th, 2019 with 26 comments
UCLA's new mobile surgical lab is a zero-emission, all-electric vehicle that will move back and forth between two UCLA campuses, collecting, sterilizing and...
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On November 6th, 2019 with 56 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: A study published today in JAMA Pediatrics warns that kids' literacy and language skills suffer...
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On October 5th, 2019 with 9 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader sandbagger shared this news from the University of Illinois at Urbana, where researchers have made a surprising new discovery in a...
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It was pity stayed his hand. "Pity I don't have any more bullets," thought Frito. -- _Bored_of_the_Rings_, a Harvard Lampoon parody of Tolkein
