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Video: MIT's Cheetah Robot Trots, Then Gallops

Source: Popular Science

The second breakthrough, which you can witness in slow motion in the second half of the video, is the gait transition from trot to gallop, which is pretty impressive (the video goes slo-mo at about 1:20). Right at about 13 miles per hour Cheetah shifts ...
Full article at: Popular Science  More like this  2 days ago, 12:56pm CDT

Autonomous Driving is Here to Stay

Source: Automotive Digest

Today, we’re begin­ning to see autonomous dri­ving in a totally dif­fer­ent light. What began last decade with the U.S. Depart­ment of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) pio­neer­ing robo-ca ...
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MAPPING THE “B.R.A.I.N.”

Source: OneMed Place

Will the BRAIN Initiative be another Human Genome Project, or another Solyndra? The initiative will launch with approximately $100 million in the President’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget allocated to brain research – to ...
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SI2 Technologies, Inc.: Defense - Company Profile & SWOT Report

Source: Market Research Reports

Synopsis Strategic Defence Intelligence's SI2 Technologies, Inc.: Defense - Company Profile ...
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Russia to spend $14 bn on science: Medvedev

Source: MSN India

The programme should also stimulate an inflow of young specialists into various research areas, Medvedev said Moscow: Russia will spend some 440 billion rubles (around $14 billion) on federal programmes to develop the country's scientific and ...
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New Secretary of Energy Can Reduce Global Warming Pollution with Efficiency Standards and Continued Support for Clean, Renewable Energy

Source: Natural Resources Defenses Council

“A low-carbon economy is absolutely critical,” Ernest Moniz told senators at his nomination hearing. As widely anticipated, Moniz, a former top Department of Energy (DOE) official and head of MIT’s Energy Initiative, was confirmed today as the new Secre ...
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If Your Company Does Product Cost Reductions, It's Already Too Late

Source: Industry Week

Product cost, which is roughly equivalent to cost of goods sold on the income statement, is the biggest expense for manufacturing companies, typically 70% to 90% of revenue. You can see COGS as a percent of sales for a random sample of comp ...
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Mathematicians analyze social divisions using cell phone data

Source: EurekAlert

Differences divide us. Human society fractures along lines defined by politics, religion, ethnicity, and perhaps most fundamentally, language. Although these differences contribute to the great variety of ...
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San Diego’s AnaptysBio Gets BioDefense Contract for Ricin Antibodies

Source: Xconomy

AnaptysBio says today the U.S. government has asked the San Diego biotech to produce antibodies that counter the deadly effects of ricin—and would not require refrigeration—so batches of anti-ricin antibodies could be stored at room temp ...
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AnaptysBio Awarded U.S. Government Contract To Develop Anti-Ricin Antibodies

Source: Freshnews.com

SAN DIEGO, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AnaptysBio, Inc., a privately-held therapeutic antibody company, today announced the receipt of a contract award from the U.S. government for the development of hig ...
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