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FORMULAE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
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Made popular on July 23 2010, submitted by Air420
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The biannual Top 500 supercomputer list has been released. Use this graphic to explore the world's fastest number crunchers or find out more about alternative supercomputer powers .
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Made popular on May 31 2010, submitted by Andres
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Funny comic on Climate Change.
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Made popular on March 17 2010, submitted by Navras
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So what do we do if video game AI opponents become smart enough to question the "matrix"into which we've put them?
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Made popular on March 03 2010, submitted by Deimos
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A janitor takes in some of the Internet's knowledge sometime in the future, in this scene by flyingdebris.
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Made popular on February 25 2010, submitted by Andres
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ASIMO’s 9th birthday party was held last September. Here are a bunch of pictures of the precursors to the capable little robot that we’re familiar with today.
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Made popular on November 11 2009, submitted by Navras
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“We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.”
Almost the future, but not quite… W...
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Made popular on October 28 2009, submitted by Andres
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Each line represents a different space mission, highlighting notable missions, including those from different countries, those of historical significance, and those which have failed.
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Made popular on October 12 2009, submitted by Andres
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One of the most disturbing trends in robotics are the animatronic human heads that are sometimes attached to robotic bodies. Hanson Robotics did it with Einstein (Albert HUBO), Kokoro and AIST recently...
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Made popular on September 29 2009, submitted by Andres
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Willow Garage has Jorge Cham of PhD Comics doing a series of panels for them entitled simply “R.O.B.O.T. Comics.
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Made popular on September 26 2009, submitted by Andres
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A funny sketch by xkcd on the world's first ant colony to search for intelligent life.
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Made popular on September 18 2009, submitted by Andres
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Ever wondered what a supernova explosion looks like from a physics perspective? Wonder no more, because scientists at Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory have created this virtual simulation of the e...
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Made popular on September 03 2009, submitted by Deimos
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A look at how information moves now, and how it moved 100 years ago.
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Made popular on August 23 2009, submitted by Andres
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This is a panoramic view of the Eureka Tower Observation Deck.
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Made popular on August 17 2009, submitted by Andres
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CG illustrator Macoto Murayama takes a unique look at the organic beauty of flowers by highlighting their geometric and mechanical structure.
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Made popular on August 12 2009, submitted by Andres
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Here’s a collection of 60 Examples of Beautiful Night Shots, taken by avid and professional photographers who jumped into action when the sun sets.
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Made popular on June 28 2009, submitted by Andres
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A close up of Jupiter.
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Made popular on June 21 2009, submitted by Andres
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As rainy season approaches, Japan’s Ishikawa prefecture has been receiving some unusual precipitation — it’s been raining tadpoles and fish.
According to prefecture officials, tadpoles have re...
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Made popular on June 16 2009, submitted by Andres
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Since the personal computer debuted in 1971, a Darwin-esque evolution process has lifted the PC from modest beginnings to its current role as an indispensable part of life in the 21st century.
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Made popular on May 29 2009, submitted by Andres
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A collection of concept arts depicting how cities and landscapes of the future might look as envisioned by the artists.
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Made popular on May 29 2009, submitted by Andres
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What will automobiles look like 50 years down the road? If they turn out to be anything like these concepts from the design studios of four major automakers, we are in for quite a ride.
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Made popular on May 26 2009, submitted by Andres
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The release of the new Star Trek film got us thinking: how much of the fictional technology first seen in the original Star Trek of the 1960s now exists in real life?
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Made popular on May 26 2009, submitted by Arlind
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On Monday, May 11, after months of delays and preparation, NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final servicing mission to the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Th...
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Made popular on May 25 2009, submitted by Arlind
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Modeled after the wings of a dragonfly, this incredible urban farm concept for New York City’s Roosevelt Island intends to ease the problems of food mileage and shortage, and reconnect consumers with...
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Made popular on May 25 2009, submitted by Andres
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If you were stuck in eternity...what would you do?
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Made popular on May 24 2009, submitted by Andres
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