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"NASA can find and track most of the nearby asteroids that could hit and damage the Earth, but there is not enough money in its budget to finish the project within a 15-year deadline mandated by

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"The [UK] Army is testing technology developed by an Edinburgh scientist which allows soldiers to distinguish the world's best camouflage from real foliage and spot buried landmines."

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"It's great to have a public debate about the ethics of preventive detention (for psychiatric patients and other potential risk groups, perhaps). Before you career off and have that vital convers

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"Scientists at a U.S. weapons laboratory say they have trained bees to sniff out explosives in a project they say could have far-reaching applications for U.S. homeland security and the Iraq war.

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"Can we expect to find gas giants mixed with small terrestrial worlds around most Sun-like stars? And what about the smaller and far fainter red dwarfs?" Centauri Dreams thinking aloud about

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"In U.K. public places, smarter CCTV cameras have been given the ability to listen for disturbances and also keep an eye on citizens." This is getting ridiculous. I'm moving to Eastern Europ

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"Hunting for terrestrial planets is not going to be easy, and even when we start getting images of such worlds, there will be plenty of questions to answer."

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"The professionals look and listen for signs of nervousness, and pay close attention to the content of a suspect’s story. Does it contain a lot of detail? Does it stay consistent through repeated

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"Having championed Webster Cash’s New Worlds Imager in earlier posts, Centauri Dreams was nonplussed yesterday to see NASA’s list of concept study selections for Discovery-class missions...."

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" ... sales of "emotion detection" technology to corporate call centers has reached $400 million annually [...] originally developed for eavesdropping, [they've] been employed by custom

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" [It] will be sold with a wireless ID card that fits inside a wallet or handbag and lets the phone detect when its owner moves more than a few metres away." Genius - that'll be real hard to

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"No longer will you have to doubt the integrity of your "close friends" ... as the persuasive mirror apparently feels that honesty is the best policy, even if it rattles your self-estee

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"This interesting vessel is driven by the motions of a parrot cichlid in a fish bowl. A camera mounted above the tank tracks the fish's movement and relays that information to a computer, which t

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"The device [...] works by detecting the movements of a chest muscle that has been rewired to the stumps of nerves that once went to her now-missing limb." This is technology making a real d

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"If you want to ferret out uranium's hiding place in contaminated soil, freeze the dirt and zap it with a black light..."

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"To coexist with humans in the real world, robots need to be able to respond to a host of changes that constantly occur in the course of everyday life." And they're working on it - but there

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"Once fully developed, the biodegradable absorbent wipe would contain nanofibers containing antibodies to numerous biohazards and chemicals and would signal by changing color or through another e

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"The latest piece of kit to be tested out during roadworks is a radar-assisted speeding sign that not only flashes when it detects a speeding car, but also displays the license plate number of sa

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"How could they separate one sound - perhaps a voice - from a group of other recorded sounds, perhaps a multitude of voices at a cocktail party?" It's an old problem, but these people reckon

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Unfortunately, they cost a packet and don't work so well. Maybe removing the things that incite terrorism (y'know, like imperialist foreign policies) might be the way to go instead? Just a thought.

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More fun with gene splicing! Add firefly DNA to zebra fish, to make creatures that will glow if lowered into polluted water. Weird but true.

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Concerned that your net traffic might be going through that NSA/AT&T wiretap room? Here's how to find out.

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Stealth, stealth, stealh...it's all about the stealth these days. This particular idea sounds like it could have some good non-military applications too, though.

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New infrared technology will deliver military-grade devices at one-tenth the cost.

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That stealth meme is back...but this is a different application using different technology from the one the other week. If it does what the makers claim, it'll usher in a whole new set of tactics and

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More US military plans for the world above our heads. This time it's all about the tracking and communications jamming.

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Entanglement is the key...but probably no use for making a true gravitation detector. Oh well.

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