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High-Tech Cheetah Tracking Reveals the Cat’s Hunting Secret
Research into wild animal locomotion could inform the design of future robots.
So, You Wanna Be an Android?
Inside the evolution movement that wants machines to replace people.
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Materials Scientists Build Chlorophyll-Based Phototransistor
Coat a layer of graphene with chlorophyll and you get a remarkably sensitive light-activated switch, say physicists.
Green Chemists Synthesise Vanillin From Sawdust
An environmentally-friendly way of making vanillin from the lignin in wood pulp could change the economics of this flavouring industry
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What Carbon Capture Can’t Do
New tech will lower the cost of carbon capture, but the sheer scale needed to reduce emissions prevent it from being a panacea.
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Other Interesting arXiv Papers (Week Ending 15 June 2013)
The best of the rest from the Physics arXiv preprint server
Building the Business Case for Energy Storage
A novel software tool could make it far easier to bring new energy storage technologies to market.
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Seven Must-Read Stories (Week Ending June 14, 2013)
Another chance to catch the most interesting, and important, articles from the previous week on MIT Technology Review.
Stories From Around the Web (Week Ending June 14, 2013)
A roundup of the most interesting stories from other sites, collected by the staff at MIT Technology Review.
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The Remarkable Properties of Mythological Social Networks
The social network between characters in Homer’s Odyssey is remarkably similar to real social networks today. That suggests the story is based, at least in part, on real events, say researchers
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