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Music Festivals, Bluetooth Monitoring and the Behavior of Crowds
The unexpected behaviour of crowds at one of Europe’s largest music festivals should help organisers plan future events, say researchers
AT&T Tests Public Phone Charging Stations
Wireless carrier AT&T is rolling out free gadget-charging stations all over NYC.
Google Says Secret Intelligence Court Restricts Its Right to Free Speech
Google is demanding that a secret intelligence court allow it to share some details about surveillance requests for user data.
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Laser Scanning Reveals New Parts of an Ancient Cambodian City
LIDAR technology continues to reveal archeological evidence of urbanization
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.
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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
