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DARPA’s been running a blood pharming program for quite awhile now, but it’s gotten a real kick start this week with the announcement of a partnership with Cleveland-based biotech company Arteriocyte. Arteriocyte, it seems, has developed a Nanofiber Based System, or NANEX, a technology that enables the production of red blood cells [...]

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Technology might be the only medium where smaller is always better, but it’s starting to get ridiculous. I’m worried that my next cell phone is going to be the size of a sunflower seed. There’s got to be a point where we finally decide that …
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Self-propelled microbots navigate through blood vessels.

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Industry leaders hope that new technologies will make mobile search more usable.

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New designs could decrease the chances that nuclear materials will fall into the hands of terrorists.

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By opening up its network, Verizon Wireless hopes to see all sorts of new devices connect.

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BP’s chief scientist, Steven Koonin, says cutting greenhouse emissions will take major changes.

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One of the first things Eric Mattessich discovered in engineering school was that the typical internal combustion engine blows about 70 percent of the energy it creates straight out of the tailpipe in the form of heat. So, he wondered, could he adapt the kind of heat-recapturing mechanisms used to make powerplants more efficient to [...]

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Whether Google has succeeded in revolutionizing the cell phone may depend on who you ask.

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Scanning DNA for structural changes brings new insight into disease.

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