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Stellarators for future fusion reactors?
The Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion energy device called a stellarator in Greifswald, Germany, produces high-quality…
Driverless cars tow other cars around Nissan plant
At one of its plants in Japan, Nissan Motor is testing self-driving cars that can tow vehicles on a trailer to the…
Magnetic field sensing up to a trillion times smaller
Measuring tiny changes in strong magnetic fields with unprecedented precision has been achieved by researchers from…
First glide flight for Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo
The new spaceship by Virgin Galactic has made a successful first glide flight, a key step after a deadly crash of…
Turning renewable energy into natural gas
For wider adoption of wind and solar power, one of the biggest challenges is how to store the excess energy they…
Machine-learning and neurology for face recognition
A new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human…
Hacking a credit card in six seconds
It can take as little as six seconds to work out the card number, expiry date and security code of any Visa credit…
X-A10: The camera for the selfie-taker
The X-A10, an X-series camera, has been announced by Fujifilm and hits the lowest price point yet for the…
55 trillion kilograms of carbon to fill the atmosphere
55 trillion kilograms: that's how much carbon could be released into the atmosphere from the soil by mid-century if…
Computer learns to recognize sounds through video
Think of the dictation software on most cellphones, or the algorithms that automatically identify people in photos…