Batteries in the future could use a seaweed compound called alginate to store power… and even help the environment, too
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Google’s DeepMind AI has one fast thinking machine

Artificial intelligence company has created a “deep learning” machine that can learn almost as fast as a person


This flight over Mars feels just like the real thing

Finnish filmmaker Jan Fjördman spends months stitching together NASA photographs to create ultimate video illusion of a voyage to Mars


Smartypants? Nope, smart jacket!

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Super-Nova Scotia? Spaceport may be coming to fishing village

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