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Instant Health Checks for Buildings and Bridges

During 2011’s deadly onslaught of earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, countless buildings had to be evacuated while workers checked to make sure they were stable. The events served as a reminder that most structures are still inspected by a decidedly low-tech method: the naked eye.

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Heightened HIV Risk from Hormonal Contraceptives Long Suspected

By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The recent finding that women in seven sub-Saharan Africa countries are nearly twice as likely to acquire HIV if they use a popular, long-acting injectable contraceptive, has incensed AIDS researchers. [More]

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Heightened HIV Risk from Hormonal Contraceptives Long Suspected

By Meredith Wadman of Nature magazine The recent finding that women in seven sub-Saharan Africa countries are nearly twice as likely to acquire HIV if they use a popular, long-acting injectable contraceptive, has incensed AIDS researchers. [More]

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Rapid PCR Could Bring Quick Diagnoses

PCR--the polymerase chain reaction--is a crucial tool. The DNA amplification technique is used in genome sequencing, forensics and the diagnosis of various diseases. To give researchers more genetic material to work with, a PCR instrument repeatedly heats and cools an original biological sample

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Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day

Lady Ada Lovelace was a contemporary and colleague of Charles Babbage , he innovator of the programmable

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This Week In Bots: Think You Better Dance Now

ASIMO Dances Honda's child-sized android may be the world's best-known real-world robot, even though his practical white paint job isn't as snazzy as C3PO's gold-plated goodness. Over the years, ASIMO's skills have gotten ever more spohisticated as Honda's research scientists look at improving his software, drive units, and sensors to give him better control over his body, and more artificial intelligence to let him manuever under his own control and navigate around unexpected objects (the kind of task androids will need to master if they're to help us in our homes or hospitals). But now the Automaton blog has seen a demonstration that ASIMO is now smart enough to copy your dance moves

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