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Criminals and terrorists can fly drones too

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The threat of silence

Meet the groundbreaking new encryption app set to revolutionize privacy and freak out the feds

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Creating artificial nanostructures to house living cells

Important for artificially growing biotissue, finding new drugs, and stem cell research

3D-printing human embryonic stem cells for drug testing, future replacement of human organs

New 3D printing process is first to print the more delicate (and more useful) hESCs

A fiber-optic method of arresting epileptic seizures

How to use Amazon Cloud supercomputers to view molecules in remarkable detail

Cloud computing code speeds processing of data-intensive microscopy data

Defect-free graphene discovery could led to large-scale manufacturing of graphene-based devices

New method could open the way to large-scale manufacturing of graphene-based devices with applications in fields such as electronics, energy, and healthcare

Dramatic improvements in quantum-dot performance

New production method could enable everything from more efficient computer displays to enhanced biomedical testing

British Army deploys tiny helicopters

MINIATURE SURVEILLANCE HELICOPTERS HELP PROTECT FRONTLINE TROOPS

If you give people virtual superpowers, will they use those abilities for good or evil?

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