The platform is the latest example of wave power. Despite a name that might sound like an energy drink, it’s a very real, very green power source. Researchers across the globe are trying to harness the energy of ocean waves—energy that would otherwise go into eroding beaches, rocking boats, and destroying sandcastles—and turn it into electricity. “You know if you’ve walked along the beach on a stormy day,” says Bryson Robertson, a professor of civil and construction engineering at Oregon State University....

This is the second year Nikon has offered a category for video time-lapse photography. Any sort of movie taken through a light microscope qualifies for entry, and an independent panel of judges evaluated each video for originality, informational content, technical proficiency and visual impact. The top three winners in the movie category receive 500-2,000 dollars toward the purchase of Nikon equipment. (If you haven’t entered yet, this year could be the year to do it — they’ve upped the prize range to 1,000-3,000 dollars....

“The design [of the nanobot] is complicated, but the way you use it is extremely simple,” Feng Li, a chemistry professor at Brock University, says in a press release. The body of the nanobot is just 20 nanometers in diameter—smaller than the head of a pin—and made of gold. It has short and long strings of DNA—the long strings are tailored to a specific disease (the researchers were first testing it for tuberculosis) and the short strings contain a compound that fluoresce if the strand is cut....

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But the other side of the issue might be able to put a smile on your face: Tech companies and researchers are turning to AI and other software to try to solve just about any problem you can think of, from identifying fake news, to noticing if someone falls, to looking for ways to speed up the amount of time an MRI scan takes. Some companies are building software to help you change your thoughts for the better or even analyze a voice for signs of depression....

Most people know two things about Title IX: 1. It created an impressive increase in the quality and quantity of female collegiate athletics, and 2. It resulted in a disappointing elimination of some male collegiate sports to reach the required equal balance. Some are concerned that parallel results could be achieved. “Colleges already practice affirmative action for women in science, but now they’ll be so intimidated by the Title IX legal hammer that they may institute quota systems,” Dr....

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As tribute, many of his fans and followers have begun posting links to research and academic papers, which are being collected by a new site. Swartz was a relentless proponent of open information; he fought repeatedly against JSTOR due to its tendency to charge the public for scholarly articles and pay the proceeds to publishers rather than authors. His stance was that these articles should be available to the public, for the public good, and that certainly if there is money exchanged, it should go to the authors rather than publishers....

Previously, airplanes were tracked by both the radar signals they sent out, and by passive transponder responses to radar signals they receive. This is a great system for tracking airplanes over ground and near radar stations, but doesn’t do much for airplanes flying over oceans, which cover about 71 percent of the Earth’s surface. To track planes over the ocean, it’d help if they could send signals to and receive signals from satellites, which aren’t bound by the limitations of ground radar....

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Since around the time of the Apollo missions, lunar scientists have theorized that our moon formed after a horrendous collision between Earth and another world, which sheared off part of this planet. But all the while, there’s been a major disconnect with reality and the satisfying theoretical explanation of this concept. If that’s what happened, then the moon should be primarily composed of material from the collider, which would have been reincarnated as our natural satellite....

V-Moda’s M-100 headphones, announced a few hours ago, are big and fairly expensive and kind of divisively designed. I’ve been using them for a week or so and they are the only new tech item I’ve used in the past few months that I’ve actually made other people use. The new iPhone and iPods are very nice, and Windows 8 tablets are ballsy and interesting, but I haven’t actually grabbed coworkers and demanded they try those things....

As announced via Twitter and an official blog post earlier this week, Walmart has apparently decided to get in on the nebulous, pricey, and still largely unrealized virtual and augmented reality business via the popular sandbox game world. Curious players now can visit two “experiences” currently: The aforementioned Land of Walmart, as well as something called Walmart’s Universe of Play. “Walmart Land will bring the best fashion, style, beauty and entertainment items directly to the global Roblox community of over 52 million daily users,” reads Walmart’s announcement, adding it will “continue to bring the fun with Walmart’s Universe of Play—the ultimate virtual toy destination in Roblox, just in time for those oh-so-real holiday wish lists....

The 52-inch Best Choice Wicker Fire Pit Table combines fashion and function on your patio or in your backyard. It includes tightly woven weatherproof wicker over an aluminum frame protected all year round with the included fabric cover. The aluminum tabletop is finished with a weather-resistant stain. The included windguard means the flame won’t be disturbed from its bed of glass rocks during crisp fall breezes. A pullout gas tank holder lets you inconspicuously change the propane without breaking your back....

Here, watch the jetpack with pilot take off, and note the DJI Inspire drone filming the flight in the background: This is that same flight, from the Inspire drone’s camera: The flights are in preparation for a manned flight display in China in early December. Watch the full video, with many more exciting angles of takeoff and landing, below:

In this case, the bridge was one of several in the complicated Seven Corners intersection in Falls Church, Va. The overpass crosses U.S. Route 50, a very busy commuter route in suburban Washington D.C., and the usual months-long process of demolishing the old bridge and putting up a new one would have created a traffic headache in an area that already has enough of them. So VDOT’s Northern Virginia office got the idea to do the NASCAR pit stop version of bridge replacement instead....

The railgun, dubbed the WXPR-1, fired that shot at around 950 joules. The contraption weighs about 20 pounds, and while it can hurl a slug into a melon, it had trouble making an impact on plywood, though the projectile itself appears to have shattered. The creator detailed his construction process on Imgur, and claims it fired a projectile at a top speed of 560 mph. This is a homemade weapon, and anyone attempting to build such a device on their own should exercise extreme caution and follow best safety practices, including wearing goggles before firing....

I do want the stick, and I also don’t want the stick. Above the Hudson River is a busy air corridor. Helicopters buzz past us headed in the opposite direction and dot the sky over New York Harbor ahead. There’s boat traffic below. Hawkins assures me that he won’t let me screw this up. In fact, he says, it’s difficult to screw up badly in this aircraft. Icon has spent seven years developing a two-seat light sport aircraft simple and safe enough that anyone can learn to fly it....

Here’s how botmaker MicroRobo describes their creation: Watch more of the robot’s weird movements below: Digg

It seems as though water policy brings politicians together more than any single issue. While Defense Department appropriation bills, education bills and energy bills usually garner one or two symbolic nays or non-votes, almost every water use bill receives unanimous support. The bills range from the all encompassing, like HR 2419, the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act of 2006, to the maddeningly specific, like S 1219, a bill for authorizing certain tribes in the State of Montana to enter into a lease or other temporary conveyance of water rights to meet the water needs of the Dry Prairie Rural Water Association, Inc, of 2006....