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Laser-Controlled Humans Closer to Reality

Flashes of light may one day be used to control the human brain, and that day just got a lot closer. Using lasers, researchers at the MIT Media Lab were able to activate a specific set of neurons in a ...

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Cool: New Exoplanet Is Near Habitable Zone

Extrasolar planet hunters are excited about a not-so-hot discovery. For the first time, they’ve found a relatively cool extrasolar planet that they can study in detail. The finding is a milestone, says...

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Giant, Tilted Exoplanets Like It Hot

Giant planets with wonky orbits mostly circle blistering-hot stars, two new studies find. This pattern could explain why some “hot Jupiters” — planets from a third to 12 times the mass of Jupiter that...

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Physicists Dream Up the Antilaser

Fifty years after physicists invented the laser, ushering in everything from supermarket scanners to music CDs, scientists have conceived its opposite — the “antilaser.” Unlike its more popular cousin,...

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Robot-Finger Spinoff Can Model Microscopic Details in 3-D

Researchers from MIT have created a handheld device called GelSight that provides ultrahigh-resolution 3-D scans of microscopic surface structure.

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