Suitcase' Nuclear Reactors to Power Mars Colonies

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'Suitcase' Nuclear Reactors to Power Mars Colonies : Discovery News

8.7 million species exist on Earth, study estimates

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8.7 million species exist on Earth, study estimates - The Washington Post

The Associated Press: Wild world: Millions of unseen species fill Earth

8.74 Million Species on Earth : Discovery News

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Species and Speciation Yale Biology Lecture

Modern Land Grab, Competition To Claim The North Pole Increases

With 90 billion gallons of arctic oil at stake, This modern day land grab is heating up.

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Denmark Steps Up Competition To Claim The North Pole-BusinessInsider

Russia Pushes To Claim Arctic As Its Own : NPR

Russia And Canada Move Troops To The North Pole To Assert Territorial Interests

Battle Looms for the North Pole Oil - 24/7 Wall St.

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Russia's Cold War on the Arctic - YouTube

FCC Seeks Text, Photo, and Video 911 Emergency System

DailyTech - FCC Seeks Text, Photo, and Video 911 Emergency System

Making Emergency Alerts and 911 Accessible | FCC.gov

911 will soon accept texts, videos, photos-USA Today

NASA: Humanoid robot wakes up on space station

The NASA robot is named Robonaut 2, affectionately dubbed "R2". The 300 pound robot has been in development for 11 years and is built with a total of 38 PowerPC processors, including 36 embedded chips, which control its joints.  Each of the embedded processors and chips will communicate with the main chip in the robot.  R2 is expected to perform tasks ranging from cleaning to basic maintenance while inside the orbiter, R2 will also assist astronauts on spacewalks. 

Check out R2 every move by following his twitter feed at (1) Robonaut (astrorobonaut) on Twitter

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Robonaut:NASA.gov Home

NASA: Humanoid robot wakes up on space station - Computerworld

Robonaut 2- Businessinsider

Robonaut 2 activated on International Space Station



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GM and NASA Take Giant Leap in Robotic Technology - YouTube