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Printing errors date ancient manuscripts
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‘Silicon Velcro’ could make sticky chips
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Software tracks proteins inside living cells
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Robot World Cup is poised for kick off
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Independent robots team up for search task
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Smart paper may put lightweight spies in the skies
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Nuclear reactors ‘evolve’ inside supercomputers
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Error-check breakthrough in quantum computing
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Translator lets computers “understand” experiments
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Worm-inspired robot crawls through intestines
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Flocking birds inspire information organisation
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Covert surveillance of US phone records revealed
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