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Facebook's swanky new HQ is an old '60s laboratory

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 1:34pm

Facebook has consolidated the entirety of its Palo Alto operation — some 700 employees strong — into an old laboratory from the 1960s, done up all pretty by San Fransisco's Studio O+A. What's that do for them? Well, besides running...

Mind Job: Japanese researchers translate brain patterns into accurate images

Adario Strange

Thursday, December 11, 2008 - 11:39pm

Science fiction movies have long been obsessed with the as yet unattained ability to project the thoughts of humans (dreams, intentions, etc.) onto a video screen. Now a group of Japanese researchers at the ATR Computational Neuroscience Lab in Kyoto...

A peek inside of a dark matter mine 3,300 feet underground

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 10:26am

Down in the Boulby Mine in England, 3,300 feet underground, scientists are looking for wimps (or weakly interacting massive particles). Not to beat up, but to help unravel the mysteries of the universe in the search for ever-elusive dark...

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Facebook's swanky new HQ is an old '60s laboratory

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