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60 Years of DARPA's Favorite Toys
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60 Years of DARPA's Favorite Toys

This year, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) turned 60. To celebrate, DARPA held a conference in Washington, D.C. One of the highlights...

Robots and Virtual Reality In The Arctic
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Robots and Virtual Reality In The Arctic

Pinnguaq Makerspace in Canada's vast Nunavut territory aims to be a hub for people of all ages to explore science and technology.

­.S. Quantum Initiatives Move Forward
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­.S. Quantum Initiatives Move Forward

The U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the White House, and the House of Representatives have each announced efforts to shape U.S. quantum...

Is a New Russian Meddling Tactic Hiding in Plain Sight?
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Is a New Russian Meddling Tactic Hiding in Plain Sight?

To an untrained eye, USAReally might look like any other fledgling news organization vying for attention in a crowded media landscape.

60 Amazing Facts About NASA and Space
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60 Amazing Facts About NASA and Space

Raise a glass, put on a party hat and celebrate the agency's diamond anniversary with these facts.

This 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan's Leading Right to Repair Advocate
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This 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan's Leading Right to Repair Advocate

When Surya Raghavendran dropped his iPhone, he learned to repair it himself. Now he wants to protect that right for everyone in his home state of Michigan.

Machine Learning Gets to Grips with Plankton Challenge
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Machine Learning Gets to Grips with Plankton Challenge

When they think about big data, most researchers probably imagine genomics, neuroscience or particle physics. Kelly Robinson's data challenge involves plankton....

Software Finds The Best Way To Stick A Mars Landing
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Software Finds The Best Way To Stick A Mars Landing

Researchers at MIT have developed a software tool for computer-aided discovery of favorable landing sites and possible paths for Mars rovers.

Empowering Communities Through Computer Science
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Empowering Communities Through Computer Science

A team of researchers at Northwestern University's Delta Lab work to design more inclusive educational technologies.

The ­S Push to Boost 'Quantum Computing'
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The ­S Push to Boost 'Quantum Computing'

A race by U.S. tech companies to build a new generation of powerful "quantum computers" could get a $1.3 billion boost from Congress, fueled in part by lawmakers' fear...

Google at 20: How Two 'Obnoxious' Students Changed the Internet
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Google at 20: How Two 'Obnoxious' Students Changed the Internet

In the summer of 1995, a second-year grad student called Sergey Brin was giving a tour of Stanford University to prospective students. Larry Page, an engineering...

To Find China's Best Driverless Technology, Look in Silicon Valley
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To Find China's Best Driverless Technology, Look in Silicon Valley

China's homegrown search giant, much like its U.S. counterpart, has a division focused entirely on driverless vehicles. And just like its rival, Google-born Waymo...

'Model' Students Enjoy Argonne Campus Life
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'Model' Students Enjoy Argonne Campus Life

More than 90 students conducted research with mentors at Argonne National Laboratory as part of the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship program this past...

Reconstructed Bombe Machine Finds Key, Breaks Enigma Code
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Reconstructed Bombe Machine Finds Key, Breaks Enigma Code

The reconstructed Turing-Welchman Bombe machine at The National Museum of Computing on Bletchley Park successfully found the key to break an Enigma-encrypted message...

Physicists Train Robotic Gliders to Soar Like Birds
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Physicists Train Robotic Gliders to Soar Like Birds

Mechanosensory cues provide an effective navigational strategy for soaring birds that is directly applicable to the development of autonomous soaring vehicles. ...

Germany's Self-Driving Streetcar Puts Autonomous Tech on Track
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Germany's Self-Driving Streetcar Puts Autonomous Tech on Track

Of the many acronyms engineers spend their lives internalizing, few are more valuable than KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid. Constrain the problem, reduce the variables...

Most Preschool Educational Apps Not Designed to Help Children Learn, Study Finds
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Most Preschool Educational Apps Not Designed to Help Children Learn, Study Finds

Most literacy and math educational apps for preschoolers incorporate few evidence-based features that align with best practices for teaching, a UCI study says. ...

Hayabusa2 Prepares to Drop Rovers on Asteroid Ryugu
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Hayabusa2 Prepares to Drop Rovers on Asteroid Ryugu

Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft is exploring Ryugu, an asteroid thought to contain water ice and other materials from the early solar system.

Trump's Tariffs Won't Bite Apple, Illustrating Tim Cook's Political Sway
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Trump's Tariffs Won't Bite Apple, Illustrating Tim Cook's Political Sway

Apple chief executive Tim Cook has been one of President Trump's staunchest critics in Silicon Valley, opposing the White House on immigration, climate change and...

U.S. Tech Giants Eye AI Key to Unlock China Push
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U.S. Tech Giants Eye AI Key to Unlock China Push

U.S. technology giants, facing tighter content rules in China and the threat of a trade war, are targeting an easier way into the world's second largest economy—artificial...
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