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Can We Find More Benign Nanomaterials?
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Can We Find More Benign Nanomaterials?

Chemists at the University of Iowa will research the effects of nanomaterials on the environment and human health using a network of supercomputers funded by the...

Prepping a Robot For Its Journey to Mars
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Prepping a Robot For Its Journey to Mars

MIT senior Sarah Hensley aims to improve Earth's most advanced humanoid robot, in advance of its trip to the Red Planet.

Leo Beranek, Acoustics Designer and Internet Pioneer, Dies at 102
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Leo Beranek, Acoustics Designer and Internet Pioneer, Dies at 102

Leo L. Beranek, an engineer whose company designed the acoustics for the United Nations and concert halls at Lincoln Center and Tanglewood, then built the direct...

Nanowires as Sensors in New Type of Atomic Force Microscope
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Nanowires as Sensors in New Type of Atomic Force Microscope

A new type of atomic force microscope uses a tiny nanowire sensors that enables the measurement of both the size and direction of forces.

Wearable Tattoo Sends Alcohol Levels To Your Cell Phone
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Wearable Tattoo Sends Alcohol Levels To Your Cell Phone

Engineers have developed a wearable, non-invasive monitoring device that measures alcohol levels in perspiration.

Apple Gets Its First Director of AI
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Apple Gets Its First Director of AI

Apple is hiring a rising star in the world of deep learning to serve as its first director of AI research. Ruslan Salakhutdinov, an associate professor at Carnegie...

A Sense of Scale: The Best Microscopy of 2016
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A Sense of Scale: The Best Microscopy of 2016

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born while Galileo was still alive, and he ended up developing a similar skill in lens making to that of Galileo.

Maths Becomes Biology's Magic Number
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Maths Becomes Biology's Magic Number

"If you want a career in medicine these days you're better off studying mathematics or computing than biology."

Want College to Pay Off? These Are the 50 Majors with the Highest Earnings.
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Want College to Pay Off? These Are the 50 Majors with the Highest Earnings.

Engineering and technology are among the most challenging fields of study in college, but all of that hard work apparently is paying off, as many of the top-earning...

Scientists Find Static 'stripes' of Electrical Charge in Copper-Oxide Superconductor
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Scientists Find Static 'stripes' of Electrical Charge in Copper-Oxide Superconductor

Fixed arrangement of charges coexists with material's ability to conduct electricity without resistance.

Stepping ­p Security For an Internet-of-Things World
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Stepping ­p Security For an Internet-of-Things World

The vision of the so-called internet of things—giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover—has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast...

Engineers Reveal Fabrication Process For Revolutionary Transparent Sensors
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Engineers Reveal Fabrication Process For Revolutionary Transparent Sensors

Researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have described in detail how to fabricate and use transparent graphene neural electrode arrays in various applications...

With Help From Docker, Google's Go Jumps in Popularity
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With Help From Docker, Google's Go Jumps in Popularity

The language has climbed to 16th place in Tiobe index and could claim Programming Language of the Year honors.

Where Nobel Winners Get Their Start
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Where Nobel Winners Get Their Start

There are many ways to rank universities, but one that's rarely considered is how many of their graduates make extraordinary contributions to society.

British Banks Keep Cyber Attacks Under Wraps to Protect Image
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British Banks Keep Cyber Attacks Under Wraps to Protect Image

Britain's banks are not reporting the full extent of cyber attacks to regulators for fear of punishment or bad publicity, bank executives and providers of security...

China Has Now Eclipsed US in AI Research
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China Has Now Eclipsed US in AI Research

Humanity may still be years if not decades away from producing sentient artificial intelligence.

Penn State, Rutgers Win Grant to Create Virtual Data Collaboratory
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Penn State, Rutgers Win Grant to Create Virtual Data Collaboratory

Penn State has received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation to fund an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Penn State, Rutgers, and other institutions...

Ad Algorithms Might Choose You to Be a Paid Product Promoter
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Ad Algorithms Might Choose You to Be a Paid Product Promoter

That's the sound of Ryan Detert's invite-only mobile app, Influential, trying to get the attention of one of his select group of users.

Number of Women Working in It to Rise By 2020
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Number of Women Working in It to Rise By 2020

The number of women working in the information technology (IT) field is expected to increase through 2020 as IT becomes pervasive throughout organizations, according...

The Artist Revealing New York's Secretive, Hidden Network
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The Artist Revealing New York's Secretive, Hidden Network

Ingrid Burrington has spent the last two years looking for the internet. Now she sees it wherever she goes.
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