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Bridge to Coveted Electronic Properties
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Bridge to Coveted Electronic Properties

A new tabletop laser system achieves sought-after energies needed for advanced characterization of electronic properties with unprecedented precision and range.

Engineers to Use Cyborg Insects as Biorobotic Sensing Machines
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Engineers to Use Cyborg Insects as Biorobotic Sensing Machines

Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are using a locust's sense of smell to develop new biorobotic sensing devices.

Tech Graduates in Demand Amid Skills Shortage
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Tech Graduates in Demand Amid Skills Shortage

Even before the ink had dried on her thesis, Deirdre Corr had a dilemma: which job offer should she take up? She wasn't alone.

Intel Outside as Other Companies Prosper from AI Chips
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Intel Outside as Other Companies Prosper from AI Chips

Back in 1997, Andy Grove, then chief executive officer of Intel, became one of the first corporate titans to embrace the teachings of Harvard Business School professor...

Data Centers Continue to Proliferate While Their Energy ­se Plateaus
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Data Centers Continue to Proliferate While Their Energy ­se Plateaus

A new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has found that electricity consumption by data centers in the United States, after rising rapidly for more...

Meet the Smartest, Cutest AI-Powered Robot You've Ever Seen
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Meet the Smartest, Cutest AI-Powered Robot You've Ever Seen

Boris Sofman taps his phone, and the robot on the conference room table in front of him wakes up. Not in that gadget-y way, like when a laptop screen turns on,...

This Message Will Self-Destruct
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This Message Will Self-Destruct

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed an electron-beam writing technique that allows for nanoscale engineering of future graphene-based...

First Crispr Clinical Trial Gets Green Light from ­S Panel
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First Crispr Clinical Trial Gets Green Light from ­S Panel

CRISPR, the genome-editing technology that has taken biomedical science by storm, is finally nearing human trials.

Driverless Cars: Who Gets Protected?
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Driverless Cars: Who Gets Protected?

A new study shows that the public is conflicted over the safety of autonomous vehicles, taking a notably inconsistent approach of how the vehicles should perform...

How Well Do Facial Recognition Algorithms Cope with a Million Strangers?
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How Well Do Facial Recognition Algorithms Cope with a Million Strangers?

University of Washington researchers are using the MegaFace challenge competition to evaluate and improve the performance of face recognition algorithms at the...

Whom Are You Voting For? This Guy Can Read Your Mind.
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Whom Are You Voting For? This Guy Can Read Your Mind.

Neuroscientist Ryan McGarry swabbed a brain activity headset with saline solution and lowered it onto Brian Hazel's head, connecting circular prongs gingerly to...

'eccentric Orbits' Chronicles the Stunning Failure (and Improbable Revival) of the Iridium Satellite Phone
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'eccentric Orbits' Chronicles the Stunning Failure (and Improbable Revival) of the Iridium Satellite Phone

The business sections of bookstores overflow with guides to success—the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, for instance, has stamped his name on more than a...

How Maglev Works
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How Maglev Works

The idea for Maglev (magnetic levitation) trains came to James Powell as he sat in a traffic jam. There must be a better way to travel on land than cars or traditional...

System ­ses Sound to Locate Water Main Leaks
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System ­ses Sound to Locate Water Main Leaks

Researchers have developed a technique to locate water network leaks with 99.5% accuracy.

Do We Really Need Humans to Explore Mars?
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Do We Really Need Humans to Explore Mars?

The dazzling sunlight that flooded the lake-front restaurant where I sat down with Chris Kraft in 2014 was nothing compared to the brightness in his eyes.

Better Research Through Video Games
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Better Research Through Video Games

On a warm evening in 2014, Attila Szantner, a Hungarian Web entrepreneur, and his friend Bernard Revaz, a Swiss physics researcher, sat on a balcony in Geneva and...

China's New Supercomputer Puts the ­S Even Further Behind
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China's New Supercomputer Puts the ­S Even Further Behind

This week, China's Sunway TaihuLight officially became the fastest supercomputer in the world. The previous champ? Also from China.

Google Offers Computer Science Students Free Access to Cloud Platform
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Google Offers Computer Science Students Free Access to Cloud Platform

Google will give students enrolled in computer science and related courses at accredited U.S. colleges and universities free access to all of its Cloud Platform...

Device Aims to Boost Power Output From Solar Panels
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Device Aims to Boost Power Output From Solar Panels

Researchers from the Masdar Institute have developed a device that could significantly increase the power output of the series-connected solar panels.

The Clean Dozen: 12 Techs Near Commercial Use
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The Clean Dozen: 12 Techs Near Commercial Use

A dozen clean energy technologies are getting a boost at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
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