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Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.
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Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.

At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer.

Double the (quantum) Fun
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Double the (quantum) Fun

A detailed analysis of the electrical characteristics of a tiny transistor made from two quantum dots could help researchers design better devices to manipulate...

Scouring the Web to Make New Words 'lookupable'
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Scouring the Web to Make New Words 'lookupable'

A couple of weeks ago, two of my New York Times colleagues chronicled digital culture trends that are so newish and niche-y that conventional English dictionaries...

Jpl's Role in Making 'the Martian' a Reality
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Jpl's Role in Making 'the Martian' a Reality

When fictional astronaut Mark Watney becomes stranded alone on the Red Planet in the novel and film "The Martian," people and technology from NASA's Jet Propulsion...

Warning Labels Should Be Introduced to Prevent Digital Addiction
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Warning Labels Should Be Introduced to Prevent Digital Addiction

Warning labels and messages should be introduced on digital devices to encourage responsible usage and prevent digital addiction, according to Bournemouth University...

The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong

Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, and betting pools kick off every fall around the time Thomson Reuters releases its predictions for science's most prestigious prize...

Morehouse Produced 13 Percent of African-American Ph.d. Male Computer Science Students
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Morehouse Produced 13 Percent of African-American Ph.d. Male Computer Science Students

Morehouse College produced 12 of the 92 male African-American computer science Ph.D. students in the United States.

What's Really Hot on Dating Sites? Proper Grammar
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What's Really Hot on Dating Sites? Proper Grammar

When Jeff Cohen was getting ready to meet his OkCupid date for drinks in Manhattan, he started to have second thoughts as he reread the glaring grammatical error...

Liquid Cooling Moves Onto the Chip For Denser Electronics
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Liquid Cooling Moves Onto the Chip For Denser Electronics

Using microfluidic passages cut directly into the backsides of production integrated circuits, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are putting liquid...

When Security Experts Gather to Talk Consensus, Chaos Ensues
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When Security Experts Gather to Talk Consensus, Chaos Ensues

Security researchers and vendors have long been locked in a debate over how to disclose security vulnerabilities, and there's little on which the two sides agree...

Scientists Create an All-Organic UV On-Chip Spectrometer
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Scientists Create an All-Organic UV On-Chip Spectrometer

The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has developed a near ultra-violet and all-organic light emitting diode that can be used as an on-chip photosensor...

Study Shows Importance of Universities in Producing Entrepreneurs
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Study Shows Importance of Universities in Producing Entrepreneurs

An education program that gives students a hands-on approach to launching a successful startup gives them confidence to found their own company.

Study Reveals Traits in Youth That Signal Future Profession in Computer Science
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Study Reveals Traits in Youth That Signal Future Profession in Computer Science

Code School has released the results of a new study revealing the traits, tendencies, and behaviors in children and teens that correlate to a future in the computer...

A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
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A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot

Videos of Google-owned robots, some that look like mechanical bulls and others resembling humanoids from sci-fi movies, have been viewed more than 90 million times...

The Facebook Effect: How Social Media Sways Potential Voters
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The Facebook Effect: How Social Media Sways Potential Voters

Facebook users who saw positive comments or "likes" had a more favorable perception of the candidate and were more likely to support him, while those who saw...

India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier For ­.s. Tech Companies
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India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier For ­.s. Tech Companies

American technology companies desperately want to win over people like Rakesh Padachuri and his family.

More-Flexible Machine Learning
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More-Flexible Machine Learning

Giving machine-learning systems "partial credit" during training improves image classification.

The Jocks of Computer Code Do It For the Job Offers
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The Jocks of Computer Code Do It For the Job Offers

At 21, Gennady Vladimirovich Korotkevich is already a legend. Tourist, as he's known online, is now the world's top sport programmer.

Titan Helps Unpuzzle Decades-Old Plutonium Perplexities
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Titan Helps Unpuzzle Decades-Old Plutonium Perplexities

A combination of theory, code developments, experiments, and the Titan supercomputer has proven the existence of plutonium's magnetic properties, a proof sought...

Dna-Cutting Enzymes Could Slice Through Gene Editing Patent Spat
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Dna-Cutting Enzymes Could Slice Through Gene Editing Patent Spat

Who owns the biggest biotech advance of the century?
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