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How Do We Clean Up the Junkyard Orbiting Earth?
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How Do We Clean Up the Junkyard Orbiting Earth?

The biggest-sized junkyard in the world orbits the Earth, and it's time to get active about reducing it, says Tom Percy, a University of Alabama in Huntsville...

Cyber-Connected Students Net Higher Grades, Study Shows
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Cyber-Connected Students Net Higher Grades, Study Shows

University students who used a Facebook group as part of a large sociology class did better on course assignments and felt a stronger sense of belonging, according...

Bringing Fiber Optics to Electronic Components
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Bringing Fiber Optics to Electronic Components

Fiber optics could increased the speed and quantity of information transmitted within laptops and other devices by using organic materials containing chromophore...

Ohio Surgeons Hope Chip in Man's Brain Lets Him Control Paralyzed Hand with Thoughts
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Ohio Surgeons Hope Chip in Man's Brain Lets Him Control Paralyzed Hand with Thoughts

Chad Bouton snapped awake at 5 a.m.

­sing ­ltrasound to Feel Virtual Objects
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­sing ­ltrasound to Feel Virtual Objects

A startup called Ultrahaptics aims to make gesture control and virtual reality more engaging by using ultrasound waves to let you feel like you’re touching virtual...

Fifty Years of Basic, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
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Fifty Years of Basic, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it's a shame more people don't learn to do it.

Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm
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Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm

At a bitcoin conference in Miami this January, Jeffrey Tucker, a laissez-faire economist and libertarian icon, made an unexpected observation.

Tech Transfers Share Sandia's Science
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Tech Transfers Share Sandia's Science

Sandia's technology transfer program at has been sharing the national lab's science, supporting companies, and creating jobs for two decades.

Stanford Bioengineers Create Circuit Board Modeled on the Human Brain
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Stanford Bioengineers Create Circuit Board Modeled on the Human Brain

Stanford bioengineers have developed a new circuit board modeled on the human brain, possibly opening up new frontiers in robotics and computing.

Nasa Seeks External Concepts For Mission to Oceanic Jovian Moon
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Nasa Seeks External Concepts For Mission to Oceanic Jovian Moon

NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to science and engineering communities for ideas for a mission to Europa that could address fundamental questions...

Maths Spying: The Quandary of Working For the Spooks
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Maths Spying: The Quandary of Working For the Spooks

For the past 10 months, a major international scandal has engulfed some of the world's largest employers of mathematicians.

How to Create Nanowires Only Three Atoms Wide with an Electron Beam
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How to Create Nanowires Only Three Atoms Wide with an Electron Beam

Junhao Lin, a Vanderbilt University Ph.D. student and visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has found a way to use a finely focused beam of electrons...

Farewell Nokia: The Rise and Fall of a Mobile Pioneer
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Farewell Nokia: The Rise and Fall of a Mobile Pioneer

You never forget your first cellphone.

A Student-Data Collector Drops Out
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A Student-Data Collector Drops Out

To hear executives at inBloom tell it, their $100 million education technology start-up is shutting down after only 15 months of operation because it was too far...

Sex and Race Discrimination in Academia Starts Even Before Grad School
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Sex and Race Discrimination in Academia Starts Even Before Grad School

A study of how likely faculty were to respond to a request to meet with a student to discuss research opportunities found that professors were more likely to...

Four Questions To Ask Before Paying For An Employee's Training
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Four Questions To Ask Before Paying For An Employee's Training

An employee asks you to pay for additional training that he says he needs to do his job better. How do you know that the training will benefit the company?

The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets
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The First Look at How Google's Self-Driving Car Handles City Streets

The first rule of riding in Google's self-driving car, says Dmitri Dolgov, is not to compliment Google's self-driving car.

'double-Duty' Electrolyte Enables New Chemistry For Longer-Lived Batteries
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'double-Duty' Electrolyte Enables New Chemistry For Longer-Lived Batteries

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a new and unconventional battery chemistry aimed at producing batteries...

A Global Push for More Computer Science in Classrooms is Starting to Bear Fruit
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A Global Push for More Computer Science in Classrooms is Starting to Bear Fruit

In September, when computer science becomes part of England's primary-school curriculum, compuational games are likely to become a common sight in the country's...

An Iphone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story
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An Iphone Engineer-Turned-Game Maker Shares His Apple Story

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