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How Tom Clancy Changed Video Games
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How Tom Clancy Changed Video Games

The widespread mourning of Tom Clancy's death last week is clear testament to a man who managed to have a significant impact across a range of media.

Formula Predicts Research Papers' Future Citations
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Formula Predicts Research Papers' Future Citations

It sounds like a science administrator’s dream—or a scientist's worst nightmare: a formula that predicts how often research papers will be cited.

Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?
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Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?

Science fiction writers have fantasized for years about the government monitoring everything we do.

The New Digital Playbook For Learning Mandarin Chinese
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The New Digital Playbook For Learning Mandarin Chinese

David Moser, the academic director at CET Beijing Chinese Studies, remembers the bad old days of Mandarin-learning methodology in the 1980s and 1990s.

Surprisingly Simple Scheme for Self-Assembling Robots
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Surprisingly Simple Scheme for Self-Assembling Robots

Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.

Jellyfish Removal Robot Developed
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Jellyfish Removal Robot Developed

A research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology has developed an unmanned robotic system that locates and removes jellyfish.

A Digital Copy of the ­niverse, Encrypted
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A Digital Copy of the ­niverse, Encrypted

Even as he installed the landmark camera that would capture the first convincing evidence of dark energy in the 1990s, Tony Tyson, an experimental cosmologist now...

Quantum Computer Passes Math Test, But Doesn't Answer the Big Question
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Quantum Computer Passes Math Test, But Doesn't Answer the Big Question

Is the world's first commercial quantum computer the real deal or not?

Putting 'quantumness' to the Test
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Putting 'quantumness' to the Test

What is a quantum computer?

Ex-Amazon Engineer Builds Library For World's Software Code
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Ex-Amazon Engineer Builds Library For World's Software Code

In 2004, Amazon.com boss Jeff Bezos decreed that any software built by an Amazon engineer must be shared with every other engineer at the company.

Intel's Galileo Aims X86 Chips at Arduino Hardware Hackers
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Intel's Galileo Aims X86 Chips at Arduino Hardware Hackers

Determined to carve out a niche for itself in the low-power device market, Intel on Thursday announced a partnership to bring its small Quark processors to the ...

NSF Awards $12 Million to SDSC to Deploy 'Comet' Supercomputer
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NSF Awards $12 Million to SDSC to Deploy 'Comet' Supercomputer

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a $12-million grant from the National Science Foundation to deploy...

Computer Scientists Develop New Approach to Sort Cells Up to 38 Times Faster
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Computer Scientists Develop New Approach to Sort Cells Up to 38 Times Faster

A team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a new approach that marries computer vision and hardware optimization...

Fbi: Silk Road Mastermind Couldn't Even Keep Himself Anonymous Online
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Fbi: Silk Road Mastermind Couldn't Even Keep Himself Anonymous Online

What will get you in the end is sloppy opsec.

Imagining Data Without Division
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Imagining Data Without Division

Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a...

Texan Creationism Showdown May 'contaminate' Textbook
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Texan Creationism Showdown May 'contaminate' Textbook

If creationists in Texas get their way, high-school students throughout the U.S. could soon be reading biology textbooks that falsely cast doubt on the scientific...

Students Are 'hacking' Their School-Issued Ipads: Good For Them
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Students Are 'hacking' Their School-Issued Ipads: Good For Them

Almost immediately after receiving their new school-issued iPads this fall, students in Indiana and in California (and probably elsewhere) managed to bypass the...

Researchers to Build Wildfire Cyberinfrastructure
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Researchers to Build Wildfire Cyberinfrastructure

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to build an cyberinfrastructure to perform real-time...

First Research Network for Female Scientists Launched
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First Research Network for Female Scientists Launched

Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory, and Elsevier have collaborated to create an online networking forum...

Frax App Brings Fractal-Exploration Glory to iOS
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Frax App Brings Fractal-Exploration Glory to iOS

In 1983, intrigued by an article on fractals, I wrote a program to display the Mandelbrot set on my family's TRS-80 Color Computer.
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