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Students Say Online Courses Enrich On-Campus Learning
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Students Say Online Courses Enrich On-Campus Learning

One in five science students surveyed by Nature and Scientific American has participated in a MOOC — and most would do so again.

Device Captures Signatures and Fingerprints with Tiny Piezo-Phototronic Leds
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Device Captures Signatures and Fingerprints with Tiny Piezo-Phototronic Leds

Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a sensor device that converts mechanical pressure — from a signature or a fingerprint — directly into light signals that...

U.S. Workers Found to Outperform Offshore Staff
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U.S. Workers Found to Outperform Offshore Staff

U.S.-based workers show more initiative and are more innovative and more understanding of the business than offshore workers, according to a new study. These qualities...

The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next
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The Science Behind the Netflix Algorithms That Decide What You'll Watch Next

If you liked 1960s Star Trek, the first non-Trek title that Netflix is likely to suggest to you is the original Mission: Impossible series (the one with the cool...

Professor Emeritus Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to Irobot
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Professor Emeritus Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to Irobot

Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gained fame in the 1990s for co-founding iRobot, an MIT spinoff that brought the world the Roomba and other innovative, helpful...

Nsa to Cut System Administrators By 90 Percent to Limit Data Access
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Nsa to Cut System Administrators By 90 Percent to Limit Data Access

The U.S. National Security Agency, hit by disclosures of classified data by former contractor Edward Snowden, said Thursday it intends to eliminate about 90 percent...

Silent Circle Follows Lavabit in Shuttering Encrypted Email
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Silent Circle Follows Lavabit in Shuttering Encrypted Email

Silent Circle shuttered its encrypted email service on Thursday, the second such closure in just a few hours in an apparent attempt to avoid government scrutiny...

Rensselaer's Francine Berman & Google's Vint Cerf Co-Author Op Ed on Research Data Preservation in Science
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Rensselaer's Francine Berman & Google's Vint Cerf Co-Author Op Ed on Research Data Preservation in Science

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor and Council co-Chair of the international Research Data Alliance Francine Berman joined with Google Vice President Vint...

Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to Irobot
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Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to Irobot

Rodney Brooks' startup, Rethink Robotics, is producing robots that can adapt to manufacturing tasks and the factory environment.

How Online Ratings Affect Your Judgment
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How Online Ratings Affect Your Judgment

A newly published study found that positive comments on a website create an illusory snowball effect, while negative responses get cancelled out.

Integrating Left Brain and Right, on a Computer
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Integrating Left Brain and Right, on a Computer

As computers have matured over time, the human brain has no way of keeping up with silicon's rapid-fire calculating abilities.

Bigshot Diy Camera Aims to Teach Kids Tech Basics
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Bigshot Diy Camera Aims to Teach Kids Tech Basics

Owners of Bigshot's device need to assemble its parts in a specific sequence to make it work. An online guide explains the science behind them.

Apple's Operating System Guru Goes Back to His Roots
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Apple's Operating System Guru Goes Back to His Roots

That iPad in your hand? It feels like the most modern of computers. But like the iPhone and the Macintosh, the Apple tablet revolves around a core piece of software...

Nine Tips for Successfully Moving Your Face-to-Face Course Online
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Nine Tips for Successfully Moving Your Face-to-Face Course Online

While even technologically savvy instructors may struggle in moving a strongly Web-supported course to fully online delivery, there are simple solutions to address...

In Pursuit of Quantum Biology With Birgitta Whaley
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In Pursuit of Quantum Biology With Birgitta Whaley

As an undergraduate at Oxford University in the mid-1970s, K. Birgitta Whaley struggled to choose between chemistry and physics.

Coding for All: A STEM Sector that Reflects America
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Coding for All: A STEM Sector that Reflects America

Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama, weighs in on changes at the national and local level that are making science, technology, engineering...

One Year Later, Nasa Looks Back at Curiosity Rover's Scariest Moment
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One Year Later, Nasa Looks Back at Curiosity Rover's Scariest Moment

For the Curiosity rover, it's just another day on Mars—but back on Earth, Tuesday was a day to look back at the $2.5 billion mission's first year, including a moment...

Helping the Deaf to 'See' and 'Feel' Sound
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Helping the Deaf to 'See' and 'Feel' Sound

Earlier this summer in a packed and freezing-cold auditorium in Doha, the all-female team of students from Qatar University burst into cheers and tears as theyINJAZ...

Fledgling 3D Printing Industry Finds Home in Nyc
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Fledgling 3D Printing Industry Finds Home in Nyc

It looks like a bakery. A warm glow emanates from the windows of big, oven-like machines, and a dusting of white powder covers everything.

Battery Design Gets Boost from Aligned Carbon Nanotubes
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Battery Design Gets Boost from Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a new flexible nano-scaffold for rechargeable lithium ion batteries that could help make cell phone...
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