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Optical physicists Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland have won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics for "groundbreaking inventions in the field of...
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What Worries People about Future Science and Tech Innovations?
Many Americans see the future crowding into the present and some of the innovations ahead unnerve them, especially as they reshape ideas about human dominion.
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Warfare has always been about exerting political will.
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The Most Important Inventor You've Never Heard Of
When The Economist called Stanford Ovshinsky "the Edison of our age," the name might have been unfamiliar to most people, but the comparison was apt.
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The Milky Way's Speediest Stars Could Solve a 50-Year-Old Mystery
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I Am a Roboticist in a Cheese Factory
Most people think about robots as autonomous machines guided by artificial intelligence.
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Could the 'alzheimer's Gene' Finally Become a Drug Target?
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Exploring a Different Kind of Team Sport
Imagine that you wanted to get teens excited about a competitive, extracurricular team.
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What We Know About the Climate Change-Hurricane Connection
With Texas just beginning to recover from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Harvey and the Southeastern U.S. preparing for Hurricane Irma's iminent arrival, people...
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The Outer Space Treaty (OST) turns 50 in October. The foundational 1967 pact establishes space as "the province of all mankind" and forbids the nearly 100 states...
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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Quantum Computers Compete For 'supremacy'
Scientists have long dreamed of developing quantum computers, machines that rely on arcane laws of physics to perform tasks far beyond the capability of today's...
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New Simpler Parkinson's Tests Probe Walking, Talking, Typing
People with Parkinson's disease may show hints of motor difficulty years before an official diagnosis, but current methods for catching early symptoms require clinic...
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20 Years After Deep Blue: How AI Has Advanced Since Conquering Chess
Twenty years ago IBM's Deep Blue computer stunned the world by becoming the first machine to beat a reigning world chess champion in a six-game match.
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Hpe Debuts Its Next-Gen Computer--Sans Much-Anticipated Memristors
Three years ago HPE (formerly Hewlett–Packard) laid out its vision for a radical redesign of the computer that would deliver hitherto unimaginable performance in...
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World's First 'cybathlon' Pits High-Tech Prosthetics Against One Another
Bob Radocy finished screwing a light bulb into a lamp perched on the desk ... and the crowd went wild.
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Highlights from the 2016 World Maker Faire
The chill in the air last weekend was a reminder that fall has arrived in New York City.
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Maker Movement Turns Scientists Into Tinkerers
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