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Documentation Academy Aims to Empower Open Source Newcomers
Canonical's Open Documentation Academy aims to help newcomers participate in the open source community, offering mentorship and…
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Nanotech Pioneer Langer Wins Award By Thinking Small
Bioengineer Robert Langer has spent his career looking for the next not-so-big thing.
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Virtual Dissection Method Could Reinvigorate Zoology
Last summer, researchers demonstrated that non-invasive imaging combined with a staining technique enables the fast comparison and study of earthworm species and...
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Astrobiologist Aims to Make Science Education More Interactive
I remember battling sleepiness as I slouched in a large lecture hall, squinting to make out the writing on the blackboard during my freshman introductory physics...
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Power to the Internet of Things
As many as 50 billion devices will be online by the end of the decade.
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Crime Ring Revelation Reveals Cybersecurity Conflict of Interest
A small cybersecurity firm claimed this summer to have uncovered a scam by Russian Internet thieves to amass a mountain of stolen information from 420,000 Web and...
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Map of Body's Protein-Folding Machinery Wins a Major Medical Prize
It's speculation season once again for Nobel Prize watchers.
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Beyond Classic Brain Illustrations That Make S Drool
I threw down a bit of a challenge last month at the Association of Medical Illustrators Conference in Minnesota.
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Squiggly Lines Secure Smartphones
To protect your financial and personal data, most mobiles come with PIN-based security, biometrics or number grids that require you to retrace a particular pattern...
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So Far, Big Data Is Small Potatoes
Is Big Data going to revolutionize science and help us make a better world? Not based on what it's done so far.
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A Stellar Discovery on the Milky Way's Far Side
A single Hubble Space Telescope image can capture scores of distant galaxies, but the one galaxy we'll never see from the outside is our own.
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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.
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NASA's Troubled $8-Billion Hubble Successor Is Back on Track
The Hubble Space Telescope is still operating, but its successor is already waiting in the wings.
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Why We Don't Trust Technology Companies
Last October, T-Mobile made an astonishing announcement: from now on, when you travel internationally with a T-Mobile phone, you get free unlimited text messages...
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Titan's Seas Get an Earthly Stand-In as Robot Explores Chilean Lake
Early Mars rovers had little more intelligence than a fancy remote-controlled car.
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How Microsoft's 1 Percenters Balance Basic Research with Short-Term Success
When Microsoft launched its research labs in 1991, the personal computer was just beginning to blossom into a worldwide phenomenon, thanks in no small part to Windows...
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What Do Computer Models Reveal About Likely Impacts of Climate Change?
Impact models attempt to translate changes in natural systems into effects on agriculture, weather, and human health.
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2013 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Computer Modeling of Chemical Reactions
What is actually happening at the atomic scale when two elements react?
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Cache and Not Carry: Next Mars Rover to Collect Samples For Return to Earth—someday
Have rover, need payload. That's the state of things for NASA, which is planning to launch its next rover to Mars in 2020.
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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.
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