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The Extremely Personal Computer: The Digital Future of Mental Health
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The Extremely Personal Computer: The Digital Future of Mental Health

It's 2018, and you're not feeling your best.

Researchers Demonstrate 'giant' Forces in Super-Strong Nanomaterials
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Researchers Demonstrate 'giant' Forces in Super-Strong Nanomaterials

In a study that could lead to advances in the fields of optical computing and nanomaterials, researchers at Missouri University S&T report that a new class of nanoscale...

Researcher Developing New Computing Approach to Materials Science
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Researcher Developing New Computing Approach to Materials Science

Krishna Rajan of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory is using data mining, information theory, and statistical learning concepts to develop a new approach...

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Painful Birth For Europe's New One-Stop Patent

That Europe needs a common patent is patently obvious to Michael Setton, who runs a tiny technology firm in France making wireless sensors that track environmental...

Researchers Engineer Light-Activated Skeletal Muscle
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Researchers Engineer Light-Activated Skeletal Muscle

Scientists have genetically engineered muscle cells that flex in response to light, which could be used to build highly articulated robots or to test drugs for...

From Heroes to Humans: The Totally Regular People Who Landed a Robot on Mars
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From Heroes to Humans: The Totally Regular People Who Landed a Robot on Mars

Last week, a group of the scientists and engineers orchestrating NASA's Curiosity mission got together to do an "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit.

Robot Master
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Robot Master

When you visit Manuela Veloso at Carnegie Mellon University, you're not guided to her office by a security officer or even issued instructions by a secretary at...

Commercial Blue-Sky Research Lives on at Ibm's Watson Center
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Commercial Blue-Sky Research Lives on at Ibm's Watson Center

In the decades following World War II, the U.S. emerged as the leading center of scientific research through the efforts of three types of institutions: its research...

Curiosity's Martian Playground Is Technically Located in Pasadena
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Curiosity's Martian Playground Is Technically Located in Pasadena

Seventeen miles from downtown L.A., on the campus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, there's a small stretch of earth covered in beach sand, decomposed...

Micro-Swimmer Robots Could Deliver Cargo & Drugs
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Micro-Swimmer Robots Could Deliver Cargo & Drugs

Researchers have used complex computational models to design micro-robots that could overcome the challenges of swimming at the micron scale. The autonomous robots...

In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold
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In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold

If Vladimir Putin glances out the Kremlin window at just the right moment, he has a chance of glimpsing the world's best computer programmer in Google's Moscow...

Ten-Year-Old Problem in Theoretical Computer Science Falls
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Ten-Year-Old Problem in Theoretical Computer Science Falls

Computer scientists have finally answered the question of whether whether shared entanglement between the provers in multiprover interactive proof systems weaken...

Printed Photonic Crystal Mirrors Shrink On-Chip Lasers
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Printed Photonic Crystal Mirrors Shrink On-Chip Lasers

Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections...

Radiation Damage Bigger Problem in Microelectronics Than Previously Thought
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Radiation Damage Bigger Problem in Microelectronics Than Previously Thought

The amount of damage that radiation causes in electronic materials may be at least 10 times greater than previously thought, according to findings based on a  new...

A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley
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A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley

Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based here in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley.

Doing Apps and Start-­ps While Still in High School
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Doing Apps and Start-­ps While Still in High School

Like many young entrepreneurs here in Silicon Valley, Matthew Slipper knows that success does not come easy.

Researcher Solves N-Representability Problem
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Researcher Solves N-Representability Problem

A newly published article in Physical Review Letters eliminates one of the top unsolved theoretical problems in chemical physics as ranked by the National Research...

Clothing the Body Electric
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Clothing the Body Electric

Researchers at the University of South Carolina have converted the fabric in a cotton T-shirt into a material that can store electricity. Their work could pave...

Quantum Computers Could Help Search Engines Keep ­p with the Internet's Growth
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Quantum Computers Could Help Search Engines Keep ­p with the Internet's Growth

With the web constantly expanding, researchers at USC have proposed — and demonstrated the feasibility — of using quantum computers to run Google's page ranking...

'part-Time' Scientists Aim to Develop Autonomous Rover to Compete For Lunar X Prize
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'part-Time' Scientists Aim to Develop Autonomous Rover to Compete For Lunar X Prize

Some people try to make the most of their spare time by exercising, volunteering, or simply recharging their batteries. Others like to use that time to build robots...
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