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International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge
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International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

Some of science's most powerful statements are not made in words. The next competition opens May 31, 2012.

Thermoelectric Nanomaterial Device Converts Heat Into Power
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Thermoelectric Nanomaterial Device Converts Heat Into Power

Never get stranded with a dead cell phone again. A thermoelectric device that converts body heat into an electrical current could soon create enough juice to let...

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Defense Spending on Cyber, Special Operations Stays Steady as ­.S. Seeks Savings in Tough Year

Spending on two of the Pentagon’s top priorities, cybersecurity and special operations forces, would largely remain flat or dip slightly in 2013 under the Defense...

Darpa Dodges Obama Budget Death Ray, Keeps Its $2.8 Billion
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Darpa Dodges Obama Budget Death Ray, Keeps Its $2.8 Billion

For most of the U.S. military's far-flung community of scientists and engineers, Monday was a day to pop a Xanax.

Professor Receives Grant to Study Entanglement in Quantum Systems
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Professor Receives Grant to Study Entanglement in Quantum Systems

A grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research is supporting the investigating of scientific obstacles to quantum computers, cryptography and teleportation...

The Future of Hiring: Human Resources, Without the Humans
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The Future of Hiring: Human Resources, Without the Humans

Imagine a scenario where your next job interview isn't face-to-face, but face-to-screen. There are no questions about your former work experience and office habits...

Designing Windows 8, or How to Redesign a Religion
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Designing Windows 8, or How to Redesign a Religion

There are lot of hard jobs at Microsoft. But Sam Moreau just might have the hardest of all. Or at least the most harrowing. Over the past five years, he's taken...

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Still Creating Otherworldly Adventures

When the special-effects whiz and director Douglas Trumbull receives a special Oscar on Saturday—the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for filmmakers "whose technological...

Microscopy Reveals 'atomic Antenna' Behavior in Graphene
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Microscopy Reveals 'atomic Antenna' Behavior in Graphene

Atomic-level defects in graphene could be a path forward to smaller and faster electronic devices.

NSF Grant to Support Research in 'Natural Computation'
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NSF Grant to Support Research in 'Natural Computation'

All living organisms collect information from their environments and use it to adapt. The Santa Fe Institute is investigating how such biological processes may...

­chicago Center Developing Computational Bioresearch Tool
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­chicago Center Developing Computational Bioresearch Tool

The new Center for Multiscale Theory and Simulation at the University of Chicago will implement an extensive  cyberinfrastructure network that provides an array...

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Sebastian Thrun Resigns from Stanford to Launch ­dacity

Professor Sebastian Thrun has given up his Stanford position to start Udacity—an online educational venture. Udacity's first two free courses are Building a Search...

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U.s. Losing High-Tech Jobs, R&d Dominance to Asia

U.S. companies are locating more of their research and development operations overseas, and Asian countries are rapidly increasing investments in their own science...

Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots
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Snakes Improve Search-and-Rescue Robots

Georgia Tech researchers have studied the movements of snakes to create more efficient search-and-rescue robots.

Record 29 Bay Area High School Students Are Intel Semifinalists
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Record 29 Bay Area High School Students Are Intel Semifinalists

Bay Area high school seniors snagged an astounding 29 spots among the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search semifinalists, it was announced Wednesday.

Nanomaterials Cooked in Microwave Oven Could Lead to Solid-State Air Conditioners and Refrigerators
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Nanomaterials Cooked in Microwave Oven Could Lead to Solid-State Air Conditioners and Refrigerators

Rensselaer researchers at have developed a new way to create nanomaterials that could lead to highly efficient refrigerators and cooling systems requiring no refrigerants...

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First Siri, Now Threat Detection: Inside Sri's Amazing R&d

Who invented Siri?

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The Comeback of Xerox Parc

Last month, a small Norwegian company called Thinfilm Electronics and PARC, the storied Silicon Valley research lab, jointly showed off a technological first—a...

Marc Andreessen: Predictions For 2012 (and Beyond)
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Marc Andreessen: Predictions For 2012 (and Beyond)

Marc Andreessen's view of the world boils down to software.

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In Russia, the Lost Generation of Science

For the past decade, Russia has been pouring money into scientific research, trying to make up for the collapse of the 1990s, but innovation is losing out to...
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