Physics Division Graduate Intern - Fall 2024 - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, CA
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How Microsoft's 1 Percenters Balance Basic Research with Short-Term Success
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Google's Schaft Robot Wins DARPA Rescue Challenge
Team Schaft's machine carried out all eight rescue-themed tasks to outscore its rivals by a wide margin.
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James Kuffner, Google Robotics Researcher
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Japanese Team Dominates Competition to Create Rescue Robots
An international competition to pave the way for a new generation of rescue robots was dominated by a team of Japanese roboticists who were students in the laboratory...
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How One Publisher Is Stopping Academics from Sharing Their Research
One of the world's largest academic publishers has launched a wide-ranging takedown spree, demanding that several different universities take down their own scholars'...
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Darpa's Robotic Gladiators Will Battle on This Disaster Course
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First Completely 3D-Printed Working Loudspeaker Built
Researchers for the first time have used 3D printing to make a consumer electronic device, a loudspeaker ready for use almost as soon as it comes off the printer...
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Calxeda, Chipmaker That Sought to Bring ARM Chips to Servers, Has Shut Down
Depending on whom you ask, the coming year is supposed to be the one during which server chips based on the ARM architecture that is now so popular in smartphones...
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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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Nasa's Deep Space Network Turns 50
NASA's Deep Space Network, the world's largest and most powerful communications system for "talking to" spacecraft, will reach a milestone on Dec. 24: the 50th...
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The Geeks on the Front Lines
Inside a darkened conference room in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn, America's most badass hackers are going to war—working their laptops between swigs of Bawls energy...
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'become an Ios Developer in 8 Weeks': The Truth About Hack Schools
After the design firm where he worked as a web developer went under, Ray S. turned the bad news into an opportunity to transition into iOS development.
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An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'
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The Startling Beauty of the Microscopic
When Robert Hooke first looked at a piece of cork under a microscope in 1665, he was looking for scientific reasons–but that didn’t keep him from seeing the intrinsic...
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American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...
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