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Heavy Internet Use Shares Symptoms of Addiction
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Heavy Internet Use Shares Symptoms of Addiction

Young adults who are heavy users of the Internet may also exhibit signs of addiction, say researchers in a recently published study.

Professor Helps Address Need for Foreign-Language Science Textbooks
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Professor Helps Address Need for Foreign-Language Science Textbooks

Boston University Professor Richard Primack has produced 29 foreign-language editions of popular textbooks with input from co-authors who translate and add local...

An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'
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An Nsa Coworker Remembers The Real Edward Snowden: 'a Genius Among Geniuses'

Perhaps Edward Snowden's hoodie should have raised suspicions.

Officials Say ­.s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks
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Officials Say ­.s. May Never Know Extent of Snowden's Leaks

American intelligence and law enforcement investigators have concluded that they may never know the entirety of what the former National Security Agency contractor...

Picture of Health: A Selfie That May Save Your Life
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Picture of Health: A Selfie That May Save Your Life

A new smartphone device can take an accurate iPhone camera selfie that can read the subject's cholesterol level in about a minute.

Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots
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Google Adds to Its Menagerie of Robots

BigDog, Cheetah, WildCat, and Atlas have joined Google's growing robot menagerie.

Green Innovator
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Green Innovator

University of Delaware Professor Richard Wool has been awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award for his work developing bio-based materials to...

Virtually Immortal
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Virtually Immortal

Digital preservationists are on a mission to capture the world's threatened masterworks in all their 3-D glory.

Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money
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Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money

Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...

Why We Can't Let American Tech Take Over the World
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Why We Can't Let American Tech Take Over the World

Whenever an app, a website, or a physical product like a gaming console is exported, it ships with a side of cultural influence.

Aviation Schools Prepare For Boom in Drone Jobs
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Aviation Schools Prepare For Boom in Drone Jobs

Two student pilots are seated shoulder to shoulder before a bank of video monitors, maneuvering an unmanned aircraft by keyboard and mouse as the drone descends...

When Apple and Samsung Fight, the Lawyers Win
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When Apple and Samsung Fight, the Lawyers Win

Pity the lawyers—except for those who practice intellectual property law.

Is Peer-Review Systemically Misogynist?
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Is Peer-Review Systemically Misogynist?

Women's presence in science is not reflected in peer-review authorship or citations.

5 Tips For Aspiring Silicon Valley Engineers
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5 Tips For Aspiring Silicon Valley Engineers

Great software engineers are hard to find, let alone hire and keep.

Behind Samsung's Push to Rule the World
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Behind Samsung's Push to Rule the World

"It sounded like a toilet."

Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help
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Nasa Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help

NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current environments that will aid plans for future robotic and human missions.

World of Spycraft: Nsa and CIA Spied in Online Games
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World of Spycraft: Nsa and CIA Spied in Online Games

Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting...

Old School vs. New School As Academic Publishers Brawl Over Web
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Old School vs. New School As Academic Publishers Brawl Over Web

The competition for prominence in academic publishing heated up this week as a traditional company, Elsevier, tangled with a Digital Era rival, Academia.edu.

"Hour of Code" Calls on Students to Program Computers, With Support From Obama (And the Republicans, Too!)
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"Hour of Code" Calls on Students to Program Computers, With Support From Obama (And the Republicans, Too!)

By now you may have heard about the United States' woeful lack of public coding classes, despite the economy's ever-growing need for technical workers.

Saving the Net from the Surveillance State: Glenn Greenwald Speaks ­p
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Saving the Net from the Surveillance State: Glenn Greenwald Speaks ­p

Big Brother may be watching you. But Glenn Greenwald is watching Big Brother.
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