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Study Finds That Men Are Often Their Own Favorite Experts on Any Given Subject
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Study Finds That Men Are Often Their Own Favorite Experts on Any Given Subject

New research found that self-citation represents a significant chunk of all academic citations. More strikingly, it found a huge difference in self-citation patterns...

'kudos' Promises to Help Scientists Promote Their Papers to New Audiences
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'kudos' Promises to Help Scientists Promote Their Papers to New Audiences

Few people have heard of Michele Tobias's research field—and even fewer study it.

Swapping Substrates Improves Edges of Graphene Nanoribbons
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Swapping Substrates Improves Edges of Graphene Nanoribbons

A team of researchers from China and Japan have devised a way to make monolayer graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edges in the lab.

CIA Cyber Official Sees Data Flood as Both Godsend and Danger
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CIA Cyber Official Sees Data Flood as Both Godsend and Danger

When he started at the CIA, Sean Roche recalls how little solid data the U.S. spy agency had on what was going on inside the Kremlin.

Latest Frontier For ­nmanned Vehicles: The High Seas
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Latest Frontier For ­nmanned Vehicles: The High Seas

Who's driving that boat? No one.

Plumbing the Possibilities of 'Seeing Around Corners'
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Plumbing the Possibilities of 'Seeing Around Corners'

Researchers at the Morgridge Institute for Research and University of Wisconsin-Madison are working to optimize a camera capable of snapping pictures around corners...

Portable Device Produces Biopharmaceuticals On Demand
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Portable Device Produces Biopharmaceuticals On Demand

The portable microbioreactor system is designed to use microbes for manufacturing small amounts of vaccines and other therapies.

Virtual Reality: The Hype, the Problems and the Promise
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Virtual Reality: The Hype, the Problems and the Promise

I'm sitting in the dark. It's pitch black, apart from a circular spot of light on the wall in front of me.

Inside Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter's Latest Production
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Inside Genomics Pioneer Craig Venter's Latest Production

At Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) in La Jolla, California, more than two dozen machines work around the clock, sequencing one human genome every 15 minutes at a cost...

Facebook's Really Big Plans For Virtual Reality
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Facebook's Really Big Plans For Virtual Reality

The office building on Facebook Way is in the unfinished style that honors materials like plywood, concrete, and steel.

Now You Too Can Buy Cloud-Based Deep Learning
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Now You Too Can Buy Cloud-Based Deep Learning

Facebook's deep-learning artificial intelligence systems have learned to recognize your friends in your photos, and Google's AI has learned to anticipate what you’ll...

The 2016 Top Programming Languages
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The 2016 Top Programming Languages

IEEE Spectrum has released its third interactive ranking of the most popular programming languages.

Pinkenburg and the Gearheadz
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Pinkenburg and the Gearheadz

Brookhaven physicist Chris Pinkenburg coaches a kids' robotics team for national competitions.

Businesses Can't Afford to Ignore the Human Element of It, Study Says
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Businesses Can't Afford to Ignore the Human Element of It, Study Says

Mood and personality play an important role in how companies should manage their IT systems, according to a new study published in the Information Systems Journal...

Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia?
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Could Brain Training Prevent Dementia?

It's been a lousy couple of years for researchers who study the effects of computerized brain training.

It's the Data, Stupid: Why Database Admins Are More Important Than Ever
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It's the Data, Stupid: Why Database Admins Are More Important Than Ever

For those of us who have been in the information technology realm for too long, the title "database administrator" conjures up very specific images.

How to Operate Your Smart Watch with the Same Hand That Wears It
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How to Operate Your Smart Watch with the Same Hand That Wears It

Smart watches aren't exactly models of efficiency—they require one hand to operate while the other wrist wears it. A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers...

Humans and Robots of the Future
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Humans and Robots of the Future

Researchers at Innopolis University, Russia, surveyed 300 participants of the Russian Robot Olympiad to learn what children, aged 8-25, think about robots, artificial...

Twitter Offers Clues to Stock Performance, Study Shows
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Twitter Offers Clues to Stock Performance, Study Shows

A study by two Johns Hopkins professors shows a strong contemporaneous correlation between the mood of a day's worth of tweets about a particular stock and the...

They Promised ­S Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit.
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They Promised ­S Jet Packs. They Promised the Bosses Profit.

Project Foghorn is one of those straight-from-science-fiction concepts we've come to expect from Alphabet, the sprawling conglomerate formerly known as Google.
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