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Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade
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Why Naval Academy Students Are Learning to Sail By the Stars For the First Time in a Decade

Peter Hogan was surprised at how heavy the sextant felt in his hand when he squinted through its eyeglass this week, the first time he had ever held one.

Army Cyber Teams Score Most Gold Medals at Pentagon's Yearly Hacking Tournament
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Army Cyber Teams Score Most Gold Medals at Pentagon's Yearly Hacking Tournament

The United States Military Academy at West Point took home the top prize earlier this month in Pittsburgh at CyberStakes, the Pentagon's third annual top tier hacking...

Cyber Thieves Making Millions in Profits
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Cyber Thieves Making Millions in Profits

Cyber thieves who steal credit and debit card numbers are making millions of dollars in profits, fueling a global criminal enterprise marked by the high-profile...

Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams
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Enabling Human-Robot Rescue Teams

MIT researchers have described a new way of modeling human-robot collaboration that reduces the need for communication by 60 percent, which could enable emergency...

5-D Data Storage Could Record the History of Humankind
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5-D Data Storage Could Record the History of Humankind

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed digital data storage that is capable of surviving for billions of years.

Young Scientists Poised to Ride the Gravitational Wave
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Young Scientists Poised to Ride the Gravitational Wave

The first direct detection of gravitational waves has opened a new window in physics and astronomy—rewarding a cohort of young researchers who gambled on finding...

Crunching Quantum Code
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Crunching Quantum Code

Theoretical physicists at MIT recently reported a quantum computer design and error correction method based on special electronic states called Majorana fermions...

Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World ­nemployed'
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Would You Bet Against Sex Robots? AI 'could Leave Half of World ­nemployed'

Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial...

Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them
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Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them

Just over a billion years ago, many millions of galaxies from here, a pair of black holes collided.

Moore's Law Really Is Dead This Time
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Moore's Law Really Is Dead This Time

Moore's law has died at the age of 51 after an extended illness.

Legal Tussle Delays Launch of Huge Toxicity Database
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Legal Tussle Delays Launch of Huge Toxicity Database

A giant database on the health risks of nearly 10,000 chemicals will make it easier to predict the toxicity of tens of thousands of consumer products for which...

'Haptic Glasses' Could Make Car Navigation Safer, Less Distracting
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'Haptic Glasses' Could Make Car Navigation Safer, Less Distracting

Human factors/ergonomics researchers have developed an automotive navigation system that uses haptic communication and shows promise to address the cognitive overload...

Graphene Leans on Glass to Advance Electronics
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Graphene Leans on Glass to Advance Electronics

Scientists have developed a simple and powerful method for creating resilient, customized, and high-performing graphene by layering it on top of common glass.

Power Walk: Footsteps Could Charge Mobile Electronics
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Power Walk: Footsteps Could Charge Mobile Electronics

An  energy harvesting and storage technology developed at University of Wisconsin–Madison could reduce mobile devices' reliance on batteries by capturing energy...

Boffo or Bomb? Algorithm Predicts Movie's Box Office Success
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Boffo or Bomb? Algorithm Predicts Movie's Box Office Success

The producers of Batman v. Superman won't be happy.

Could Vietnam Become the Next Silicon Valley?
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Could Vietnam Become the Next Silicon Valley?

Eddie Thai and Binh Tran are the kind of American entrepreneurs you'd expect to meet in Silicon Valley.

­S Military: Robot Wars
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­S Military: Robot Wars

When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...

Computer Science Coding Competition Kicks Off
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Computer Science Coding Competition Kicks Off

Dream it. Code it. Win it., an international student coding competition for high-school and college students, will award $80,000 in prizes in its third annual competition...

Cockroach Inspires Robot That Squeezes Through Cracks
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Cockroach Inspires Robot That Squeezes Through Cracks

Inspired by creepy cockroaches, UC Berkeley researchers have developed a robot that can crawl even when squashed to half its size.

After 100 Years, Scientists Are Finally Closing In on Einstein's Ripples
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After 100 Years, Scientists Are Finally Closing In on Einstein's Ripples

The rain began to fall as Joe Giaime and I scrambled down a lonely rise, back toward the observatory's main building.
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