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Sharing Best Practices For Getting Published in Science
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Sharing Best Practices For Getting Published in Science

A panel of editors, students, and faculty recently convened at MIT to discuss aspects of scientific publishing including open access, innovative models of peer...

A Cure For Medical Researchers' Big Data Headache
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A Cure For Medical Researchers' Big Data Headache

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are developing an data analytics tool for literature-based discovery that has the potential to accelerate medical research...

China's Internet Forum May Provide a Peek at Its Cyber-Ambitions
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China's Internet Forum May Provide a Peek at Its Cyber-Ambitions

Heads of state, including the prime ministers of Pakistan and Russia, and major technology firms will gather Wednesday in Wuzhen, a picturesque little town of canals...

Hands-On With Microsoft's Hololens, One Year Later
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Hands-On With Microsoft's Hololens, One Year Later

One year after showing off HoloLens, Microsoft's augmented reality rig remains very much a work in progress.

Spinoff 2016 Highlights Space Technologies Used in Daily Life on Earth
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Spinoff 2016 Highlights Space Technologies Used in Daily Life on Earth

NASA technology is all around us, turning trash into oil, saving women from a deadly complication of childbirth, and putting the bubbles in beer.

Inside the 2016 Black Market for Donor Emails
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Inside the 2016 Black Market for Donor Emails

Scott Walker has begun selling access to his email list to pay off his leftover presidential debt, renting out the email addresses of hundreds of thousands of supporters...

In Virtual Reality, Exercise Bike Becomes a Race Car
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In Virtual Reality, Exercise Bike Becomes a Race Car

A new stationary bike from Boston startup VirZoom requires an unusual accessory while you’re pedaling: a virtual-reality headset, so you can turn your workout into...

How Researchers Are Turning 'star Wars' Droids Into Reality
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How Researchers Are Turning 'star Wars' Droids Into Reality

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are working to make droids more science fact than science fiction.

How Artificial Intelligence Could Change the Way We Watch Sports
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Change the Way We Watch Sports

Computers have already been trained how to write up quick summaries of sporting events after studying the box score, putting the jobs of sports journalists at risk...

U Mad Bro? Researchers Measure Emotion with Your Mouse Clicks
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U Mad Bro? Researchers Measure Emotion with Your Mouse Clicks

Most people can tell if you're angry based on the way you're acting. Professor Jeffrey Jenkins can tell if you're angry by the way you move a computer mouse.

Twists and Turns in Path from Lab to Startup to Major Acquisition
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Twists and Turns in Path from Lab to Startup to Major Acquisition

How Berkeley Lab battery spinoff Seeo got acquired by a major multinational company.

Artificial-Intelligence Research Center Is Founded By Silicon Valley Investors
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Artificial-Intelligence Research Center Is Founded By Silicon Valley Investors

A group of prominent Silicon Valley investors and technology companies said on Friday that they would establish an artificial-intelligence research center to develop...

Scott Aaronson on Google's New Quantum-Computing Paper
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Scott Aaronson on Google's New Quantum-Computing Paper

Google researchers released a paper last week suggesting that the D-Wave computer exploits quantum phenomena. Scott Aaronson of MIT helps make sense of the new...

Singaporean Students Create Device to Help Fight Parkinson's Symptoms
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Singaporean Students Create Device to Help Fight Parkinson's Symptoms

One dangerous aspect of Parkinson's Disease is the impeded ability to walk, which causes people to fall and injure themselves.

Backslash: Anti-Surveillance Gadgets For Protesters
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Backslash: Anti-Surveillance Gadgets For Protesters

When riot police descended on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last year sporting assault rifles and armored vehicles, the images sparked an awareness of the military...

Small Variations Mean Big Changes in Oxide's Insulator-to-Conductor Transformation
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Small Variations Mean Big Changes in Oxide's Insulator-to-Conductor Transformation

Scientists have identified a surprising non-uniformity in vanadium dioxide that could one day enable more energy-efficient technologies.

Computer Shows Human-Like Learning For Writing Characters
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Computer Shows Human-Like Learning For Writing Characters

 U.S. and Canadian researchers have developed a computer program that teaches a computer to learn to recognize handwritten characters such as letters of the alphabet...

Silicon Valley Is in a War Over Artificial Intelligence and Facebook Just Made Its Boldest Move Yet
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Silicon Valley Is in a War Over Artificial Intelligence and Facebook Just Made Its Boldest Move Yet

In the war over deep learning that's currently taking place in Silicon Valley, Facebook just dropped a bomb.

To Get More Oomph From an Electron Gun, Tip It with Diamondoids
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To Get More Oomph From an Electron Gun, Tip It with Diamondoids

Scientists have increased the flow from electron guns 13,000-fold by applying a single layer of diamondoids — tiny, perfect diamond cages — to the's sharp gold...

Low Wages Not Education to Blame for Skills Gap
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Low Wages Not Education to Blame for Skills Gap

Low wages rather than inadequate training are to blame for the STEM skills gap, according to research from the University of Warwick.
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