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Semiconductor Works Better When Hitched to Graphene
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Semiconductor Works Better When Hitched to Graphene

Experiments at the  SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory should help the design of more efficient graphene based organic electronic devices.

Overcoming Our E-Waste Problem
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Overcoming Our E-Waste Problem

Old electronics clutter our landfills, junk drawers, and storage closets, but it doesn't have to be that way.

Can an Led-Filled 'robot Garden' Make Coding More Accessible?
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Can an Led-Filled 'robot Garden' Make Coding More Accessible?

An MIT team has created a "robot garden" with dozens of fast-changing LED lights and more than 100 crawling, swimming, and blooming origami robots to teach basic...

Why We Should Design Some Things to Be Difficult to ­se
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Why We Should Design Some Things to Be Difficult to ­se

The first car I ever drove was a bashed Land Rover Defender.

A New Spin on Spintronics
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A New Spin on Spintronics

A team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Western Michigan University is exploring new materials that could yield higher computational speeds...

Smarter Multicore Chips
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Smarter Multicore Chips

MIT researchers have developed a technique manages and monitors the threads and data of multicore chips to allow frequent full-chip reconfigurations to improve...

Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker
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Hoping Google's Lab Is a Rainmaker

Google's research arm, Google X, is called the company's Moonshot Factory. One reason the company picked the word "Moonshot" was to remind people to tackle big...

Digital Badges Could Motivate Students, Research Shows
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Digital Badges Could Motivate Students, Research Shows

The blend of digital technology and traditional merit badges would provide an opportunity to both motivate and measure learning, according to new research by...

Researcher Develops Software to Assess Online Interaction
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Researcher Develops Software to Assess Online Interaction

Cybersecurity expert Shuyuan Mary Ho of Florida State University has built a software application that can assess the disposition of an online communicator to help...

The Future of Virtual Sex
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The Future of Virtual Sex

Is another human being necessary for satisfying sex?

The Coming Boom In Brain Medicines
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The Coming Boom In Brain Medicines

Tony Coles could have had any job he wanted in the drug industry.

Dating Services Tinker with the Algorithms of Love
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Dating Services Tinker with the Algorithms of Love

You may have seen the Parks and Recreation episode where Tom Haverford makes 26 different online dating profiles to increase his odds of matching with every woman...

Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever
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Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever

Technology giants often meet their end not with a bang but a whimper, a slow, imperceptible descent into irrelevancy that may not immediately be reflected in the...

Robots Can Build Cars; Now They Learn Not to Crush You
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Robots Can Build Cars; Now They Learn Not to Crush You

Robots long ago earned a place in factories, where their pneumatic pumps and steel welding arms help manufacture everything from cars to planes.

Engineers Create Graphene Components Using 3-D Printing
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Engineers Create Graphene Components Using 3-D Printing

A team of engineers at Imperial College London have developed a method for printing miniature components from graphene, using a new graphene paste.

How to Interest Girls in Computer Science? Shift the Stereotypes
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How to Interest Girls in Computer Science? Shift the Stereotypes

A new study identifies a main culprit for the underrepresentation of women in undergraduate computer science and engineering programs: inaccurate stereotypes depicting...

Watching the Universe in Real Time
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Watching the Universe in Real Time

Even though the sky looks about the same every night to those of us here on Earth, cataclysmic things happen in outer space constantly.

Tackling the 'achilles' Heel' of Oled Displays
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Tackling the 'achilles' Heel' of Oled Displays

An inkjet-printing system could cut manufacturing costs enough to enable the mass-production of large-screen, flexible OLED displays.

Microsoft's Continuing Efforts to Be Cool
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Microsoft's Continuing Efforts to Be Cool

There's an old saying in Silicon Valley: "nobody ever got fired for using Amazon Web Services."

The Invisible Network That Keeps the World Running
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The Invisible Network That Keeps the World Running

It’s been just over 45 years since the Apollo Moon landings, and some would have it that we are failing to build big anymore; that we've since become too fascinated...
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