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Carnegie Mellon Awarded $7.5 Million Department of Defense Grant to Reshape Mathematics
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Carnegie Mellon Awarded $7.5 Million Department of Defense Grant to Reshape Mathematics

Carnegie Mellon University's Steve Awodey has received a $7.5 million, five-year grant from the Department of Defense to reshape the foundations of mathematics...

Devices That Know How We Really Feel
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Devices That Know How We Really Feel

Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook.

Basic Science Finds Corporate Refuge
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Basic Science Finds Corporate Refuge

Microsoft makes Windows, Word, and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses.

To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes By Hand
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To Remember a Lecture Better, Take Notes By Hand

Psych 101 was about to start, and Pam Mueller had forgotten her laptop at home.

Future Macbook Keyboards May Come Loaded with In-Key Displays, Capacitive Touch
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Future Macbook Keyboards May Come Loaded with In-Key Displays, Capacitive Touch

Showing the company is still making advances in more traditional tech, an Apple patent filing for "Multi-functional keyboard assemblies" describes a keyboard consisting...

What's It Like to Consult For The Big Bang Theory?
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What's It Like to Consult For The Big Bang Theory?

Now in its seventh season, the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory is more popular than ever, averaging 19.79 million viewers per episode; and it’s not going away anytime...

What's The Nsa Doing Now? Training More Cyber Warriors
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What's The Nsa Doing Now? Training More Cyber Warriors

The U.S. needs more cyber warriors, and it needs them fast, according to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

How Do We Clean Up the Junkyard Orbiting Earth?
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How Do We Clean Up the Junkyard Orbiting Earth?

The biggest-sized junkyard in the world orbits the Earth, and it's time to get active about reducing it, says Tom Percy, a University of Alabama in Huntsville...

Cyber-Connected Students Net Higher Grades, Study Shows
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Cyber-Connected Students Net Higher Grades, Study Shows

University students who used a Facebook group as part of a large sociology class did better on course assignments and felt a stronger sense of belonging, according...

Bringing Fiber Optics to Electronic Components
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Bringing Fiber Optics to Electronic Components

Fiber optics could increased the speed and quantity of information transmitted within laptops and other devices by using organic materials containing chromophore...

Ohio Surgeons Hope Chip in Man's Brain Lets Him Control Paralyzed Hand with Thoughts
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Ohio Surgeons Hope Chip in Man's Brain Lets Him Control Paralyzed Hand with Thoughts

Chad Bouton snapped awake at 5 a.m.

­sing ­ltrasound to Feel Virtual Objects
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­sing ­ltrasound to Feel Virtual Objects

A startup called Ultrahaptics aims to make gesture control and virtual reality more engaging by using ultrasound waves to let you feel like you’re touching virtual...

Fifty Years of Basic, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal
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Fifty Years of Basic, the Programming Language That Made Computers Personal

Knowing how to program a computer is good for you, and it's a shame more people don't learn to do it.

Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm
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Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm

At a bitcoin conference in Miami this January, Jeffrey Tucker, a laissez-faire economist and libertarian icon, made an unexpected observation.

Tech Transfers Share Sandia's Science
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Tech Transfers Share Sandia's Science

Sandia's technology transfer program at has been sharing the national lab's science, supporting companies, and creating jobs for two decades.

Stanford Bioengineers Create Circuit Board Modeled on the Human Brain
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Stanford Bioengineers Create Circuit Board Modeled on the Human Brain

Stanford bioengineers have developed a new circuit board modeled on the human brain, possibly opening up new frontiers in robotics and computing.

Nasa Seeks External Concepts For Mission to Oceanic Jovian Moon
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Nasa Seeks External Concepts For Mission to Oceanic Jovian Moon

NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to science and engineering communities for ideas for a mission to Europa that could address fundamental questions...

Maths Spying: The Quandary of Working For the Spooks
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Maths Spying: The Quandary of Working For the Spooks

For the past 10 months, a major international scandal has engulfed some of the world's largest employers of mathematicians.

How to Create Nanowires Only Three Atoms Wide with an Electron Beam
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How to Create Nanowires Only Three Atoms Wide with an Electron Beam

Junhao Lin, a Vanderbilt University Ph.D. student and visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has found a way to use a finely focused beam of electrons...

Farewell Nokia: The Rise and Fall of a Mobile Pioneer
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Farewell Nokia: The Rise and Fall of a Mobile Pioneer

You never forget your first cellphone.
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