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Computer Scientists Develop New Approach to Sort Cells Up to 38 Times Faster
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Computer Scientists Develop New Approach to Sort Cells Up to 38 Times Faster

A team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a new approach that marries computer vision and hardware optimization...

Fbi: Silk Road Mastermind Couldn't Even Keep Himself Anonymous Online
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Fbi: Silk Road Mastermind Couldn't Even Keep Himself Anonymous Online

What will get you in the end is sloppy opsec.

Imagining Data Without Division
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Imagining Data Without Division

Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a...

Texan Creationism Showdown May 'contaminate' Textbook
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Texan Creationism Showdown May 'contaminate' Textbook

If creationists in Texas get their way, high-school students throughout the U.S. could soon be reading biology textbooks that falsely cast doubt on the scientific...

Students Are 'hacking' Their School-Issued Ipads: Good For Them
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Students Are 'hacking' Their School-Issued Ipads: Good For Them

Almost immediately after receiving their new school-issued iPads this fall, students in Indiana and in California (and probably elsewhere) managed to bypass the...

Researchers to Build Wildfire Cyberinfrastructure
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Researchers to Build Wildfire Cyberinfrastructure

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to build an cyberinfrastructure to perform real-time...

First Research Network for Female Scientists Launched
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First Research Network for Female Scientists Launched

Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory, and Elsevier have collaborated to create an online networking forum...

Frax App Brings Fractal-Exploration Glory to iOS
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Frax App Brings Fractal-Exploration Glory to iOS

In 1983, intrigued by an article on fractals, I wrote a program to display the Mandelbrot set on my family's TRS-80 Color Computer.

Scientists Must Spearhead Ethical ­se of Big Data
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Scientists Must Spearhead Ethical ­se of Big Data

The recent revelation that the National Security Agency collects the personal data of United States citizens, allies and enemies alike has broken the traditional...

Top 5 Jobs in Silicon Valley
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Top 5 Jobs in Silicon Valley

If there's anything observers can say with certainty, it's that Silicon Valley remains an anomalous industry.

Mooc or Moor: Is Research the Next Frontier For Online Education?
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Mooc or Moor: Is Research the Next Frontier For Online Education?

A team from UC San Diego is launching a new course on the Coursera online learning network that breaks ground by adding a substantial research component.

Putting a Face on a Robot
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Putting a Face on a Robot

A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology finds that older and younger people have varying preferences about what they would want a personal robot to...

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Kansas Lawsuit: Science Education Standards Violate Religious Freedom

The battle over the adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) has flared up in a new state—Kansas.

Baseball's Beacon Trials Hint at Apple's Location Revolution
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Baseball's Beacon Trials Hint at Apple's Location Revolution

As we neared the threshold of the gates in front of the walkway to the home of the New York Mets, a message popped up on developer Chad Evans' space-gray iPhone...

In Search of Planetary Intelligence
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In Search of Planetary Intelligence

It is said that Mahatma Gandhi, when asked about Western civilization, remarked, "I think it would be a good idea."

Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)
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Privacy Entrepreneur Turns Nsa Snooping Into Profit (q&a)

In a double dose of irony, the National Security Agency's prying has given a big helping hand to Phil Zimmermann's business, Silent Circle.

Supercomputers Help Solve a 50-Year Homework Assignment
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Supercomputers Help Solve a 50-Year Homework Assignment

Researchers at Brookhaven used supercomputers to perform calculations aimed at helping them answer the question of why the universe is made of matter.

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Watch Out, Wall Street: Report Says Tech Is Now Nyc's Second-Largest Sector

New York City's economy has traditionally been dominated by finance, real estate, and media.

When Google Brainstorms, Online World Shudders
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When Google Brainstorms, Online World Shudders

Is Google about to do to online privacy what body scanners did to airline travelers?

Building Disaster-Relief Phone Apps on the Fly
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Building Disaster-Relief Phone Apps on the Fly

Researchers have developed new tools that allow people with minimal programming skill to rapidly build cellphone applications that can help with disaster relief...
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