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Do We Really Need Humans to Explore Mars?
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Do We Really Need Humans to Explore Mars?

The dazzling sunlight that flooded the lake-front restaurant where I sat down with Chris Kraft in 2014 was nothing compared to the brightness in his eyes.

Better Research Through Video Games
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Better Research Through Video Games

On a warm evening in 2014, Attila Szantner, a Hungarian Web entrepreneur, and his friend Bernard Revaz, a Swiss physics researcher, sat on a balcony in Geneva and...

China's New Supercomputer Puts the ­S Even Further Behind
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China's New Supercomputer Puts the ­S Even Further Behind

This week, China's Sunway TaihuLight officially became the fastest supercomputer in the world. The previous champ? Also from China.

The Clean Dozen: 12 Techs Near Commercial Use
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The Clean Dozen: 12 Techs Near Commercial Use

A dozen clean energy technologies are getting a boost at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

Robotic Motion Planning in Real-Time
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Robotic Motion Planning in Real-Time

Duke University engineers and computer scientists have developed a computer processor that can design robotic motion plans in under a millisecond.

Billion-Dollar Brain Training Industry a Sham—nothing but Placebo, Study Suggests
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Billion-Dollar Brain Training Industry a Sham—nothing but Placebo, Study Suggests

Who wouldn't want to be smarter? After all, high intelligence can help you get better grades in school, more promotions at work, fatter pay checks through your...

Keyboard Warriors: South Korea Trains New Frontline in Decades-Old War with North
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Keyboard Warriors: South Korea Trains New Frontline in Decades-Old War with North

In one college major at Seoul's elite Korea University, the courses are known only by number, and students keep their identities a secret from outsiders.

Parallel Programming Made Easy
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Parallel Programming Made Easy

Researchers from MIT CSAIL have created a chip design that could make parallel programs more efficient and easier to write.

China Holds Top Spots on List of Fastest Computers
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China Holds Top Spots on List of Fastest Computers

Chinese systems hold the No. 1 and No. 2 positions on the 47th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's top supercomputers.

Here's How IBM Is Planning to Use Its Own Blockchain Software
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Here's How IBM Is Planning to Use Its Own Blockchain Software

Bitcoin may still bring to mind images of clandestine drug markets and anarchist hackers bent on liberating finance from financial companies. But some of the world’s...

Scientific Gains May Make Electronic Nose the Next Everyday Device
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Scientific Gains May Make Electronic Nose the Next Everyday Device

Researchers at the Texas Analog Center of Excellence at UT Dallas are working to develop an affordable electronic nose that can be used in breath analysis for a...

Meet Deep Thunder: Ibm's Next Step in the Automation of Forecasting
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Meet Deep Thunder: Ibm's Next Step in the Automation of Forecasting

Until recently, weather forecasting was a fairly straightforward process.

Let There Be Light
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Let There Be Light

University of Utah Professor Mike Scarpulla and NREL Senior Scientist Kirstin Alberi have developed a theory that light can stamp out defects in semiconductors,...

Eye-Tracking System ­ses Ordinary Cellphone Camera
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Eye-Tracking System ­ses Ordinary Cellphone Camera

Researchers at MIT CSAIL and the University of Georgia believe they can make eye tracking technology pervasive with software turns any smartphone into an eye-tracking...

Barefoot Networks' New Chips Will Transform the Tech Industry
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Barefoot Networks' New Chips Will Transform the Tech Industry

Nick McKeown and his new startup, Barefoot Networks, just launched out of stealth. That's Silicon Valley-speak for trumpeting the arrival of your new startup in...

X-Ray Experiments Show How Memristors Work
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X-Ray Experiments Show How Memristors Work

Scientists at Hewlett Packard Enterprise have experimentally confirmed critical aspects of how the memristor works at an atomic scale, an important step in designing...

The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step
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The Quest to Make Code Work Like Biology Just Took A Big Step

In the early 1970s, at Silicon Valley's Xerox PARC, Alan Kay envisioned computer software as something akin to a biological system, a vast collection of small cells...

The Man Who Can Map the Chemicals All Over Your Body
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The Man Who Can Map the Chemicals All Over Your Body

Apart from the treadmill desk, Pieter Dorrestein's office at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is unremarkable: there is a circular table with chairs...

Strategic Advisor Discusses Doe Exascale Initiative
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Strategic Advisor Discusses Doe Exascale Initiative

Argonne National Laboratory Distinguished Fellow Paul Messina discusses the National Strategic Computing Initiative to pave the road toward an exascale computing...

Nanomaterial Offers Promise in Bendable, Wearable Electronic Devices
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Nanomaterial Offers Promise in Bendable, Wearable Electronic Devices

An ultrathin film that is both transparent and highly conductive to electric current has been produced by a cheap and simple method devised by an international...
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