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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong

Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, and betting pools kick off every fall around the time Thomson Reuters releases its predictions for science's most prestigious prize...

Liquid Cooling Moves Onto the Chip For Denser Electronics
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Liquid Cooling Moves Onto the Chip For Denser Electronics

Using microfluidic passages cut directly into the backsides of production integrated circuits, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are putting liquid...

Scientists Create an All-Organic UV On-Chip Spectrometer
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Scientists Create an All-Organic UV On-Chip Spectrometer

The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory has developed a near ultra-violet and all-organic light emitting diode that can be used as an on-chip photosensor...

A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
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A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot

Videos of Google-owned robots, some that look like mechanical bulls and others resembling humanoids from sci-fi movies, have been viewed more than 90 million times...

More-Flexible Machine Learning
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More-Flexible Machine Learning

Giving machine-learning systems "partial credit" during training improves image classification.

Disappearing Carbon Circuits on Graphene Could Have Security, Biomedical Uses
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Disappearing Carbon Circuits on Graphene Could Have Security, Biomedical Uses

Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated a technique for creating dynamic patterns on graphene surfaces.

The World's Youngest Synthetic Biologists Show that the Future of Innovation Is in the Genes
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The World's Youngest Synthetic Biologists Show that the Future of Innovation Is in the Genes

At the 12th annual iGEM Giant Jamboree this weekend in Boston—an event that its founder Randy Rettberg refers to as "the World Cup of science"—over 250 student-led...

Optical Rectenna — Combined Rectifier-Antenna — Converts Light to Dc Current
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Optical Rectenna — Combined Rectifier-Antenna — Converts Light to Dc Current

Researchers have demonstrated the first optical rectenna, a device that combines the functions of an antenna and a rectifier diode to convert light directly into...

A Different Type of 2-D Semiconductor
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A Different Type of 2-D Semiconductor

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have successfully grown atomically thin 2-D sheets of organic-inorganic hybrid...

Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips

At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer...

­se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science
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­se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science

As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...

Private Firms Spy a Market in Spotting Space Junk
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Private Firms Spy a Market in Spotting Space Junk

The US military has long taken the role of traffic cop in space: monitoring satellites, tracking debris and, in recent years, warning satellite operators and foreign...

Tools Aim to Keep Solar-Powered Robots in Action
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Tools Aim to Keep Solar-Powered Robots in Action

Iowa State University researchers are developing power-management technologies that would allow land- and air-based robots to monitor solar conditions so they...

How to Make Large 2-D Sheets
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How to Make Large 2-D Sheets

Researchers have developed a method for scaling up production of thin electronic material.

Devils Go All In on ­se of Analytics (a Poker Expert Helps)
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Devils Go All In on ­se of Analytics (a Poker Expert Helps)

Sunny Mehta has been a musician, a professional poker player and an author, and he has worked in finance.

Tomorrow's Terrorist
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Tomorrow's Terrorist

Terrorism is a game of both revolution and evolution.

New Crypto Tool Makes Anonymous Surveys Truly Anonymous
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New Crypto Tool Makes Anonymous Surveys Truly Anonymous

At the end of a semester teaching an undergraduate math course a few years ago, Cornell Tech researcher and crypto professor Rafael Pass asked his students to fill...

The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology
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The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology

"We have this strange idea that dying is something we need to do."

The Roomba Now Sees and Maps a Home
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The Roomba Now Sees and Maps a Home

The world's most successful home robot, the Roomba, is getting some new skills. The robotic vacuum cleaner is gaining a camera and image-processing software that...

Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—and It's All in One Place
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Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—and It's All in One Place

How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or, well, metaphysical influence.
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