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Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome
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Researchers Generate a Reference Map of the Human Epigenome

The sequencing of the human genome laid the foundation for the study of genetic variation and its links to a wide range of diseases. But the genome itself is only...

Magic Leap
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Magic Leap

Logically, I know there isn’t a hulking four-armed, twisty-horned blue monster clomping in circles in front of me, but it sure as hell looks like it.

Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light
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Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light

Financial traders are in a race to make transactions ever faster.

White House Names Nation's First Chief Data Scientist
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White House Names Nation's First Chief Data Scientist

Taking a page from Silicon Valley's playbook, the White House said on Wednesday it had appointed the nation's first chief data scientist.

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

U.s. to Establish New Cybersecurity Agency
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U.s. to Establish New Cybersecurity Agency

The U.S. government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of risks, a senior Obama administration...

Electronics You Can Wrap Around Your Finger
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Electronics You Can Wrap Around Your Finger

Researchers from South Korea have taken a new step toward more bendable devices by manufacturing a thin film that keeps its useful electric and magnetic properties...

Nanotech Pioneer Langer Wins Award By Thinking Small
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Nanotech Pioneer Langer Wins Award By Thinking Small

Bioengineer Robert Langer has spent his career looking for the next not-so-big thing.
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