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Get Your Head Around the 13 Boldest Ideas in Science
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Get Your Head Around the 13 Boldest Ideas in Science

Science is full of mind-blowing and counterintuitive concepts.

Print Thyself
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Print Thyself

In February of 2012, a medical team at the University of Michigan's C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, in Ann Arbor, carried out an unusual operation on a three-month...

Boston Is an Innovation Hotbed and Doesn't Care Whether You Know It
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Boston Is an Innovation Hotbed and Doesn't Care Whether You Know It

The engineers and scientists spilling out of Greater Boston’s world-class universities built the foundations of the modern computing era and amassed the densest...

NIH Funds Robots to Assist People with Disabilities
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NIH Funds Robots to Assist People with Disabilities

Projects investigating co-robotics that might help with stroke rehabilitation, guide wheelchairs, and assist children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, are the focus...

Microsoft Billionaire Takes On Cell Biology
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Microsoft Billionaire Takes On Cell Biology

Billionaire businessman and philanthropist Paul Allen plans to pump US$100 million into investigating the most basic unit of life—the cell.

Baer's Odyssey: Meet the Serial Inventor Who Built the World's First Game Console
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Baer's Odyssey: Meet the Serial Inventor Who Built the World's First Game Console

Even if you're a devoted fan of video games, there's a decent chance you're not familiar with the name Ralph H. Baer.

University Payloads Vie For Spot on 2018 Mars Mission
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University Payloads Vie For Spot on 2018 Mars Mission

Mars One announced ten Mars One University Competition finalists eligible to fly on the foundation's first unmanned Lander mission to Mars in 2018.

In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite
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In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite

Despite its poverty and isolation, North Korea has poured resources into a sophisticated cyber-warfare cell called Bureau 121, defectors from the secretive state...

Hacked vs. Hackers: Game On
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Hacked vs. Hackers: Game On

Paul Kocher, one of the country's leading cryptographers, says he thinks the explanation for the world's dismal state of digital security may lie in two charts.

National Lab Researchers Awarded Time on Top Computers
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National Lab Researchers Awarded Time on Top Computers

As part of the INCITE program, eight Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have been awarded nearly 800 million core hours on two of America's fastest...

How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition
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How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition

Information technology is revolutionizing products. Once composed solely of mechanical and electrical parts, products have become complex systems that combine hardware...

Amazon Robots Boost Efficiency — and Open New Job Possibilities
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Amazon Robots Boost Efficiency — and Open New Job Possibilities

Amazon.com's use of robots in its warehouses will increase efficiency and open the possibilities for more jobs, according to Ross Knepper of Cornell University...

Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind
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Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind

He told the BBC: "The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."

Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate
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Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate

When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" gathered here in late August 1938 as weekend guests at Bletchley Park, a Buckinghamshire country house, they were accompanied...

Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper
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Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper

When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...

Microscopy: Hasten High Resolution
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Microscopy: Hasten High Resolution

The best electron and scanning probe microscopes today can resolve individual atoms and chemical bonds.

Drone Pilot Wanted: Starting Salary $100,000
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Drone Pilot Wanted: Starting Salary $100,000

Big companies, such as Amazon and Facebook, are looking for pilots who fly drones and engineers with experience in building the unmanned aircraft. And they are...

­.s. Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants
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­.s. Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants

A new study of worldwide migration based on social media data from LinkedIn shows a sharp drop-off in the proportion of professional workers migrating to the United...

Innovative Supercomputers Increase U.S. Computational Capacity
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Innovative Supercomputers Increase U.S. Computational Capacity

The U.S. National Science Foundation has committed $16 million to build two new supercomputers with cloud-based and data-intensive capabilities for use by the open...

Venture Money Pours Into Robotics Startups
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Venture Money Pours Into Robotics Startups

Robots are creating work for at least one kind of human: venture capitalists.
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