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Lights Out at National Synchrotron Light Source
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Lights Out at National Synchrotron Light Source

The National Synchrotron Light Source ended operations at Brookhaven National Laboratory after 32 years on September 30, 2014.

Obama Honors Top U.S. Scientists and Innovators
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Obama Honors Top U.S. Scientists and Innovators

President Obama announced on Friday (October 3)  a new class of recipients of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation — the...

Cyber Spy High: Meet the Nsa's Hacker Recruiter
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Cyber Spy High: Meet the Nsa's Hacker Recruiter

The National Security Agency has a recruiting problem.

Citizen Science Is Stimulating a Wealth of Innovative Projects
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Citizen Science Is Stimulating a Wealth of Innovative Projects

Opening science to public participation, the "citizen science" mode of research, has done more than simply enhance existing research. It has also engaged a range...

Recruiting Tech Talent in High School
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Recruiting Tech Talent in High School

Desperate to attract tech-savvy workers, one company is turning to an unlikely talent source: high school.

Laying the Groundwork for Data-Driven Science
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Laying the Groundwork for Data-Driven Science

The ability to collect and analyze massive amounts of data is rapidly transforming science, industry and everyday life, but what we have seen so far is likely just...

Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac
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Walter Isaacson on the Women of Eniac

Ever since the days of Charles Babbage, who conceived of a giant mechanical calculator called the Analytical Engine in the 1830s, the engineering of computer hardware...

Nsf Investment Aims to Take Flat Materials to New Heights
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Nsf Investment Aims to Take Flat Materials to New Heights

Two-dimensional alternatives to graphene may enable exciting advances in electronics, photonics, sensors, and other applications.

The Google Formula For Success
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The Google Formula For Success

Can Google’s winning ways be applied to all kinds of businesses?

Print Your Own Cellphone Microscope for Pennies
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Print Your Own Cellphone Microscope for Pennies

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a sleek, simple, and inexpensive way to turn a cellphone into a high powered, high quality...

Professor Looks at History of Discrimination Against Women in Engineering
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Professor Looks at History of Discrimination Against Women in Engineering

Iowa State University Associate Professor Amy Bix looks at the obstacles women have faced to gain acceptance in engineering programs.

Computer Science Is Where the Jobs Are, But Schools Don't Teach It
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Computer Science Is Where the Jobs Are, But Schools Don't Teach It

California prides itself as being home to Silicon Valley, but the state's high schools are not doing enough to prepare students for careers in computing, says...

Four Classic IT Jobs That Are Moving to the Back Burner
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Four Classic IT Jobs That Are Moving to the Back Burner

New technologies and trends are influencing the IT requirements of businesses and eroding the popularity of several positions: mainframe programmers, systems administrators...

Chinese Science Gets Mass Transformation
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Chinese Science Gets Mass Transformation

Change is coming to the institute that has been at the heart of China's scientific development since the communist state began.

How Two Men ­nlocked Modern Encryption
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How Two Men ­nlocked Modern Encryption

In September of 1974, when he was 30 years old, Whitfield Diffie was obsessed with cryptography.

Diversifying the Academic Workforce
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Diversifying the Academic Workforce

The University of Delaware has been awarded $3.3 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to develop a program that will serve as a national model for...

The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents
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The Smithsonian Works to Digitize Millions of Documents

During the past six months, retired pharmaceutical researcher Irv Cantor helped transcribe a 641-page field book written by an archaeologist traveling through 1920s...

Crime Ring Revelation Reveals Cybersecurity Conflict of Interest
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Crime Ring Revelation Reveals Cybersecurity Conflict of Interest

A small cybersecurity firm claimed this summer to have uncovered a scam by Russian Internet thieves to amass a mountain of stolen information from 420,000 Web and...

IBM Computer Scientist Named Macarthur Fellow
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IBM Computer Scientist Named Macarthur Fellow

IBM computer scientist Craig Gentry was named to the 2014 class of MacArthur Fellows for his work on cryptography. The MacArthur 'genius grants' recognize exceptionally...

Tim Cook Interview: The Iphone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture
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Tim Cook Interview: The Iphone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company's Culture

Steve Jobs’s office remains Steve Jobs's office.
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