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Nano-Implant Could One Day Help Restore Sight
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Nano-Implant Could One Day Help Restore Sight

With high-resolution retinal prosthesis built from nanowires and wireless electronics, engineers are one step closer to restoring neurons' ability to respond to...

Are Teenagers Replacing Drugs With Smartphones?
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Are Teenagers Replacing Drugs With Smartphones?

Amid an opioid epidemic, the rise of deadly synthetic drugs and the widening legalization of marijuana, a curious bright spot has emerged in the youth drug culture...

High-Precision Calculations Help Reveal the Physics of the ­niverse
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High-Precision Calculations Help Reveal the Physics of the ­niverse

Argonne researchers have developed a new theoretical approach, suited for high-performance computing systems, capable of making predictive calculations about particle...

Two Radio Signals, One Chip, Open a New World For Wireless Communication
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Two Radio Signals, One Chip, Open a New World For Wireless Communication

Cornell University engineers have devised a method for transmitting and receiving radio signals on a single chip, which could ultimately help change the way wireless...

Want to Make It as a Biologist? Better Learn to Code
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Want to Make It as a Biologist? Better Learn to Code

Graduate programs realize that computer scientists aren't the only ones who need computational skills, and they're correcting the issue — slowly. 

Car Wars
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Car Wars

The stakes are impossibly high. Self-driving cars are arguably the great technological promise of the 21st century.

Toward 'valleytronic' Devices For Data Storage or Computer Logic Systems
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Toward 'valleytronic' Devices For Data Storage or Computer Logic Systems

Researchers have discovered a new way of using laser light to tune electronic energy levels in two-dimensional films of crystal.

$50m Endowment Establishes the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
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$50m Endowment Establishes the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering

A $50 million endowment will elevate Computer Science & Engineering from a department to a school named for Paul G. Allen at the University of Washington.

This Entrepreneur Dares You to Hack His Gadgets
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This Entrepreneur Dares You to Hack His Gadgets

Serial entrepreneur Andrew "Bunnie" Huang believes that consumer product companies should make their hardware designs publicly available so that anyone can study...

Robot Uses Social Feedback to Fetch Objects Intelligently
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Robot Uses Social Feedback to Fetch Objects Intelligently

An algorithm developed at Brown University allows robots ask questions to get better at fetching objects, an important task for future robot assistants.

­sing Game Theory to Predict Cyberattacks
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­sing Game Theory to Predict Cyberattacks

A new game theory algorithm could one day help detect election tampering.

Reducing Conducting Thin Film Surface Roughness For Electronics
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Reducing Conducting Thin Film Surface Roughness For Electronics

In a advance for microelectronics, University of Massachusetts Amherst engineers have established electrical surface treatment of conducting thin films as a physical...

Hiring Data Creates Risk of Workplace Bias
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Hiring Data Creates Risk of Workplace Bias

Employers increasingly rely on datasets and algorithms to decide who gets interviewed, hired, or promoted. But algorithms that rely on inaccurate, biased, or unrepresentative...

Super-Fast Parkinson's App Will Track Symptoms More Closely
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Super-Fast Parkinson's App Will Track Symptoms More Closely

A smartphone app that uses deep learning lets people with Parkinson's disease test their symptoms at home in just 4 minutes.

STEM Day at the Lab Gives Underserved Students a Taste of Science
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STEM Day at the Lab Gives Underserved Students a Taste of Science

The recent STEM Day at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was designed to encourage students underserved or disadvantaged communities to explore careers in...

Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?
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Blockchain: A Better Way to Track Pork Chops, Bonds, Bad Peanut Butter?

Frank Yiannas has spent years looking in vain for a better way to track lettuce, steaks and snack cakes from farm and factory to the shelves of Walmart, where he...

Bubble-Recoil Could Be Used to Cool Microchips, Even in Space
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Bubble-Recoil Could Be Used to Cool Microchips, Even in Space

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have shown how a miniscule vapor-recoil force can be harnessed to cool high-power microelectronics, even in...

Brain-Controlled Robots
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Brain-Controlled Robots

A team from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and Boston University has created a feedback system that lets people communicate with...

Model Considers Personality to Help Manage Smartphone Interruptions
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Model Considers Personality to Help Manage Smartphone Interruptions

A Rutgers University study reveals that personality traits influence and help predict a user's receptiveness to smartphone notifications.

Forget Welding. The Hottest New Vocational Schools Do Digital Design
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Forget Welding. The Hottest New Vocational Schools Do Digital Design

"Ten years ago no one even knew what user experience design was," says John Paul Rowan, vice president at the Savannah College of Art and Design. No longer. Like...
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