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Men More Likely Than Women to Commit Scientific Fraud
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Men More Likely Than Women to Commit Scientific Fraud

Male scientists are far more likely to commit fraud than females and the fraud occurs across the career spectrum, from trainees to senior faculty. That's the conclusion...

Disparity Among First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in STEM Degrees
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Disparity Among First- and Second-Generation Immigrants in STEM Degrees

Latino and Asian immigrants and their U.S.-born children are studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects at different rates. The...

Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates
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Next Made-in-China Boom: College Graduates

Zhang Xiaoping’s mother dropped out of school after sixth grade. Her father, one of 10 children, never attended.

Src, DARPA ­nveil $194 Million Research Network Focused on Next-Generation Microelectronics
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Src, DARPA ­nveil $194 Million Research Network Focused on Next-Generation Microelectronics

The new STARnet program features six microelectronics research centers based at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Michigan, Minnesota, Notre Dame,...

Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe
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Can You Predict the Future By Reading Twitter? The Pentagon Thinks Maybe

The Defense Department wants new computer tools to analyze mounds of unstructured text, blogs, and tweets as part of a coordinated push to help military analysts...

Cyberwar's Gray Market
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Cyberwar's Gray Market

Behind computer screens from France to Fort Worth, Texas, elite hackers hunt for security vulnerabilities worth thousands of dollars on a secretive unregulated...

Education Body Calls on Support of It Pros to Close Ict Skills Gap
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Education Body Calls on Support of It Pros to Close Ict Skills Gap

All major U.K. employers should be involved in the effort to close the IT skills gap, according to a report from the Corporate IT Forum Education and Skills Commission...

App Helps Catch Drunk Drivers
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App Helps Catch Drunk Drivers

Computer science professor Frank Vahid and students at the University of California, Riverside have created a free app that makes it easy to record and report drunk...

It Job Market Recovering Faster Than After Dot-Com Bubble Burst
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It Job Market Recovering Faster Than After Dot-Com Bubble Burst

More new technology jobs have been created since the end of the past recession than during the same recovery period following the burst of the dot-com bubble and...

­.S. Postal Service Pushes the Digital Envelope in Battle for Its Future
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­.S. Postal Service Pushes the Digital Envelope in Battle for Its Future

Paul Vogel is, in his own words, trying to bring the U.S. Postal Service "from the today world into the tomorrow world."

Virginia Tech Engineers Awarded $800,000 to Explore Efficient Spectrum Sharing
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Virginia Tech Engineers Awarded $800,000 to Explore Efficient Spectrum Sharing

The U.S. National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research are funding Virginia Tech engineers in their work on efficient spectrum sharing that should...

Detroit: After Decades of ­rban Blight, Technology Boom Gives Motor City Hope
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Detroit: After Decades of ­rban Blight, Technology Boom Gives Motor City Hope

The raucous scene inside the M@ dison building is not one usually associated with inner-city Detroit.

Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car
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Drivers With Hands Full Get a Backup: The Car

Car makers increasingly are adopting technologies for use in autonomous vehicles that take advantage of the array of optical and radar sensors in new cars. The...

Big Data, Big Salaries
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Big Data, Big Salaries

Businesses are embrace the value in analyzing Big Data, which is giving rise to a sharp increase in companies looking to hire data analysts, business intelligence...

Vint Cerf: Nobody's Too Old for Tech
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Vint Cerf: Nobody's Too Old for Tech

Technologies such as smartphones and social networks are changing the way people of all ages, not just young users, communicate and manage their day-to-day lives...

Would Tuition Discounts Get More Students to Major in Science?
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Would Tuition Discounts Get More Students to Major in Science?

In an experiment to steer more students into science, technology and engineering careers, the state of Florida is investigating whether tuition discounts could...

Work Begins on Hardware to Aid Edsac Replica Recreation
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Work Begins on Hardware to Aid Edsac Replica Recreation

Edsac—Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator—ran its first program in 1949 and was created to help scientists at Cambridge University.

Ben Horowitz on the Impact of Software Everywhere
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Ben Horowitz on the Impact of Software Everywhere

Ben Horowitz may have the skeleton key to the decimation—sorry, transformation—of our economic and political lives.

Make Guns Smart
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Make Guns Smart

Voices across the political spectrum are debating how to prevent mass shootings such as the one in Newtown, Connecticut.

­w, Pnnl Tackle Big Data with Joint Computing Institute
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­w, Pnnl Tackle Big Data with Joint Computing Institute

The deluge of data coming from today's countless electronic devices will be harnessed to take on the most pressing problems facing science and society at a new...
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