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What a Dinosaur's Mating Scream Sounds Like
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What a Dinosaur's Mating Scream Sounds Like

Two years ago, Sean Murray, a video-game developer from the town of Guildford, outside London, announced an ambitious game that he had been working on in secrecy...

Intense Lasers Cook Up Complex, Self-Assembled Nanomaterials
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Intense Lasers Cook Up Complex, Self-Assembled Nanomaterials

Scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a laser-based technique to execute nanoscale self-assembly with unprecedented ease and efficiency.

Learn a Language While You Text
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Learn a Language While You Text

An MIT graduate student's "WaitChatter" app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.

This Little 3D Printed Robot Cracks Combination Locks in 30 Seconds
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This Little 3D Printed Robot Cracks Combination Locks in 30 Seconds

Careful what you leave in your lockers, high school students and gym-goers.

Ornl Demonstrates Large-Scale Graphene Composite Fabrication
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Ornl Demonstrates Large-Scale Graphene Composite Fabrication

A team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has fabricated polymer composites containing 2-inch-by-2-inch sheets of graphene.

Digitizing Neurons
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Digitizing Neurons

Supercomputing resources at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will support the BigNeuron project aimed at streamlining scientist’s ability to create 3-D digital models...

A First Big Step Toward Mapping the Human Brain
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A First Big Step Toward Mapping the Human Brain

It's a long, hard road to understanding the human brain, and one of the first milestones in that journey is building a … database.

Consortium to Focus on Online Teaching and Learning
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Consortium to Focus on Online Teaching and Learning

Four higher education institutions have formed a new consortium focused on online teaching and learning in the liberal arts.

Research Partners Launch 3-D Printing Training Facility
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Research Partners Launch 3-D Printing Training Facility

UL LLC and the University of Louisville are launching a 3-D printing training facility called the UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center that is set to open...

Robot Gives Helping Hand to Deaf Education Teachers
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Robot Gives Helping Hand to Deaf Education Teachers

Lecturers at The University of Manchester are using the Swivl robot in school classrooms to help assess placement training for students in its deaf education course...

A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won't Hurt the Climate
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A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won't Hurt the Climate

It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science—creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the...

From Outer Space to Silicon Valley
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From Outer Space to Silicon Valley

Robert Witoff needs to boldly go where no one has gone before.

'rise of the Robots' and 'shadow Work'
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'rise of the Robots' and 'shadow Work'

In the late 20th century, while the blue-collar working class gave way to the forces of globalization and automation, the educated elite looked on with benign condescension...

Computer Scientist Joins White House as Deputy Chief Technology Officer
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Computer Scientist Joins White House as Deputy Chief Technology Officer

Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, has been named deputy chief technology officer in the White House's Office of Science and Technology...

Nasa Selects Advanced Space Technology Concepts For Further Study
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Nasa Selects Advanced Space Technology Concepts For Further Study

NASA has selected 15 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aims to turn science fiction into science...

Research Shows Cooperative Video Game Play Elicits Pro-Social Behavior
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Research Shows Cooperative Video Game Play Elicits Pro-Social Behavior

Research shows that playing video games cooperatively with others can make players think helpful behaviors are valuable and commonplace.

Nasa Announces Journey to Mars Challenge, Seeks Public Input on Establishing Sustained Human Presence on Red Planet
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Nasa Announces Journey to Mars Challenge, Seeks Public Input on Establishing Sustained Human Presence on Red Planet

What do you need to bring, and how do you minimize the need for delivery of future supplies in order to establish a sustained human presence on a planet 140 million...

First Stop Robot Road Race, Next Stop Nasa
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First Stop Robot Road Race, Next Stop Nasa

More than 200 runners and 25 robots competing in a human 5-kilometer run and robot 100-meter dash on April 12 in West Cambridge, Mass.

Best and Worst Graduate Degrees For Jobs in 2015
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Best and Worst Graduate Degrees For Jobs in 2015

PayScale crunched the numbers for Fortune and identified the grad degrees that lead to lucrative careers—and those that lead to high stress and low pay.

Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?

After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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