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Wrinkles and Crumples Make Graphene Better
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Wrinkles and Crumples Make Graphene Better

Brown University researchers have developed a method for making super-wrinkled and super-crumpled sheets of the nanomaterial graphene. The research shows that the...

Discovery Shows Promise as Silicon's Replacement in Semiconductors
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Discovery Shows Promise as Silicon's Replacement in Semiconductors

Two-dimensional electronic devices could inch closer to their ultimate promise of low power, high efficiency, and mechanical flexibility with a processing technique...

Automakers Go Back to School to Learn to Build Self-Driving Cars
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Automakers Go Back to School to Learn to Build Self-Driving Cars

Automakers didn't build the self-driving car: Google did.

When Slower Is Faster
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When Slower Is Faster

A newly published study claims that communicating vehicles will move more efficiently through intersections without traffic lights than with them. 

On the Hunt For a Mystery Planet
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On the Hunt For a Mystery Planet

Astronomer Scott Sheppard runs through his checklist as he settles in for a long night of skygazing at the Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Pentagon Paying Techies to Think Like Terrorists
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Pentagon Paying Techies to Think Like Terrorists

To stop a terrorist, it helps to think like one.

After Alphago, What's Next For Ai?
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After Alphago, What's Next For Ai?

AlphaGo's victories against legendary Go player Lee Se-dol over the last few days mark a major milestone in AI research.

Play This Game and Win a Job!
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Play This Game and Win a Job!

Last fall, Barclays PLC began testing a new tool for attracting young job applicants: a mobile video game.

Dna 'origami' Could Help Build Faster, Cheaper Computer Chips
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Dna 'origami' Could Help Build Faster, Cheaper Computer Chips

Researchers report that DNA, when formed into specific shapes through a process reminiscent of the ancient art of paper folding, might help electronics manufacturers...

Nanomotors Could Help Electronics Fix Themselves
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Nanomotors Could Help Electronics Fix Themselves

Using the human body's immune system as inspiration for repairing ever more intricate electronics, scientists have built self-propelled nanomotors that can seek...

The ­.s. Government Launches a $100-Million 'apollo Project of the Brain'
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The ­.s. Government Launches a $100-Million 'apollo Project of the Brain'

Three decades ago, the U.S. government launched the Human Genome Project, a 13-year endeavor to sequence and map all the genes of the human species.

Cothority to Apple: Let's Make Secret Backdoors Impossible
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Cothority to Apple: Let's Make Secret Backdoors Impossible

Cothority, a new software project designed to make secret backdoored software updates nearly impossible, is offering to help Apple ensure that any secret court...

One-In-Three Developers Fear A.i. Will Replace Them
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One-In-Three Developers Fear A.i. Will Replace Them

What keeps software developers up at night, other than coding? The fear that artificial intelligence systems can replace them, according to a new survey.

Iowa State Engineers Develop Flexible Skin That Traps Radar Waves, Cloaks Objects
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Iowa State Engineers Develop Flexible Skin That Traps Radar Waves, Cloaks Objects

Iowa State University engineers have developed a new flexible, stretchable, and tunable "meta-skin" that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object...

Warming Up Optoelectronic Research
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Warming Up Optoelectronic Research

A team of physicists has created a new material that can control excitons — bound pairs of electrons and electron holes — at room temperature, opening a path toward...

Pentagon Hackers Are Waging America’s First Cyberwar
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Pentagon Hackers Are Waging America’s First Cyberwar

U.S. politicians have long threatened America's enemies with tanks, planes, submarines, and nuclear missiles. Last week defense secretary Ashton Carter leveled...

The Secret to 3-D Graphene? Just Freeze It
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The Secret to 3-D Graphene? Just Freeze It

Researchers used a modified 3-D printer and frozen water to create lattice-shaped cubes and a 3-D truss using graphene oxide. The structures could be an important...

The Beginning of the End For Encryption Schemes?
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The Beginning of the End For Encryption Schemes?

Researchers from MIT and the University of Innsbruck in Austria report that they have designed and built a quantum computer from five atoms in an ion trap.

A Plan in Case Robots Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck
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A Plan in Case Robots Take the Jobs: Give Everyone a Paycheck

Let's say computers come for most of our jobs. This may not seem likely at the moment; computer scientists and economists offer wildly varying ideas for how deeply...

U.S. Military Invites Vetted Experts to 'Hack the Pentagon'
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U.S. Military Invites Vetted Experts to 'Hack the Pentagon'

The Pentagon said on Wednesday it would invite vetted outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public U.S. Defense Department websites as part of a pilot...
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