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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...

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.

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...

Nasa Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos
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Nasa Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars' moon Phobos.

Want to Explore the Deep Sea? The Secret Is Sound
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Want to Explore the Deep Sea? The Secret Is Sound

No place on this planet is more inhospitable to human life than the deep oceans.

How the Media Are ­sing Encryption Tools to Collect Anonymous Tips
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How the Media Are ­sing Encryption Tools to Collect Anonymous Tips

There was a time when a whistleblower had to rely on the Postal Service, or a pay phone, or an underground parking garage to leak to the press.

Triboelectric Nanogenerators Boost Mass Spectrometry Performance
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Triboelectric Nanogenerators Boost Mass Spectrometry Performance

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have shown that replacing conventional power supplies with triboelectric nanogenerators can boost the sensitivity...

How to ­se Dark Matter Detectors to Catch a ­ranium Thief
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How to ­se Dark Matter Detectors to Catch a ­ranium Thief

Physicists thought they had built the detector to rule them all.

Team Develops Nano-Sized Hydrogen Storage System to Increase Efficiency
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Team Develops Nano-Sized Hydrogen Storage System to Increase Efficiency

An interdisciplinary team of researchers have developed an efficient hydrogen storage system that could be a boon for hydrogen-powered vehicles.

To Keep ­.s. Jobs, Chip Makers Share a Factory and Pin Hopes on Trump
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To Keep ­.s. Jobs, Chip Makers Share a Factory and Pin Hopes on Trump

Nestled at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains here, the IM Flash plant is a paragon of American high-tech manufacturing.

Craig Venter Mapped the Genome. Now He's Trying to Decode Death
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Craig Venter Mapped the Genome. Now He's Trying to Decode Death

The world's most extreme  physical exam starts in the world's plushest exam room, complete with a couch, a private bathroom and a teeming fruit plate.

Most Scientists 'can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers'
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Most Scientists 'can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers'

Science is facing a "reproducibility crisis" where more than two-thirds of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, research...

The 'curious' Robots Searching For the Ocean's Secrets
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The 'curious' Robots Searching For the Ocean's Secrets

People have been exploring the Earth since ancient times—traversing deserts, climbing mountains, and trekking through forests. But there is one ecological realm...

S&t Researcher Tackles 'noise' in Next-Generation Phones, Cars
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S&t Researcher Tackles 'noise' in Next-Generation Phones, Cars

Missouri S&T professor Jun Fan is working to find real-world solutions to the problem of electromagnetic interference inherent in cellphones.

No, Robots Aren't Killing the American Dream
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No, Robots Aren't Killing the American Dream

Defenders of globalization are on solid ground when they criticize President Trump's threats of punitive tariffs and border walls.

Grace Hopper's Compiler: Computing's Hidden Hero
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Grace Hopper's Compiler: Computing's Hidden Hero

One, zero, zero, one, zero, one. Zero, one, one…

New Resource For Optical Chips
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New Resource For Optical Chips

MIT researchers have developed a practical way to introduce second-order nonlinearities into silicon photonics, which could enable a new class of complex integrated...

Voice Control Everywhere
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Voice Control Everywhere

In anticipation of the age of voice-controlled electronics, MIT researchers have built a special-purpose chip which could make speech recognition ubiquitous in...

Is A Stretchable Smart Tablet In Our Future?
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Is A Stretchable Smart Tablet In Our Future?

Engineering researchers at Michigan State University have developed a stretchable integrated circuit that is made entirely using an inkjet printer, raising the...
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