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All the Food That's Fit to Print
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All the Food That's Fit to Print

The recipe for peach Melba is thought to date back to 1893, when Nellie Melba and Auguste Escoffier were rubbing elbows at the Savoy Hotel, in London.

Researchers Find Unexpected Magnetic Effect
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Researchers Find Unexpected Magnetic Effect

The discovery of an unexpected magnetic effect in a combination of thin-film materials could open up a new pathway to advanced electronic devices and even robust...

Five-Fingered Robot Hand Learns to Get a Grip on Its Own
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Five-Fingered Robot Hand Learns to Get a Grip on Its Own

A University of Washington team of computer scientists and engineers has built a robotic hand that can perform dexterous manipulation and also learn from its own...

Surprise! People Will Actually Read Long News Stories on Their Smartphones.
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Surprise! People Will Actually Read Long News Stories on Their Smartphones.

Those fretting over the effect that small screens have on big news stories may be able to breathe a little easier.

The Gene Editor Crispr Won't Fully Fix Sick People Anytime Soon. Here's Why
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The Gene Editor Crispr Won't Fully Fix Sick People Anytime Soon. Here's Why

This week, scientists will gather in Washington, D.C., for an annual meeting devoted to gene therapy—a long-struggling field that has clawed its way back to respectability...

Trump's Big Win Is a Giant Setback For Data Crunchers
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Trump's Big Win Is a Giant Setback For Data Crunchers

Donald Trump has proven a lot of people wrong, and not just because a year ago today none of us—perhaps not even Trump—would have imagined in our wildest fever...

­S and China Eye ­p European Gravitational-Wave Mission
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­S and China Eye ­p European Gravitational-Wave Mission

In the wake of the historic detection of gravitational waves by a terrestrial US experiment, a space-borne European effort is drawing interest from a range of parties...

Researchers Introduce Disposable Laser
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Researchers Introduce Disposable Laser

Researchers from France and Hungary have invented a way to print lasers that's so cheap, easy, and efficient they believe the core of the laser could be disposed...

Left Behind in the Mobile Revolution, Intel Struggles to Innovate
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Left Behind in the Mobile Revolution, Intel Struggles to Innovate

Intel was once known for its success in branding personal computers with microprocessors, a technology that fueled the digital revolution. But the Silicon Valley...

Uk Graphene Inquiry Reveals Commercial Struggles
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Uk Graphene Inquiry Reveals Commercial Struggles

The £61-million (US$89-million) National Graphene Institute (NGI) at the University of Manchester, UK, has been open for little more than a year. But a parliamentary...

Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
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Claude Shannon, the Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100

Twelve years ago, Robert McEliece, a mathematician and engineer at Caltech, won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest honor in the field of information theory...

Software Error Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft
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Software Error Doomed Japanese Hitomi Spacecraft

Japan's flagship astronomical satellite Hitomi, which launched successfully on February 17 but tumbled out of control five weeks later, may have been doomed by...

Statheads Are the Best Free Agent Bargains in Baseball
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Statheads Are the Best Free Agent Bargains in Baseball

It's getting more and more crowded on baseball’s bleeding edge. As sabermetrics has expanded to swallow new disciplines and data sets,1 the number of quantitative...

Biology May Hold Key to Better Computer Memory
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Biology May Hold Key to Better Computer Memory

Researchers at Boise State University are looking for a better way to store digital information using nucleic acid memory.

The Light Stuff: A Brand-New Way to Produce Electron Spin Currents
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The Light Stuff: A Brand-New Way to Produce Electron Spin Currents

Researchers from Colorado State University used non-polarized light to produce a spin voltage — a unit of power produced from the quantum spinning of an individual...

What Cyberwar Against Isis Should Look Like
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What Cyberwar Against Isis Should Look Like

Pentagon officials have publicly said, in recent weeks, that they're hitting ISIS not only with bullets and bombs but also with cyberoffensive operations.

Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'
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Computers That Crush Humans at Games Might Have Met Their Match: 'starcraft'

Humanity has fallen to artificial intelligence in checkers, chess, and, last month, Go, the complex ancient Chinese board game.

Nasa Seeks Industry Ideas For an Advanced Mars Satellite
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Nasa Seeks Industry Ideas For an Advanced Mars Satellite

NASA is soliciting ideas from U.S. industry for designs of a Mars orbiter for potential launch in the 2020s. The satellite would provide advanced communications...

All Powered ­p
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All Powered ­p

Researchers from University of California, Irvine have invented a nanowire-based battery material that can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, moving closer...

Making Electronics Out of Coal
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Making Electronics Out of Coal

Instead of just burning coal, MIT Professor Jeffrey Grossman says electronic devices should be made from the complex hydrocarbon.
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