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Are Libraries the Key to Teaching Computer Science?
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Are Libraries the Key to Teaching Computer Science?

An initiative by the American Library Association and Google looks to enhance school and public libraries with resources for STEM innovation.

Scientists Build Dna from Scratch to Alter Life's Blueprint
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Scientists Build Dna from Scratch to Alter Life's Blueprint

At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.

China's Quest to Become a Space Science Superpower
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China's Quest to Become a Space Science Superpower

Time seems to move faster at the National Space Science Center on the outskirts of Beijing.

Metrology Is Key to Reproducing Results
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Metrology Is Key to Reproducing Results

Imagine you are a policymaker who needs to know how much carbon is stored in the South American forest.

Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover
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Pittsburgh Gets a Tech Makeover

In 2015, Monocle magazine, a favorite read of the global hipsterati, published an enthusiastic report on Lawrenceville, the former blue-collar neighborhood here...

Machines Poised to Take Over 30% of Work at Banks, Mckinsey Says
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Machines Poised to Take Over 30% of Work at Banks, Mckinsey Says

New technologies are poised to sweep through investment banks, relieving many rank-and-file employees of roughly a third of their current workload, according to...

China's Got a Huge Artificial Intelligence Plan
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China's Got a Huge Artificial Intelligence Plan

China aims to make the artificial intelligence industry a "new, important" driver of economic expansion by 2020, according to a development plan issued by the State...

Technology Is Transforming What Happens When a Child Goes to School
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Technology Is Transforming What Happens When a Child Goes to School

AI is letting machines learn about the pupils using them by studying the data produced in the process. And research drawing on psychology, cognitive science, and...

Bringing a 'trust but Verify' Model to Journal Peer Review
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Bringing a 'trust but Verify' Model to Journal Peer Review

In a commentary published in the journal Science, Carole Lee and David Moher identify incentives that could encourage scientific journals to "open the black box...

The Iron Yard Academy Closure Surprises Tech Execs
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The Iron Yard Academy Closure Surprises Tech Execs

The Iron Yard Academy, a coding school aiming to provide a fast track for employment in Research Triangle Park's growing tech sector, is closing up shop. 

Crazy Smart Summer: Girls Build Robots To Help People
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Crazy Smart Summer: Girls Build Robots To Help People

While some middle schoolers spend their summers lounging poolside, others spend time building robots. At the Women in Robotics Summer Youth Program last week, 23...

Nsa-Funded virtual Cybersecurity Lab to Improve Cloud Networking Security
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Nsa-Funded virtual Cybersecurity Lab to Improve Cloud Networking Security

Mengjun Xie, a researcher at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, has garnered additional funding from the U.S. National Security Agency to develop a virtual...

These Truckers Work Alongside the Coders Trying to Eliminate Their Jobs
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These Truckers Work Alongside the Coders Trying to Eliminate Their Jobs

Just before Stefan Seltz-Axmacher offers a job to an engineer at Starsky Robotics Inc., a driverless trucking startup in San Francisco, he gives them the talk. ...

High School Girls Learn 'virtuous Hacking' in Computer Science Program
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High School Girls Learn 'virtuous Hacking' in Computer Science Program

Forty-five high school girls are tackling programming, virtuous hacking, and digital forensics at New York University's Computer Science for Cyber Security program...

Filling the Science Communication Gap
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Filling the Science Communication Gap

Two English professors have co-edited a book they hope will make science communication easier for instructors, and their students, to teach and learn.

­S to Create Independent Military Cyber Command
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­S to Create Independent Military Cyber Command

After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to revamp the nation's military command for defensive and offensive cyber operations in hopes...

Information Technology: A Digital Genius at Play
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Information Technology: A Digital Genius at Play

The US mathematician and electrical engineer Claude Shannon, whose life spanned the tumultuous, technologically explosive twentieth century, is often called the...

Why Haven't Reporters Mass-Adopted Secure Tools For Communicating With Sources?
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Why Haven't Reporters Mass-Adopted Secure Tools For Communicating With Sources?

In the months since Donald Trump took office, Washington has been leaking like a sieve.

Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop in the Classroom
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Students Are Better Off Without a Laptop in the Classroom

Although computer use during class may create the illusion of enhanced engagement with course content, it more often reflects engagement with social media, YouTube...

­.s. Institutions Awarded the Most Doctorates Ever Recorded in 2015
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­.s. Institutions Awarded the Most Doctorates Ever Recorded in 2015

Over a 20-year span, the number of women receiving doctorates in science and engineering at U.S. institutions increased by 93 percent, and the number receiving...
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