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Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning
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Google Hires Brains that Helped Supercharge Machine Learning

Google has hired the man who showed how to make computers learn much like the human brain.

Pushing X-Rays to the Edge to Draw the Nanoworld Into Focus
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Pushing X-Rays to the Edge to Draw the Nanoworld Into Focus

A new x-ray imaging technique yields unprecedented measurements of nanoscale structures ranging from superconductors to solar cells.

Researchers Developing 3-D Printer to Create Human Organs
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Researchers Developing 3-D Printer to Create Human Organs

University of Iowa engineers are working on 3-D printing technology with a long-term goal of printing a human pancreas.

Why Private Companies Won't Make ­p For Cuts in Government Science Funding
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Why Private Companies Won't Make ­p For Cuts in Government Science Funding

The budget cuts that took effect last week could wipe out as much as $54 billion in federal funding of science, research, and innovation over the next five years...

Laser Mastery Narrows Down Sources of Superconductivity
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Laser Mastery Narrows Down Sources of Superconductivity

MIT and Brookhaven Lab physicists measured fleeting electron waves to uncover the elusive mechanism behind high-temperature superconductivity.

Connecting the Neural Dots
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Connecting the Neural Dots

In setting the nation on a course to map the active human brain, President Obama may have picked a challenge even more daunting than ending the war in Afghanistan...

Holographic Technique Could Lead to Bionic Vision
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Holographic Technique Could Lead to Bionic Vision

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology are testing the power of holography to artificially stimulate cells in the eye, with hopes of developing...

A Genetic Code For Genius?
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A Genetic Code For Genius?

At a former paper-printing factory in Hong Kong, a 20-year-old wunderkind named Zhao Bowen has embarked on a challenging and potentially controversial quest: uncovering...

Quantum Cryptography Put to Work For Electric Grid Security
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Quantum Cryptography Put to Work For Electric Grid Security

A quantum cryptography team at Los Alamos National Laboratory recently completed the first-ever successful demonstration of securing control data for electric grids...

'slow Light' Could Speed Optical Computing, Telecommunications
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'slow Light' Could Speed Optical Computing, Telecommunications

LANL researchers and collaborators have made the first demonstration of rapidly switching on and off "slow light" in specially designed materials at room temperature...

Engineers Show Feasibility of Superfast Materials for Computing
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Engineers Show Feasibility of Superfast Materials for Computing

University of Utah engineers demonstrated the feasibility of building organic topological insulators which could shuttle information at the speed of light in quantum...

Oscar Sci-Tech Awards Honor Ingenious Screen Science and Engineering
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Oscar Sci-Tech Awards Honor Ingenious Screen Science and Engineering

The goal of every movie is for the audience to suspend its collective disbelief and become immersed in the world created on screen.

Will We Ever Simulate the Human Brain?
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Will We Ever Simulate the Human Brain?

For years, Henry Markram has claimed that he can simulate the human brain in a computer within a decade. On 23 January 2013, the European Commission told him to...

Researcher ­sing Snail Teeth to Improve Solar Cells and Batteries
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Researcher ­sing Snail Teeth to Improve Solar Cells and Batteries

The teeth of the chiton, a marine snail found off the coast of California, may provide clues to the development of nanoscale materials for solar cells and lithium...

Cornell Engineers Solve a Biological Mystery and Boost Artificial Intelligence
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Cornell Engineers Solve a Biological Mystery and Boost Artificial Intelligence

 By simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, Cornell University researchers have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as...

Two Science Projects to Receive Award of 1 Billion Euros
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Two Science Projects to Receive Award of 1 Billion Euros

Projects to imitate the brain and to develop new materials for information technology have won awards of about 1 billion euros (U.S. $1.34 billion) each were announced...

Ayasdi: Stanford Math Begets a Data Company
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Ayasdi: Stanford Math Begets a Data Company

Like most of his peers, Gunnar Carlsson spends his time thinking about hairy, theoretical math problems.

IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave
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IBM Predicts Cognitive Systems As New Computing Wave

At year's end, IBM selects a new innovation that has the potential to change the world.

'Eight Great Technologies' Benefit from £600m in Government Funding
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'Eight Great Technologies' Benefit from £600m in Government Funding

Science minister David Willetts has set out details of how most of the money will be spent.

The Trouble With Tinkering Time
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The Trouble With Tinkering Time

It's the latest R&D trend: penciling in tinkering time on the company clock.
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