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NASA Probe Sees Solar Wind Decline
The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind.
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How Rare Is that Fingerprint? Computational Forensics Provides the First Clues
University at Buffalo researchers have developed a method to computationally determine how rare a particular fingerprint is and how likely it is to belong to a...
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Panel Set to Study Safety of Electronic Patient Data
Almost two years ago, President Obama pledged $19 billion in stimulus incentives to help convert the nation’s doctors and hospitals to using a paperless system...
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Microsoft Shares Cloud Technology with Top Australian Research Organizations
Microsoft Corp. announced partnerships with three of Australia's top research organizations as part of its Global Cloud Research Engagement Initiative. The partners...
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A Lego Reconstruction of the World's Earliest Computer
Before the birth of Christ the Greeks built a mechanical computer. Now an Apple engineer has made a functional Lego replica.
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NSF Extends Program to Draw African Americans to Careers in Robotics, Computer Science
The U.S. National Science Foundation is extending its support of the Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact Alliance, a program designed to encourage...
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Ucsf Team Develops 'logic Gates' to Program Bacteria as Computers
University of California, San Francisco researchers have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria with a specific molecular circuitry that will enable scientists...
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Su Receives $3.4 Million Federal Grant to Benefit Women in Sciences
Syracuse University recently received a five-year, $3.4 million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to study ways to attract and retain more female professors...
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Privacy Project ses Cryptography to Reduce Shared Info
An electronic wallet that encrypts the owner's personal information is being developed by IBM researchers. The device will only allow the sharing of information...
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Python 3.2 Tweaked For Parallel Development
Python's developers plan to offer greater support for writing multithreaded applications in the 3.2 version of the open source programming language. The pre-release...
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War for Tech Talent Hits 'White Hot' New York Startup Scene
It's a good time to be a software programmer in New York City.
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Rensselaer Research Leader Francine Berman Named Fellow of Ieee
Cyber infrastructure pioneer Francine Berman, the vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical...
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Doe Awards Nist Millions of Supercomputing Hours, Aims For 'concrete Results'
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a NIST team of researchers millions of hours of supercomputing time to analyze concrete flow, with the aim of improving...
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Task Force Praises Bowles-Simpson Report's Commitment to Research and Education
The Task Force on American Innovation commends the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform for recommending that the United States make predictable...
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New Application Allows Scientists Easy Access to Government Data
Computer scientists within the Tetherless World Research Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed an application that provides scientists...
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.S. Government, Businesses Are Poorly Prepared for Cyber Attacks, Experts Say at AAAS
The United States is ill-prepared to defend its vital infrastructure against a cyber attack, a former top cybersecurity official said during a recent panel discussion...
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Umd Launches Maryland Cybersecurity Center
The path to assuring the security of vital cyber networks lies in interdisciplinary collaboration of IT and legal, policy, business and behavioral experts, co-director...
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Collective Memory
An MIT project provides a way to preserve information in constantly changing networks, without resorting to a shared server.
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Next Generation of Algorithms Inspired By Problem-Solving Ants
An ant colony is the last place you'd expect to find a maths whiz, but University of Sydney researchers have shown that the humble ant is capable of solving difficult...
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