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Flexible Leds For Implanting Under the Skin
A team of researchers from the United States, China, Korea, and Singapore have developed flexible ultra-thin sheets of inorganic light-emitting diodes and photodetectors...
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Drivel on Facebook More Valuable Than We Think
The seemingly meaningless comments and updates that appear on Facebook are valuable to users because they serve as constant reminders of a highly useful network...
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Adding Human Intelligence to Software
MIT researchers have developed TurKit, a toolkit that enables users to write algorithms to coordinate online workers using Javascript and create human intelligence...
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3-D Maps Without the Glasses
Students at Washington University in St. Louis' Media and Machines Lab have developed Project Live3D, an Internet application that uses webcams from around the...
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Spambot Wants to Be Your Friend
Vienna University of Technology researchers, studying security issues related to social networking websites, were able to match more than 1.2 million social network...
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Officials Push to Bolster Law on Wiretapping
U.S. law enforcement and counterterrorism officials are urging the revamping of a federal statute requiring phone and broadband carriers to guarantee that their...
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Giant Science Party
Mondo science party this weekend in DC! The USA Science & Engineering Festival and Expo features 1,500 exhibits, 750 organizations, 75 stage shows, and more.
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Tech Job Candidates Face Head-Spinning Questions
Maybe you've had the nightmare. You show up late for the job interview, or perhaps you forgot to prepare at all. Then they pop off the kind of question that has...
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Get in Synch
Understanding conditions that cause oscillators to fall in or out of synchronization is necessary to achieve the optimal functioning of oscillator networks. The...
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md Cyber Security Center Stresses 'more-Than-Tech' Solutions
The University of Maryland is launching a new cyber security initiative to stimulate public-private partnerships and address U.S. vulnerabilities, including those...
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Bendable Memory Made from Nanowire Transistors
A new type of device could ultimately hold more data than flash memory.
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In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks
They text their friends all day long. At night, they do research for their term papers on laptops and commune with their parents on Skype. But as they walk the...
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Nanotube Thermopower
Researchers from MIT have found a way to store energy in thin carbon nanotubes by adding fuel along the length of the tube, which can later be turned into electricity...
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Batteries Smaller Than a Grain of Salt
Researchers in California are aiming to create some of the tiniest batteries on Earth, the largest of which would be no bigger than a grain of salt. These tiny...
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Expand Human Resource Pool in Science, Technology: India's Pm
"We need to expand human resource pool in the area of science and technology to maintain our competitive advantage in the knowledge economy that is now on the...
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Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market
The emotional roller coaster captured on Twitter can predict the ups and downs of the stock market, a new study finds. Measuring how calm the Twitterverse is...
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Effective Search Terms Yield the Right Information
University of Gothenburg doctoral student Karin Friberg Heppin says that asking for information in the right way would help improve the performance of search engines...
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Triple-Mode Transistors Show Potential
Rice University researchers are using graphene to develop circuits that could be more compact and versatile than what is currently possible with silicon-based technologies...
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Festival Visitors Get Virtual 3-D Tour of the niverse
As part of the USA Science and Engineering Festival, the Thirty Meter Telescope will present a tour of the cosmos with a portable planetarium.
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