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New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto
The first color images of Pluto's atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last week, reveal that the hazes are blue.
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Researchers Say They've Recreated Part of a Rat Brain Digitally
Building on years of research, 82 researchers from institutions around the world reported on Thursday that they have built a reconstruction of a section of rat...
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Chapman University Researches Way to Mathematically Make Something Go Viral on Facebook
One person in a social cluster on Facebook can spread information to others just as effectively as an opinion leader, according to researchers at Chapman University...
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Why Hasn't He/she Replied Yet?
Researchers at the University of Southern California and Yahoo! Labs found email responses depend on a variety of factors, including age, platform, volume, and...
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What's Killing Mars?
The question of whether there is life on Mars is woven into a much larger thatch of mysteries. Among them: What happened to the ancient ocean that once covered...
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New Report Puts Numbers on Data Scientist Trend
Data scientist–a job that barely existed a decade ago–has become one of the hottest and best-paid professions in the U.S.
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U.s. Tech Firms Look To Data Centers on European Soil
Silicon Valley companies say they’ve been preparing for yesterday's European Court of Justice decision invalidating the U.S.-Europe Safe Harbor agreement on data...
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Cardiff University Develops Virtual Assistant Dubbed Sherlock
A virtual assistant developed at Cardiff University recently had its first public trial at the BBC's Make It Digital event.
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Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.
At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer.
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Scientists Tap Dragonfly Vision to Build a Better Bionic Eye
What can humans learn from dragonflies?
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New Auto Safety Technologies Leave Some Drivers Bewildered
Many Americans buying new cars these days are baffled by a torrent of new safety technology.
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Jpl's Role in Making 'the Martian' a Reality
When fictional astronaut Mark Watney becomes stranded alone on the Red Planet in the novel and film "The Martian," people and technology from NASA's Jet Propulsion...
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Activist Bots Recruit Humans to Their Cause on Twitter
The Botivist program uses Twitter to rally people to social causes, thanks to the efforts of Saiph Savage and colleagues at West Virginia University.
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Europe's Highest Court Strikes Down Safe Harbor Data Sharing Between Eu, US
Europe's top court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), has struck down the 15-year-old Safe Harbour agreement that allowed the free flow of information...
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The Battle Over Genome Editing Gets Science All Wrong
Nobel Prize speculation, gossip, and betting pools kick off every fall around the time Thomson Reuters releases its predictions for science's most prestigious prize...
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The Future of Cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and Beyond
When the digital currency Bitcoin came to life in January 2009, it was noticed by almost no one apart from the handful of programmers who followed cryptography...
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On What Facebook Knows--An Interview With the Man Behind Facebook's Personality Experiment
A researcher discusses a report issued earlier this year on how individuals' Facebook activities could be used to measure their psychological profiles.
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More-Flexible Machine Learning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers plan to present a machine-learning technique that enables semantically-related concepts to reinforce each other...
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Got 'em! Researchers Steal Crypto Keys From Amazon Cloud
Worchester Polytechnic Institute researchers have demonstrated how to use an instance of Amazon EC2 to recover the full 2,048-bit RSA key from a separate Amazon...
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