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Degrees, Distance, and Dollars
The Internet is making higher education accessible to a whole new class of students—but not necessarily at a lower cost.
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Brains and Bytes
Computational neuroscientists are learning that the brain is like a computer, except when it isn't.
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alr Model to Help Organize, Keep Private 'vast Ocean' of Social Network Data
Researchers from the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have developed a new model to manage the "vast...
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Toshiba Claims Data Storage Breakthrough
Toshiba says it has achieved a breakthrough in data storage technology that could lead to hard drives with much higher capacities than are currently available.
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A Surfboard Gets an Onboard Computer
Computers are everywhere these days—even on surfboards. University of California, San Diego mechanical engineering undergraduates outfitted a surfboard with a...
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Tell Me Where You Are and I'll Tell You What I See
Fondazione Bruno Kessler researchers have developed a system that can analyze a mobile phone-produced photo and generate information about the location.
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World Record Data Density for Ferroelectric Recording
Scientists in Japan have recorded data at a density of 4 trillion bits per square inch, a world record for the experimental "ferroelectric" data storage method....
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Researchers Control Collective Spin States Electrically at Room Temperature
Physicists at the University of Nebraska Lincoln have changed the orientation of a large number of electron spins collectively at room temperature by pure electrical...
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Engineering and Music: A Powerful Duet For Art and Science
The collaboration by two professors at the University of Rochester, one from the music theory department and the other from the electrical and computer engineering...
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'Science 2.0' Sifts Data to Provide Relevant Search Results
A team at West Virginia University is researching ways to make better use of digital data. The researchers are working on technology that knows a user's goals...
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Citizen Scientists Discover Rotating Pulsar
The discovery by three citizen scientists of a new radio pulsar as part of the Einstein@Home project marks the first genuine astronomical discovery by a public...
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Researchers Develop Motion Tracking Technology to Reduce Injuries For Older Adults
Researchers at the University of Missouri have developed technology to help older adults recover from an injury, illness, or surgery by tracking their motions as...
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Research Aims to Improve Speech Recognition Software
Research conducted by Binghamton University's Stephen Zahorian aims to improve the accuracy of today's automatic speech recognition technology.
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Better Displays Ahead
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati Nanoelectronics Laboratory are actively pursuing an alternative approach for low-power displays and have published an...
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New Paradigm For Scientific Publication and Peer Review
Scientific knowledge has been shared in the same way for centuries. A European research project advocates replacing papers and peer reviews with a new process inspired...
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Connecting Electronic Medical Records
Looking out his office window in Seattle, Thomas Payne can see two hospitals that use the same electronic record system as his own. And yet, says Payne, medical...
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Google, Twitter, and Facebook Build the Semantic Web
A truly meaningful way of interacting with the web may finally be here, and it is called the semantic web. The idea was proposed over a decade ago by Tim Berners...
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Can't Place That Face?
Tel Aviv University researcher Galit Yovel is combing cognitive psychology with brain imaging and electrophysiology to study how the brain processes information...
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Customizing Science Instruction With Digital Libraries
Middle and high school teachers participating in the Curriculum Customization Service program use animations, images and interactive media to help engage Denver...
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