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A Stretchable Highway For Light: Researchers Build the First Circuit With Stretchable Optical Interconnections
Belgian researchers have developed the first optical circuit that uses interconnections that are bendable and stretchable.
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Researchers Show High-Speed Laser Communications Device For Space
A prototype array can read more information than usual from single particles of light, and can achieve much higher data rates than conventional systems.
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How Hpc Is Hacking Hadoop
The Hadoop open source framework increasingly is being used in high-performance computing environments, particularly for data-intensive scientific computing.
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As Military Robots Increase, So Does the Complexity of Their Relationship With Soldiers
For a glimpse at the future of human-robot interactions, it might be better to look at what's happening in the United States military than analyzing Her, in which...
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Visiting Mauna Kea, the World's Best Spot For Stargazing
I was recently having lunch at a lovely and only slightly overpriced cafe overlooking the Pacific in the historic resort region of Kailua-Kona on the dry side of...
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Starman
It was a mild October day in Hollywood, but a trace of artificial snow remained on the ground as Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium, at...
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Ancient Structures Rebuilt sing 3D-Printed Bricks
Eight centuries on, the flying buttresses of Bourges Cathedral in France still beguile engineers.
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Networking Nature
Conservation is for the first time beginning to operate at the pace and on the scale necessary to keep up with, and even get ahead of, the planet’s most intractable...
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At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They're Watching You
Visitors to Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport may notice the bright, clean lighting that now blankets the cavernous interior, courtesy of 171 recently...
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Can 'robotic' Pills Replace Injections?
The adage "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" is destined for a futuristic makeover.
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Netflix Is Building an Artificial Brain sing Amazon's Cloud
Nothing beats a movie recommendation from a friend who knows your tastes.
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3d Printing a Speaker
Makers manipulate multiple materials through additive manufacturing.
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What Can nite Liberals and Tea Partyers? The Nsa
Hoyt Sparks says he has no use for liberal Democrats and their "socialistic, Marxist, communist" ways.
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Stirring-p Atomtronics in a Quantum Circuit
Researchers used a superfluid atomtronic circuit to create a hysteresis, the first time hysteresis has been observed in an ultracold atomic gas.
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The Last Places on Earth Without the Internet
It can be easy to forget what life was like before the Internet.
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Nyc's Touchscreen Subway Maps Are Finally Here, and They're Amazing
New York subway riders first were promised futuristic touchscreen wayfinding maps a year ago.
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Last Call For Bad Calls
Technology will soon make officials at high-level sports events as obsolete as elevator operators, their skill set as useful as knowing how to make a wood tennis...
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The Timekeeping Tech that Keeps the Olympics Fair
"On your marks, get set, Go!" might work to start a race on the playground but in the highest-stakes world of the Olympic games, where every thousandth of a second...
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Avalanche Science: ncovering Snow's Deadly Secrets
Dr Alec Van Herwijnen has buried microphones under the deep snow in order to listen for avalanches.
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