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Oco-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward Into the Past
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Oco-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward Into the Past

NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will soon be providing about 100,000 high-quality measurements each day of carbon dioxide concentrations...

How Can a Civilian Plane Accidentally Be Shot Down?
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How Can a Civilian Plane Accidentally Be Shot Down?

Pro-Russian separatists may have shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine on Thursday because they mistook the civilian plane for something else...

Neuroscience: 'i Can Read Your Mind'
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Neuroscience: 'i Can Read Your Mind'

Jack Gallant can read your mind. Or at least, he can figure out what you're seeing if you're in his machine watching a movie he's playing for you.

Air Force Research: How to ­se Social Media to Control People Like Drones
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Air Force Research: How to ­se Social Media to Control People Like Drones

Facebook isn't the only organization conducting research into how attitudes are affected by social media.

Fiendish Wheat Genome Reveals Grain's History
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Fiendish Wheat Genome Reveals Grain's History

A draft genome sequence of wheat promises to speed efforts to breed new types of one of the world's most important crops — and to reveal the tangled genomic history...

Adding Depth to Mobile Imaging
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Adding Depth to Mobile Imaging

Google's Project Tango aims to provide an additional dimension to the next generation of mobile devices.

How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq
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How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq

In October 2010, a Federal Bureau of Investigation system monitoring U.S. Internet traffic picked up an alert.

Joining the Dots For Quantum Computing
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Joining the Dots For Quantum Computing

Researchers have demonstrated the scalability of quantum dot architectures by trapping and controlling four electrons in a single device. 

Inside the Artificial Brain That's Remaking the Google Empire
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Inside the Artificial Brain That's Remaking the Google Empire

It was one of the most tedious jobs on the Internet. A team of Googlers would spend day after day staring at computer screens, scrutinizing tiny snippets of street...

For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work
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For This Author, 10,000 Wikipedia Articles Is a Good Day's Work

Sverker Johansson could be the most prolific author you've never heard of.

The World's First Photonic Router
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The World's First Photonic Router

A team of scientists have demonstrated the world's first photonic router, a step toward overcoming the difficulties of building quantum computers. 

Meet Jibo, the Cute Social Robot that Knows the Family
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Meet Jibo, the Cute Social Robot that Knows the Family

In suite 712 of the Eventi Hotel, high above the sticky June bustle of Midtown Manhattan, New York, one of the world's most advanced consumer robots awaits command...

New Qubit Design Provides Parity Bit for Schrödinger Cat States
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New Qubit Design Provides Parity Bit for Schrödinger Cat States

The RAM in our computers is constantly refreshed to ensure that it maintains the intended information.

New Horizons Only One Year from Pluto
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New Horizons Only One Year from Pluto

In July 2015, NASA will discover a new world.

­ncertainty Gives Scientists New Confidence in Search for Novel Materials
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­ncertainty Gives Scientists New Confidence in Search for Novel Materials

Researchers have developed a method to estimate uncertainties in computer calculations that are used to facilitate the search for new materials. 

A Speech Synthesizer Direct to the Brain
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A Speech Synthesizer Direct to the Brain

A San Francisco neurosurgeon says he is working toward building a wireless brain-machine interface that could translate brain signals directly into audible speech...

Self-Assembly Shows Promise for Extending Moore's Law
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Self-Assembly Shows Promise for Extending Moore's Law

These are challenging times for computer chip engineers.

Why Apple's Swift Language Will Instantly Remake Computer Programming
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Why Apple's Swift Language Will Instantly Remake Computer Programming

Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn't mention...

Your Next Opponent in Angry Birds Could Be a Robot
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Your Next Opponent in Angry Birds Could Be a Robot

A combination robot/smart-tablet system could become a future rehabilitation tool for children with cognitive and motor-skill disabilities. 

Drone Lighting: Autonomous Vehicles Could Automatically Assume the Right Positions for Photographic Lighting
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Drone Lighting: Autonomous Vehicles Could Automatically Assume the Right Positions for Photographic Lighting

A team of researchers is developing algorithms to let photographers use camera-mounted controls to guide drone-mounted lights into just the right position. 
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