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Smart Ink Adds New Dimensions to 3D Printing
A new smart ink turns three-dimensionally-printed structures into objects that change shape and color.
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A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers a New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins
Researchers are using an 1816 legal precedent to track down stolen bitcoins.
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Migration Forecasts Could Help Prevent Wind Turbines and Buildings From Killing Millions of Birds
A team of researchers have constructed a computer model of weather and bird migration to help prevent bird deaths by wind farms and buildings.
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Researchers Devise Novel Laser Steering for Autonomous Cars
Researchers say they have discovered a novel laser light sensing technology that is more robust and less expensive than conventional systems.
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Beijing Launches Pioneering Brain-Science Centre
Beijing has announced plans to build a brain-science centre that will rival in size some of the world's largest neuroscience organizations. It will also serve as...
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Blue Waters Supercomputer Brings Subatomic Resolution to Computational Microscope
A new "computational microscope" can model the atomic and subatomic forces driving molecular interactions.
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A Brain-Boosting Prosthesis Moves From Rats to Humans
The shape on the screen appears only briefly—just long enough for the test subject to commit it to memory. At the same time, an electrical signal snakes past the...
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Quantum Computing Can Go Chemical With Molecular Qubits
Northwestern University researchers are making qubits out of organometallic molecules.
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DevOps, Machine Learning Dominate Technology Opportunities This Year
Programming languages and frameworks associated with DevOps and machine learning are on the rise, and developers working in these areas garner the highest salaries...
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The Quest to Map the Mysteries of the Ocean Floor
Geologists have charted mountain ranges and forests and desert tundras, astronomers the heavens above, yet our planet's oceans remain largely unexplored; it's often...
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Your Alexa and Fitbit Can Testify Against You in Court
Ross Compton had no idea his pacemaker would finger him for arson.
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How Human is Your Robot?
A Brown University team develops a way to 'score' robots for being more (or less) like people.
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Digital Life Team Creates Animated 3D Models of Sea Turtles From Live Specimens
The Digital Life team at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst has unveiled three-dimensional models of a loggerhead and a green sea turtle.
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The Next NSA Chief Is More sed to Cyberwar Than Spy Games
After sailing through two friendly Senate hearings—one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour—Lieutenant...
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John Bolton, Cyber Warrior
John Bolton has spent years imploring the U.S. to go on the attack in cyberspace—a stance that some digital warfare experts caution could set up the nation for...
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MIT Professor Who Developed Wi-Fi-like Device That 'Sees Through Walls' to Receive ACM Prize in Computing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Dina Katabi has been named recipient of the 2017 ACM Prize in Computing.
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Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence Leading the Way to Smart Houses
Researchers are studying deep learning, with a focus on improving medical imaging and advancing the future of truly smart houses that will perform manual labor...
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Twisting Graphene Into Spirals
Researchers in Japan have synthesized helical nanographene, a breakthrough that could lead to nanoscale induction coils and molecular springs for use in nanomechanics...
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Hubble ncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen
More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen.
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