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Nasa Selects Investigations For Future Key Planetary Mission
NASA has selected five science investigations for refinement during the next year as a first step in choosing one or two missions for flight opportunities as early...
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A Magical Answer to an 80-Year-Old Puzzle
Can you devise a series of steps to avoid hazards two paces to either side of you, even if you are forced to take every second, third or Nth step in your series...
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Fighting Isis Online
The two men pecked out messages on opposite sides of the country.
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Court Reaffirms Ftc Authority to Prosecute Cybersecurity Breaches
The ruling underscores corporate responsibility to protect consumer data.
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A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot
Videos of Google-owned robots, some that look like mechanical bulls and others resembling humanoids from sci-fi movies, have been viewed more than 90 million times...
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Hawaii's Deepest Secret
Earth's concentric layers scale remarkably well to those of a peach.
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CLA Scholar Examines Complexities of Data-Sharing in Four Research Projects
University of California, Los Angeles professor Christine Borgman and her team are studying how researchers handle and share information in a data-intensive setting...
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$2m Project to se Video Game to Engage Rural Maine Students in Computer Science, Math
University of Maine researchers will use the popular open-world video game Minecraft to introduce the basics of programming to rural fifth-to-eighth graders in...
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Moon-Landing Equivalent For Robotics: Assembling an Ikea Chair
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are developing a robot that will be able to assemble an IKEA chair.
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Wrangling Proteins Gone Wild
McGill University researchers have developed a software suite designed to accelerate the process of drug discovery for a wide range of diseases.
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How a Single Car Could Spread Malware to Thousands More
Over the last summer, the security research community has proven like never before that cars are vulnerable to hackers—via cellular Internet connections, intercepted...
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Eurathlon 2015 Announces Grand Challenge Winners
The euRathlon consortium has announced the winners of its 2015 Grand Challenge after several days of competition in September in Piombino, Italy.
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The Jocks of Computer Code Do It For the Job Offers
At 21, Gennady Vladimirovich Korotkevich is already a legend. Tourist, as he's known online, is now the world's top sport programmer.
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Neural Implant Enables Paralyzed Als Patient to Type Six Words Per Minute
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.
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How Rosetta's Comet Got Its Shape
Two comets collided at low speed in the early Solar System to give rise to the distinctive 'rubber duck' shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, say Rosetta scientists...
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Nasa, Google Team on Quantum Computing For AI Research
Google, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Universities Space Research Association will share access to D-Wave quantum computing technology...
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Computer Algorithm Created to Encode Human Memories
Researchers at the University of Southern California and Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have spent 10 years developing an implant to help a brain encode memories...
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Researchers Tout Technology to Make Electronics Out of Old Tires
Discarded tires could be used to create electrodes for supercapacitors.
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A Light Touch: Embedded Optical Sensors Could Make Robotic Hands More Dexterous
Researchers have developed a three-fingered soft robotic hand with multiple embedded fiber-optic sensors, as well as a new type of stretchable optical sensor.
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