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Child Care and STEM Fields Are Called Barriers to Women at 2-Year Colleges
Gender stereotypes that discourage women from pursuing STEM careers are among the most formidable barriers holding them back in community colleges.
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Linux Leads in Open Source Quality, but Risky Defects Lurk
Linux topped open source software in quality in a study of the defects that occur in the software development process.
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Networks in 2020: More Traffic, Less Energy
New technologies will enable networks to use much less energy by 2020, even though they will be carrying much more traffic.
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Inside the Drone Economy
Last month the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, the unmanned systems industry's largest trade organization, released its first economic study...
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Better Origami sing Nature and Maths
Paper folding isn’t just an art, it can help fit everything on spacecraft from solar panels to telescope mirrors.
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Researchers at Parc Give S a Glimpse of the Future
It was a high-tech speed-dating session, Silicon Valley-style: I would sit in the storied memorabilia-laden Room 2306 in the bowels of PARC, the former Xerox research...
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What to Expect When Elevators and Toys Start Phoning Home
Your next elevator pitch might actually come from data derived from your elevator.
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U.s. Cyberwar Strategy Stokes Fear of Blowback
Even as the U.S. government confronts rival powers over widespread Internet espionage, it has become the biggest buyer in a burgeoning gray market where hackers...
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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Israel's Main Infrastructure Control System
The Syrian Electronic Army launched a successful cyberattack on the main infrastructure system of Haifa, one of the most important ports in Israel, disrupting the...
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A Quantum Computer Aces Its Test
The long-sought quantum computer, a machine potentially far ahead of today's best supercomputers, is almost as hard to define as it is to build.
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Big Data from Cheap Phones
At a computer in her office at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, epidemiologist Caroline Buckee points to a dot on a map of Kenya's western highlands...
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China's Cyberspies Outwit Model For Bond's Q
Among defense contractors, QinetiQ North America is known for spy-world connections and an eye-popping product line.
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Building a Digital Life Form: Openworm, Open Source
The OpenWorm Project is working to create the first computer model of the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode worm.
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Reading, Writing and Computer Coding--the Basics of the Future
To get more students interested in writing software code, advocates are working to eliminate the idea that computer science is too hard.
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U.K. Eyes Apprenticeships to Grow IT Talent
The U.K. information technology sector is trying out apprenticeships as a means of training more young people for jobs in the industry.
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In Vivo Flexible Large Scale Integrated Circuits
Researchers say they have developed in vivo silicon-based flexible large-scale integrated (LSI) circuits for biomedical wireless communications.
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Living in 'the Matrix' Requires Less Brain Power
Neurons called place cells in rat brains function differently when the animals are in virtual reality than when they are in the real world.
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Apple: An End to Skeuomorphic Design?
Why do most smartphones make a clicking noise, like a camera shutter closing, when you take a picture with them? Why do the virtual pages of a book on a tablet...
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Stephen Wolfram on Personal Analytics
Don't be surprised if Stephen Wolfram, the renowned complexity theorist, software company CEO, and night owl, wants to schedule a work call with you at 9 p.m. In...
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