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This Robot Can Do More Push-ps Because It Sweats
Researchers from the University of Tokyo's JSK Lab say they have developed a more efficient way to cool humanoid robots.
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CIA Prepping For Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia
The Obama administration is contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action against Russia in retaliation for alleged Russian interference in the American presidential...
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Minding the Gap, Blind
Most commuters keep their eyes down in the morning while traipsing through the gleaming corridors of London’s Euston Underground station.
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Preparing For the Future of Artificial Intelligence
Considering the utilization, opportunities, and future challenges of Artificial Intelligence.
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Can Crispr Save Ben Dupree?
At 24, Benjamin Dupree has outlived many people with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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Europe and Russia Prepare For Historic Landing on Mars
Almost three weeks after it crash-landed the Rosetta orbiter on a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up to land another spacecraft—this time on Mars...
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Venus: Inhospitable, and Perhaps Instructional
Venus is not a placid paradise—that much we know.
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Google: Race and Gender Gaps Persist in Computer Science Education
New research from Google shows that black students are less likely to have computer science classes in school and are less likely to use computers at home even...
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Quantum Computers Will Destroy Bitcoin, Scientists Warn
Some computer scientists say quantum computers will cripple bitcoin's encryption systems and doom the digital currency. Governments are investing aggressively in...
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Algorithm Connects Students to the Most Interesting Person They've Never Met
MIT graduate students Mohammad Ghassemi and Tuka Al-Hanai began MIT Connect, a platform that matches participants for face-to-face lunch meetings based on background...
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Sandia, Harvard Team Create First Quantum Computer Bridge
Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and Harvard University have demonstrated on one chip all the elements needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum...
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Marconi Inspires Rice niversity Design For 1-Terabit Wireless
Rice University researchers are developing a laser-free, pulse-based radio system to support a transmission rate of 1 terabit per second.
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Say Hello to .google and Other Branded Internet Addresses
Google is helping usher in a new way for companies to tout their brand names in the digital realm.
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Want to Know Julian Assange's Endgame? He Told You a Decade Ago
Amid a seemingly incessant deluge of leaks and hacks, Washington, DC staffers have learned to imagine how even the most benign email would look a week later on...
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A Sense of Scale: The Best Microscopy of 2016
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born while Galileo was still alive, and he ended up developing a similar skill in lens making to that of Galileo.
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Stepping p Security For an Internet-of-Things World
As the Internet of things moves closer to realization, initiatives must be taken to ensure the technology is secure, says Michael Walker at DARPA. "If we want...
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niverse Has Ten Times More Galaxies Than Researchers Thought
The observable Universe contains about 2 trillion galaxies—more than ten times as many as previously estimated, according to the first significant revision of the...
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Making Computer Science Accessible to All Students
The first national consensus document on U.S. computer science education provides standards on computer science concepts and practices by grade span in the areas...
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Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Edinburgh offer a solution in which citations...
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