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Nasa's Juno Spacecraft to Risk Jupiter's Fireworks For Science
On July 4, NASA will fly a solar-powered spacecraft the size of a basketball court within 2,900 miles (4,667 kilometers) of the cloud tops of our solar system's...
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Hpe Shows Off a Computer Intended to Emulate the Human Brain
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is showing off a prototype computer designed to imitate the parallelism of the human brain using circuit boards and memory chips.
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Creating Printable, Programmable Machines
Daniela Rus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is pioneering the science of printable, foldable, and do-it-yourself robotics.
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China Claims Exascale By 2020, Three Years Before .s.
China wants to deliver an exascale computing system by 2020, three years ahead of the U.S. plan to achieve the same goal.
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Tech Culture Still Pushing Out Women, Study Finds
Social dynamics and "culture fit" are a key reason why female engineers tend to leave the profession sooner than men, according to a new study.
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Fighting Virtual Reality Sickness
Virtual reality sickness associated with consumer VR headsets can be alleviated with subtle changes to the user's field of view, say researchers from Columbia University...
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Fighting Isis With an Algorithm, Physicists Try to Predict Attacks
After Orlando and San Bernardino and Paris, there is new urgency to understand the signs that can precede acts of terrorism.
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Barbara Liskov, Weizmann Women and Science Award
"I didn’t even know computers existed."
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Rover Opportunity Wrapping p Study of Martian Valley
"Marathon Valley," slicing through a large crater's rim on Mars, has provided fruitful research targets for NASA's Opportunity rover since July 2015, but the rover...
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A Simpler Twist of Fate
Until the day it dies, a cell that has become a skin cell remains a skin cell—or so scientists used to think.
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Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury
High-speed internet service can be defined as a utility, a federal court has ruled in a sweeping decision clearing the way for more rigorous policing of broadband...
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Solving Paralysis sing Brain Computer Interfaces
Before the opening match of the 2014 World Cup in São Paulo, Juliano Pinto, a young paraplegic Brazilian, was brought out onto the sidelines wearing a huge exoskeleton...
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Service Robots Are Coming to Help US
A U.S. National Science Foundation program aims to advance and integrate robotics into people-centered service systems in homes, hospitals, and elder-care facilities...
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Yale Scientists Amplify Light sing Sound on a Silicon Chip
Yale University scientists have used the power of sound to significantly boost the intensity of light waves on a silicon microchip.
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Closing Security Gaps in Internet-Connected Household
Ruhr University Bochum researchers are developing a way to detect and fix vulnerabilities in applications that run on different devices, regardless of processor...
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Can Computers Do Magic?
Queen Mary University of London researchers have found magicians could use computers to create new magic effects and find new ideas for their performances.
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Machine-Vision Algorithm Learns to Transform Hand-Drawn Sketches Into Photorealistic Images
Researchers at Denmark's Radboud University have trained a deep convolutional neural network to convert hand-drawn sketches of faces into photorealistic portraits...
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Cybercrime Market Sells Servers For as Little as 6 Dollars to Launch Attacks
A major underground marketplace acting like an eBay for criminals is selling access to more than 70,000 compromised servers allowing buyers to carry out widespread...
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