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Asu Professor Develops Artificial Intelligence Tools For Environmental Research
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Asu Professor Develops Artificial Intelligence Tools For Environmental Research

Artificial intelligence tools developed by researchers at Arizona State University could tell scientists and environmental planners everything they want to know...

Discovery Paves Way For New Kinds of Superconducting Electronics
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Discovery Paves Way For New Kinds of Superconducting Electronics

University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a new way to control the transport of electrical currents through high-temperature superconductors...

Iu Researchers Participate in Linkedin Project to Tackle Economic, Employment Challenges
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Iu Researchers Participate in Linkedin Project to Tackle Economic, Employment Challenges

The LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge invites researchers, academics, and others to propose strategies for using LinkedIn data to address major economic problems...

ACM Europe Helps Guide Elements of Horizon 2020
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ACM Europe Helps Guide Elements of Horizon 2020

ACM Europe contributes to the successful implementation of Europe’s largest research program in several ways.

Mit’s Bitcoin-Inspired 'enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data
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Mit’s Bitcoin-Inspired 'enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data

The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator, that nonetheless can't be counterfeited.

Warrantless Phone Tapping, Email Spying Inching to Supreme Court Review
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Warrantless Phone Tapping, Email Spying Inching to Supreme Court Review

In 2013, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a once-clandestine warrantless surveillance program that gobbles up Americans' electronic communications—a project...

Watson's Next Feat? Taking on Cancer
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Watson's Next Feat? Taking on Cancer

IBM's Watson supercomputer is being trained to find personalized cancer treatments. 

June Will End with a Rare 61-Second Minute
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June Will End with a Rare 61-Second Minute

We'll need to wait for July just a shade longer, as the world's timekeepers have added a leap second June 30—to officially keep Earth and our precise, atomic clocks...

Watch: Black Hole Sim Whips Dark Matter Into a Frenzy
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Watch: Black Hole Sim Whips Dark Matter Into a Frenzy

Dark matter is to astrophysicists what sex is to kids in junior high school: Everybody is really interested, but nobody really knows what it looks like.

When a Company Is Put ­p For Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data Is, Too
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When a Company Is Put ­p For Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data Is, Too

The privacy policy for Hulu, a video-streaming service with about nine million subscribers, opens with a declaration that the company "respects your privacy."

­w Researchers Demonstrate System to Transmit Power Over Wi-Fi
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­w Researchers Demonstrate System to Transmit Power Over Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi can power connected devices using a new system developed by a team at the University of Washington.

Breakthrough in Graphene Production Could Trigger Revolution in Artificial Skin Development
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Breakthrough in Graphene Production Could Trigger Revolution in Artificial Skin Development

University of Exeter researchers say they have discovered a new way to produce graphene that is significantly less expensive, and easier, than previous methods. ...

Widespread Backing For ­.k. Robotics Network
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Widespread Backing For ­.k. Robotics Network

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has launched the U.K. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network to boost Britain's robotics research. 

Hospital Icus Mine Big Data in Push For Better Outcomes
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Hospital Icus Mine Big Data in Push For Better Outcomes

Some hospitals are using a big-data approach to mine intensive-care unit data to help providers and patients realize improved outcomes. 

What 24,000 Facebook Confession Posts Tell ­S About College
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What 24,000 Facebook Confession Posts Tell ­S About College

A Tufts University study analyzed about 24,000 Facebook posts on the Tufts Confessions page dating back to late 2013.

Automatic Bug Repair
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Automatic Bug Repair

At the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs...

A Computer's Heat Could Divulge Top Secrets
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A Computer's Heat Could Divulge Top Secrets

The most secure computers in the world can't "Google" a thing—they are disconnected from the Internet and all other networks.

Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Its Toughest Task: Finding Pluto
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Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Its Toughest Task: Finding Pluto

Some 4.7 billion kilometres from Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft is heading for a historic rendezvous with Pluto. To achieve this, it will need to hit a very...

Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles
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Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...

The Secret Codes of British Banknotes
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The Secret Codes of British Banknotes

A brand-new Xerox colour photocopier had just arrived at one of Cambridge's industrial labs.
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