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How Gravity Explains Why Time Never Runs Backward
We can't avoid the passing of time, even at the DMV, where time seems to come to a standstill.
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A Better Way to Slice the Pie
Splitting a check, an inheritance or credit for an idea are activities of daily life that are filled with potential pitfalls.
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Graduate Student Exploring Ways to Make Riding a Motorcycle Safer Using Connected Driving Data
Researchers are studying the use of connected-vehicle technology and naturalistic driving research to reduce crashes involving motorcycles.
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Mozilla Woos Programmers With Plans for a Webdev Browser
On Monday, the Mozilla Foundation will launch a version of its Firefox browser that will enable developers to build Web pages and applications.
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In Sync: Researchers Discover Way to Coordinate Different Types of Robots
A new way to allow different types of robots to coordinate with each other could lead to improvements in areas like search and rescue after a disaster.
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Animals Add a New Dimension to Human-Computer Interaction
A new conference convenes to consider Animal Human Computer Interaction.
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Ghost Universes Kill Schrödinger's Quantum Cat
The wave function has collapsed—permanently.
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The New Thing in Google Flu Trends Is Traditional Data
Google is overhauling its Flu Trends service to harness more traditional medical data, which has long been used to track and predict the flu season.
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Carnegie Mellon's Inflatable Robotic Arm Inspires Design of Disney's Latest Character
When Don Hall saw a robot arm made of balloons while visiting Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute several years ago, he knew instantly that Baymax,...
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Nasa's Curiosity Mars Rover Finds Mineral Match
Reddish rock powder from the first hole drilled into a Martian mountain by NASA's Curiosity rover has yielded the mission's first confirmation of a mineral mapped...
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Self-Driving Car Advocates Tangle With Messy Morality
Sure, dealing with lane changes, firetrucks and construction projects is difficult for engineers building self-driving cars. But what about deciding which people...
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Computers Are Learning to See the World Like We Do
On the website Park or Bird on Flickr, a computer makes an educated guess as to whether a photograph was taken in a national park or shows a bird.
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Movement Improves Girls' Computational Skills
Clemson University researchers say Virtual Environment Interactions offers an embodied strategy to engage fifth- and sixth-grade girls in computational thinking...
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Running Robots of Future May Learn From World’s Best Two-Legged Runners: Birds
A study of how birds run while minimizing energy cost, avoiding falls or injury, and maintaining speed and direction could help in developing better running robots...
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Computer Game Could Help Visually-Impaired Children Live Independently
Researchers say a new computer game could help visually-impaired children lead independent lives.
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Computer Scientists Say Meme Research Doesn't Threaten Free Speech
The heads of five of the U.S.'s largest computing research organizations are refuting political attacks on research on what makes ideas go viral, particularly on...
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New Clock May End Time As We Know It
"My own personal opinion is that time is a human construct," says Tom O'Brian.
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Investments Boost Neurotechnology Career Prospects
Mark Cembrowski was a graduate student in applied mathematics with a taste for neurobiology at Northwestern University when he discovered a way to marry his two...
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