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Researchers Simulate a Worm's Internal Muscle Sensations With Code
Researchers have reached a milestone in an effort to create a virtual nematode worm in a computer.
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Laser Demonstration Reveals Bright Future For Space Communication
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has completed its Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration mission.
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Motion-Captured Laughs Make Animations More Amusing
The European Commission's Ilhaire project aims to make chatbot avatars laugh more realistically.
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Smartphone as Mentor: How Tech Could Change Behavior
In a University of Michigan class called Imagine, Innovate, Act!, non-computing students design mobile apps to help users set and meet wellness milestones.
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Stanford and Google Team p to Simulate Key Drug Receptor
A first-of-its-kind atom-level simulation of a cell's G protein-coupled receptor could help improve drug design and lead to specialized scientific projects.
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Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.
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Nsa Phone Surveillance Legal, Federal Judge Rules
The debate over the National Security Agency's collection of millions of Americans' telephone records fell squarely into the courts when a federal judge in Manhattan...
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How Microsoft's 1 Percenters Balance Basic Research with Short-Term Success
When Microsoft launched its research labs in 1991, the personal computer was just beginning to blossom into a worldwide phenomenon, thanks in no small part to Windows...
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The Great Ideas Hiding nder the Invisibility Cloak
Physicist John Pendry talks about the profound physics obscured by his invisibility cloak and how metamaterials could help realise the perfect lens.
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Nasa Lays Out Long-Term Vision For Astrophysics
A new year is a good time to make long-term plans, and NASA has jumped into the deep end of planning.
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New Approach to Vertex Connectivity Could Maximize Networks' Bandwidth
Researchers say they have developed a technique for addressing vertex-connectivity problems.
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Chrogps, a New Generation Visual Browser of the Epigenome
ChroGPS is a new software application that serves to facilitate the analysis and understanding of epigenetic data and to extract intelligible information.
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Federal Agencies to Hire More Cyber Defenders in 2014
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is seeking to significantly expand its cyber workforce.
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Canadian Girls Good at Math Half as Likely to Study STEM
Canadian high school girls who are good at math are half as likely as their male counterparts to pursue STEM and computer science in college.
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Messages Sent via Molecules Can Aid Communication nderground, nderwater, or Inside the Body
A new molecular communications system can send messages and data in environments where electromagnetic waves cannot be used.
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The One Big Question About Rsa and Its Relationship With the Nsa
Last week, the Internet security world was jolted by a Reuters report detailing a secret $10 million payment to the security company RSA from the National Security...
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Google's Schaft Robot Wins DARPA Rescue Challenge
Team Schaft's machine carried out all eight rescue-themed tasks to outscore its rivals by a wide margin.
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Graphene Can Host Exotic New Quantum Electronic States at Its Edges
Researchers have uncovered unexpected features of graphene that appear under extreme conditions, which could allow the material to be used for exotic applications...
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Stanford Researchers: It Is Trivially Easy to Match Metadata to Real People
In defending the NSA's telephony metadata collection efforts, government officials have repeatedly resorted to one seemingly significant detail: This is just metadata—numbers...
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