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Printable Robots Designed to Be Consumer-Friendly, Inexpensive
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Printable Robots Designed to Be Consumer-Friendly, Inexpensive

A new project to automate the design and manufacturing of consumer robots uses two-dimensional desktop technology fabrication methods. 

Winners of 10th Annual International Science & Technology Visualization Challenge Announced
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Winners of 10th Annual International Science & Technology Visualization Challenge Announced

The National Science Foundation, along with the journal Science, today announces the 53 winners and honorable mentions of the International Science & Technology...

Digitizing the Past to Protect and Preserve History
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Digitizing the Past to Protect and Preserve History

Archeologists now take thousands of digital photos, make notes in a database on a laptop or a tablet, and record careful, geographically referenced information...

Sound, Digested
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Sound, Digested

Backed by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Imagine Research has developed MediaMined, an artificial intelligence system for understanding and...

The AlloSphere Offers an Interactive Experience of Nano-Sized Worlds
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The AlloSphere Offers an Interactive Experience of Nano-Sized Worlds

The University of California, Santa Barbara's AlloSphere Research Laboratory takes scientific data that is too small to see and hear and magnifies it to a human...

Supercomputer Simulations to Help Predict Tornadoes
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Supercomputer Simulations to Help Predict Tornadoes

University of Oklahoma researchers are using supercomputers to assemble and analyze massive amounts of data on tornadoes, such as updraft, downdraft, and regions...

Computers Could Make Better Drugs
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Computers Could Make Better Drugs

Using the NSF-funded Ranger supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin professor Pengyu Ren is working to develop faster...

When Robots Invaded the Senate
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When Robots Invaded the Senate

The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently held a luncheon briefing and open house for U.S. Senate members to demonstrate cyber-physical systems (CPS), an emerging...

The Next Best Thing to You
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The Next Best Thing to You

Have you ever wished you could be in two places at once? Perhaps you've had the desire to create a copy of yourself that could stand in for you at a meeting, freeing...

A New Vision For Scientific Visualizations
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A New Vision For Scientific Visualizations

VisTrails, a suite of visualization tools developed by Juliana Freire and Claudio Silva, both associate professors of computer science at the University of Utah...
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