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Mining Electronic Records Yields Connections Between Diseases
Danish scientists have devised a new way to connect the dots between diseases.
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It's All About the Team For Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology
The Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) is a university and industry consortium that studies cybersecurity issues related to health care,...
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Stick-On Tattoos Go Electric
Through a combination of careful theoretical modeling and precise micro-manufacturing, a team of engineers and scientists has developed a new type of ultra-thin...
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Human Body Vulnerable to Cyberattack
Security researcher Jay Radcliffe has demonstrated how a hacker could remotely attack medical devices used to treat diabetes.
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The Science of Cyber Security
The University of California, Berkeley's Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology (TRUST) is developing cybersecurity science and technology designed...
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Crime's Digital Past
Eight interdisciplinary groups of digital humanists recently met to discuss the results of research on London's Old Bailey courthouse's digitized archive. The...
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Geo-Immersion Makes Maps Come Alive
When it comes to mapping the real world on computers, University of Southern California computer scientist Cyrus Shahabi takes his work to a whole new dimension...
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Raspberry Pi: Rise of the $25 Computer
Raspberry Pi developers have created a computer designed to inspire a new generation of computer programmers but inexpensive enough to enable schools to give them...
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Mind-Controlled
Brain-computer interfaces have enabled patients to execute basic thought-controlled tasks in the lab, but researchers say the technology is close to enabling people...
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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...
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New Report Offers Roadmap For Success in K-12 STEM Education
A new U.S. National Research Council report, "Successful K-12 STEM Education," identifies the characteristics of successful K-12 schools and programs in science...
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Report Recommends Ways to Improve K-12 STEM Education
The U.S. National Research Council recently released a report that calls on policymakers at all levels of government to elevate science education in grades K-12...
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Cooperative Robots That Learn = Less Work For Human Handlers
Learning a language can be difficult for some, but for babies it seems quite easy. With support from the National Science Foundation, linguist Jeffrey Heinz and...
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Mind-Controlled
Video games can be mesmerizing, even for a rhesus monkey. Which may explain, in part, why six-year-old Jasper has been sitting transfixed at a computer screen...
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Information Flow Can Reveal Dirty Deeds
Political thrillers that portray a "web of corruption" get it all wrong, at least according to an analysis of emails between Enron employees. The flow of the...
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Leia in Your Living Room: Projecting a Star-Wars-Style Hologram With a Microsoft Kinect
Michael Bove, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Object-Based Media Group, recently purchased a Kinect for his graduate students to experiment...
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In Brazil, an Explosion in Computing Power Is Revolutionizing Weather Prediction
Rio de Janeiro recently launched a new command center, equipped with IBM's Deep Thunder supercomputer, dedicated to developing more advanced weather prediction...
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FBI Set to Kill Secret-Stealing Russian 'Botnet.' Is Your Computer Infected?
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized control of a Russian botnet that commandeered millions of personal computers that may have penetrated U.S. diplomatic...
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The Search Serpent: The Next Wave in Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University researcher Howie Choset worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Annette Hossoi to develop a snake-like robot that can...
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