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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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President Obama Awards Annual National Medals of Science
President Obama presented 10 researchers with United States' highest technical and scientific award, and said that celebrating their contributions was "one of...
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Effort Seeks to Diversify Cyber-Security Field
In an effort to increase the number of women and minorities in the field of cyber security, Missouri University of Science and Technology is working with the University...
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Cell Phone Alerts to Warn Residents of Danger
Two U.S. Department of Homeland Security offices are working with wireless carriers to develop a national capability to send emergency alerts to mobile devices....
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Reaching for Sky Computing
Researchers are developing tools to combine independent cloud computing environments to form an architectural concept dubbed sky computing by researchers at the...
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Video Game Design Program Boosts Interest in Science Careers
Funded by a U.S. National Science Foundation grant, a George Mason University program is using video game design as a way to increase student interest in science...
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The Emergence of Holographic Video
Experimental networked display refreshes holograms every two seconds.
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Giant Science Party
Mondo science party this weekend in DC! The USA Science & Engineering Festival and Expo features 1,500 exhibits, 750 organizations, 75 stage shows, and more.
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Nsf Graduate Fellowships Now Recognize STEM Education as Valid Research Field
Ten years after the U.S. National Science Foundation began funding the Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education Program, NSF has formally recognized that improving...
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Electronics Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Memory Chips
Rice University graduate student Jun Yao's research with silicon-oxide circuits could be a game-changer in nanoelectronics.
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Computer Model Helps Pakistan's Flood Disaster Efforts
New computer model software is being used to simulate Pakistan's flooding, estimate the drawdown of the floodwaters, and predict how long it will take the waters...
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Signing Made Easy
From video games to cell phone apps, making sign language easier to learn Put on the gloves. Turn on the camera and... action!
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Robotic Arm's Big Flaw: Patients Say It's 'too Easy'
One touch directs a robotic arm to grab objects in a new computer program designed to give people in wheelchairs more independence. University of Central Florida...
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Less Is More in the Fight Against Terrorism
Suffolk University's Philip Vos Fellman used tools for analyzing complex systems to study terrorist networks. Vos Fellman says his computer models offer clues...
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Rdav and Nautilus Enter Full Production
Nautilus, a high-performance computer that will be used for visualizing and analyzing large datasets at the Remote Data Analysis and Visualization Center (RDAV)...
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.s. Stimulus Funding Is Boosting Innovation
The White House recently published its first analysis of the impact of the ARRA stimulus package on advances in science, claiming successes in funding innovation...
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Crowdsourcing Peer Review
It is the greatest question in computer science. A negative answer would likely give a fundamentally deeper understanding of the nature of computation. And a...
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Bringing Engineering to K-12 Classrooms
With support from the U.S. National Science Foundation, engineers from Tufts University are bringing engineering to young students through STOMP, the Student...
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Vulnerability in Commercial Quanto Cryptography
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have...
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Nsf Announces Future Internet Architecture Awards
Four basic research projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation will explore different aspects of network architecture to foster new ideas and innovations...
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