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Science and Engineering Employment Reached 5.8 Million in 2008
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Science and Engineering Employment Reached 5.8 Million in 2008

Employment in science and engineering occupations in the United States reached an estimated 5,781,000 by May 2008,  up 13.7 percent from May 2004, compared to...

Building Airplanes on a Computer
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Building Airplanes on a Computer

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill computer scientists and Boeing researchers are developing a new set of algorithms and techniques to simulate digital...

Citizen Science Contributes to Research
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Citizen Science Contributes to Research

As technology increases the amount of new information available in various fields of science, researchers are turning to citizen scientists to unlock the data....

A Tiny Defect That May Create Smaller, Faster Electronics
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A Tiny Defect That May Create Smaller, Faster Electronics

Researchers at the University of South Florida have developed a technique to turn defects in graphene into tiny metallic wires.

Grant Ensures Sustainable Future For Software
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Grant Ensures Sustainable Future For Software

The Software Sustainability Institute has been launched in the United Kingdom to help research communities in various disciplines manage their software tools beyond...

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Computer Scientists Create a Multilingual Search Engine

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid researchers have developed a multilingual search engine that can query a data repository written in Interlingua using questions...

Experience Hubble's ­niverse in 3-D
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Experience Hubble's ­niverse in 3-D

Supercomputers and 3-D models helped visualization specialists at the Space Telescope Science Institute transformed Hubble Telescope 2-D images into 3-D environments ...

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New 'hearing' Maps Are Real Conversation Starters

Cardiff University researchers have developed software that creates audibility maps of proposed room designs that  show hotspots where conversations would be inaudible...

Assessing the State of ­.s. Science and Engineering
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Assessing the State of ­.s. Science and Engineering

Physicist Louis Lanzerotti, chairman of the National Science Board's Science and Engineering Indicators committee, says the board's recent report to the White House...

Nsf Selects Theoretical Computer Scientist For its Highest Honor
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Nsf Selects Theoretical Computer Scientist For its Highest Honor

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced Tuesday (March 9) the selection of New York University's Subhash Khot, an associate professor at the Courant Institute...

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Quantum on Quantum

Researchers at Harvard University and Australia's University of Queensland have designed and constructed a quantum computer capable of simulating and calculating...

Aerial Surveillance Technology Could Keep Soldiers Safer
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Aerial Surveillance Technology Could Keep Soldiers Safer

Cranfield University researchers have developed an autonomous computer framework that enables one operator to control multiple unmanned aerial vehicles  from a...

Egi.eu to Coordinate European Scientific Computing Grids
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Egi.eu to Coordinate European Scientific Computing Grids

A new organization named the European Grid Initiative (EGI.eu) will coordinate a European-wide grid computing infrastructure that will enable scientists to share...

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Nsf-Supported Researchers Gain Access to Microsoft's Azure Services Platform

The National Science Foundation has announced a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft Corp. whereby Microsoft will provide NSF supported-researchers access...

Student-Run Business Wins Epa Energy-Optimization Contract
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Student-Run Business Wins Epa Energy-Optimization Contract

A company founded and run by Missouri University of Science and Technology students recently received its first federal contract, and hopes to parlay that funding...

Free Systems Biology Markup Language Has Proven Popular
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Free Systems Biology Markup Language Has Proven Popular

A scientific paper that describes a file format used by scientists to represent models of biological processes has exceeded 500 citations in the ISI Web of Knowledge...

Take a Nanooze Break
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Take a Nanooze Break

A new exhibition at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, FL, will bring visitors face to face with the nanoworld. Take a Nanooze Break features interactive...

Robot Provides 3-D Images of Dangerous Locations
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Robot Provides 3-D Images of Dangerous Locations

Soldiers and first responders may soon have a better way to evaluate the interior of dangerous structures. Students at Missouri S&T, in a joint project with the...

Nsf Launches Open Government Web Page
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Nsf Launches Open Government Web Page

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) recently launched a new Web site at http://www.nsf.gov/open designed to encourage participation and collaboration between...

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Robots Display Predatory-Prey Co-Evolution, Evolve Better Homing Techniques

Researchers at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems in the Ecole Polytechnique Federale of Lausanne are applying evolutionary principles to robot development. 
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