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A Century Ago, Einstein's Theory of Relativity Changed Everything
By the fall of 1915, Albert Einstein was a bit grumpy.
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Agriculture Linked to Dna Changes in Ancient Europe
The agricultural revolution was one of the most profound events in human history, leading to the rise of modern civilization.
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The Dream Life of Driverless Cars
On a brisk afternoon in October, an oddly equipped Honda CR-V inched through London traffic.
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Bringing Iphone-Style Medical Research to the Android World
Weill Cornell Medical College professor Deborah Estrin says the ResearchStack project seeks to introduce an open source software framework similar to ResearchKit...
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The Crispr Quandary
One day in March 2011, Emmanuelle Charpentier, a geneticist who was studying flesh-eating bacteria, approached Jennifer Doudna, an award-winning scientist, at a...
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Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in .s.
Silicon Valley is diving into artificial intelligence technology, with start-ups sprouting up and Google and Facebook pouring vast sums into projects that would...
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.s. Tech Giants May Blur National Security Boundaries in China Deals
One Chinese technology company receives crucial technical guidance from a former People's Liberation Army rear admiral. Another company developed the electronics...
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Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions For Digital Age
Shelves of law books are an august symbol of legal practice, and no place, save the Library of Congress, can match the collection at Harvard's Law School Library...
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Cassini Seeks Insights to Life in Plumes of Enceladus, Saturn’s Icy Moon
Where there is water, is there life?
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Sorry, Einstein. Quantum Study Suggests 'spooky Action' Is Real.
In a landmark study, scientists at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands reported they have conducted an experiment they say proves one of the most...
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Museum Specimens Find New Life Online
In a brightly lit room on the third floor of the Museum of Natural History here, stacks of wooden drawers are covered in glass, some panes so dusty that it is difficult...
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An Error Leads to a New Way to Draw, and Erase, Computing Circuits
For the physics researcher Andrew L. Yeats, a light-bulb moment led to an important new insight.
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Behind the European Privacy Ruling That's Confounding Silicon Valley
On Tuesday, when Max Schrems won a landmark privacy case in the European Court of Justice, Edward Snowden told him on Twitter that he had "changed the world for...
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Researchers Say They've Recreated Part of a Rat Brain Digitally
Building on years of research, 82 researchers from institutions around the world reported on Thursday that they have built a reconstruction of a section of rat...
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Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at Nasa Is to Keep It That Way.
At the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Catharine A. Conley has a lofty job title: planetary protection officer.
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
The impending end of Moore's Law could have a negative impact on the computing industry, or any industry that depends on highly reliant, low-cost electronics.
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Complex Car Software Becomes the Weak Spot nder the Hood
Shwetak N. Patel looked over the 2013 Mercedes C300 and saw not a sporty all-wheel-drive sedan, but a bundle of technology.
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Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips
At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young computer engineer...
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Barbie Wants to Get to Know Your Child
It looked like a child's playroom: toys in cubbies, a little desk for doing homework, a whimsical painting of a tree on the wall.
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