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The James Webb Space Telescope Has Emerged from the Freezer
After spending three months at a temperature of just 20 degrees Celsius above absolute zero, the massive James Webb Space Telescope emerged from a large vacuum...
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Geocarb: A New View of Carbon Over the Americas
A new NASA Earth science mission in the early stages of design may achieve a transformational advance in our understanding of the global carbon cycle by mapping...
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Exascale a 'main Priority' For Doe
Exascale computing is a priority for the U.S. Department of Energy, which last year alloted $258 million to research the hardware, software, and applications needed...
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Big Brother on Wheels: Why Your Car Company May Know More About You Than Your Spouse.
Daniel Dunn was about to sign a lease for a Honda Fit last year when a detail buried in the lengthy agreement caught his eye.
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How to See a Memory
For someone who's not a Sherlock superfan, cognitive neuroscientist Janice Chen knows the BBC's hit detective drama better than most.
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Nasa Test Proves Pulsars Can Function as a Celestial Gps
From its perch aboard the International Space Station, a NASA experiment has shown how future missions might navigate their way through deep space.
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'holostream' Allows High-Quality Wireless 3D Video Communications
Holostream is a new platform enabling high-quality three-dimensional video communications on mobile devices.
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Can We Make a Hack-Proof Internet with Quantum Physics?
Is it possible to build a network that's impossible to hack? Quantum physicists believe it might.
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Nasa Space Telescopes Provide a 3D Journey Through the Orion Nebula
Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared vision of the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes...
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Silicon Gains Ground in Quantum-Computing Race
In the next few weeks, a research group at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands expects to receive an important package. Its contents promise to...
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Trojan Team's Bias-Busting App Wins Third Prize at Facebook Global Hackathon
Team Artemis of the University of Southern California won third prize at the 2017 Facebook Global Hackathon for a virtual reality tool designed to rid the workplace...
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When Wi-Fi Won't Work, Let Sound Carry Your Data
If you've ever struggled to pair your phone with a Bluetooth speaker or set up a wireless printer, you know that it's often easier to connect to a server halfway...
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Team's Lifesaving App Could Help Farmworkers Beat the Heat
Calor is a new smartphone app designed to send automatic heat warnings to farmworkers in the field.
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Driverless Cars Might Follow the Rules of the Road, but What About the Language of Driving?
Navigating the complexity of unspoken rules and social and linguistic cues to communicate with drivers, pedestrians, and others sharing the road is a challenge...
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With the Summit Supercomputer, U.s. could Retake Computing's Top spot
In November of 2012, the semiannual Top500 rankings of the world's supercomputers gave top billing to a machine constructed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory...
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China Becomes One of the Top 5 .s. Patent Recipients For the First Time
Chinese companies have increased the number of U.S. patents they've received by tenfold in less than 10 years, another sign that the world's second-largest economy...
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Fbi Chief Calls nbreakable Encryption 'urgent Public Safety Issue'
The inability of law enforcement authorities to access data from electronic devices due to powerful encryption is an "urgent public safety issue," FBI Director...
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Huskie Hackers Developed Innovative Solutions to Health and Wellness Challenges
The 2017 Northern Illinois University Huskie Hack featured 269 student hackers who were tasked with developing solutions to health- and wellness-related challenges...
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The Real Future of Work
In 2013, Diana Borland and 129 of her colleagues filed into an auditorium at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
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