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Repairing the Brain
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Repairing the Brain

Will the problem of memory loss one day be forgotten?

Flashes of Light Show How Memories Are Made
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Flashes of Light Show How Memories Are Made

Neuroscientists can breathe a collective sigh of relief.

The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat Ptsd
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The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat Ptsd

How well can you predict your next mood swing?

Why Did the Justice Department Indict Five Chinese Military Officers?
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Why Did the Justice Department Indict Five Chinese Military Officers?

At first glance, the Justice Department's 31-count indictment of five Chinese military officers for hacking into the computers of six American corporations, in...

Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data
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Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data

Scientists in the Netherlands have moved a step closer to overriding one of Albert Einstein's most famous objections to the implications of quantum mechanics, which...

A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer
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A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer

MI6 called it Station X.

Robots As Furniture?
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Robots As Furniture?

Planning the menu for a dinner party in a tiny apartment can be far easier than making sure guests have a place to sit: Many apartment dwellers simply don’t have...

Get Ready For the Computers of the Future
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Get Ready For the Computers of the Future

Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists are exploring ways next-generation computers can make performance gains while reducing energy consumption. 

Quantum Cryptography With Ordinary Equipment
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Quantum Cryptography With Ordinary Equipment

Japanese researchers have proposed an approach to quantum cryptography they say could work with commercially available equipment. 

Computer Scientists Study Other Computer Scientists
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Computer Scientists Study Other Computer Scientists

A study and data set from Brown University on computer science faculty at the 50 top U.S. schools yielded interesting findings. 

Computer Worms
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Computer Worms

The informal, crowd-funded OpenWorm project aims to develop the world's first simulated organism, a worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans. 

How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works

Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical...

Cloud and Supercomputing Cooperate in Molecular Dynamics Research
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Cloud and Supercomputing Cooperate in Molecular Dynamics Research

The director of the biophysics program at Stanford University says cloud computing and supercomputing technologies are bothnecessary for many fields of study.

Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot

Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.

Can Killer Robots Learn to Follow the Rules of War?
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Can Killer Robots Learn to Follow the Rules of War?

As Memorial Day reminds us every year, war doesn't go away.

Origami Unfolds a New World of Shape-Shifting Electronics
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Origami Unfolds a New World of Shape-Shifting Electronics

The art of origami is transforming electrical engineering and electronics design, as scientists draw on concepts that could enable new shape-shifting electronics...

­sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes
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­sing Thoughts to Control Airplanes

Pilots of the future could be able to control their aircraft by merely thinking commands.

Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets
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Sunsets on Titan Reveal the Complexity of Hazy Exoplanets

Scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini mission have developed a new way to understand the atmospheres of exoplanets by using Saturn's smog-enshrouded...

How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic
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How Statisticians Found Air France Flight 447 Two Years After It Crashed Into Atlantic

"In the early morning hours of June 1, 2009, Air France Flight AF 447, with 228 passengers and crew aboard, disappeared during stormy weather over the Atlantic...

Google ­ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave
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Google ­ses Artificial Brains to Teach Its Data Centers How to Behave

At Google, artificial intelligence isn't just a means of building cars that drive on their own, smartphone services that respond to the spoken word, and online...
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