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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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'biology Is a Manufacturing Capability'
Soon we'll be able to engineer living things with mechanical precision, says Tom Knight, father of synthetic biology.
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Point of Light
Caltech researchers have created a device that can focus light into a point just a few nanometers across, a breakthrough they say could lead to next-generation...
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Is the Light Spectrum the Next Frontier for Wireless?
Computer devices could eventually use light to communicate, and Li-Fi, formally called visible light communications, could replace Wi-Fi, says the University of...
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What If NASA Could Figure Out the Math of a Workable Warp Drive?
When, a few weeks ago, astronomers announced that an Earth-sized planet had been detected orbiting a Alpha Centauri B, a star in the closest system of stars to...
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Proving Quantum Computers Feasible
Quantum computers are devices—still largely theoretical—that could perform certain types of computations much faster than classical computers; one way they might...
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Bend Me, Shape Me: Flexible Phones 'out By 2013'
Imagine treating your phone like a piece of paper.
From ACM TechNews
Smallest Logic Circuit Fabricated With Single-Electron Transistors
Researchers from South Korea, Japan, and the United Kingdom have fabricated a half-adder logic circuit using only five transistors.
From Communications of the ACM
Quantum Quests
Three breakthrough experiments involving photons have extended coherence times and indicated scalable production.
From ACM TechNews
Penn Researchers Make Flexible, Low-Voltage Circuits sing Nanocrystals
University of Pennsylvania researchers have shown that nanocrystals of the semiconductor cadmium selenide can be "printed" or "coated" on flexible plastic to create...
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Risk of Robot prising Wiping Out Human Race to Be Studied
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology, and climate change.
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Michio Kaku Sketches Technological Wonderland of the Future at Sc12
Imagine a world where a computer chip costs just a penny.
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The Computer That Stores and Processes Information at the Same Time
Computer scientists claim they can now store and process information simultaneously like a human brain by using nanoscale electronic components.
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Scientists Find Cheaper Way to Ensure Internet Security
Scientists at Toshiba and Cambridge University have used an advanced photodetector to extract weak photons from the torrents of light pulses carried by fiber-optic...
From ACM Opinion
Bluebrain: Noah Hutton's 10-Year Documentary About the Mission to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain
"Nothing quite like it exists yet, but we have begun building it," Henry Markram wrote in the June 2012 issue of Scientific American. He was referring to a "fantastic...
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Will We Ever nderstand How Our Brains Work?
When it comes to the human brain, many scientists believe that we are incapable of understanding how it works because we lack the tools and intelligence to measure...
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Agency Programs Show Outlines of Future Cyber Ecosystem
Although the creation of autonomous, self-defending, and self-healing online ecosystems remains years away, several U.S. government programs are already laying...
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Registration Open For 20th Annual Nasa Great Moonbuggy Race
Registration is open for the 20th annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race, which challenges high school, college, and university students around the world to build and...
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