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Future of Data: Encoded in Dna
In the latest effort to contend with exploding quantities of digital data, researchers encoded an entire book into the genetic molecules of DNA, the basic building...
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5 Grand Challenges That Will Boost Future Optic, Photonic Technology
A recent U.S. National Research Council report defines research priorities that would lead to advances in optics and photonics, highlighting five challenges facing...
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Slow, But Rugged, Curiosity's Computer Was Built For Mars
The electronic brain controlling NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has far less horsepower than the microchips typically found in a modern smart phone.
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Robot Master
When you visit Manuela Veloso at Carnegie Mellon University, you're not guided to her office by a security officer or even issued instructions by a secretary at...
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Commercial Blue-Sky Research Lives on at Ibm's Watson Center
In the decades following World War II, the U.S. emerged as the leading center of scientific research through the efforts of three types of institutions: its research...
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German Computer Scientists Join Forces to Make Interactive 3D Graphics Part of the World Wide Web
Researchers at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Fraunhofer Institute are working to describe computer scenes in spatial detail directly...
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Curiosity's Martian Playground Is Technically Located in Pasadena
Seventeen miles from downtown L.A., on the campus of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, there's a small stretch of earth covered in beach sand, decomposed...
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Lasers, Cameras, and Particle Detectors: Mars Rover's Super High-Tech Science Gear
Assuming it safely passes through its terrifying and complex descent sequence, NASA's newest rover, Curiosity, should get its wheels on the Martian surface in just...
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Hacking Your Memory: Could Total Recall Really Happen?
Do we really need a remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 sci-fi thriller Total Recall? No, but Hollywood is giving us one anyway, this time with Colin Farrell in the...
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Computers May Need Patterns to Think Better
An international research team, led by Charles Sturt University professor Terry Bossomaier and University of Sydney professor Allen Snyder, is investigating patterns...
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Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons
For all their progress, computers are still pretty unimpressive.
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Researchers Study How to Avoid Charge Traps in Plastic Electronics
Charge traps in plastic electronics have a common underlying mechanism, and this finding has led to a theoretical framework for designing electronics without traps...
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Scientists Find New Principle For Spin Transistor
Electron spin could be used to control electron current in a transistor-like structure and improve the performance of electronics.
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DARPA Shredder Challenge Solved
The eight-person winning team used original computer algorithms to narrow the search space and then relied on human observation to move the pieces into their final...
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Million-Year Storage Solution Is Set in Stone
Patrick Charton of the French nuclear waste management agency ANDRA presented a sapphire storage data solution at a recent forum. Information engraved on a sapphire...
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Research pdate: Chips With Self-Assembling Rectangles
MIT researchers have developed an approach to creating the array of wires on microchips that uses a system of self-assembling polymers. The process produces arrays...
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Mystery Tug on Spacecraft Is Einstein's 'i Told You So'
It's been a bad year to bet against Albert Einstein.
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Artificial Football Manager Hoping to Top the Fantasy Football League
Researchers at the University of Southampton plan to participate in the English Fantasy Football League with an artificial soccer manager.
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Frog Calls Inspire a New Algorithm For Wireless Networks
Polytechnic University of Catalonia researchers have developed an algorithm based on the desynchronized form of calling used by Japanese tree frogs that assigns...
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