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Scan May Detect Signs of Nfl Players' Brain Disease
An insidious, microscopic protein that has been found in the brain tissue of professional football players after death may now be detectable in living people by...
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Wanted: 40 Trillion Gigabytes of Open Storage, Stat!
IDC predicts a 50-fold increase in the total amount of digitally stored data between 2010 and 2020, which means that by the end of the decade the world's data footprint...
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Nasa's Cassini Watches Storm Choke on Its Own Tail
Call it a Saturnian version of the Ouroboros, the mythical serpent that bites its own tail.
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How to se a Million-Core Supercomputer—without It Blowing p in Your Face
At the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, a supercomputer named "Sequoia" puts nearly every other computer on the planet to shame.
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Scientists Present a Software Package For All Types of Imaging
Max Planck Institute researchers recently released Numerical Information Field Theory (NIFTY), a program that can be used to map dimensions or spherical projections...
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First Look at an Atom's Shadow
Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Democritus theorized the existence of atoms by imagining what happens if you break a material into its smallest possible...
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Intel Futurist Says the Cloud Will Deliver nimagined Benefits to Government Services
Intel futurist David Johnson says that as people become more surrounded by data-driven intelligence about their lives, the power of aggregating information to the...
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Google Asks: How Much Is Mapping Worth?
How much has mapping software changed your life?
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A Digital Paradise By the Dashboard Light
The driver of the first Corvette, in 1953, was welcomed by a lovely fan of numbers—a sweeping, eye-catching speedometer denominated in 10-mile-per-hour intervals...
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Rio De Janeiro Brings Qr Codes to Its Streets
Rio de Janeiro is adding something new into its trademark black-and-white mosaic pavements: QR codes.
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Has Chip and Pin Had Its Day?
Go to a cash machine in Japan or Poland and there's a good chance you'll find a finger-sized scanner next to the keypad.
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Lens-Less Camera Emerges from Metamaterials Work
U.S. scientists have used metamaterials to build the imaging system, which samples infra-red and microwave light.
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Mathematical Breakthrough Sets Out Rules For More Effective Teleportation
For the past 10 years, theoretical physicists have shown that the intense connections generated between particles as established in the quantum law of 'entanglement'...
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Life in Simulation
Computational models are tackling the complexity of biology, from single-celled microbes to human organs.
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Revving the Rover
The new Mars rover has attracted plenty of attention for its planetary gymnastics, but the big breakthroughs are under the hood.
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A New Model For Healthcare
Computer modeling is radically redefining healthcare and epidemiology by providing new tools for understanding the impact of different intervention strategies.
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11 Body Parts Defense Researchers Will se to Track You
Cell phones that can identify you by how you walk. Fingerprint scanners that work from 25 feet away. Radars that pick up your heartbeat from behind concrete walls...
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How Vegas Casinos Wage War on Cheating
"I think most people feel that if you can find a way to beat the casino, more power to you," says Arnold Synder, his eyes, those telltale features, hidden behind...
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