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Nasa Voyager Statement About Competing Models to Explain Recent Spacecraft Data
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Nasa Voyager Statement About Competing Models to Explain Recent Spacecraft Data

A newly published paper argues that NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has already entered interstellar space.

­.s. Brain Project Puts Focus on Ethics
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­.s. Brain Project Puts Focus on Ethics

The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his colleagues caused mice to recall...

Researchers ­se Augmented Reality to Coach Train Drivers
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Researchers ­se Augmented Reality to Coach Train Drivers

Central University of Queensland researchers are improving train driving simulations with augmented reality in order to facilitate drivers' skills development....

U.s. to Standardize Car App/communication Device Components
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U.s. to Standardize Car App/communication Device Components

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently issued a call for public and private researchers to develop "a hypothetical four-layer approach to connected vehicle...

Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You'll Buy
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Weather Channel Now Also Forecasts What You'll Buy

The Weather Channel knows the chance for rain in St. Louis on Friday, what the heat index could reach in Santa Fe on Saturday, and how humid Baltimore may get on...

Terrorists Turn to Online Chat Rooms to Evade U.s.
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Terrorists Turn to Online Chat Rooms to Evade U.s.

Al-Qaida fighters have been using secretive chat rooms and encrypted Internet message boards for planning and coordinating attacks, including the threatened if...

The New York Times Was Losing $5 Per Second Thanks to Its Web Site Outage
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The New York Times Was Losing $5 Per Second Thanks to Its Web Site Outage

The New York Times is still reeling from a massive Web outage that took down its homepage, its corporate Web site, and everything in between.

Nice Threads! Computer Scientists Develop New Model to Simulate Cloth on a Computer With Unprecedented Accuracy
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Nice Threads! Computer Scientists Develop New Model to Simulate Cloth on a Computer With Unprecedented Accuracy

A new model simulates the way cloth and light interact, making cloth look more realistic in animated movies and video games.

­CLA Researcher Invents New Tools to Manage 'information Overload' Threatening Neuroscience
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­CLA Researcher Invents New Tools to Manage 'information Overload' Threatening Neuroscience

A research map tool allows neuroscientists to quickly scan existing neuroscience research and plan their next study, avoiding information overload. 

It Helps Researchers See Their Data Like Never Before
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It Helps Researchers See Their Data Like Never Before

A new system allows scientists to view data in three dimensions over various time spans. 

Congress Starts Looking Into Bitcoin
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Congress Starts Looking Into Bitcoin

A Senate committee is pressing federal regulators and law enforcement officials to explain how they plan to oversee Bitcoin and other virtual currencies as the...

How to Share Scientific Data
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How to Share Scientific Data

Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth catalog and a Silicon Valley muse, once said that information wanted to be free and expensive, simultaneously. That...

'spoofers' Use Fake Gps Signals to Knock a Yacht Off Course
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'spoofers' Use Fake Gps Signals to Knock a Yacht Off Course

University of Texas researchers recently tricked the navigation system of an $80 million yacht and sent the ship off course in an experiment that showed how any...

Jpl, Masten Testing New Precision Landing Software
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Jpl, Masten Testing New Precision Landing Software

A year after NASA's Mars rover Curiosity's landed on Mars, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., are testing a sophisticated flight...

World's Most Influential Thinkers Revealed
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World's Most Influential Thinkers Revealed

Who are the most influential thinkers on the planet? That's a question that you might imagine ought to be straightforward to determine, given the recent advances...

The Worm Crawls Out – International Team Creates a Digital C. Elegans
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The Worm Crawls Out – International Team Creates a Digital C. Elegans

Researchers are developing a digital model of a worm, in the hope it will shed light on how various biological systems work.

IBM Develops Programming Language Inspired By the Human Brain
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IBM Develops Programming Language Inspired By the Human Brain

IBM has created a programming architecture for a cognitive computer chip inspired by the human brain.

Quantum Communication Controlled By Resonance in 'artificial Atoms'
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Quantum Communication Controlled By Resonance in 'artificial Atoms'

Researchers have described a method to control a quantum bit for electronic quantum communication in a series of quantum dots. 

More Connected Homes, More Problems
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More Connected Homes, More Problems

As a growing number of Internet-connected home appliances hit the market, David Bryan and Daniel Crowley worry that digital ne'er-do-wells will get new ways to...

As New Targets For Hackers, Your Car and Your House
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As New Targets For Hackers, Your Car and Your House

Imagine driving on the freeway at 60 miles per hour and your car suddenly screeches to a halt, causing a pileup that injures dozens of people.
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