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Understanding Interface Properties of Graphene Paves Way for New Applications
A new technique to improve the stretchability of graphene should help engineers and designers create new technologies that utilize the material.
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Congress Posts .s. Code in Xml
The U.S. House of Representatives has published all 51 titles of the U.S. Code in XML format for download, as part of the its open government initiative.
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3D Ir Images Now in Full Color
A new non-destructive three-dimensional (3D) imaging technique provides molecular-level chemical information on biological and other specimens.
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Making a Mini Mona Lisa
Researchers have painted a miniature copy of the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width, using an atomic force microscope.
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If We Landed on Europa, What Would We Want to Know?
Most of what scientists know of Jupiter's moon Europa they have gleaned from a dozen or so close flybys from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1979 and NASA's Galileo...
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A Videogame That Recruits Players to Map the Brain
I'm no neuroscientist, and yet, here I am at my computer attempting to reconstruct a neural circuit of a mouse’s retina.
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One Year Later, Nasa Looks Back at Curiosity Rover's Scariest Moment
For the Curiosity rover, it's just another day on Mars—but back on Earth, Tuesday was a day to look back at the $2.5 billion mission's first year, including a moment...
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Emotion-Sniffing Is Next Trick Your Phone Is Learning
Rice University scientists, working with Microsoft Research, have created something rather surprising—a long-term-mood detecting device that can ascertain a user's...
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Helping the Deaf to 'See' and 'Feel' Sound
Earlier this summer in a packed and freezing-cold auditorium in Doha, the all-female team of students from Qatar University burst into cheers and tears as theyINJAZ...
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Maths Quiz Helps Paralyzed People Talk With Their Eyes
Giving fully conscious but paralysed people hard sums to do might seem like adding insult to injury. But because such brain teasers make the pupils of the eyes...
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Simulating 1 Second of Real Brain Activity Takes 40 Minutes and 83k Processors
The world's fourth-fastest supercomputer needed 40 minutes to simulate one second of actual brain activity.
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An App to Lead the Blind
People with night blindness, or nyctalopia, stand to benefit from a smartphone app designed to track the location and distance walked from home or a hotel.
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Fledgling 3D Printing Industry Finds Home in Nyc
It looks like a bakery. A warm glow emanates from the windows of big, oven-like machines, and a dusting of white powder covers everything.
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Former Nsa Chief on Latest Leaked Dragnet Spy Program: It's Real, and It's Spectacular
Does the NSA really operate a vast database that allows its analysts to sift through millions of records showing nearly everything a user does on the Internet,...
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The Five Scariest Hacks We Saw Last Week
If something can connect to a network, it can be hacked. Computers and phones are still popular targets, but increasingly so are cars, home security systems, TVs...
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Users of Hidden Net Advised to Ditch Windows
Legitimate users of the Tor anonymous browsing service are being advised to stop using Windows if they want to keep their identity hidden.
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Watch the Intricate Patterns of Global Infrastructure Emerge From Geocoded Tweets
A Northeastern University professor has created a global, navigable map of geo-tagged Twitter data.
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A Phone, or an All-Seeing Sentry at Your Command?
A new form of smartphone interaction could be effected by outfitting the device with peripheral vision though a depth-sensing camera.
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