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New Microbatteries a Boost For Electronics
The most powerful batteries on the planet are only a few millimeters in size, yet they pack such a punch that a driver could use a cellphone powered by these batteries...
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Frog-Like Robot Will Help Surgeons
Researchers are developing robots with feet similar to those of tree frogs to crawl inside patients' bodies during keyhole surgery.
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Is High-Tech Security at Public Events Counterproductive?
Which is more intrusive: security screening and metal detectors every few blocks, or a drone flying high above it taking video of every little thing you do?
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Smoke Color Is Key Clue to Analyzing Boston Marathon Bombs
As a team of investigators led by the FBI begins deciphering the bombs that killed three people and wounded 150 more in Boston this week, a key clue is already...
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How the Boston Pd Could Examine the Videos From the Bombing
As investigators try to figure out what happened during the bombings at the Boston Marathon, they'll turn to video taken at the scene of the explosions.
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Military Academies Take on Nsa in Cybersecurity Competition
The Cyber Defense Exercise is an annual cybersecurity contest in which teams from U.S. military academies compete against one from the National Security Agency. ...
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Google Emulates Apple in Restricting Apps For Glass
Google is restricting apps for Glass, its Internet-linked glasses, in an effort to gradually introduce the technology to the public.
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High-Speed Wi-Fi? Not So Fast
Next-generation Wi-Fi standard 802.11ac will hit the market this year, but most people will have to wait to access to the increased throughput.
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How to Target an Asteroid
Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days.
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As Boston Bombing Photos and Videos Pour In, Where Do Investigators Begin?
When bombs went off at the Boston Marathon finish line Monday, there were nearly as many camera-equipped smartphones as people there in Copley Square.
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Interview with Brain Project Pioneer: Miyoung Chun
Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) project, which President Obama announced in his State of the Union address in February, will...
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Will Google's Ray Kurzweil Live Forever?
Ray Kurzweil must encounter his share of interviewers whose first question is: What do you hope your obituary will say?
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'chinese Google' Opens Artificial-Intelligence Lab in Silicon Valley
It doesn't look like much.
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Researcher Says Science Is Very Social
Researchers are using computers to study social networks, in order to identify the next revolution in social science.
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Crowdsourced Videos, Photos Could Aid Boston Blast Investigations
Law enforcement officials could have something very different on their hands as they investigate the dual bomb blasts that struck the Boston Marathon finish line...
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Justices Consider Whether Patents on Genes Are Valid
The Supreme Court is poised to take up the highly charged question of whether human genes can be patented. But another question could trump it: Has the field of...
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Where Are the Best Windows Into Europa's Interior?
The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa exposes material churned up from inside the moon and also material resulting from matter and energy coming from above.
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New App Powers Better Sanitation in Developing World
The new Web and mobile application Taarifa could give millions of people in Africa the power to instantly report problems with poor sanitation.
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Cloud's Real Ecological Timebomb: Wireless, Not Data Centers
A new report warns that the growing use of cellular and Wi-Fi networks to access cloud services is more of an ecological threat than the energy consumption of cloud...
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