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Obama Orders Effort to Build First Exascale Computer
The United States is now committed to building an exascale computer, some 30 times more powerful than today’s top machine.
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Science on the Surface of a Comet
Complex molecules that could be key building blocks of life, the daily rise and fall of temperature, and an assessment of the surface properties and internal structure...
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Facial Recognition Tool 'works in Darkness'
Two scientists at a German university have developed a tool which recognises a person's face in complete darkness.
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Intel and Micron nveil 3d Xpoint, a Brand New Memory Technology
Intel and Micron have unveiled what appears to be the holy grail of memory.
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Making the New Silicon
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers say they have developed gallium nitride transistors to power electronic circuits.
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CLA Researchers Create Smartphone-Based Device That Reads Medical Diagnostic Tests Quickly and Accurately
University of California, Los Angeles researchers say they have developed a mobile phone-based device that can read enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay plates.
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Superfast Fluorescence Sets New Speed Record
Duke University researchers say they have developed an ultrafast plasmonic device that could form the basis of optical computing.
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Beam Me Up? Teleporting Is Real, Even If Trekkie Transport Isn't
"I have a hard time saying this with a straight face, but I will: You can teleport a single atom from one place to another," says Chris Monroe, a biophysicist at...
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China Building One of the World's Fastest Astronomical Computers to Power Giant, Alien-Seeking Telescope
China's new Sky Eye 1 supercomputer is expected to be the fastest astronomical supercomputer in the world, topping Japan's Aterui.
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Obama's New Executive Order Says the .s. Must Build an Exascale Supercomputer
President Obama has established a new initiative across multiple government agencies that will focus entirely on creating the fastest supercomputers ever devised...
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Hackers Can Disable a Sniper Rifle—Or Change Its Target
Put a computer on a sniper rifle, and it can turn the most amateur shooter into a world-class marksman.
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Consortium Including MIT Awarded $110m National Grant to Promote Photonics Manufacturing
The American Institute for Manufacturing Integrated Photonics will work to advance U.S. capabilities in integrated photonic technology.
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Did These Researchers Just Create an Autistic Computer Program?
Baylor College of Medicine researchers claim to have modeled a theorized cause of autism in an artificial neural network.
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Scientists in Greece Design Cryptographic E-Voting Platform
Researchers in Greece say they have designed the world's first encrypted electronic voting system in which voters can confirm their votes go to the intended candidate...
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China Pushes to Rewrite Rules of Global Internet
China's government aims to redraft the rules of the global Internet so it can regulate the Internet on its own terms.
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Physicists Restart Souped-p Hadron Collider
After a two-year shutdown, the atom-smashing machine known as the Large Hadron Collider has embarked on a renewed quest to probe some of the biggest puzzles about...
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Scientists Stretch Electrically Conducting Fibers to New Lengths
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have developed electrically conducting fibers that can be reversibly stretched to more than 14 times their initial length...
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Crystal Clear
University of California, Santa Barbara professor Stephen D. Wilson is working to find the 21st century's equivalent of silicon.
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