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Nasa Mars Research Helps Find Buried Water on Earth
A NASA-led team has used radar sounding technology developed to explore the subsurface of Mars to create high-resolution maps of freshwater aquifers buried deep...
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Nasa's Dawn Collects a Bounty of Beauty from Vesta
A new video from NASA's Dawn spacecraft takes us on a flyover journey above the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta.
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In-Car Algorithm Could Rapidly Dissolve Traffic Jams
University of Seoul researchers Hyun Keun Lee and Beom Jun Kim have developed an algorithm that could automate and improve the process for dissolving traffic jams...
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Nsf Seeking Proposals at the Interface of Computing, Economics
Two U.S. National Science Foundation entities have issued a joint solicitation for interdisciplinary research and education projects that develop new knowledge...
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Newly Published Cyber Security Report Identifies Key Research Priorities
The U.K. National Center for Secure Information Technologies recently released a report identifying key research priorities for protecting the future Internet.
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Air Traffic System Vulnerable to Cyber Attack
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology uses unencrypted global positioning system signals to broadcast a plane's position to networks. The...
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Chinese Students Are Storming .s. Grad Schools: They Have the Money and the Brains
If you build it, they will come. No, I'm not talking about a baseball field amidst stalks of corn but the educational institutions dotting the U.S. landscape...
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How Many Pages Are on the Internet?
It seems like an answerable question, right? But no one really knows how many Websites or individual Web pages make up this seemingly infinite digital universe...
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Safeped Helps Cities Fix Dangerous Intersections
TAU researchers have developed SAFEPED, a computer simulation that integrates robotics and statistics on driver and pedestrian behavior to determine the environmental...
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Court Case Asks if 'Big Brother' Is Spelled GPS
The precedent is novel. More precisely, the precedent is a novel. In a series of rulings on the use of satellites and cellphones to track criminal suspects, judges...
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Linux Foundation Chief Talks About Torvalds' Leadership, Html5 and Mobile's Future
Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin says in an interview that the desktop platform's relevance is diminishing as technologies such as smartphones, connected...
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Understanding and Improving Crowdsourcing Models
A network of researchers are attempting to create more efficient and useful crowdsourcing models that could be used to predict everything from terrorist attacks...
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Can Brain Research Keep S Safe?
Human conflict is often associated with the emergence of a new science or technology. The Civil War's Gatling gun changed battlefield tactics and led to modern...
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Application Development Boosts It Job Market: Dice Report
The number of available technology jobs as of Sept. 1 stood at 82,836, with 50,659 full-time positions, 35,378 contract positions, and 1,565 part-time positions...
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Hacker Rattles Security Circles
He claims to be 21 years old, a student of software engineering in Tehran who reveres Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and despises dissidents in his country.
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Security and Surveillance Pervades Post-9/11 New York City
From building-blocking bollards to millimeter-wave scanners, the September 11 terrorist attacks have led to significant changes in security techniques and technology...
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Nasa Technology, At Work on Earth
Variations of many NASA inventions, initially developed for space travel and exploration, have worked their way into consumer culture, ranging from common household...
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10 Jobs That Barely Existed on 9/10/01, From Robot Squadmate to Warplane Whisperer
The terror attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, changed the lives of all Americans—few more so than the millions who have participated in the...
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The Calm Before the Storm
Revelations of wholesale electronic fraud and massive data heists have become weekly, even daily affairs.
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