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Nsf Renews Grant For Scientists Who Study How the Brain Acquires Visual Expertise
Researchers studying how the brain acquires visual expertise will receive an additional $4 million in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
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Closing the Girl Gap in Science
Southern Illinois University is one of the few U.S. schools where males outnumber female students, as women make up just 44 percent of undergraduates.
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Gamers Create Scientific 'recipes'
Researchers say that players of a protein-folding game called Foldit are coming up with molecular "recipes" that rival their own complex algorithms. One of the...
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Generation Jobless: Students Pick Easier Majors Despite Less Pay
Although the number of college graduates increased about 29 percent from 2001 to 2009, the number graduating with engineering degrees increased just 19 percent...
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University Adopts Predictive Technology
Edith Cowan University is using an IBM-developed predictive model to identify students at risk of leaving a course before they complete it, says National ICT Australia...
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The Making of Arduino
How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm.
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Lack of Confidence as Professionals Spurs Women to Leave Engineering, Study Finds
Women who start college aiming to become engineers are more likely than men to change their major and choose another career because they lack confidence, according...
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Screen Time Higher Than Ever for Children
Jaden Lender, 3, sings along softly with the "Five Little Monkeys" app on the family iPad, and waggles his index finger along with the monkey doctor at the warning...
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Two Low-Cost Tablets For India's Schools
Many of the classrooms in India are short of teachers and devoid of electricity. But what researchers hope they will have are low-cost computer tablets specifically...
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John McCarthy
When IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer won its famous chess rematch with then world champion Garry Kasparov in May 1997, the victory was hailed far and wide as a...
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.s. Tops China in Programming, but Lags in Math, Logic
Gild has issued a plea to improve the way math and computer programming is taught in U.S. schools after the results from its new study found that Chinese developers...
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National Science Foundation Reports Low Minority Representation on STEM Faculties
A recent National Science Foundation study found that minority doctoral holders are still poorly represented as faculty members at U.S. institutions, even as the...
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Risky Business
Governments, companies, and individuals have suffered an unusual number of highly publicized data breaches this year. Is there a solution?
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Hacking Cars
Researchers have discovered important security flaws in modern automobile systems. Will car thieves learn to pick locks with their laptops?
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Modeling Chaotic Storms
Scientists say improvements to extreme-weather prediction are possible with new weather models and a reinvention of the modeling technologies used to process them...
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High Demand For Science Graduates Enables Them to Pick Their Jobs, Report Says
Science and engineering graduates are in high demand in a wide variety of fields, and many English-speaking science graduates are taking jobs in nonscience fields...
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Stanford Engineering's New Online Classes: Hugely Popular and Bursting With Activity
About 300,000 students have registered for Stanford University's first set of comprehensive, free online computer science courses, which include courses in databases...
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Two Top Suitors Are Emerging for New Graduate School of Engineering
With less than two weeks left to apply in the competition for $400 million in land and subsidies to build a science and engineering graduate school in New York...
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DARPA Wants to Master the Science of Propaganda
Mark Twain once tried to distinguish between the storyteller’s art and tales that a machine could generate. He observed that stringing "incongruities and absurdities...
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