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Quantum Rewrites the Rules of Computing
Quantum computers are rewriting the rules of how computing works, but even the people developing them say they cannot explain how they work.
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Bioengineer Designs Diagnostic Microscope Costing Less Than $1
It's an invention that would make TV's secret agent MacGyver proud: a fully functional microscope that can be assembled from folded paper and a tiny bead of glass...
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Space Sunflower May Help Snap Pictures of Planets
A spacecraft that looks like a giant sunflower might one day be used to acquire images of Earth-like rocky planets around nearby stars.
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Using Patient Data For Personalized Cancer Treatments
Patient information databases eventually will help improve health outcomes and support development of new therapies.
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Graphene Helps Copper Wires Keep Their Cool
When people in the chip industry talk about the thermal problems in computer processors, they get dramatic.
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Data-Mining For Crystal 'gold' at Slac's X-Ray Laser
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers are analyzing data using a tool that can produce high-quality images of important proteins using fewer samples. ...
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Building Bicep2: A Conversation with Jamie Bock
Caltech Professor of Physics Jamie Bock and his collaborators announced on March 17, 2014 that they have successfully measured a B-mode polarization signal in the...
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The $1,000 Genome
In Silicon Valley, Moore's law seems to stand on equal footing with the natural laws codified by Isaac Newton.
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Why Mh370 Could Still Talk to Satellites After Its Other Comms Went Dark
It's the latest mystery in the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Was a key communications system on board the plane disabled before or after the co-pilot calmly...
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Creating a Graphene-Metal Sandwich to Improve Electronics
Researchers have found that creating a graphene-copper-graphene sandwich strongly enhances the heat conducting properties of copper.
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Three Questions For Leslie Lamport, Winner of Computing's Top Prize
This year's winner of the Turing Award—often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing—was announced yesterday as Leslie Lamport, a computer scientist whose research...
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Jonathan Ive Designs Tomorrow
We use Jonathan Ive's products to help us to eat, drink and sleep, to work, travel, relax, read, listen and watch, to shop, chat, date and have sex.
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'ultracold' Molecules Promising For Quantum Computing, Simulation
Researchers say they have developed a method of using lasers to cool atoms, a process that could be applied to quantum computing and advanced simulations.
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Facebook Creates Software That Matches Faces Almost as Well as You Do
Asked whether two unfamiliar photos of faces show the same person, a human being will get it right 97.53 percent of the time.
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The Future of Brain Implants
What would you give for a retinal chip that let you see in the dark or for a next-generation cochlear implant that let you hear any conversation in a noisy restaurant...
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The Search For Life Across the niverse
When Jeremy Drake was beginning his career in the late 1980s, the question of whether or not we are alone in the universe still seemed beyond the realm of scienc...
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Nasa Technology Views Birth of the Universe
Astronomers are announcing today that they have acquired the first direct evidence that gravitational waves rippled through our infant universe during an explosive...
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Ancient Migration Patterns to North America Are Hidden in Languages Spoken Today
A few weeks ago, scientists announced an intriguing finding about the ancestors of today's Native Americans.
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All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.
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