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Data Structures Influence Speed of Quantum Search in Unexpected Ways
Although intuition says searching for data in a network would be fastest in a highly connected database, this logic does not hold for quantum computing, according...
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Cars Could Learn to Drive Themselves from Human Behavior
Object recognition makes up one part of autonomous car technology, but then comes the question of what the car does in response to what it detects.
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#rosettawatch: New Clues About the Origin of Comet 67p
Philae, the European Space Agency probe that landed on and then bounced across the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko in November, has provided researchers...
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Mercury Seen As Never Before
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is set to plunge to its doom on 30 April, ending nearly four years of exploration of Mercury. Before it goes, the mission is sending...
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Developing Infrastructure For Data Sharing Around the World
Twice a year, members of the Research Data Alliance meet face-to-face at plenary meetings worldwide to coordinate activities and advance their efforts.
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Google's Eric Schmidt Downplays Fears Over Artificial Intelligence
Arguably the most alarming part of concerns over artificial intelligence's potential to end human civilization is the voices that are speaking out.
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A Police Gadget Tracks Phones? Shhh! It's Secret
A powerful new surveillance tool being adopted by police departments across the country comes with an unusual requirement: To buy it, law enforcement officials...
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Five Solar System Sights Nasa Should Visit
It's show time for NASA's planetary programme.
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So Sayeth Google
Search for "vaccines." At least within our filter bubble, the top item in Google's "In the news" section earlier this week was an anti-vax column about the "feds'...
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Pagerank Algorithm Reveals World's All-Time Top Soccer Team
Google's Pagerank algorithm has become one of the most famous in computer science. It was originally designed to rank websites according to their importance by...
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Rover Arm Delivers Rock Powder Sample
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its robotic arm Wednesday, March 11, to sieve and deliver a rock-powder sample to an onboard instrument. The sample was collected...
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Robot vs. Robot
Beautiful mathematical patterns are hidden in the chaos of Jackson Pollock’s famous drip paintings.
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On Pi Day, How Scientists Use This Number
If you like numbers, you will love March 14, 2015.
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DARPA to Pursue 'revolutionary' Privacy Tools
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is launching a program aimed at developing a system to keep personal and proprietary information private.
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Complex Molecules Made to Order in Synthesis Machine
Synthesizing complex molecules is a notoriously fiendish art—and a daily toil for many chemists.
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FCC Goes Public with Net Neutrality Rules For Governing Internet
The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday finally spelled out how it will preserve the open Internet, publicly releasing a 400-page PDF that details its...
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The Philae Comet Lander Might Have Enough Power to Wake Up
In November, a spacecraft made a dramatic, first-ever landing on a comet—three times.
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Spacecraft Data Suggest Saturn Moon's Ocean May Harbor Hydrothermal Activity
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first clear evidence that Saturn's moon Enceladus exhibits signs of present-day hydrothermal activity which...
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Computer Science Researcher Hopes to Make Access to Cloud Storage More Efficient
A Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University professor plans to further develop a high-performance and load balanced in-memory object caching storage system...
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