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Nasa Actually Working on Faster-Than-Light Warp Drive
You know that scene in the film Contact where the "Machine" is spooling up, its three spinning rings kicking out crazy light and an electromagnetic field powerful...
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Computer Simulations for Multiscale Systems Can Be Faster, Better, More Reliable
University of Oregon researchers have developed a method to reproduce the structure and thermodynamic qualities of large, multiscale systems at variable levels...
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Alan Turing at 100
Harvard University is celebrating Alan Turing's 100th birthday with a new exhibit titled, "Go Ask A.L.I.C.E., Turing Tests, Parlor Games, and ChatterBots," which...
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Scientists Ponder Interstellar Travel at Nasa-Backed Space Summit
In one room, scientists debated whether the White-Juday Warp Field Interferometer will help find a way to bend the space-time continuum and make interstellar travel...
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Blue Brain Project Accurately Predicts Connections Between Neurons
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's Blue Brain Project has identified key principles that determine synapse-scale connectivity by virtually reconstructing...
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Intel Researchers Put Wi-Fi Inside—the Processor, That Is
At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner unveiled a pair of technologies coming out of Intel Labs that will...
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Iphone 5? Yawn. What Will the 'phone' of 2022 Look Like?
The near-term future of phones is fairly well-established. The iPhone 5 was released Wednesday and its similarity to every Apple phone since 2007 serves as a reminder...
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Optimizing Popularity Versus Similarity in Networks
UCSD researchers recently published a paper exploring the concept of popularity versus similarity and how it impacts the growth of networks.
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Ibm Images Molecular Bonds
IBM researchers who won the Nobel Prize for imaging individual atoms have gone a step further by imaging individual bonds between atoms.
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Towards Computing With Water Droplets
Water droplets could serve as bits of digital information for a new type of computing, according to researchers at Aalto University.
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Statisticians Calculate Probability of Another 9/11 Attack
There is a 50 percent chance of another devastating terrorist attack within the next decade, according to statistics compiled by the Santa Fe Institute's Aaron...
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Twitter Data Crunching: The New Crystal Ball
Big data analysis of Twitter activity can help predict the outcome of election-based processes such as TV talent shows, according to new research.
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Quantum Chip Breakthrough to Be Unveiled
University of Bristol researchers say they have developed a quantum chip that will lead to the creation of completely secure mobile phones and super-fast computers...
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The Jet Propulsion Lab Is Way Weirder (and Awesomer) Than You Even Imagined
For a center of cutting-edge scientific research, Caltech's Jet Propulsion Lab seems to be a pretty wacky place. Luke Johnson, a graphic designer at the lab, set...
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Harness Unused Smartphone Power For a Computing Boost
Smarphone owners carry around more processing power in their pocket than a 1970s-era supercomputer, but most of the time it languishes unused.
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Computer Viruses Could Take a Lesson From Showy Peacocks
To test theories in mate attraction in nature, Michigan State University researchers developed Avida, a virtual world in which promiscuous computer programs compete...
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How Steve Jobs' Love of Simplicity Fueled A Design Revolution
Steve Jobs' interest in design began with his love for his childhood home.
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Magnetic Vortex Reveals Key to Spintronic Speed Limit
Brookhaven National Laboratory researchers say they have precisely measured an important parameter of electron interaction known as non-adiabatic spin torque, which...
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Smartphones Challenge Chip Limits
Smartphones and other devices keep getting smarter, but that may change if a key step in manufacturing computer chips isn't updated soon.
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