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Research pdate: Chips With Self-Assembling Rectangles
MIT researchers have developed an approach to creating the array of wires on microchips that uses a system of self-assembling polymers. The process produces arrays...
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Mystery Tug on Spacecraft Is Einstein's 'i Told You So'
It's been a bad year to bet against Albert Einstein.
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Artificial Football Manager Hoping to Top the Fantasy Football League
Researchers at the University of Southampton plan to participate in the English Fantasy Football League with an artificial soccer manager.
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Frog Calls Inspire a New Algorithm For Wireless Networks
Polytechnic University of Catalonia researchers have developed an algorithm based on the desynchronized form of calling used by Japanese tree frogs that assigns...
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The Moore's Law Moon Shot
It is seemingly a fact of life that every new generation of computing gadget will be significantly more powerful than the one before, but a looming technical roadblock...
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Cyberwarfare, Conservation and Disease Prevention Could Benefit From MU Researcher's Network Model
University of Missouri researchers have developed a computer model they say could have wide-reaching applications in cyberwarfare, conservation, and disease prevention...
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Computer Scientists Reproduce the Evolution of Evolvability
Modular systems evolve more easily than non-modular systems, but the evolution of modularity is a key open question for biology.
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Step Inside the Large Hadron Collider
The Compact Muon Solenoid is one of two main detectors at the LHC. It weighs 12,500 tons, measures 69 ft. (21 m) in length, and is a key research tool for 2,000...
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Intel Fights to Keep Hp, Dell, and Other Customers from Defecting
Some of chip colossus Intel's biggest customers and partners are exploring a competing microprocessor design, signaling the start of a much-anticipated tech donnybrook...
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Graphene Transistor Method Could Enable Fast Devices
University of California, Los Angeles researchers have developed a scalable method for fabricating self-aligned graphene transistors that could lead to high-speed...
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Solid-State Terahertz Devices Could Scan for Cancer
Cornell University researchers have developed a method of generating terahertz signals on an inexpensive silicon chip. The method uses mainstream CMOS technology...
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Future Planetary Rovers May Make Their Own Decisions
It's a hot summer day, and your eyes spot an ice cream cart up ahead. Without even really thinking, you start walking that direction. Planetary scientists would...
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A Northwest Pipeline to Silicon Valley
Some budding entrepreneurs and computer whizzes based here in the Pacific Northwest are starting to turn heads down in Silicon Valley.
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Northwestern Researchers Create 'rubber-Band Electronics'
Northwestern University researchers have developed a design that enables electronics to bend and stretch more than 200 percent of their original size using a combination...
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Computer Watches Humans Play Connect Four, Then Beats Them
A computer scientist has published a paper detailing how systems can successfully win at boardgames after watching two minute-long videos of humans playing.
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How Software-Defined Radio Could Revolutionize Wireless
In 1976, two shaggy-haired college dropouts founded a company called Apple to manufacture personal computers. The company's prospects looked so poor that the third...
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Smart Headlights See through Rain and Snow
A prototype headlight system can detect raindrops or snow streaks and "dis-illuminate" them, thereby increasing visibility on the road ahead.
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Google Shaman Explains Mysteries of 'compute Engine'
Google started work on the Google Compute Engine over a year and a half ago, and it was all Peter Magnusson could do to keep his mouth shut.
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Want a Terabyte Ipad? Then You'll Want to Read This
In the latter half of the 19th century, the introduction of elevators and steel trusses enabled us to put up taller buildings with denser cores. It changed urban...
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