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Seeking Robots to Go Where First Responders Can't
In the event of another disaster at a nuclear power plant, the first responders may not be humans but robots.
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A Little Device That's Trying to Read Your Thoughts
Already surrounded by machines that allow him, painstakingly, to communicate, the physicist Stephen Hawking last summer donned what looked like a rakish black headband...
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Shifting Sands
Sand in an hourglass might seem simple and straightforward, but such granular materials are actually tricky to model.
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Google's Project Glass Engineers: Who Are They?
Google’s Project Glass has put new focus on Google X, the lab at the tech giant where engineers work to develop the next big thing.
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Verizon Envisions 4g Wireless in Just About Anything
Tucked away in a new office block in Waltham, Massachusetts, is a kind of wireless Tomorrowland.
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Self-Sculpting Sand
Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool.
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How the Cost of Computation Restricts the Processes of Life
Biologists and computer scientists have begun to examine what restrictions the theoretical limits of computation place on the way living things operate, which could...
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Dead Stars 'to Guide Spacecraft'
German scientists are developing a technique that allows for very precise positioning anywhere in space by picking up X-ray signals from pulsars.
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How the Cost of Computation Restricts the Processes of Life
Back in the 1960s, the IBM physicist Rolf Landauer showed that computation comes with a cost: every (irreversible) calculation, he said, always burns through a...
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Sanjeev Arora Wins 2011 Acm-Infosys Award
Sanjeev Arora, a computer scientist at Princeton University, is honored for breakthroughs that have advanced the power of computing.
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China's Not-So-Super Computers
The supercomputer in this southern boomtown is named Nebulae for the interstellar clouds of gas that give birth to stars.
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Genius and Tragedy at Dawn of Computer Age
One of the many myths about Apple is that the company's name is a reference to the half-eaten apple reportedly found beside the corpse of the British computer scientist...
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Snowflake Growth Successfully Modeled from Physical Laws
Windswept from cloud to cloud until they flutter to Earth, snowflakes assume a seemingly endless variety of shapes.
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Surprise! Astronomers Spot Life on Earth
No one knows when we'll spot life on another world, but everyone knows how it will happen.
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Guiding Robot Planes with Hand Gestures
Aircraft-carrier crew use a set of standard hand gestures to guide planes on the carrier deck. But as robot planes are increasingly used for routine air missions...
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Scientists Tap the Genius of Babies and Youngsters to Make Computers Smarter
University of California, Berkeley researchers are studying how babies, toddlers, and preschoolers learn in order to program computers to think more like humans...
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Simulations and Mathematics Suggest That There Always Be a Facebook
National Center for Nuclear Research scientists are conducting research that could lead to the development of a field of mathematics focused on the theory of minority...
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Life on Mars? Funds to Find Answer Fade
Just as NASA is on the cusp of answering the most fascinating questions about Mars—is there, was there or could there be life there?—the money needed to provide...
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