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Protecting Bulk Power Systems From Hackers
New research explores worst-case scenarios in which hackers exploit security weaknesses in the electrical grid to cause equipment failure and blackouts.
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Broad Institute Wins Bitter Battle Over Crispr Patents
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has upheld a series of patents granted for the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to the Broad Institute of MIT and...
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Observations Catch a Supernova Three Hours After It Exploded
The skies are full of transient events.
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Apple vs. Fbi One Year Later: Still Stuck in Limbo
It's been a year since Apple fought the FBI over data privacy, and we've barely heard a peep from either side on the issue.
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Robotic Bee Could Help Pollinate Crops as Real Bees Decline
Researchers have created a drone that transports pollen between flowers.
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Lasers Could Give Space Research Its 'broadband' Moment
Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day.
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S Science Advisers Outline Path to Genetically Modified Babies
Scientists should be permitted to modify human embryos destined for implantation in the womb to eliminate devastating genetic diseases such as sickle-cell anaemia...
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Wave of the Future: Terahertz Chips a New Way of Seeing Through Matter
Researchers at Princeton University say they have created microchips capable of transmitting and receiving terahertz waves.
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Intel Researches Tech to Prepare For a Future Beyond Today's Pcs
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says his company is investigating and investing in technologies that promise to transcend the computing capabilities of current PCs and...
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Millimeter-Scale Computers: Now With Deep Learning Neural Networks on Board
University of Michigan computer scientists are researching micro mote computers.
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Sensors Embedded in Sports Equipment Could Provide Real-Time Analytics to Your Smartphone
Researchers are experimenting with Internet of Things devices that can be embedded into sports equipment, as well as in wearable devices, to make data analytics...
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Elusive Triangulene Created By Moving Atoms One at a Time
Researchers at IBM have created an elusive molecule by knocking around atoms using a needle-like microscope tip.
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Inside the Far-Out Glass Lab
Engineers at Corning's research lab in New York are developing new materials in their quest to expand the capabilities of glass.
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ts to Launch Programming Environment For the Quantum Era
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia say they will soon unveil a quantum-era programming environment at the UTS Center for Quantum Software...
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Automated Rescue
The Texas A&M University Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue builds robots that can work with first responders in search-and-rescue operations.
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Nae's Newest Members Include 17 Computer Scientists
Seventeen computer scientists were among the 84 new members and 22 new foreign members recently announced by The National Academy of Engineering.
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Scientists Shortlist Three Landing Sites For Mars 2020
Participants in a landing site workshop for NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission have recommended three locations on the Red Planet for further evaluation.
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AI Learns to Solve Quantum State of Many Particles at Once
The same type of artificial intelligence that mastered the ancient game of Go could help wrestle with the amazing complexity of quantum systems containing billions...
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Long-Awaited Mathematics Proof Could Help Scan Earth's Innards
Mathematicians say that they have solved a major, decades-old problem in geometry: how to reconstruct the inner structure of a mystery object 'X' from knowing only...
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