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The Army's Bold Plan to Turn Soldiers Into Telepaths
The U.S. Army wants to allow soldiers to communicate just by thinking. ?The new science of synthetic telepathy could soon make that happen.
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Making Stuff with Molecular Precision
For more than a decade, scientists have been touting the promise of nanomaterials as a source of new and better products, from stronger structural materials to...
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A Network For Wild Experimentation
Internet2 and the Energy Sciences Network have built an experimental networking testbed using dormant dark fiber networking resources. The testbed will be used...
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Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point For the Spread of Ideas
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers have found that just 10 percent of a population is enough to sway the majority of a society.
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Nature's Hidden Prime Number Code
Ever since humans evolved on this planet we have been trying to make sense of the world around us. We have attempted to explain why the world looks and behaves...
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How Engineers Create Artificial Sounds to Fool S
Hundreds of items have their acoustics deliberately tweaked to make us happy, according to Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at the University of...
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Can We Make Machines Listen More Carefully?
You probably use voice recognition technology already, if in a limited capacity. Maybe you use Google's voice-activated search, or take advantage of its (somewhat...
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Scientists Unveil Tools for Rewriting the Code of Life
MIT and Harvard researchers have developed technologies that could be used to rewrite the genetic code of a living cell, allowing them to make large-scale edits...
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Hint of Higgs, but Little More
When its experiments started in earnest earlier this year, many scientists hoped that the world's most powerful collider would turn up new particles, additional...
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Welcome to the Age of the Splinternet
Openness is the Internet's great strength—and weakness. With powerful forces carving it up, is its golden age coming to an end?
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Robots se Kinect to nderstand Our World
Picture the scene, a few years from now. "Robot, fetch me that pillow over there," you say to your ever-willing butlerbot. "Certainly sir," it replies. "What's...
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Stanford
What better way to combine your nerdy loves of computer programming and Star Wars than with a robot that can actually battle with a light saber?
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When Astronomy Met Computer Science
Digital sky surveys and real-time telescopic observations are unleashing an unprecedented flood of information. Astronomers have recently created new tools to...
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Google Looks For the Next Google
Google thinks it can be young and crazy again. And it is betting $200 million that it is right.
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Why Brains Get Creeped Out By Androids
We've all found ourselves in the uncanny valley before. It's that uneasy feeling you get when viewing a realistic humanoid or CGI person that’s so close to looking...
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DARPA Searches For Life
There’s a hidden clock that underlies every process of every living thing—from when our cells start dividing to how quickly we age. Researchers at Darpa, the...
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How to Grow Wires and Tiny Plates
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed a method for controlling the shapes of submicroprocessors that makes it possible to build entire...
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Ted's Chris Anderson: The Man Who Made Youtube Clever
With his TED Talks series, the former magazine mogul Chris Anderson has racked up 500 million web video views for speeches by academics and technological experts...
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