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Scientists Hope to Get Glimpse of Adolescent Universe from Revolutionary Instrument-on-a-Chip
Scientists know what the universe looked like when it was a baby. They know what it looks like today. What they don't know is how it looked in its youth.
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Magnetic Memory and Logic Could Achieve Ultimate Energy Efficiency
Future computers may rely on magnetic microprocessors that consume the least amount of energy allowed by the laws of physics, according to an analysis by University...
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Biomolecular Computer Can Autonomously Sense Multiple Signs of Disease
In the future, nano-sized computers implanted in the human body could autonomously scan for disease indicators, diagnose diseases, and control the release of...
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Google+ Contributor and Mac Pioneer Talks with CNET
Thirty years ago, Andy Hertzfeld was a young computer engineer working at Apple Computer on the first Macintosh under the leadership of Steve Jobs. As Jobs had...
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Tunneling Transistors
The Midwest Institute for Nanoelectronics Discovery is researching the development of tunneling transistors, which are comprised of elements from the third and...
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A Roboticist's Trip From Mines to the Moon
Robots created by William "Red" Whittaker have crawled into mines and volcanoes, crossed deserts, won a 60-mile road race, helped clean up nuclear waste and harvested...
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Autopiloted Glider Knows Where to Fly For a Free Ride
Hawks and albatrosses soar for hours or even days without having to land. Soon robotic gliders could go one better, soaring on winds and thermals indefinitely...
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My dad, who at 98 no longer drives, used to complain about women drivers, defensive drivers, slow drivers, cab drivers and, occasionally, fast drivers. I should...
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New Animation Depicts Next Mars Rover in Action
Although NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will not leave Earth until late this year nor land on Mars until August 2012, anyone can watch those dramatic events now...
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Graphene Technology Moves Closer
Graphene is a "wonder material" waiting to happen. Since this super-conductive form of carbon, made from single-atom-thick sheets, was first produced in 2004,...
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Layer pon Layer
Graphene, a form of pure carbon arranged in a lattice just one atom thick, has interested countless researchers with its unique strength and its electrical and...
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Minds, Machines Merge to Offer New Hope For Overcoming Impairments
Scientists are creating a new generation of artificial body parts to help people with disabilities see, walk, swim, grip and run among other things. Miles O'Brien...
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Nasa Aims For Jupiter, Mars, and the Moon
Like pretty much every other agency in the government, NASA is likely to be hurting for money over the next few years. The end of the Space Shuttle program, which...
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Down with Pi! The Math Nerds Behind the Tau Movement
Happy Tau Day, everyone! Every June 28, a rogue fleet of math nerds makes its case for the abolition of arguably the most important irrational number in the world...
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Cooperative Robots That Learn = Less Work For Human Handlers
Learning a language can be difficult for some, but for babies it seems quite easy. With support from the National Science Foundation, linguist Jeffrey Heinz and...
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Smarter Task-Transfers se Mobile Cameras
MIT and Google have devised a method of transferring tasks between your smartphone and your computer by merely pointing the cell-phone camera at your PC's screen...
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Light at the End of the Racetrack: How Pixar Explored the Physics of Light for Cars 2
Although the stories told by Pixar Animation Studios take place in richly realized fantasy realms, the science and technology required to create those worlds...
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Could This Brain Implant Revive Paralyzed Limbs?
In the annals of great oxymorons, "non-invasive brain implant" would surely rank up there. Misnomer or not, the University of Michigan is touting just such a...
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Mind-Controlled
Video games can be mesmerizing, even for a rhesus monkey. Which may explain, in part, why six-year-old Jasper has been sitting transfixed at a computer screen...
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