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New Languages, and Why We Need Them
Creators of two dozen new programming languages—some designed to enable powerful new Web applications and mobile devices—presented their work last week in Portland...
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Neurons to Power Future Computers
Researchers are developing novel computers by mimicking the way that neurons are built and how they talk to each other.
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Researchers Create Sounds of Animated Things Breaking
A delicate wine glass shatters on the floor. A rock is thrown through a window. A child smashes his piggy bank. Dramatic moments like these in an animated movie...
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'broken Symmetry' Discovery Opens Path to Room-Temperature Superconductors
In a major step toward understanding the mysterious "pseudogap" state in high-temperature cuprate superconductors, a team of scientists have found a "broken symmetry...
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DARPA
Darpa’s leading advocate for crowdsourcing and other ways of tapping new talent is leaving to join Microsoft—after only a year at the Defense Department’s top R&D...
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Superconductor Research May Solve 'pseudogap' Problem in Physics
Binghamton University physicist Michael Lawler and his colleagues have made a breakthrough that could lead to advances in superconductors.
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Letting the Machines Decide
Wall Street is notorious for not learning from its mistakes. Maybe machines can do better.
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In a First, Full-Sized Robo-Copter Flies With No Human Help
In mid-June, a single-turbine helicopter took off from a test field in Mesa, Arizona, avoided obstacles in-flight, scoped out a landing site and landed safely....
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A Turning Point For Genetic Testing
In a prelude to overhauling its regulatory oversight of genetic diagnostic testing, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will convene a public meeting next week...
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Crunching Cancer With Numbers
When Danny Hillis spent a day watching a top surgeon perform keyhole cancer surgery, he was left both exhilarated and depressed. The clinical precision with which...
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Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot
The boy, a dark-haired 6-year-old, is playing with a new companion. The two hit it off quickly—unusual for the 6-year-old, who has autism—and the boy is imitating...
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Flexible Organic Transistor Memory Looks Promising For Future Electronics
South Korean engineers have developed a flexible memory based on an organic transistor, which they say could be integrated, along with transistors and logic circuits...
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Intel Researchers Turn Counter Tops Into Touchscreens
A research project from Intel can turn any surface into a touchscreen. Instead of propping up a tablet or putting a touchscreen computer in your kitchen, picture...
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Novel Ion Trap with Optical Fiber Could Link Atoms and Light in Quantum Networks
Physicists at NIST have demonstrated an ion trap with a built-in optical fiber that collects light emitted by single ions, allowing quantum information stored in...
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A Step Closer to Perfect 3D Data Storage
In the introduction to a paper in press in the Journal of Biotechnology, Virgile Adam of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, along with a long list...
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'world's Thinnest' Metal Lines to Spur Device Miniaturization
A group of international scientists have collaborated to create what they say is the world's thinnest and smoothest metallic lines used in electronic components...
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Planck Takes It All In
A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year--surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins.
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Russian Mathematician Wins $1 Million Brize But Appears to Be Happy with $0
Who would turn down a $1 million prize for solving a math problem? Perhaps the smartest man in the world.
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Synthetic Dna Could Revolutionize Information Processing
A synthetic form of DNA developed by University of Reading chemists has the potential to revolutionize the way digital information is processed and stored.
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