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Nobel Awarded For Advances in Harnessing Light
The mastery of light through technology was the theme of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored breakthroughs in fiber...
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Researchers Sharpen Photos By Capturing Multiple Low-Quality Images
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers Sam Hasinoff, Fredo Durand, and William Freeman, along with University of Toronto researcher Kiriakos Kutulakos...
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'time Telescope' Could Boost Web
Researchers led by Cornell University's Mark Foster report that they have developed a prototype device that could significantly boost the volume of information...
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Researchers to Create Semantic Web Platforms For Massive Scientific Collaboration
Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to...
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Honda Research Hints at Nano Class of Electronics
Microscopic carbon nanotubes may have the potential to transport electricity faster and over greater distances with minimal loss of energy, according to new research...
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Researchers Break Vanish Security System
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Princeton and the University of Michigan claim to have broken the Vanish security system, a research prototype...
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Pedestrian Crossings Could Be Monitored
A surveillance system for monitoring whether cars and pedestrians are acting normally at crosswalks has been developed by researchers at Spain's University of Castilla...
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Computer Code Gives Astrophysicists Full Simulation of Star's Final Hours
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed the first full-star simulation of the conditions inside a...
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Physicists Move Fast 'excitonic' Computers Closer to Reality
Physicists at UC San Diego have successfully created speedy integrated circuits with particles called "excitons" that operate at commercially cold temperatures,...
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Pentagon
The creation of a cyborg insect army has just taken a step closer to reality. A research team at the University of California Berkeley recently announced thatFrontiers...
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How the Netflix Prize Was Won
The secret to the success of BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos and The Ensemble, first- and second-place winners of the Netflix Prize, was teamwork. The Netflix Prize...
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Rethinking the Long Tail Theory: How to Define 'hits' and 'niches'
The Long Tail theory suggests that the Internet drives demand away from popular products with mass appeal and directs it to more obscure niche offerings as it eases...
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Shaping the Future
To create shape-shifting robotic ensembles, researchers need to teach micro-machines to work together.
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Materials Restore Functionality in a Snap
Researchers are working on "self-healing" electronic materials that could lead in time to computer components that can fix themselves when they break.
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Quantum Computers Are Coming
WHATEVER happened to quantum computers? A few years ago, it seemed, it was just a case of a tweak here, a fiddle there, and some kind of number-crunching Godzilla...
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Theoretical Electrical Resistance Discovery Proven in Nanomaterials Lab
Three years ago, theoretical work of a University of Nebraska-Lincoln research group predicted a new effect that could revolutionize the field of microelectronics...
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Accurate Predictions in a Limited Calculation Time
Computers need to automatically focus on key changes in an area in order to accurately predict air, road traffic, and water flow with computer simulations, according...
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Electronics 'Missing Link' nited With Rest of the Family
Memristors were identified by Hewlett-Packard (HP) as the missing link of electronics 18 months ago, and since then the same team of HP researchers has upgraded...
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.s. Air Force Funds Super-Fast, Secure Computing
The U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) is supporting University of Michigan (UM) physicists' development of components for quantum computers that...
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