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Making a Better Semiconductor
Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a method for changing the electronic properties of materials that could lead to new, improved semiconductors...
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Discovery Paves Way For New Kinds of Superconducting Electronics
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a new way to control the transport of electrical currents through high-temperature superconductors...
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Mit’s Bitcoin-Inspired 'enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data
The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator, that nonetheless can't be counterfeited.
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Warrantless Phone Tapping, Email Spying Inching to Supreme Court Review
In 2013, the Supreme Court rejected a challenge to a once-clandestine warrantless surveillance program that gobbles up Americans' electronic communications—a project...
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June Will End with a Rare 61-Second Minute
We'll need to wait for July just a shade longer, as the world's timekeepers have added a leap second June 30—to officially keep Earth and our precise, atomic clocks...
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Watch: Black Hole Sim Whips Dark Matter Into a Frenzy
Dark matter is to astrophysicists what sex is to kids in junior high school: Everybody is really interested, but nobody really knows what it looks like.
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When a Company Is Put p For Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data Is, Too
The privacy policy for Hulu, a video-streaming service with about nine million subscribers, opens with a declaration that the company "respects your privacy."
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Breakthrough in Graphene Production Could Trigger Revolution in Artificial Skin Development
University of Exeter researchers say they have discovered a new way to produce graphene that is significantly less expensive, and easier, than previous methods. ...
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Automatic Bug Repair
At the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs...
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A Computer's Heat Could Divulge Top Secrets
The most secure computers in the world can't "Google" a thing—they are disconnected from the Internet and all other networks.
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Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Its Toughest Task: Finding Pluto
Some 4.7 billion kilometres from Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft is heading for a historic rendezvous with Pluto. To achieve this, it will need to hit a very...
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Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...
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The Secret Codes of British Banknotes
A brand-new Xerox colour photocopier had just arrived at one of Cambridge's industrial labs.
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Iowa State Engineers Develop Micro-Tentacles So Tiny Robots Can Handle Delicate Objects
Iowa State University researchers have developed spiraling microrobotic tentacles which they say will enable robots to handle delicate objects.
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Storing Digital Data For Eternity
Vint Cerf is sometimes called the "father of the Internet." He helped develop TCP/IP (the communications protocol for the Internet) and later became chairman of...
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In Search For Alien Life, Experts Reveal Cutting-Edge Science
Where can scientists find clues to help them locate and understand life beyond Earth?
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Mind-Controlled Telepresence Robots Could Restore Mobility to the Disabled
It may not be able to do grocery shopping or hang out laundry to dry, but a project involving current telepresence technology could help people with limited mobility...
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Should a Driverless Car Decide Who Lives or Dies?
The gearheads in Detroit, Tokyo, and Stuttgart have mostly figured out how to build driverless vehicles. Even the Google guys seem to have solved the riddle.
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Streamlined Cockroaches Inspire Highly Maneuverable Robots
University of California, Berkeley researchers are trying to emulate in robots the ability of cockroaches to roll and scoot through gaps.
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