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How the Search For a 'death Ray' Led to Radar
You can trace the extent of our reliance on air travel to many inventions. The jet engine, perhaps, or the aeroplane itself. But sometimes inventions need other...
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O.k., Computer, Tell Me What This Smells Like
Our sense of smell is gloriously specific.
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Half the niverse's Missing Matter Has Just Been Finally Found
The missing links between galaxies have finally been found. This is the first detection of the roughly half of the normal matter in our universe—protons, neutrons...
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The Race to Secure Voting Tech Gets an rgent Jumpstart
There is an urgent need to secure U.S. voting systems ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, according to a report by the Atlantic Council think tank and hacking...
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How Israel Caught Russian Hackers Scouring the World For .s. Secrets
It was a case of spies watching spies watching spies: Israeli intelligence officers looked on in real time as Russian government hackers searched computers around...
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The World's Oldest Scientific Satellite Is Still in Orbit
From his desk at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, space debris analyst Tim Flohrer keeps track of the 23,000 or so catalogued objects...
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Discovery and Innovation to Quicken With Supercomputer's $1-Million pgrade
A $1-million grant will help Clemson University's Palmetto Cluster supercomputer aid researchers in accelerating the pace of scientific discovery and technological...
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Google Reveals Blueprint For Quantum Supremacy
Researchers say they have outlined a way to achieve quantum supremacy, demonstrating a proof-of-principle version of a quantum computer.
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Out of Sight, Into Mind
Researchers are working to project an image directly into one's brain, completely bypassing the eyes.
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Examining Mars' Moon Phobos in a Different Light
NASA's longest-lived mission to Mars has gained its first look at the Martian moon Phobos, pursuing a deeper understanding by examining it in infrared wavelengths...
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An Edible Actuator For Ingestible Robots
Researchers recently unveiled a prototype for a soft, edible pneumatic actuator fabricated from gelatin, which can serve as a crucial mechanism for ingestible robots...
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Scientists Store Miles Davis and Deep Purple Audio Recordings on Dna in a Historic First
Researchers say they have successfully encoded two high-quality audio recordings onto artificial DNA, the first time this has been accomplished for the purposes...
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Good Vibrations For the Future of Computing
Researchers say they have demonstrated a new technology based on mechanical vibrations to perform logic operations.
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Warning: This Algorithm Will Self-Destruct After It's sed
Two researchers say they have built a proof-of-principle algorithm that destroys itself after use.
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Hpc, Analytical ltracentrifugation, and a New Detector
Recent insights into how the West Nile virus replicates using cell proteins were gained using analytical ultracentrifugation technology.
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Supercomputer Redesign of Aeroplane Wing Mirrors Bird Anatomy
Engineers have used a supercomputing technique that mimics natural selection to design the internal structure of an aircraft wing from scratch.
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Brain-Controlled Drones Are Here
Panos Artemiadis at Arizona State University's Human-Oriented Robotics and Control Lab says the next three to five years will likely see the advent of unmanned...
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Functional Languages Beat Procedural/object-Oriented
Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of California-Davis say they have completed a study evaluating the impact of programming languages...
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Assessing Regional Earthquake Risk and Hazards in the Age of Exascale
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are constructing the first-ever end-to-end simulation code to capture the geology...
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