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Graphene: 'miracle Material' Will Be in Your Home Sooner Than You Think
Just under 10 years ago, the Dutch-British physicist Andre Geim stumbled across a substance that would revolutionize the way we understand matter and win him and...
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.s. Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts to Break Tor Anonymity Network
The National Security Agency may have attempted to penetrate and compromise a widely used network designed to protect the anonymity of its users, but it was only...
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New Kind of Microscope Uses Neutrons
Researchers at MIT, working with partners at NASA, have developed a new concept for a microscope that would use neutrons—subatomic particles with no electrical...
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And Then Steve Said, 'let There Be an Iphone'
The 55 miles from Campbell to San Francisco make for one of the nicest commutes anywhere.
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Formula Predicts Research Papers' Future Citations
It sounds like a science administrator’s dream—or a scientist's worst nightmare: a formula that predicts how often research papers will be cited.
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Your Digital Trail: Does The Fourth Amendment Protect Us?
Science fiction writers have fantasized for years about the government monitoring everything we do.
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Matchstick-Sized Sensor Can Record Your Private Chats
Everyone knows that to have a private chat in the NSA era, you go outdoors.
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Print a Working Paper Computer on an $80 Inkjet
A new method of printing fine lines of electronic circuitboards onto paper uses an inkjet printer loaded with ink containing silver nanoparticles.
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Surprisingly Simple Scheme for Self-Assembling Robots
M-Blocks are cube-shaped robots that can climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and move while suspended upside down.
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A Digital Copy of the niverse, Encrypted
Even as he installed the landmark camera that would capture the first convincing evidence of dark energy in the 1990s, Tony Tyson, an experimental cosmologist now...
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As F.b.i. Pursued Snowden, an E-Mail Service Stood Firm
One day last May, Ladar Levison returned home to find an F.B.I. agent's business card on his Dallas doorstep.
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Quantum Computer Passes Math Test, But Doesn't Answer the Big Question
Is the world's first commercial quantum computer the real deal or not?
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Computer Scientists Develop New Approach to Sort Cells p to 38 Times Faster
A new approach combines computer vision and hardware optimization to sort cells up to 38 times faster than is currently possible.
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More Than a Game
Researchers have used graphics processing units to demonstrate how to crunch certain astrophysics calculations much more quickly than conventional methods.
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How Dia Is Cultivating Google-Like Innovation
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency is using cloud computing to foster innovation among government agencies, industry, and academia.
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Imagining Data Without Division
Seven years ago, when David Schimel was asked to design an ambitious data project called the National Ecological Observatory Network, it was little more than a...
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Early Humans Saw Black Hole Light in the Night Sky
Some 2 million years ago, around the time our ancestors were learning to walk upright, a light appeared in the night sky, rivalling the moon for brightness and...
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Did a Hyper-Black Hole Spawn the niverse?
It could be time to bid the Big Bang bye-bye. Cosmologists have speculated that the Universe formed from the debris ejected when a four-dimensional star collapsed...
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A Google Glass Alternative in Japan
Foreign tourists visiting this city have long encountered translation help.
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