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Nasa Satellites Find Freshwater Losses in Middle East
A new study using data from a pair of gravity-measuring NASA satellites finds that large parts of the arid Middle East region lost freshwater reserves rapidly during...
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Nanoscale Chip Design Enables Future 'internet of Things'
With each passing day we are becoming more intertwined into the Internet of Things, where each and every object in the world—your clothes closet and every article...
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Obama Order Gives Firms Cyberthreat Information
President Obama signed an executive order on Tuesday that promotes increased information sharing about cyberthreats between the government and private companies...
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Virtual Vehicle Vibrations
New software that lets engineers predict how the posture of a driver will affect the transfer of stress from vehicle motion to bones and muscles.
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3d Software Key to Designing Many of Today's Consumer Products
While developing an electric bicycle for his San Rafael company, Marcus Hays had planned to insert a battery into one of the bike's supporting tubes. But then he...
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How 'bullet Time' Will Revolutionize Exascale Computing
A new method for compressing output data without losing its essential features in exascale computing is based on a Hollywood special effects technique.
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The Browser Wars Go Mobile
When surfing the Web on a smartphone, most of us stick with the browser that came with our handset.
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Oscar Sci-Tech Awards Honor Ingenious Screen Science and Engineering
The goal of every movie is for the audience to suspend its collective disbelief and become immersed in the world created on screen.
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At Facebook, Zero-Day Exploits, Backdoor Code Bring War Games Drill to Life
Early on Halloween morning, members of Facebook's Computer Emergency Response Team received an urgent email from an FBI special agent who regularly briefs them...
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Stand on Mars Next to the Curiosity Rover With This Incredible Panorama
Over the weekend, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully drilled into the surface of Mars and collected its first sample from the interior of a rock.
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Magnetoelectric Materials Promise Advances in Computing Technology
Argonne National Laboratory researchers have developed methods for controlling magnetic order in a specific class of materials called magnetoelectrics.
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Apple and Samsung, Frenemies For Life
It was the late Steve Jobs' worst nightmare. A powerful Asian manufacturer, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, uses Google Inc's Android software to create smartphones...
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Navy's Next-Gen Binoculars Will Recognize Your Face
Take a close look, because the next generation of military binoculars could be doing more than just letting sailors and soldiers see from far away.
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Sewing Machines Go High-Tech
The old-fashioned sewing machine is finally getting a modern makeover.
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Nasa Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample
NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample...
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'every New Car' Connected to Web By 2014
Five years ago mobile phones were at the forefront of technology, by 2010 the focus was on tablet computers and now billions of yen, dollars and pounds are being...
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New Modeling Approach Transforms Imaging Technologies
Purdue University researchers have developed model-based iterative reconstruction (MBIR), an approach that can improve the performance of technologies using a system...
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Android Paternity Test App Developed By c Irvine Computer Scientists
University of California, Irvine researchers have developed GenoDroid, a genomic application that conducts real-time paternity tests and could be used in personalized...
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Rat-Size Ancestor Said to Link Man and Beast
Humankind's common ancestor with other mammals may have been a roughly rat-size animal that weighed no more than a half a pound, had a long furry tail and lived...
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