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Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger Lhc
When Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started up in 2008, particle physicists would not have dreamt of asking for something bigger until they got their US$5...
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Sunny Fix Would Let Defunct Kepler Hunt Planets Again
NASA's champion planet-hunter, which recently suffered a fatal breakdown, is now looking on the sunny side.
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Nasa Cassini Spacecraft Provides New View of Saturn and Earth
NASA has released a natural-color image of Saturn from space, the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars, all are visible.
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Social Media Helps Aid Efforts After Typhoon Haiyan
Ten million people affected. Half a million displaced. Ten thousand feared dead.
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Ads Could Soon Know If You're an Introvert (on Twitter)
Trying to derive a person's wants and needs—conscious or otherwise—from online browsing and buying habits has become crucial to companies of all kinds.
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How Corporate America Fights Hackers
To defend themselves against hackers, some of America's largest corporations have adopted shadowy tactics usually reserved for government spies.
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Nest's Tony Fadell on Smart Objects, and the Singularity of Innovation
Tony Fadell is the founder and chief executive of Nest, a company that is trying to bring a high-end technology experience to some of the most prosaic areas of...
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Wireless Device Converts 'lost' Energy Into Electric Power
Duke University researchers have developed a power-harvesting device that wirelessly converts a microwave signal to direct current voltage capable of recharging...
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Monkey Thoughts Move Virtual Arms—human-Machine Mind-Meld Next?
Rhesus monkeys in a lab are using their brains to move two arms of a virtual primate on a screen, moving researchers one step closer towards outfitting paralyzed...
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Stretchable Energy Sources
University of Delaware researchers have developed a compact, stretchable wire-shaped supercapacitor based on continuous carbon nanotube fibers.
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Here's What the Morris Worm Prosecutor Thinks About Aaron Swartz
It was 25 years ago Tuesday that The New York Times first named 23-year-old Cornell graduate student Robert Morris as the culprit behind what became known as the...
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Broken News: Struggling to Find Facts in the Twitter Maelstrom
As with Hurricane Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, and countless other major stories, news of the shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport was sometimes...
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Quantum 'sealed Envelope' System Enables 'perfectly Secure' Information Storage
Cambridge University researchers say they have achieved a breakthrough in quantum cryptography by demonstrating that information can be encrypted and then decrypted...
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Circle of Life: The Beautiful New Way to Visualize Biological Data
When Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn’t plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological...
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Gimball: A Crash-Happy Flying Robot
Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in Lausanne have developed Gimball, a spherical flying robot that is protected by an elastic cage that...
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Addressing the Threat of Silent Data Corruption
Researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory are conducting a large-scale field test study of incorrect results on high-performance computing platforms to...
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Intense Smog Is Making Beijing's Massive Surveillance Network Practically Useless
Beijing's surveillance network, one of the most extensive and invasive in the world, has been compromised by an unexpected foe: smog.
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What Is 4d Printing?
The biggest breakthroughs in how we make things lie not in the technology to manipulate materials but in the materials themselves.
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