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Technology in the Extreme
Researchers at Newcastle University's Centre for Extreme Environment Technology have developed radio transmitters that can withstand temperatures of up to 900 degrees...
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ORNL Strengthens DOE-Funded Clean Vehicles Team
As a member of the recently announced clean vehicles consortium, part of the U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers...
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Powerful Argument for Cutting IT Energy Consumption
Although technology is growing more and more energy efficient, more innovation is needed to offset the growing use of computers in countries such as India and China...
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Three Teams Share $10 Million Purse in Automotive X Prize Competition
Three teams were awarded a share of the $10 million purse in the Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE for Super Fuel-Efficient Vehicles.
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Officials In The Dark About Voting Machine Glitches
Problems with voting machines are still popping up 10 years after the controversial presidential vote in Florida.
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DARPA Wants to Create Brainiac Bot Tots
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is funding scientist Shane Mueller's efforts to expand upon the Turing test as part of an attempt to...
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Computer Scientist Puts NSF Funding to Work for More Reliable Computing
University of California, San Diego professor Yuanyuan Zhou recently received several grants for research projects aimed at making computer systems more reliable...
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Scientists Reveal Battery Behavior at the Nanoscale
As industry seeks improved battery power sources, cutting-edge microscopy performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory is providing...
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Electric Skin That Rivals the Real Thing
Two separate research groups have developed pressure-sensing devices that can match human skin in sensitivity and flexibility.
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Software Improves Yuma Proving Ground Test Equipment
Researchers at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground have developed a program that can determine the positional and angular motion of relatively stationary test objects...
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'Slow Light' on a Chip Holds Promise for Optical Communications
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and Brigham Young University have developed an optical device that has the slowest-ever light propagation...
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Mapping New Paths For a Stressed-Out Internet
Researchers in the United States and Europe have created the first geometric "atlas" of the Internet as part of a project to prevent the world's most ubiquitous...
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CLA Chemists, Engineers Fabricate High-Speed Graphene Transistors
UCLA researchers say they have fabricated the fastest graphene transistors ever using a nanowire as the self-aligned gate. Their fabrication technique enabled...
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Shape-Shifting Robot Compensates For Damaged Limb
European roboticists have developed software that enables a modular robot to adapt when one part stops working.
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New Process Promises to Revolutionize Manufacturing of Products
University of Waterloo scientists have developed Multiple Memory Material Technology, a new manufacturing process that they say makes smart materials even smarter...
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Scientists Develop Device to Enable Improved Global Data Transmission
University of Southampton researchers have developed a data transmission system that could benefit optical communications networks by eliminating phase noise from...
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Computer Scientists Leverage Dark Silicon to Improve Smartphone Battery Life
A new smartphone chip prototype under development at the University of California, San Diego will improve smartphone efficiency by making use of "dark silicon"—the...
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Researchers Create Robot That Can Pair, Fold Socks
University of California, Berkeley researchers have developed a robot that can pair and fold socks. The robot can determine whether a sock is inside out based on...
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Vulnerability in Commercial Quanto Cryptography
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg, and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light have...
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