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Sensor Knows When You're Lying Through Your Teeth
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Sensor Knows When You're Lying Through Your Teeth

The mouth could provide doctors with information on a variety of health issues with the aid of a sensor that sends data on mouth motion to a smartphone. 

Light Completely Stopped for a Record-breaking Minute
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Light Completely Stopped for a Record-breaking Minute

The fastest thing in the universe has come to a complete stop for a record-breaking minute. At full pelt, light would travel about 18 million kilometres in that...

New Language Helps Quantum Coders Build Killer Apps
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New Language Helps Quantum Coders Build Killer Apps

Quantum software has finally left the dark ages with the creation of the first practical, high-level programming language for quantum computers.

Mathematicians Think Like Machines For Perfect Proofs
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Mathematicians Think Like Machines For Perfect Proofs

A team of mathematicians has devised a new mathematical framework that forces people to think more like machines to check perfect proofs in collaboration with computers...

Overprotection May Be Hampering Hunt For Mars Life
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Overprotection May Be Hampering Hunt For Mars Life

There are aliens on Mars—and they came from Earth.

Submarine Internet Cables Are a Gift For Spooks
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Submarine Internet Cables Are a Gift For Spooks

It's a golden age for spying. The subsea fibre-optic cables that carry telephone and Internet traffic are a technological marvel—and a gift to intelligence agencies...

Mathematicians Think Like Machines For Perfect Proofs
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Mathematicians Think Like Machines For Perfect Proofs


Echolocating App Will Let You Map a Room with Sound
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Echolocating App Will Let You Map a Room with Sound

Bats, dolphins, and even some blind people use echoes to create a mental 3D map of their environment and where they are in it. A smartphone's chirp could soon let...

Graffiti Codes Let You Surf With a Wave of Your Phone
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Graffiti Codes Let You Surf With a Wave of Your Phone

Researchers want to enable people to create quick response (QR) codes on the spot, like graffiti. 

Tingly Projections Make Beamed Gadgets Come Alive
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Tingly Projections Make Beamed Gadgets Come Alive

Researchers have developed a system that can beam the outline of computer keyboards or cellphones onto any surface, including the hand.

Parcels Find Their Way to You Via the Crowd
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Parcels Find Their Way to You Via the Crowd

A potential crowd-powered delivery system called TwedEx would deliver packages to consumers without requiring them to deviate from normal routes. 

Kepler Telescope's Planet-Hunting Days Crunch to a Close
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Kepler Telescope's Planet-Hunting Days Crunch to a Close

"Kepler was my North, my South, my East and West, my working week, no weekend rest, my noon, my midnight, my talks, my song; I thought Kepler would last forever...

Google Glass's Word on the Street Now Easier to Read
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Google Glass's Word on the Street Now Easier to Read

Wearable displays post information in users' field of view, but the text will need to stand out from the constantly changing background. 

Crowd Diagnosis Could Spot Rare Diseases Doctors Miss
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Crowd Diagnosis Could Spot Rare Diseases Doctors Miss

A new Web-based tool  uses crowdsourcing techniques to help solve difficult medical cases. 

Linked Smartphones Catch the Action From All Angles
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Linked Smartphones Catch the Action From All Angles

A new software system that wirelessly links smartphones together enables multiple users to share their phones' features with other devices around them. 

Virtual Traveller: Beam a Live, 3D You Into the World
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Virtual Traveller: Beam a Live, 3D You Into the World

A new virtual reality system combines 3D glasses and a hack of Microsoft's Kinect to enable life-sized images of people to be recreated in a virtual space. 

How to Find the Right Twitter User in a Crisis
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How to Find the Right Twitter User in a Crisis

Researchers have developed a way to find people on Twitter who are tweeting useful information during a crisis. 

Curiosity's Discoveries Hint at Life's Cradle on Mars
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Curiosity's Discoveries Hint at Life's Cradle on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover has found what it was looking for in its very first taste of Martian rock—much to everyone's surprise.

China's Next-Generation Internet Is a World-Beater
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China's Next-Generation Internet Is a World-Beater

China is developing a next-generation national Internet that reportedly is on a larger scale than anything being developed in the West. 

Happy, Snappy Tweets Gain the Most Twitter Followers
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Happy, Snappy Tweets Gain the Most Twitter Followers

The content of tweets, rather than a followers list, that has the biggest impact on the size of a Twitter audience, researchers have found. 
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