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Cybersecurity Protects Food, Agriculture
Protecting the U.S. food supply from cyberattack.
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nbridled Ingenuity at Maker Faire
Around noon this past Sunday, I found myself asking a young girl why, even though the music-producing device she and her family had made was called "Slugophone...
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Quantum Minds: Why We Think Like Quarks
The fuzziness and weird logic of the way particles behave applies surprisingly well to how humans think.
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Mapping the Most Complex Object in the Known niverse
It's paint-by-numbers for neuroscientists. At the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, researchers have devised a faster way of computing...
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'Fluid Cloak' to Help Submarines Leave No Wake
Super-stealthy submarines may one day glide through the water without creating a wake, if a plan to channel fluid intelligently around objects can be made to...
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Welcome to the Age of the Splinternet
Openness is the Internet's great strength—and weakness. With powerful forces carving it up, is its golden age coming to an end?
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Robots se Kinect to nderstand Our World
Picture the scene, a few years from now. "Robot, fetch me that pillow over there," you say to your ever-willing butlerbot. "Certainly sir," it replies. "What's...
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How to Be in Two Places at the Same Time
An ambitious experiment to make a glass sphere exist in two places at once could provide the most sensitive test of quantum theory yet.
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Mining Social Networks to Predict Your App Choices
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab have analyzed the smartphone use of students on social networks in an attempt to determine...
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Autopiloted Glider Knows Where to Fly For a Free Ride
Hawks and albatrosses soar for hours or even days without having to land. Soon robotic gliders could go one better, soaring on winds and thermals indefinitely...
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The Million-Dollar Puzzle That Could Change the World
The single biggest problem in computer science, for which the Clay Mathematics Institute is offering a $1 million prize, is determining whether P equals NP, which...
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Covert Hard Drive Fragmentation Embeds a Spy's Secrets
Good news for spies. There is now a way to hide data on a hard drive without using encryption. Instead of using a cipher to scramble text, the method involves...
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The Search Engine That Predicts What You Want
In the future the news will find you—at least according to Futureful, a Finnish startup building a predictive discovery iPad app that will deliver personalised...
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Evolutionary Babel Was in Southern Africa
Where did humanity utter its first words? A new linguistic analysis attempts to rewrite the story of Babel by borrowing from the methods of genetic analysis—and...
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Bye-Bye Electrons? Circuit Made From Flowing Atoms
Kevin Wright and colleagues at NIST chilled 100,000 sodium atoms then used lasers to shape the blob of atoms into a torus and give it enough energy to circulate...
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Quantum Trickery Could Lead to Stealth Radar
Stealthy radar systems and the ability to transmit large amounts of data over long distances are a step closer thanks to a technique that could improve the efficiency...
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Flying Robots Team p to Juggle
Our flying robot overlords seem to have a fun side after all. In this video, watch two quadrocopters team up to skillfully juggle a ball, thanks to software developed...
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Surveillance Robots Know When to Hide
The spy approaches the target building under cover of darkness, taking a zigzag path to avoid well-lit areas and sentries. He selects a handy vantage point next...
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Invisible Wi-Fi Signals Caught on Camera
Computer icons can give you an idea of your Wi-Fi signal strength. But now Timo Arnall and a team of designers from the Oslo School of Architecture & Design have...
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Better Than Human? What's Next for Jeopardy! Computer
A medical robot; a Google-killer; a financial advisor; a tool for trawling legal documents; an aide for the intelligence services. These are just some of the...
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