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Filling Space With Polyhedra
Salvatore Torquato’s unique space-packing method has implications in information theory and materials science.
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To Diagnose Heart Disease, Visualization Experts Recommend a Simpler Approach
Harvard University researchers have developed HemoVis, a method for visualizing human arteries that, in clinical testing, increased diagnostic accuracy from 39...
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Computer Scientist Seeks the Real Meaning of Language
Researchers at Columbia University and the City University of New York are developing computational methods to detect deception in English, Mandarin Chinese, and...
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DARPA Offers $50,000 Prize If You Can Figure Out These Shredded Puzzles
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced the $50,000 Shredder Challenge, which asks participants to devise new methods or techniques for piecing...
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New Tool Clears the Air on Cloud Simulations
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers and international collaborators have developed the Cloud-Feedback-Model Intercomparison Project Observation Simulator...
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A Deeper Look Into Space
NASA hopes the James Webb Space Telescope, which can detect ancient light that its predecessors can’t, will reveal more information about the origins of the universe...
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IBM Simulates 4.5% of the Human Brain, and All of the Cat Brain
Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world...
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New Technology Pinpoints Anomalies in Complex Financial Data
Battelle researchers at the U.S. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed Anomalator, analytical software designed to recognize anomalous information...
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Wholesome Data: sing It to Promote Healthy Behaviors
Edmund Seto, a researcher at the University of California, Davis, develops censor and cell phone technologies to connect people to relevant, real-time data about...
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Apple Patent ses 3d Gestures to Control an Ipad
Forget relying solely on touch to control your Apple device. On future iPads, you may be able to control your tablet from across the room using 3D gestures, such...
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Nasa in Final Preparations For Nov. 8 Asteroid Flyby
NASA scientists will be tracking asteroid 2005 YU55 with antennas of the agency's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif., as the space rock safely flies past...
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Modeling Chaotic Storms
Scientists say improvements to extreme-weather prediction are possible with new weather models and a reinvention of the modeling technologies used to process them...
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Tiny Stamps for Tiny Sensors
Advances in microchip technology may someday enable clinicians to perform tests for hundreds of diseases—sifting out specific molecules, such as early stage cancer...
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Zot! Uc Irvine Team Proves Stellar at Mapping Dark Matter
When David Kirkby and Daniel Margala entered a contest to find out who could most accurately map dark matter in the universe, the first algorithm they submitted...
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Knowledge Mining Resource Accelerates Science, Technology Education, Research
Virginia Tech researchers have created the Virginia Tech Knowledge Networks, a repository of more than 5,000 publications by the College of Engineering faculty,...
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Experimental Mathematics: Computing Power Leads to Insights
In a forthcoming article, "Exploratory Experimentation and Computation," American Mathematical Society researchers will describe how modern computer technology...
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Robot Biologist Solves Complex Problem From Scratch
Researchers at Vanderbilt and Cornell universities have demonstrated that a computer can analyze raw experimental data from a biological system and derive the basic...
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"ghostwriting" the Torah?
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a computer algorithm that could help identify the different sources that contributed to the individual books of the...
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People as 'sensors': Twitter Messages Reveal Nfl's Big Plays and Fans' Excitement
Researchers at Rice University and Motorola Mobility have developed SportSense, software that monitors Twitter posts of National Football League fans to determine...
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