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Planck Takes It All In
A new image from the Planck mission shows what it's been up to for the past year--surveying the entire sky for clues to our universal origins.
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The Achilles' Heel of Your Computer
Device drivers account for most crashes and even introduce security problems; a new testing tool could provide an early warning.
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Insect-Like Robot Crawls Into Microrobot Contenders' Ring
University of Washington engineers have built an insect-like robot with hundreds of tiny legs. The UW model can carry more than seven times its own weight and move...
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Making Optical Switching More Practical For Telecom
Using all-optical controls could speed the transmission of telecommunications data, but optical switches that can work at high bandwidths need a lot of energy to...
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Nanoscale Random Number Circuit to Secure Future Chips
Intel engineers have created computer processors with circuits capable of random behavior, a development that could lead to secure cryptography keys.
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A Marriage of Origami and Robotics
Researchers at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are learning to reshape the landscape of programmable matter by devising self-folding sheets...
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Supreme Court Relaxes Limits on Innovations That Can Be Patented
The Supreme Court on Monday loosened the limits on the kinds of inventions that are eligible for patent protection in a case that was closely watched for its impacts...
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Barrier to Faster Integrated Circuits May Be Surmounted, Scientists Say
Integrated circuits are constantly being made smaller, faster, and cheaper, but circuit scaling is perpetually in danger of hitting a wall that must be maneuvered...
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Beyond the Petaflop: DARPA Wants Quintillion-Speed Computers
DARPA announced an initiative to realize a quintillion calculations/second computer to "meet the relentlessly increasing demands for greater performance, higher...
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Pentagon
Even for the Pentagon’s science-fiction division, it seemed like a stretch. But in 2007, Darpa really did launch an effort to build programmable matter that could...
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Researchers Analyze the Future of Transistor-Less Magnonic Logic Circuits
The emerging field of magnonics is attracting researchers because of its possible role in the development of transistorless logic circuits, and researchers are...
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Hop, Jump and Stick
The behavioral laws of insects have the potential to give robots a greater complexity of movement without the need for high computational power, says the Ecole...
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Silicon Chips to Enter World of High Speed Optical Processing
University of Sydney physicists have developed an on-chip, all-optical temporal integrator on a complementary metal oxide semiconductor, a development that eventually...
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Robocup 2010: Could Robot Versus Human Be Far Behind?
The goal of the RoboCup 2010 competition in Singapore is to advance the real-world applications of robotics and eventually to build a robot team that can beat the...
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Eric Brewer: Change Agent
Eric Brewer's latest project involves designing and deploying low-cost wireless infrastructure in developing regions.
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Committed to Success
Charles P. Thacker talks about the importance of simplicity, reusable tools, thinking broadly, and his practice of Tom Sawyering.
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Censored!
Countries use Internet censorship to dominate the political dialogue, but also to create favorable conditions for government-controlled businesses.
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Researchers Develop New Method For Mass-Producing Graphene
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a simple new method for producing large quantities of the promising nanomaterial graphene. The new...
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Liquid Crystals Light Way to Better Data Storage
As cell phones and computers continue to shrink, many companies are seeking better ways to store hundreds of gigabytes of data in small, low-power devices. A...
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