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Imagining the Invisible
On a recent visit to Pioneer Works in the Brooklyn Red Hook neighborhood, I heard a lecture by Matthew...
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Quantum Computer to Log Onto Quantum Internet
When it comes to data crunching, quantum computers will leave today’s fastest processors in the dust. For starters, a...
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Magnetic Logic Makes for Mutable Computer Chips
Software can transform a computer from a word processor to a number cruncher to a video telephone. But the...
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Europe Gives 2 Billion Euros to Science
Research projects investigating the “miracle material” graphene and the human brain have won unprecedented funding of up to 1...
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No Explanation for Pulsar With Split Personality
A pulsar that randomly and without warning dramatically changes its pattern of radio wave and X-ray emissions has surprised...
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DARPA to Put Laser Turrets on Fighter Jets Next Year
Our first foray into laser-equipped combat aircraft was the Airborne Laser Testbed, a Boeing 747 with a gigantic chemically-pumped...
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Robot Makers Spread Global Gospel of Automation
The robot equipment industry has one word for the alarmist articles and television news programs that predict a robot...
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Shakespeare, Thou Art Stored in DNA
The stuff we’re made of may be the means by which we store information that we want kept around...
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Science Stakes: Britain’s Crowded Public-Science Scene Must Evolve
Since 1799, the Royal Institution of Great Britain has occupied a grand building in London’s Mayfair, surrounded today by...
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NIH: All but 50 Research Chimps Should Be Retired
All but about 50 of hundreds of research chimpanzees belonging to the National Institutes of Health should be retired...