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Scientists Cloak 3-D Objects
After five years of steady progress, scientists are now edging closer and closer to mastering real-world invisibility. While researchers...
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Online Gamers Achieve First Crowd-Sourced Redesign of Protein
Obsessive gamers’ hours at the computer have now topped scientists’ efforts to improve a model enzyme, in what researchers...
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Lasers Are Even Cooler Than We Thought
Scientists at Denmark’s Niels Bohr Institute have figured out a cool new way to lower the temperature of hot...
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Leap Second Receives Last-Minute Reprieve
The leap second may live on for at least another three years. Once or twice a year, the leap...
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Quantum Computing Could Head to ‘the Cloud’
The search for the perfect alliance between science and technology has married quantum computing to the future of IT...
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Mobile App to Speed Diagnoses Finds Slow Going
CodeHeart, a mobile application to speed diagnosis of heart attacks, has been under development in the Washington DC area...
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Internet Addiction Alters Brain Structure
Researchers in China compared brain scans of young people with “internet addiction disorder” with their peers and found damage...
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Breakthrough Exponentially Expands Data Storage
For years, the limiting factor of increasing computational power has been how much electronic circuitry manufacturers can cram onto...
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Where Astronomy Meets Data
Brian P. Schmidt, 2011 Nobel Physics Prize winner, discusses his SkyMapper project, which is currently scanning the southern sky...
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What Is the Future of Knowledge in the Internet Age?
David Weinberger is one of our most incisive thinkers about the digital age, a senior researcher at Harvard University’s...