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Nash's Beautiful Mind Pre-Empted Million-Dollar Puzzle
John Nash's mind is even more exquisite than we thought. The Nobel laureate, famous for both his work in game theory and his schizophrenia—as portrayed in the book...
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Art-Ificial: The Virtual Virtuosos Redefining Creativity
Imperial College London computer scientist Simon Colton has created Painting Fool, software that can seek artistic inspiration and has basic creativity.
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What Is the Higgs Boson and Why Does It Matter?
As the world awaits news of the possible discovery of the Higgs boson, there remains a lot of confusion about what it is, why we have had to work hard to find...
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Cyberwar Storm Clouds Are Gathering
Cyberspace. Some call it the new domain of war, after land, sea, air, and space.
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Internet Responsible For 2 Percent of Global Energy sage
The Internet is responsible for 170 to 307 gigawatts of global energy consumption, according to the University of California, Berkeley's Justin Ma and the International...
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Revealed
As protests against financial power sweep the world, science may have confirmed the protesters' worst fears. An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational...
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Cops on the Trail of Crimes that Haven't Happened
The patrol car comes to a stop in a sleepy neighbourhood of small, earth-coloured homes. A woman saunters past pushing a stroller. It is daytime in the artsy beach...
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Electronic Elections: One App, One Vote
Rice University researchers led by Bryan Campbell have designed an iPhone app that will allow voters to cast their ballots with their smartphones.
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Wireless Network Can Watch Your Breathing
University of Utah researchers have found that wireless signals can indicate if people in the area are breathing. The researchers surrounded a volunteer with...
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Air Traffic System Vulnerable to Cyber Attack
Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) technology uses unencrypted global positioning system signals to broadcast a plane's position to networks. The...
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Smart Software Spots Swaying Risk of a Crushing Crowd
The Fraunhofer Institute's Barbara Krausz has developed a system for determining when crowds have become too large by observing the way people sway slowly from...
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Ok, Climate Skeptics: Here's the Raw Data You Wanted
Anyone can now view for themselves the raw data that was at the centre of last year's "climategate" scandal.
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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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Protecting Protestors With Photos That Never Existed
In a response to protestors getting arrested for taking pictures of government-instigated violence, researchers have developed a method that uses graphics processors...
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Interview with Key Lulzsec Hacker
It was early May when LulzSec's profile skyrocketed after a hack on the giant Sony corporation. LulzSec's name comes from Lulz, a corruption of LOL, often denoting...
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Rag-Trade Robots: From Body Scan to Bespoke Suit
The Leapfrog project, a collaboration of 35 industrial and academic partners from 11 countries, aims to develop completely automated clothing-production systems...
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Spies Can Send Messages Hidden in a Google Search
The peculiar list of search options that Google suggests as you type in a query could be hijacked to let people communicate secretly.
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Gender-Spotting Tool Could Have Rumbled Fake Blogger
A gender analysis program developed by Stevens Institute of Technology researcher Na Cheng could have determined the sex of a 40-year-old U.S. man writing online...
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Future of Virtual Reality: What Pregnancy Feels Like
Men can gain a better understanding of what women experience during pregnancy by wearing a new device developed at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology...
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