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DARPA Looks to Send the Internet Into Orbit
There’ve been satellites orbiting Earth for half a century. But getting information to and from them is still a pain. Which is why Pentagon research arm Darpa is...
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Silicon-Air Battery: Non-Stop Power For Thousands of Hours
Scientists at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a new, environmentally friendly silicon-air battery capable of supplying non-stop power...
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Faster Maintenance with Augmented Reality
In the not-too-distant future, it might be possible to slip on a pair of augmented-reality (AR) goggles instead of fumbling with a manual while trying to repair...
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Parallel Course
In 1995, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about 100 megahertz. Seven years later, in 2002, a good computer chip had a clock speed of about three gigahertz...
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Researcher Paves Alternate Path For Hard Drives
Carnegie Mellon University professor Jimmy Jian-Gang Zhu is developing a prototype hard disk technology based on his microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR)...
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Quantum Computers Could Tackle Enormous Linear Equations
Aram Harrow of the University of Bristol in England along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Avinatan Hassidim and Seth Lloyd believe that encoding...
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Computers Have Speed Limit as nbreakable as Speed of Light, Say Physicists
Boston University physicists Lev Levitin and Tommaso Toffoli have demonstrated that if processors continue to improve in accordance with Moore's Law, an unbreakable...
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Exploring New Frontiers
The Expeditions in Computing program provides scientists with the funding to work on ambitious, often multidisciplinary research.
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Deep Data Dives Discover Natural Laws
Computer scientists have found a way to bootstrap science, using evolutionary computation to find fundamental meaning in massive amounts of raw data.
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New Software Could Smooth Supercomputing Speed Bumps
Supercomputers have long been an indispensable, albeit expensive, tool for researchers who need to make sense of vast amounts of data. One way that researchers...
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Quantum Computer Chips Now One Step Closer to Reality
Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered a way to make quantum devices using technology common to the chip-making industry today. This work might one...
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'Light on a Wire' Promises Faster Computing, Communications
A team of European researchers has demonstrated some of the first commercially viable plasmonic devices, paving the way for a new era of high-speed communications...
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Video Camera That Records at the Speed of Thought
European researchers who created an ultra-fast, extremely high-resolution video camera chip have enabled dozens of medical applications, including one scenario...
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Obama Awards National Science, Technology Medals
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama linked scientific discovery to helping the struggling economy Wednesday as he honored those who invented batteries for implanted...
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Nobel Awarded For Advances in Harnessing Light
The mastery of light through technology was the theme of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences honored breakthroughs in fiber...
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Researchers Sharpen Photos By Capturing Multiple Low-Quality Images
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers Sam Hasinoff, Fredo Durand, and William Freeman, along with University of Toronto researcher Kiriakos Kutulakos...
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'time Telescope' Could Boost Web
Researchers led by Cornell University's Mark Foster report that they have developed a prototype device that could significantly boost the volume of information...
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Researchers to Create Semantic Web Platforms For Massive Scientific Collaboration
Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to...
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Honda Research Hints at Nano Class of Electronics
Microscopic carbon nanotubes may have the potential to transport electricity faster and over greater distances with minimal loss of energy, according to new research...
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