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Learn a Language While You Text
An MIT graduate student's "WaitChatter" app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.
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Digitizing Neurons
Supercomputing resources at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will support the BigNeuron project aimed at streamlining scientist’s ability to create 3-D digital models...
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A First Big Step Toward Mapping the Human Brain
It's a long, hard road to understanding the human brain, and one of the first milestones in that journey is building a … database.
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Consortium to Focus on Online Teaching and Learning
Four higher education institutions have formed a new consortium focused on online teaching and learning in the liberal arts.
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Research Partners Launch 3-D Printing Training Facility
UL LLC and the University of Louisville are launching a 3-D printing training facility called the UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center that is set to open...
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Robot Gives Helping Hand to Deaf Education Teachers
Lecturers at The University of Manchester are using the Swivl robot in school classrooms to help assess placement training for students in its deaf education course...
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A Climate-Modeling Strategy That Won't Hurt the Climate
It is perhaps the most daunting challenge facing experts in both the fields of climate and computer science—creating a supercomputer that can accurately model the...
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From Outer Space to Silicon Valley
Robert Witoff needs to boldly go where no one has gone before.
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'Rise of the Robots' and 'Shadow Work'
In the late 20th century, while the blue-collar working class gave way to the forces of globalization and automation, the educated elite looked on with benign condescension...
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Computer Scientist Joins White House as Deputy Chief Technology Officer
Edward Felten, a Princeton University computer scientist, has been named deputy chief technology officer in the White House's Office of Science and Technology...
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NASA Selects Advanced Space Technology Concepts for Further Study
NASA has selected 15 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aims to turn science fiction into science...
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Research Shows Cooperative Video Game Play Elicits Pro-Social Behavior
Research shows that playing video games cooperatively with others can make players think helpful behaviors are valuable and commonplace.
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NASA Announces Journey to Mars Challenge, Seeks Public Input on Establishing Sustained Human Presence on Red Planet
What do you need to bring, and how do you minimize the need for delivery of future supplies in order to establish a sustained human presence on a planet 140 million...
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First Stop Robot Road Race, Next Stop NASA
More than 200 runners and 25 robots competing in a human 5-kilometer run and robot 100-meter dash on April 12 in West Cambridge, Mass.
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Best and Worst Graduate Degrees for Jobs in 2015
PayScale crunched the numbers for Fortune and identified the grad degrees that lead to lucrative careers—and those that lead to high stress and low pay.
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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Finally, Neural Networks That Actually Work
As a senior at the University of Minnesota, Jeff Dean built an artificial brain. Kinda.
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Brain Technology Patents Soar As Companies Get Inside People's Heads
From ways to eavesdrop on brains and learn what advertisements excite consumers, to devices that alleviate depression, the number of U.S. patents awarded for "neurotechnology"...
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The Internet Mapmakers Helping Nepal
The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes, worrying about powerful aftershocks toppling the few buildings left standing.
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How Self-Driving Tractor-Trailers May Reinvent What It Means to Be a Truck Driver
Daimler Trucks North America showed off a self-driving truck in a glitzy ceremony Tuesday at the Hoover Dam, offering a reminder of the coming era of autonomous...
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The Trouble with Reference Rot
The scholarly literature is meant to be a permanent record of science.12345