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- Fuzzy future: Kids may suffer impaired vision from spending too little time outdoors, studies suggest
- Building with moon rocks: Working on the moon with lunar soil and grit could prove easier, more efficient and less costly than using earthly materials
- Major twister hits Oklahoma: Its speed, which largely determines the damage it causes, is still unknown
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Using a technique known as 3-D printing, regular people can now make goods typically produced in huge quantities in factories overseas.
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- Communicating information about the environment allows a stumbling machine to rejoin its group.
- A computer program can get supplies to disaster areas efficiently even when the transportation system is part of the problem.
- Insect's nerve cell development is a model of efficiency for sensing networks.
- As the pace of financial transactions accelerates, researchers look forward to a time when the only limiting factor is the speed of light.
- Quality of followers, not quantity, determines which tweets will fly
- Computer scientists take on one of New York’s weirder quality-of-life issues: which will be the next to explode?
- The scientist who scanned the first digital image aims to smooth the pixel.
- A computer simulation finds that leaves' circular networks are efficient at getting around damaged spots and varying distribution load.
- System uses ultracold beryllium ions to tackle 160 randomly chosen programs.
- New work suggests that the envisioned systems would be powerful enough to quickly process even trillions of variables.
- A new study shows that if ions are kept cool, then the information they hold can be repeatedly manipulated.
- Researchers have devised a way to use a laser to create strings of orderless bits for encryption.
- New digital circuits work well in buzzing environments.
- Scientists sift through genetic data sets to better map twisting branches in the tree of life.
- Better equations could improve MRI quality, or even bring quantum computing closer.
- Simulating new materials could help in building them — but only quantum simulators could fully model reality. A team reports a first step in realizing quantum simulation.
- By analyzing brain activity, computers can tell what word is on your mind.
- The virtual world of Second Life offers new ways to do and learn about real science.
- Computer simulations of blood flow in the heart allow doctors to test surgical innovations before trying them on patients.
- Thanks to an immense calculation that worked out every possible game position, computers can now play a flawless game of checkers and force a draw every time.
- After tracking how digital information weaves around the world, researchers have concluded that, structurally speaking, the Internet looks like a medusa jellyfish.
- A new algorithm might make online driving directions more accurate.
- By teaching computers how to transcribe musical recordings, a relatively mundane task, researchers are opening new musical possibilities.
- Online games can not only entertain but also provide valuable data for researchers tackling computer-vision and other tough computational problems.
- New methods to identify Internet users by their behavior can uncover criminals online, but these techniques may also track millions of innocent users.
- New ways to simulate ice-crystal growth yield patterns remarkably similar to the beautiful and intricate shapes of snowflakes and may shed light on how those real-life shapes come about.
- Hard-to-simulate blond hair may look more natural in future animations thanks to a new computer model that allows for hairs' transparency and includes the illumination produced by light propagating from hair to hair.
- As a new way to protect a computer network from viruses, an epidemic of antiviral protection could theoretically propagate faster through the network than the virus itself, thanks to a novel topological twist.
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