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Searching In features, blog entries, column entries & news items, Under the topic Technology
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Libraries and other archives of physical culture have been struggling for decades to preserve diverse media — from paper to eight-track tape recordings — for future generations. Scientists are falling behind the curve in protecting digital data, threatening the ability to mine new findings from existing data or validate research analyses. Johns Hopkins University cosmologist Alex Szalay and Jim Gray of Microsoft, who was lost at sea in 2007, spent much of the past decade discussing challenges posed by data files that will soon approach the petabyte (1015 — or quadrillion — ...Published: Monday, August 18th, 2008Found in: Astronomy, Computers, Science & Society and Technology
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Here's one solution for all of the conventional TVs that will be cast off during the imminent digital-TV transition.Published: Saturday, August 2nd, 2008Found in: Environment, Science & Society and Technology
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Scientists show that cheap chemical dyes may one day help with the efficient capture of the sun's energyPublished: Friday, July 11th, 2008Found in: Materials Science, Matter & Energy, Molecules and Technology -
Hands-free driving, truth be told, sounds very appealing.Published: Thursday, July 10th, 2008Found in: Science & Society and Technology -
How Star Wars' robots catalyzed an MIT program to build companionable robots.Published: Friday, May 30th, 2008Found in: Science & Society and Technology -
Norwegian Academy awards three novel and hefty prizes to three teams of scientists.Published: Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Found in: Astronomy, Body & Brain, Chemistry, Matter & Energy, Molecules, Science & Society and Technology -
Bacteria that can "flip pancakes" with their DNA are the first microbes engineered to be living computers.Published: Monday, May 19th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine, Molecules and Technology -
A light microscope with high resolution may enable scientists to view the 3-D structures within living cells.Published: Monday, May 19th, 2008Found in: Biology, Genes & Cells, Physics and Technology -
New experiments have revealed an aerodynamic trick that dragonflies use to fly efficiently — a trick that engineers could exploit to improve the energy efficiency of small aerial vehicles with a similar design.Published: Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Found in: Life and Technology -
Testing the toxicity of dozens of nanoparticles en masse may offer a faster track to medical applications.Published: Monday, May 12th, 2008Found in: Biomedicine and Technology
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A new type of electronic component could shrink computer chips and make them more powerful.Published: May 24th, 2008; Vol.173 #17Found in: Matter & Energy and Technology -
Researchers with the Brookings Institution have just published a blueprint for tackling what they perceive as a brewing innovation crisis. They propose that Uncle Sam create a federal agency to focus squarely on helping home-grown companies increase their innovation, productivity and profitability.Published: Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Found in: Science & Society and Technology
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A more efficient material that converts heat into electricity could make a new kind of solar panel possible. (p. 206)Published: March 29th, 2008; Vol.173 #13Found in: Technology
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Logging on may become more than a choice for some young people.Published: Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Found in: Body & Brain, Computers, Humans, Life, Science & Society and Technology -
New software pinpoints the weak spots in Michelangelo's David. (p. 182)Published: March 22nd, 2008; Vol.173 #12Found in: Technology
