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Head of ARPA-E Sketches Course for Energy Research
Eric Toone, the principal deputy director of ARPA-E, discusses where the research agency is seeking technical breakthroughs in energy.
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Can the Kinect Help Heal Wounded Veterans?
Physical therapy possibilities from Microsoft’s device.
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Physicists Build Laser Tweezers Controlled with Kinect
Now you can pick up and move micrometre-scale particles using your hands and arms thanks to a Kinect-controlled device called HoloHands
Computer Simulations Reveal Benefits of Random Investment Strategies Over Traditional Ones
Central Banks could use random investment strategies to make markets more stable, say econophysicists
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An Expert's View on Google's Goggles
Mark Changizi, a neurobiologist and the author of The Vision Revolution, discusses Google’s augmented-reality glasses.
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Astronomers Calculate Orbit of Chelyabinsk Meteorite
The Chelyabinsk meteorite is from a family of Earth-crossing rocks called Apollo asteroids and there are 80 million others like it, say astronomers
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Computer Scientists Reproduce the Evolution of Evolvability
Simulation explains the origin of one of nature’s most important organising principles.
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Mathematicians Encrypt Images Using Mathematics of Sudoku
State-of-the-art image scrambling algorithm uses a new type of matrix mathematics based on Sudoku puzzles
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The Computer That Stores and Processes Information At the Same Time
The human brain both stores and processes information at the same time. Now computer scientists say they can do the same thing
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