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National Hurricane Center
*Spanish translations courtesy of the NWS San Juan Weather Forecast Office. Information about experimental Spanish Tropical Cyclone Forecast Discussions can be found here. Learn about hurricane hazards...
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Cell engineering can give IBM Watson “microscopic eyes”
What if your cells could actually see? Today, scientists at IBM Research’s Almaden lab in the Silicon Valley are pioneering a new field of discipline – cell engineering – that uses cells as sensors to...
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Jedi scientists freeze light in midair to bring quantum computers a step...
ScienceRemember that scene in "The Force Awakens" where the dark side warrior Kylo Ren stops a laser blast in mid-air? In a Canberra laboratory, physicists have managed a feat almost as magical: they...
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Gitless is an experimental version control system built on top of Git. Many people complain that Git is hard to use. We think the problem lies deeper than the user interface, in the concepts underlying...
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2016 Report
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The future of money
What happens when the way we buy, sell and pay for things changes, perhaps even removing the need for banks or currency exchange bureaus? That's the radical promise of a world powered by...
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A world without work is coming – it could be utopia or it could be hell
Most of us have wondered what we might do if we didn’t need to work – if we woke up one morning to discover we had won the lottery, say. We entertain ourselves with visions of multiple homes, trips...
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South by South Lawn
Earlier this year, President Obama traveled to South by Southwest® for a conversation on civic engagement. In Austin, he called on creative thinkers and entrepreneurs from across the country to help...
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Microsoft Has a Whole New Kind of Computer Chip
It was December 2012, and Doug Burger was standing in front of Steve Ballmer, trying to predict the future. Ballmer, the big, bald, boisterous CEO of Microsoft, sat in the lecture room on the ground...
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South by South Lawn
Earlier this year, President Obama traveled to South by Southwest® for a conversation on civic engagement. In Austin, he called on creative thinkers and entrepreneurs from across the country to help...
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The 'worm' holds the key to treating epilepsy
Current methods to control epilepsy, which affects 1 in 26 Americans, are not only inefficient but haven’t improved in more than 150 years when the first anticonvulsant drug was developed. Treatment...
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Growth in demand for industrial robots halves as China, carmakers cut back
FRANKFURT Growth in sales of industrial robots has halved from levels seen two years ago and is unlikely to recover those levels over the next few years because demand in China, the biggest market, has...
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No Technology Thrives Alone: Progress Is All About Convergence
0 15 years ago, Ray Kurzweil published one of the most significant essays in the history of futurism: “The Law of Accelerating Returns.” This piece showcased the immense power of exponential technology...
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Mini dog robot can bounce, open doors and even climb fences
Fancy a robot pet? Minitaur is designed to be an affordable and practical quadruped robot. Not only can it cross obstacle-strewn terrain impassable to wheeled and tracked robots, it can also climb...
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Winning a Nobel can backfire. Ask fans of biotech wonder RNAi
When the Nobel Prizes are announced next week, the winning biomedical discovery is certain to be showered with a ton of hype. And that might be a problem. The path from a brilliant lab discovery to an...
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FIRST Robotics Competition Registration Update
We have not yet found a definitive cause for last Thursday’s registration system crash. However, since we restarted the database after the crash, the registration system, which is shared with all other...
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HBO's 'Westworld' Asks Who the Real Robots Are
There are some challenges you might anticipate actors playing robots in HBO's new science fiction series Westworld encountered in developing their roles: Whether to squint in the sun, for example, or...
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Application note: Raman-based high-throughput screening
1 October 2016 • Author(s): Kaiser Optical Systems Polymorphic form ID Rapid screening of drug candidates Automated instrumentation for unattended data collection As the rate-determining step in...
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Will the coming robot nanny era turn us into technophiles?
Robots intrigue us. We all like them. But most of us don’t love them. That may dramatically change over the next 10 years as the “robot nanny” makes its way into our households. In as little time as a...
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This Is Your Brain on Quantum Computers
0 Machines enrich and enhance our lives, whether it’s the smartphones that allow us to stay connected or the supercomputers that solve our toughest computational problems. Imagine how much more...
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