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A Student Space Mission To Study Planet Formation 27 Aug 2013 | 09:32 am
The only way to study the early stages of planet formation is in microgravity. This is how a group of students set out to do it
System Lets Surgeons Image the Brain While they Operate On It 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
A real-time MRI system can help surgeons perform faster and safer brain operations. A new system for visualizing the brain during surgery is helping neurosurgeons more accurately diagnose and treat p...
Copy Protection for 3-D Printing Aims to Prevent a Piracy Plague 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Streaming designs to 3-D printers like Netflix does movies could prevent unauthorized copying. People in the 3-D printing world have talked for years about the possibility of unauthorized copying and...
A Wearable Computer More Powerful than Glass, And Even More Awkward 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
A startup that makes 3-D glasses stands out, in part, by including Steve Mann on its team. Steve Mann, a pioneer in the field of wearable computing, has been touting the benefits of head-mounted comp...
The Coming Wave of Security Startups 27 Aug 2013 | 02:43 am
Our growing computer security problems will create many new companies. The threat from cyber-intrusions seems to have exploded in just the last 18 months. Mainstream media now report regularly on mas...
Video: Near-Whole Brain Activity Map in Fish 27 Aug 2013 | 01:21 am
Researchers show off flashing fish brains and the technology behind them. A few months ago, I wrote about a flashy study from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Farm Research Campus: resea...
One in Five Americans Still Lacks Any Broadband Access 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Smartphones boost “broadband” coverage, but gaps remain that could be served by TV spectrum and other technologies. Even though more than half of Americans own smartphones, a significant gap in broad...
To Meet Emissions Targets, We've All Got to Be like France 26 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
Even with a terrible recession and a natural-gas bonanza, the U.S. isn’t cutting emissions fast enough. Some experts still think it is possible to reduce emissions 50 percent globally by 2050, a some...
Information Theory Reveals Size of Whale and Dolphin Communication Repertoires 26 Aug 2013 | 09:49 am
A re-analysis of various animal communication datasets reveals the length of the “words” they use and the size of their repertoires
Hacked Feature Phone Can Block Other People’s Calls 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Swapping software can give one GSM phone the power to prevent incoming calls and text messages from reaching other phones nearby. By making simple modifications to common Motorola phones, researchers...
