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NEWS
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Silicon
gets stretchy
The advent of electronic paper and efforts
to embed electronics in nontraditional materials like
clothing, is spurring efforts to make flexible circuitry...
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Photos
make icons meaningful
Staring at a screenful of identical icons is not
the most efficient way to find the file you are looking
for...
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Info
theory boosts clustering
The emerging field of clustering aims to help
scientists analyze mountains of data like genome sequencing,
astronomical observations and market behavior by automatically
grouping like pieces of data...
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Lasers
drive biochips
Pumping and channeling tiny amounts of liquids
in biochips is tricky business...
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Bits
and pieces
A tiny chemical factory, a nanotech boost for crypto chips,
and plug-and-play lighting tiles. |
FEATURES
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View
from the High Ground: Cornell's Jon Kleinberg
Six degrees of separation, buying gasoline
by the molecule, the science of popularity, all just getting
along online, intellectual prosthetics, Big Science, making
up questions, and telling stories.
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How
It Works: Quantum computing: qubits
Photons, electrons and atoms, oh my! These particles are
the raw materials for qubits, the basic building blocks
of quantum computers. |
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SMALLEY'S
RESEARCH WATCH |
| December
23, 2005 |
The world is your farm
Agriculture is a dominant force in the
global environment, but scientists are still
getting a handle on the details.
Researchers from the University of
Wisconsin are using satellite and census data
to fill in the gaps. They have started to
produce maps of cropland and pastureland that
provide both a global view and regional details
of the human impact on the landscape...
December
16, 2005
Morphing
bubbles
December
11, 2005
Humor divides brains by gender
December
3, 2005
Ocean
of trouble |
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"In
most areas of science and technology, the origins
of new breakthroughs can still be found in the work
of a small number of people -- or even a single
person -- working at their own pace on their own
questions, pursuing things that interest them. "
- Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University |
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