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NEWS
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Goals
tame home electronics
Take a look at any of today's remote control units
and it's clear that you can do a lot with them. It's also
clear that figuring out how to do any one task takes an
inordinate amount of cognitive effort...
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Context
boosts VR interfaces
Context makes a big difference in how humans relate
to each other and their environment. It also turns out
to make interacting with virtual environments better and
more efficient...
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Caterpillar
to butterfly to LED
Spray-on
prosthetics
Bubbles
clean up ultrasound
Nanowire
mats flex muscle
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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 |
| January
27, 2006 |
Green
growing
Sustainable agriculture practices,
which meet the food needs of a population
with minimal environmental impact, sound like
a good idea. A new study backs this up with
hard data.
The study of 286 sustainable agriculture
projects in 57 developing countries, including
Thailand, Sri Lanka, China and Mexico, found
that, in addition to improving environmental
conditions, sustainable agriculture increased
crop yields by an average of 79 percent...
January
20, 2006
Pigs
in space
January
20, 2006
Warming
threatens sea life
January
13, 2006
Tiny
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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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