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The 16 Best Science Visualizations of 2011
Toxic barbs on a cucumber's skin, nanoscopic flakes of metal and a mouse's technicolor eyeball are just a few of 2011's best science visualizations.
Thu 2 Feb 12 from Wired Science
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Predicting system crashes in nature and society
The world can deliver sudden and nasty shocks. Economies can crash, fisheries can collapse, and climates can pass tipping points. Providing early warning of such changes currently requires the ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Darpa researchers design eye-enhancing virtual reality contact lenses
Currently being developed by DARPA researchers at Washington-based Innovega iOptiks are contact lenses that enhance normal vision by allowing a wearer to view virtual and augmented reality images ...
Wed 1 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Internet operator VeriSign admits it was hit by hacks
VeriSign, the internet services company responsible for sending web users to the right place when they type in a particluar .com address, has admitted it fell prey to numerous data breaches ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from FOXNews
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Scripps Research alumnus wins International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge
A powerful 3D animation tool created by Graham Johnson at The Scripps Research Institute has been selected as the winning video in the ninth annual International Science & Engineering Visualization ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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EU prizewinning researchers decongest the internet
The Internet has become part of our everyday lives, in ways we would never have imagined 30 years ago, but how often do we pause and think about the how and why of getting online? A team of ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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Project Gemini through the eyes of the astronauts, part 2
]]>This is the second half of our article on the Gemini Project, featuring some incredible newly-scanned images that the astronauts themselves took in orbit, straight from the original film. ...
Fri 3 Feb 12 from Dvice
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The Secret Of Ant Transportation Networks
Just how ants create the highly efficient network of trails around their nests has never been fully understood. Now researchers think they've cracked it Among the most impressive transportation ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from MIT Technology Review
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Discerning hermit crabs choose 3D printed shells
]]>Whether done for the art of it or just because we can now, innovative new 3D printed items are flourishing. Now even hermit crabs getting in on the craze courtesy of some day-glow 3D printed ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from Dvice
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Artificial intelligence: Getting better at the age guessing game
Scientists are developing artificial intelligence solutions for image processing, which have applications in many areas including advertising, entertainment, education and healthcare. They have, ...
Thu 2 Feb 12 from PhysOrg
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