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Computer science pioneer Chuck Thacker has been awarded with the A.M. Turing Award, considered computing's Nobel Prize.
A medical device company is using Nvidia Tesla graphics chips to reduce the amount of time it takes to get breast imaging results into the hands of doctors by more than four hours.
The Svalbard Global Seed Vault said it now has 500,000 unique samples to become the most diverse collection of crops in the world.
Edmonton's water utility company has published an amazing graph showing water consumption (read: toilet flushes) during the Olympic gold medal hockey game versus the United States.
The 10 MW Tower in Dubai is quite a renewable energy machine. The skyscraper is pumping out 10 times the amount of energy it needs and is exporting power to the surrounding neighborhood.
Apple's iPhone smartphone can form habits and actually be addictive, according to a new Stanford University survey.
A climate scientist at Stanford University's Carnegie Institute is trying to cool the seas to weaken hurricanes and minimize the death and destruction they bring.
Bruce J. Graham, the architect responsible for the design of the Sears Tower in Chicago, died Saturday at the age of 84.
Physicists have devised a way to see through paper, paint, biological tissue and other opaque materials, offering nanoengineers a new alternative for making optical lenses.
A Dutch firm has developed a tiny new sensor that can "listen" for noises on the battlefield, such as screams, gunshots, mortars and warplanes.
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