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June 22, 2017

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June 16, 2017 — The Office of Naval Research's (ONR) TechSolutions program has sponsored the development of the Deployable Ship Integration Multitouch System -- DSIMS, for short -- to make the jobs of aircraft ... read more

Making Wires of Polymers Chains

June 16, 2017 — Researchers have modeled a new route to molecular wires suitable for use in miniature ... read more

Security and Privacy in Electronic Healthcare Systems

June 15, 2017 — All over the world, digital tools are increasingly being used to improve and streamline healthcare services. This does not only lead to positive results, but also creates opportunities for new types ... read more

Comparing Student Performance on Paper-and-Pencil and Computer-Based-Tests

June 12, 2017 — Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015–16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a ... read more

June 12, 2017 — Researchers have created a new computing system that aims to tackle one of computing's hardest problems in a fraction of the ... read more

Concentration Spans Drop When Online Ads Pop Up

June 12, 2017 — Researchers have shown that measurements of the brain's electrical activity can be used to test the influence of intrusive online advertisements on internet users' concentration and ... read more

Smarter Use of Mobile Data

June 12, 2017 — The data constantly collected and reported by smartphones can find numerous applications. An new project devoted to crowdsensing has found ways to improve privacy and localization accuracy as well as ... read more

June 9, 2017 — Researchers have simulated the formation of our entire Universe with a large supercomputer. A gigantic catalogue of about 25 billion virtual galaxies has been generated from 2 trillion digital ... read more

Smiling During Victory Could Hurt Future Chances of Cooperation

June 9, 2017 — Researchers have studied how reacting with a smile affects game outcomes, hoping one day to empower virtual humans with this ... read more

June 8, 2017 — New work outlining the brain's visual process could improve self-driving cars and point to therapies for sensory impairment, suggest ... read more

June 7, 2017 — Elegance and simplicity of programming are highly valued but not always achieved, says a new report. In the case of a new product, dubbed 'Charliecloud,' a crisp 800-line code helps ... read more

Spin Effects in Solution-Based Nanocrystals

June 7, 2017 — Wet-chemically produced nanocrystals are becoming more and more powerful. Now a research group has succeeded in substantiating electronic spin effects in such nanoplatelets. In this way, more ... read more

Fake Online Profiles Easier to Fish out With New Software Tool

June 7, 2017 — People who use fake profiles online could be more easily identified, thanks to a new tool developed by computer ... read more

June 7, 2017 — Genomics -- the branch of molecular biology concerned with the structure, function, evolution, and mapping of genomes -- has proved successful in uncovering the complex nature of cancer. Researchers ... read more

Combatting Weeds With Lasers

June 7, 2017 — A robot automatically identifies weeds in a field and combats them with a short laser pulse. Sustainable agriculture, which avoids the use of herbicides as far as possible, could benefit from this ... read more

Engineer Unveils New Spin on Future of Transistors With Novel Design

June 6, 2017 — A researcher has designed a novel computing system made solely from carbon that might one day replace the silicon transistors that power today’s electronic ... read more

App Uses Smartphone Compass to Stop Voice Hacking

June 5, 2017 — Engineers are creating an app to stop voice hacking. The app uses existing smartphone components, including the magnetometer for the phone's compass, to detect when someone's voice is being ... read more

Engineer Unveils New Spin on Future of Transistors With Novel Design

June 5, 2017 — An engineer has designed a novel computing system made solely from carbon that might one day replace the silicon transistors that power today's electronic ... read more

June 1, 2017 — Computer scientists have adapted a widely used technique for rapid data-lookup to slash the amount of computation -- and thus energy and time -- required for 'deep ... read more

June 1, 2017 — For the first time, researchers demonstrate a new type of magnetocapacitance, a phenomenon that could be useful in the next generation of 'spintronic' ... read more

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