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Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and Harvard University have demonstrated on one chip all the elements needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum computers together.
Rice University researchers are developing a laser-free, pulse-based radio system to support a transmission rate of 1 terabit per second.
Google is helping usher in a new way for companies to tout their brand names in the digital realm.
New research from Google shows that black students are less likely to have computer science classes in school and are less likely to use computers at home even though they are 1.5 times more interested in studying computer science…
Some computer scientists say quantum computers will cripple bitcoin's encryption systems and doom the digital currency. Governments are investing aggressively in quantum computers, which are ultra powerful.
Venus is not a placid paradise—that much we know.
Almost three weeks after it crash-landed the Rosetta orbiter on a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up to land another spacecraft—this time on Mars.
The vision of the so-called internet of things—giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover—has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast.
Sometimes breaking up is the right thing to do. On Sunday at 17:20 GMT, the twin spacecraft of the first stage of the ExoMars mission split in two – one of the most important parts of the mission.
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay led by Aditya Joshi report developing a new strategy to help computers better detect the presence of sarcasm in sentences.
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have developed the basis for a new kind of electronic paper that is thin, flexible, and produces all of the colors that a regular light-emitting diode display does.
As the Internet of things moves closer to realization, initiatives must be taken to ensure the technology is secure, says Michael Walker at DARPA. "If we want to put networked technologies into more and more things, we also…
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Edinburgh offer a solution in which citations in academic papers are generated automatically.
The first national consensus document on U.S. computer science education provides standards on computer science concepts and practices by grade span in the areas of computer science, digital citizenship, and computer literacy…
The observable Universe contains about 2 trillion galaxies—more than ten times as many as previously estimated, according to the first significant revision of the count in two decades.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born while Galileo was still alive, and he ended up developing a similar skill in lens making to that of Galileo.
Humanity may still be years if not decades away from producing sentient artificial intelligence.
For the first time, a paralysed man has gained a limited sense of touch, thanks to an electric implant that stimulates his brain and allows him to feel pressure-like sensations in the fingers of a robotic arm.
Terahertz radiation (t-rays) could boost computer memory speeds by a factor of 1,000, according to computer scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
A new White House report says artificial intelligence can be a critical economic and societal driver with its development supported by a collaboration between industry, government, civil society, and the public.
The world's first conference for Research Software Engineers, held in Manchester, U.K., was called a "phenomenal success" by one of its organizers.
For the first time, a paralyzed man has regained his sense of touch via a thought-controlled robotic arm thanks to experiments conducted by the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Devices made from thin layers of graphene, boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenides can generate a single photon entirely by electricity. Built at the University of Cambridge, the devices are all-electrical ultra-thin…
Artificial-intelligence systems known as neural networks can recognize images, translate languages and even master the ancient game of Go. But their limited ability to represent complex relationships between data or variables…
Quantum physics is a field that appears to give scientists superpowers.
"We are looking at sensory immersion.
Sony Corp.'s release of the PlayStation VR on Thursday brings virtual reality to the cusp of mainstream adoption.
Machine learning is a serious impediment to the performance of autonomous cars in safety tests. "The training dataset does not conform to traditional expectations of software requirements and design," says CMU professor Philip…
Life exists in a myriad of wondrous forms, but if you break any organism down to its most basic parts, it's all the same stuff: carbon atoms connected to hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and other elements.
Scientists around the world are starting to use virtual reality technology as part of mental health care. VR can help people overcome the two main limitations of in-person therapy — cost and accessibility.