Despite their charm and allure, diamonds are rarely perfect. They have tiny defects that, to assistant professor Nathalie de Leon, make them ever so appealing. These atom-sized mistakes have enormous potential in technologies ...
Condensed Matter
Jan 19, 2018
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The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) project has begun final testing on a new satellite that will replenish NASA's Space Network. The spacecraft is scheduled to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, ...
Space Exploration
Feb 13, 2017
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) late last month decommissioned a 38-year-old communications satellite that for 21 years had helped to link NSF's Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station with the outside world. It was among ...
Space Exploration
Aug 26, 2016
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People who watch meaningful entertainment may be more willing to lend a hand to people they consider different, according to researchers.
Social Sciences
Feb 4, 2016
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The head of the Federal Communications Commission is proposing that the government agency expand a phone subsidy program for the poor to include Internet access.
Telecom
May 28, 2015
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People using online dating services are searching for a perfect match, but not a perfect person.
Social Sciences
Feb 11, 2015
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A new set of surveys of scientists and the public finds the two groups have widely different views about scientific issues. Conducted by the Pew Research Center in collaboration with the American Association for the Advancement ...
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2015
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The Internet generation doesn't actually know much about how it works.
Internet
Nov 25, 2014
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Spanning the globe from the US, UK, and Japan, the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) organization announces that the Protein Data Bank archive now contains more than 100,000 entries.
Cell & Microbiology
May 14, 2014
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Online news ventures have added nearly 5,000 US media jobs in the past few years, boosting an industry that is still reeling from technology changes, a study showed Wednesday.
Internet
Mar 26, 2014
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