Stanford Engineering professors are offering three of the school’s most popular computer science courses for free online this fall, and at the same time launching an experiment that could transform the way online education ...
Other
Aug 17, 2011
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Scientists can have ambitious goals: Curing disease, exploring distant worlds, clean-energy revolutions. In physics and materials research, some of these ambitious goals are to make ordinary-sounding objects with extraordinary ...
Nanophysics
Oct 6, 2020
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Modern-day computers are based on logic circuits using semiconductor transistors. To increase computing power, smaller transistors are required. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors that can fit on an integrated ...
Nanophysics
Jul 10, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- During the last several years, researchers have been building micro air vehicles (MAVs) that can autonomously fly through different environments by relying on GPS for navigation. Recently, a team of researchers ...
On many evenings during spring and fall migration, tens of millions of birds take flight at sunset and pass over our heads, unseen in the night sky. Though these flights have been recorded for decades by the National Weather ...
Ecology
Aug 28, 2019
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Physicists at UC San Diego have developed a new kind of X-ray microscope that can penetrate deep within materials like Superman's fabled X-ray vision and see minute details at the scale of a single nanometer, or one billionth ...
Nanophysics
Aug 8, 2011
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Who says Rome wasn't built in a day? Computer scientists have invented a technique that automatically creates 3-D models of landmarks and geographical locations, using ordinary two-dimensional pictures available through Internet ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 23, 2010
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Anticipating the advent of the quantum computer, related mathematical methods already provide insight into conventional computer science.
Quantum Physics
May 15, 2014
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A new Angry Birds-style game is set to help launch a new understanding of quantum science.
Quantum Physics
Oct 5, 2015
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you read online reviews before purchasing a product or service, you may not always be reading the truth. Review sites are becoming targets for "opinion spam" -- phony positive reviews created by sellers ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 26, 2011
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