It was 1986, and the American space agency, NASA, was reeling from the loss of seven lives. The space shuttle Challenger had broken apart about one minute after its launch.
Other
Oct 23, 2015
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Science is swimming in data. And, the already daunting task of managing and analyzing this information will only become more difficult as scientific instruments—especially those capable of delivering more than a petabyte ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 1, 2015
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Biology undergraduates at Emory are studying genetics in a big way: They are the first to take a crack at researching the raw data from the sequence of the genome of the whale shark, the world's largest fish.
Plants & Animals
Aug 3, 2015
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A new multispectral microscope, one capable of processing nearly 17 billion pixels representing 13 individual color channels in a single image, has been successfully demonstrated by a team of researchers from the United States ...
Optics & Photonics
Jul 16, 2015
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Science magazine on Thursday formally retracted a highly publicized article about a study gauging the ability of openly gay canvassers to shift voters' views toward support for same-sex marriage.
Social Sciences
May 28, 2015
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When Kalyan Veeramachaneni joined the Any Scale Learning For All (ALFA) group at MIT's CSAIL as a postdoc in 2010, he worked on large-scale machine-learning platforms that enable the construction of models from huge data ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 25, 2015
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Attacks on institutions that keep records of global temperatures, such as NASA, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the UK Met Office, and Australia's Bureau of Meteorology, continue to appear in the press.
Environment
Feb 18, 2015
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A house is only as good as its foundation. Built solid and strong, the resulting structure should last for decades. NASA is laying a strong foundation of life science research with results from a recent investigation on the ...
Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2014
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A team of biomedical engineers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Lihong Wang, PhD, the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, has developed the world's fastest receive-only 2-D camera, ...
General Physics
Dec 3, 2014
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When a movie-streaming service recommends a new film you might like, sometimes that recommendation becomes a new favorite; other times, the computer's suggestion really misses the mark. Yisong Yue, assistant professor of ...
Computer Sciences
Nov 17, 2014
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