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The evolution of the Web today is happening faster than the transition from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 due to processing power, bandwidth and storage, "creating a curve of exponential change."
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Michael Cusumano, a professor at M.I.T., raises doubts about the ultimate cost to the education field of massive open online courses, or MOOCs.
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The world is now warmer than at almost any time since the end of the last ice age and, on present trends, will continue to reach a record high for the entire period since the dawn of civilisation, a study has found.
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American scientists are wondering what role, if any, they will play in the future in high-energy physics — the search for the fundamental particles and forces of nature — a field they once dominated.
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Using the technology his animation is about, illustrator Lew Keller has created a three minute whiteboard animation about Ray Kurzweil and the meaning of the Singularity.
Where and what is nano? How will it shape our future? Nanoscience is the study of phenomena and manipulation of materials at the nanoscale, where properties ...
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A few months ago, physicist Harold White stunned the aeronautics world when he announced that he and his team at NASA had begun work on the development of a faster-than-light warp drive.
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US academics are using the web to offer world-class tuition – free – to anyone who can log on, anywhere in the world.
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How will education look in 30 years? Just as film enabled people worldwide to access movies, the Internet will democratize education, which today reaches a tiny fraction of those who yearn for it.
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Bina48 and Bruce Duncan in conversation (credit: Terasem) An advanced computer called the BINA48 (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture, 48...
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Can a $35 computer persuade kids to put down their smartphones and try their hands at programming?
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When Tarzan leaps from a swinging rope, when should he let go to jump furthest?
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The Pentagon's blue-sky researchers are eying computers that can learn on their own, which could make for some advanced new smart machines -- which are simple enough for non-experts to use as well.
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We need a curriculum of big questions, examinations where children can talk, share and use the Internet, and new, peer assessment systems. In the networked age, we need schools, not structured like factories, but like clouds.
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See Blossom dressed up as a cell. (Watch @secretlifer Mayim Bialik Explain Her Love of Science >> http://t.co/Jue6uuugKQ #STEM)
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David Leigh FRS and his team in the School of Chemistry at the University of Manchester has created an molecular assembler inspired by the biological ribosome.
The existence of negative temperatures on the Kelvin scale could help us understand dark energy as well as revise the thinking about what temperature
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“Miffy and Friends,” which was in reruns on PBS Kids, presented a world so stunningly peaceful that I dreamed of entering it myself...
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National correspondent Amy Harmon sits down to talk with the Bina48 about what it's like to be a robot.
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A ring-shaped warp drive device could transport a football-shape starship (center) to effective speeds 10 times faster than light (credit: Harold White) A...
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