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U.S. gun murders in 2010: you haven't seen numbers like this before: http://guns.periscopic.com/ by @periscopic 
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American students need a dramatically new approach to improve how they learn science, says a noted group of scientists and educators led by Michigan State University professor William Schmidt.
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This map tracks wind direction (lines), speed (radius) and temperature (hue) measurements from 1200 weather stations across the country. You can play an animation of the wind movements and hover the weather stations in the map to get more information. Use the slider at the bottom to focus on a particular hour.
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This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken January 29, 2012 from 05:33:11 to...
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The suicide rate of active-duty soldiers doubled between 2003 and 2010.
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Having contributed in large part to the Internet’s very existence, DARPA is now setting out to make its secure networks more secure. But rather than relying upon the conventional notion of a password--a complex string of letters and numerals that an individual must remember--the agency is looking to create a “cognitive fingerprint” for individuals that constantly authenticates that person for the duration of the time he or she has access to a network.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Educational philosophy in Finland is strikingly different than in the United States, but the students there outperform U.S. learners.
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The United States Air Force's X-37B space plane has been circling the planet for more than 10 months, on a mystery mission shrouded in secrecy. When will it come down?
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The elite forces of the U.S. military think they've found a new way to sway opinion in the Pentagon's preferred directions: a voice-based so...
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The U.S. Strategic Command's Space Track website reportedly removed information on the defunct Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars spacecraft's fall to Earth.
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The head of Russia's space agency has alluded to hi-tech sabotage of its space probes by foreign forces.
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(AP) -- It's a startling number: 1 in 4 women surveyed by the government say they were violently attacked by their husbands or boyfriends.
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A new Pentagon experiment called “Assessment of Asymmetric Social Indicators” is setting out to build a sensor that picks up on the group dynamics of military units. The technology would be used for “measuring, and assessing social interactions in military contexts,” creating analytical snapshots of groups in “training, medical and mental health settings, [and] security.”
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A study found that unemployed Americans face a greater risk of dying than their German counterparts and that the risk of death increased as they moved down the rungs of the economic ladder.
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Women and young people were more likely to experience manic episodes and disorders than others, according to a new SAMHSA report. Via ThomasTsi.
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ReconRobotics reports it's making 1,100 of these Recon Scout XT bots for the military, the largest order the company has ever had. The bots weigh about one pound and have an infrared camera on board.
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The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992 brought an influx of Soviet mathematicians to US institutions, and those scholars' differing areas of specialization have changed the way math is studied and taught in this country, according to new research...
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Rivals for the Republican nomination laud research but take a hard line on embryonic stem cells and climate.
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Researchers from Germany and the United States suggest that the European conquest triggered the loss of more than half the Native American population. The results of their study provide new insight into the demise of the indigenous population.
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About 20% of American adults experienced some form of mental illness over a year's time, but the majority of them were never treated for it, a government survey found.
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The Navy is hoping to one day run a huge chunk of its fleet on biofuels. So the Navy's advanced researchers -- and their partners at the U.S... Articles about robotics: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Chief Scientists of the Air Force usually spend their time trying to figure out how to make jets go insanely fast or build better satellites. Which makes Dr. Mark Maybury, today’s chief scientist, a bit of an outlier. He’d like to build a set of sensors that peer into people’s souls — and forecast wars before they erupt.
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The United States remains the global leader in supporting science and technology (S&T) research and development, but only by a slim margin that could soon be overtaken by rapidly increasing Asian investments in knowledge-intensive economies.
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January 13, 2013 5:30 PM
Is this the answer why USA is a pioneer in innovation when its maths and science standing are not the top 1? Could be, see in the end its what kind of employment you are creating not what basic education level you have as there could be a time lag during which you can pick up your level to a higher one if you are in th right environ !!
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Next week, the Senate could be meeting to vote on the Protect IP Act (PIPA), the bill that many people are warning could damage the Internet.
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A surprising chart suggests that Americans see second languages as a cultural luxury rather than a competitive advantage.
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