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With few jobs open to them, hundreds of thousands of African American women became beauticians and opened salons

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There are many different types of neurons in the brain, but until now, there hasn't been a way to classify most of them.

Robots that can control puppets could one day learn to manipulate complex physical objects like clothing and flexible sheets

A lot is riding on the FCC's decision as to which company launched the first satellite capable of delivering high-speed internet using the Ku-band

You can get a career boost through clever use of Twitter, even if you don’t have hordes of followers

By analyzing millions of error messages in AT&T’s network data, researchers developed an algorithm that could help carriers detect problems faster

Lab demoes of an all-optical neural network could lead to more powerful and less power-hungry AI

New imaging and deep-learning techniques for iris recognition will foil a favorite trick of Hollywood villains

Energy expert Vaclav Smil takes a hard look at modern construction, and he likes what he sees

A new, automated telescope search program in Arizona called SAGUARO hopes to catch neutron stars in the act of colliding

The new, all-electric Taycan will come with a mighty thirst. This charging technology will slake it

Three new breakthroughs make commercial nanotube processors possible

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1,600 km per charge promised by the team that created a lightweight two-seat EV a decade ago

The creator of the popular $35 computer explains the design of the new Pi 4

With mapping and semi-autonomous navigation, even you can drive a Double 3

Beam now belongs to a Danish robot venture factory

It's about more than just first place as teams look toward more competitions in 2020

The Manhattan Project’s B Reactor at Hanford is a fascinating, complicated monument to U.S. nuclear history

Deep TabNine uses natural-language processing to auto-generate code in 22 programming languages

Early data from the government-mandated systems points to a substantial decrease in driver hours-of-service violations

Engineering grads are facing an ever rising tide of knowledge


Live coders create musical algorithms on stage. Here’s how to become one

Interrogate the data, consider possible incentives, and look for the dreaded “hype salad”

Researchers from ABB and Hydro-Quebec pumped pressure into a transformer tank until it popped to validate a new, safer design

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The latest version of ANYbotics' four-legged robot can do useful real-world inspection tasks

A new automated lab bench combs through known chemical reactions to figure out how best to synthesize compounds

Bivacor founder Daniel Timms learned fluid dynamics and how to get things done

Inside Bivacor’s artificial heart, a levitating disk spins 2000 times per minute to keep blood flowing

Digital replicas of patients' hearts can identify hidden, irregular heart tissue for surgeons to destroy

Startup Cerebras has built a wafer-size chip for AI, but it isn’t the only one possible

We need stronger regulations to determine which devices are medically legit

A technique once considered for explosives detection might save more lives if used to verify the integrity of medicines


Supporting long-range communications inside of a mine is extremely difficult, so DARPA SubT teams are trying out some creative approaches

Academic researchers can build models on labeled data gathered by Waymo’s fleet of self-driving cars

Creating a valid test environment

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3D interconnects could shorten delays within processor cores

How autonomous robots in the underground scavenger hunt pick up points for their teams

Researchers found that PV systems could produce electricity at a lower price than the grid in 344 cities

Skybot F-850 will spend a week on the ISS charming astronauts with its sense of humor

These websites teach the skills needed in a competitive job market

The Hunstable Electric Turbine by Linear Labs can generate two to five times the torque of existing motors in the same-size package, the company says

Medical drones arrived 90 to 120 seconds faster than an ambulance during tests conducted with fake patients placed in Iraq's busy city streets

The Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment lets NASA precisely measure the distance between Earth and the moon

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Researchers in Australia have developed a control algorithm that allows electric boats equipped with solar panels to sell power to a microgrid