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Venture capital more impactful than angel investments for tech startups

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Credit: Flickr/dskley Technology entrepreneurs who get funding from venture capitalists go public sooner and have more impactful innovation than those who partner with angel investors,...
Making energy harvesting computers reliable

Making energy-harvesting computers reliable

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Image Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Electrical and Computer Engineering A revolutionary and emerging class of energy-harvesting computer systems require neither a battery nor a power...
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See How Arctic Sea Ice Is Losing Its Bulwark Against Warming Summers

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Compare the extension of older sea ice in the Arctic in September 1984 and September 2016. The older ice is thicker and more resistant...
Making computers explain themselves

Making computers explain themselves

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Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have devised a way to train neural networks so that they provide not only...
New surfaces repel water in oil as well as oil in water

New surfaces repel water in oil as well as oil in water

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Oil droplet in Water. Dual superlyophobic surface keeps oil droplet separate in water when it is against the surface. Credit: Xuelin Tian, Robin Ras Researchers of...
How sharks recycle toxic ammonia to keep their skin moist

How sharks recycle toxic ammonia to keep their skin moist

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The Pacific spiny dogfish is one of the most common species of sharks in the northern Pacific.Credit: Doug Costa, NOAA/SBNMS The Pacific spiny dogfish shark...
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Blood test for early osteoarthritis diagnosis unveiled

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Test could find arthritis before your joints hurt. Image Credit: Flickr/bestrated1 Patients could soon be diagnosed with early-stage arthritis several years before the onset of...
Metamaterial device allows chameleon like behavior in the infrared

Metamaterial device allows chameleon-like behavior in the infrared

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This is an infrared image of metadevice composed of vanadium dioxide with gold patterned mesh. (Top) Device without any electric current showing the PSU...

Weakness found in common computer chip

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Researchers from Binghamton University -- State University of New York and the University of California, Riverside have found a weakness in the Haswell central...
Physicists make it possible to 3D print your own baby universe

Physicists make it possible to 3D print your own baby universe

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Researchers have created a 3D printed cosmic microwave background - a map of the oldest light in the universe - and provided the files...
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Researchers uncover origin of atmospheric particles

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Cloud Experiment. View inside the chamber.Credit: CERN PhotoLab In a study led by the University of Leeds, scientists have solved one of the most long-standing...