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Interactive Map Shows Locations of 25,000 Species

A "Find species near me" app is on the way. Read More »

New Supercomputer Giveaway for Top Science Ideas

Scientists have a chance to win new supercomputer cores suitable for petascale computing that does one thousand trillion calculations per second.

Do-It-Yourself Cat Door Recognizes Your Feline

One man's weekend project shows how far image-recognition technology has come.

Tweets Reveal How UK Felt About National Events

The latest tweet-analyzing study correlates mood with national events.

How New Tech Is Reviving Hope of Humanlike Computers

Computer scientists are hopeful once again that they can create a robot that can pass the famous Turing Test.

Secret Source Codes Threaten Modern Science

Scientists must share the source codes behind their computation-based research to catch bad science and avoid breaking the scientific method.

Virtual Reality Spiders Crawl Toward Phobia Treatment

Patients can pick up and poke virtual spiders, using the new program.

In the Future, We'll All Program Our Own Robots

Scientists are working on creating programming languages that will bring coding to the masses.

World Repository of Human Genetics Now Hosted by Amazon

One of science's biggest datasets gets saved on the cloud.

US Military Bets on 'Big Data' to Win Wars

The military is investing $250 annually to solve the battlefield problem of sorting through a deluge of data.
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