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With a big boost from supercomputers, hospitals are shifting more of their focus to identifying people who need their help staying healthy
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A Dutch designer has come up with a smartphone design that allows every essential function to be easily upgradeable
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Some think wearable tech is just the thing to help us break bad habits, others that it will let us invade privacy like never before
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Recent research suggests that working in a sloppy setting may actually help inspire creative thinking
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Relying on data collected through smartphones, Gigwalk says it knows more about its workers than any company ever has
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For starters, laptops in classrooms are a big distraction, singing phrases can help you learn a language and multitasking isn't good for your grades
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As reefs continue dying off, scientists have started to think more boldly about how to protect them
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Will 100 become the new 60? And do we really want that to happen?
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In vitro meat? Teeth grown from urine? Screaming rocks and singing bats? It's all real science from the summer of 2013
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The world's cities are in the midst of a skyscraper boom. And one growing trend is to connect pre-fab floors like Lego pieces
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Is a club where you train on walls while sensors track your body's performance just another fitness trend? Or is it real innovation?
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The Ramps and Pathways program encourages students to think like engineers before they've reached double digits
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With so much interest in what's in our meals, food innovators are focusing on making the healthy palatable.
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk thinks bullet trains are too slow and expensive. He says he has a better idea: high-speed travel in tubes
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Now that passwords are neither secure nor easy, what will replace them? Fingerprint scans? Electronic tattoos? A pill?
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Just posting calorie counts isn't very effective. What may work, though, is framing overeating in terms everyone understands
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Before the elusive particle could be discovered—a smashing success—it had to be imagined
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Research suggests that the more opportunities you have to connect with different people--and fresh ideas--the more creative and productive you tend to be
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Research is showing how much the bonds between dogs and their owners have become like a parent-child relationship
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Recent research suggests that the brain rebuilds a memory every time it is recalled. And that creates a window of opportunity for changing it
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