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The Race to 100 MPG
Science Gas prices are up, fuel economy is down—but the brightest minds in auto technology are about to do something about it Over the past several decades, the promise of the "car of tomorrow" has...
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Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize For Improved Recommendations Engine
Science A team of former rivals has officially won the competition to improve Netflix movie recommendations. The collaborative known as BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos took home a… A team of former rivals...
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Inventor of Photosynthesis-Based Solar Cells Wins Millennium Tech Prize
Technology A Switzerland-based chemist who invented solar cells that mimic photosynthesis is the winner of a million-dollar technology prize announced Wednesday. Michael Gratzel… A Switzerland-based...
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This Year's Ig Nobel Prize: Fruit Bat Fellatio, Whale Snot, and More Weird...
Science The Ig Nobel Prize studies are not a joke, but that's not to say you won't laugh. If the MacArthur "Genius" Grants announced earlier this week were too staid for you, the Ig Nobel Prize (now...
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Carbon Is So Hot Right Now: Chemistry Nobel Awarded for Carbon-Bonding Technique
Science First graphene, now this: Carbon is just the hottest element on the block these days. The 2010 Nobel Prize for Chemistry has just been awarded to three chemists who have come… First graphene,...
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MIT Scientist Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Prove Quantum Computing Is...
Science Scott Aaronson, a scientist at MIT who works mostly with theoretical quantum computers, issued a challenge to all of those deniers out there: prove that "scalable quantum… Scott Aaronson, a...
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Nine Unsuspecting Scientists Win $27 Million in Suddenly Announced...
Science A Russian physics student turned social media billionaire just made theoretical physics the most lucrative thing in science, heaping $3 million apiece on nine researchers. A Russian physics...
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Silicon Valley Tycoons Bestow Surprise $33 Million Prize On 11 Unsuspecting...
Science Because "curing a disease should be worth more than a touchdown." Cori Bargmann's research at the Rockefeller University has shown nematode worms, one of the simplest lab animals in biology,...
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Foundation Offers $1 Million Prize For A Bioengineered Liver
Science The liver has to enable a “large mammal” to live “a normal lifestyle” for at least three months. How much is a liver worth? For someone on a waiting list for a transplant, that might be hard...
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