Topic: Bell Laboratories Inc.
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Will America kill the curiosity that sent the rover to Mars?
The landing of the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity on Mars marks a historic triumph for NASA, space exploration, and American innovation. But the endangered state of curiosity-driven basic research endangers America’s capacity for future innovations.
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The Reformed Broker
Can Cameron Marlow save Facebook?Cameron Marlow's group has 12 researchers. They apply math, programming skills, and social science to mine our data for insights that they hope will advance Facebook's business and social science at large.
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The Monitor's View: From DARPA to Google, the search for sources of innovation
Regina Dugan, the head of the Pentagon's research arm, is going to Google. What her move means in the global race for innovation.
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The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
How humans handle information has been a theme – and a concern – throughout the ages.
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Why everyone wants Google's high-speed Internet access
Some 1,100 communities are vying for a network that delivers high-speed Internet access, courtesy of Google – though most aren't sure exactly what benefits it will deliver.
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Discoveries
Unexplained static from the edge of the universeScientists have discovered a mysterious static coming from everywhere in the sky; it's coming from the edge of the universe; and they have no clue what it is.
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Asia trumping US on science R&D
Federal funding for research has been falling in real terms. Is the nation's economic edge at stake?
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Asia trumping US on science R&D
Federal funding for research has been falling in real terms. Is the nation’s economic edge at stake?
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