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Despite the steady increase in women’s Olympics participation over the past few decades, some believe the time has come to push for true gender equality in terms of medal opportunities.
The Olympics gives spectators permission to say things about athletes’ bodies that they would never say in polite company.
Research done on physical development of high-performing young athletes shows that there are no clear answers despite what anecdotal evidence seems to suggest.
Before the FDA starts meddling with the legality of bio-implants, rogue hackers are pushing the man-machine boundary in an attempt to augment and improve our natural senses.
Software developed for Microsoft's workplace social network, Yammer, can gauge the emotions of employees using the network by analyzing the messages they sent through it.
A lingering problem with renewable energy is that it is not a consistent producer. But a new battery can store energy for later use, making renewables more cost-effective for business.
Several research projects are currently working to make robots more responsive to children's needs, and new research suggests that the physical presence of robots helps kids learn.
The latest US Jobs report diffuses concerns about America heading back in a recession.
Google's attempt at building a piece of hardware to manage your household's digital media flow has been pulled from the shelves, demonstrating the difficulty of all-encompassing technology.
Brent Sherwood of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory wants the agency to take a hard look at its plans to send humans to Mars, perhaps concentrating on colonizing the Moon instead.
A British computational scientist has built a presentation reminiscent of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, this time showing the consequences of the Earth's population boom.
Today's mobile phones are yesterday's supercomputers, which make them powerful enough to suit the needs of aerospace engineers, who want to create a future of micro-satellites.
A new study authored by some of the nation's leading climate scientists suggests that droughts and heat waves since 1980 were caused by anomalously high temperature fluctuations.
Now that Curiosity has safely touched down on the Martian surface, it will get to work calibrating its scientific instruments, which will search for past signs of life on the planet.
An open source text messaging platform developed by Unicef is coordinating humanitarian projects in several African nations, helping to distribute food aid and treat HIV more effectively.
The rise of facial recognition technology has resulted in computers seeing faces in nature where there are none. Does this mean computers are given to the same flaws as humans?
Research shows that cross-generational gameplay can help children learn valuable lessons while simultaneously educating adults about current technology. It's time to get our game on.
Revolutionary software fields students' questions as they arise naturally in the studying process, filling gaps in background knowledge and producing higher exam scores as a result.
"John Quincy Adams said that the United States should be the 'well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all . . . , the champion and vindicator only of her own.'”
Based on data reports, the states that receive the most government funding spend the most per capita, have the highest median household income and highly populated.