Archive for the ‘Science & Technology’ Category

Human memory could work more like Google one day, says Gary Marcus.

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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two of IBM’s most senior executives, technology strategy chief Nick Donofrio and hardware chief Bill Zeitler, will retire later this year, an IBM memo showed on Monday.

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Creationists are pushing “academic freedom” bills in state legislatures that guarantee science teachers will not be disciplined if they choose to critique evolution.

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A UK government scientist questions the wisdom of switching to biofuels when they may do more harm to the climate than fossil fuels

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The Abel Prize, generally considered the ‘Nobel’ of mathematics, has been won this year by two mathematicians whose work has helped to classify the building blocks of symmetry.

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