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Ancestryai Algorithm Traces Your Family Tree Back More Than 300 Years
Researchers have developed a family tree artificial intelligence algorithm that looks for connections between 5 million baptisms from the end of the 17th century...
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So Long Stiffness: Stanford Engineers se Soup Additive to Create a Stretchable Plastic Electrode
Stanford University researchers have demonstrated how to take a brittle plastic and modify it chemically to make it much more flexible, while slightly enhancing...
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What If Quantum Computers sed Hard Drives Made of Dna?
You've heard the hype: The quantum computer revolution is coming. Physicists say these devices will be fast enough to break every encryption method banks use today...
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It's Possible to Hack a Phone With Sound Waves, Researchers Show
A security loophole that would allow someone to add extra steps to the counter on your Fitbit monitor might seem harmless. But researchers say it points to the...
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Synthetic Yeast Chromosomes Help Probe Mysteries of Evolution
Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould once pondered what would happen if the cassette "tape of life" were rewound and played again.
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Tim Berners-Lee: I Invented the Web. Here Are Three Things We Need to Change to Save It
World Wide Web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns of three trends to be overcome in order to sustain the Web as beneficial for everyone.
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The Quest to Crystallize Time
Christopher Monroe spends his life poking at atoms with light.
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Cassini Reveals Strange Shape of Saturn's Moon Pan
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of...
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Counting Microbes on a Smartphone
Researchers have developed a smartphone app which they say provides a cost-effective and accurate alternative to the traditionally labor-intensive task of counting...
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Artificial Intelligence and Robots to Make Offshore Wind Farms Safer and Cheaper
A consortium in the U.K. is investigating artificial intelligence and other technologies to enhance offshore wind farms.
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Can Amazon Echo Help Solve a Murder? Police Will Soon Find Out.
A 2015 Arkansas murder case that had raised privacy questions surrounding "always-on" electronic home devices took a step forward last week after Amazon agreed...
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New Nasa Radar Technique Finds Lost Lunar Spacecraft
Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth's orbit can be a technological challenge.
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Amoeba-Like Robot Programmed With Dna
Researchers have developed a tiny robotic system that is programmed and controlled by DNA and moves like a living cell.
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Researchers Can Predict Terrorist Behaviors With More Than 90 Percent Accuracy
The Networked Pattern Recognition Framework works to predict future terrorist behaviors by defining past attack patterns.
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Predicting Lawsuits
Deep learning yields the ability to forecast the potential for litigation.
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Magnetic Hard Drives Go Atomic
Chop a magnet in two, and it becomes two smaller magnets.
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How the Cia's Hacking Hoard Makes Everyone Less Secure
When Wikileaks yesterday released a trove of documents purporting to show how the CIA hacks everything from smartphones to PCs to smart televisions, the agency's...
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Aging Faces Could Increase Security Risks
Researchers are studying how facial aging affects the performance of automatic facial-recognition systems and what implications this could have on identifying criminals...
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Quantum Microscope Offers Mri For Molecules
A quantum microscope that uses a sensor built from diamonds could allow researchers to study such nanoscale mysteries as how DNA folds in a cell, why drugs work...
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