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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Quest to Perfect the niversal Language of Science
For millennia, humans have turned to the sky to tell time.
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Cassini's 13 Years of Stunning Saturn Science—in Pictures
Twenty years ago, in the wee hours of a muggy Florida morning, the Cassini spacecraft lit up the skies as it blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
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New App Could se Smartphone Selfies to Screen For Pancreatic Cancer
The BiliScreen app provides pancreatic cancer screening by having users take photos of themselves with a smartphone.
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Shark-Hunting AI-Powered Algorithm to Begin Flying Over Aussie Beaches
SharkSpotter is a new deep learning algorithm that can use real-time video footage streamed from aerial drones to detect sharks and alert swimmers.
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With a Simple Dna Test, family Histories Are Rewritten
Bob Hutchinson's mother told him and his siblings almost nothing about her family, no matter how often they asked. "She was good at brushing people off," said Mr...
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Europe's X-Ray Laser Fires p
Scientists who make movies of molecules in motion have a new high-speed camera to shoot with. The €1.2-billion (US$1.4-billion) European X-ray Free Electron Laser...
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Magnetothermal Genetics: A Fourth Tool in the Brain-Hacking Toolbox
A scientist wanting to hack into an animal's brain used to have three different tools to choose from: electric current, drugs, and light. Now there's a fourth:...
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Accelerating the Mobile Web: 'vroom' Software Could Double Its Speed
Vroom is a new software prototype that works by optimizing the end-to-end interaction between mobile devices and Web servers.
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Computer Algorithm Automatically Recognizes Soccer Formations and Defensive Strategies
Researchers have developed a deep-learning algorithm that automatically recognizes formations of teams when analyzing player tracking data.
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2 to Receive 2017 Acm/ieee George Michael Memorial Hpc Fellowships
The Fellowships honor exceptional Ph.D. students worldwide whose research focuses on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and large-scale data analysis...
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Nasa's Next Mars Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet
Preparation of NASA's next spacecraft to Mars, InSight, has ramped up this summer, on course for launch next May from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California...
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Conditions Like Those Inside Neptune Cause Diamond Formation
Carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen are some of the easiest heavier elements to form through fusion.
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Big Brother Is Watching You
Not only that, facial recognition technologies inform him of who you are and what you did.
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A Game You Can Control With Your Mind
When you pull the headset over your eyes and the game begins, you are transported to a tiny room with white walls.
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Your Broadband Provider Can se Your Smart Devices to Spy on You
How much of your privacy would you trade for a smarter home? Internet service providers (ISPs) can peek at the internet-connected devices people use in their own...
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Even Artificial Neural Networks Can Have Exploitable 'backdoors'
Early in August, NYU professor Siddharth Garg checked for traffic, and put a yellow Post-it onto a stop sign outside the Brooklyn building in which he works.
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For Astronomers, a Neutron Star Merger Could Eclipse the Eclipse
Late last week, as some staff astronomers embarked on trips to see Monday's solar eclipse, two of NASA's space-based observatories—Hubble and Chandra X-ray—and...
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How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
As Earth-observing satellites become more plentiful and climate models more powerful, researchers who study global warming are facing a deluge of data.
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World's First Exascale Supercomputer Will Help Boost China's Growing Sea Power
China is planning to boost its computing power tenfold within a couple of years by building the world's first exascale computer with a dedicated mission of helping...
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