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NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua'
In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua,' the first known interstellar object to visit our solar...
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World’s First Automated Volcano Forecast Predicts Mount Etna's Eruptions
Smoke filled the cabin as the Boeing 747 plunged towards snow-covered mountains in southern Alaska. All four engines had shut down, and it took the pilots eight...
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Say Au Revoir to that Hunk of Metal in France that Has Defined the Kilogram
The world is about to say au revoir to Le Grand K, a cylinder of platinum and iridium that has long reigned over the world's system of weight measurement.
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Where Will Science Take s? To the Stars
After 30 hours of bumping along on planes and buses, at long last I stood in the darkness and gazed upon an immense night sky.
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'Reprogrammed' Stem Cells Implanted Into Patient with Parkinson's Disease
Japanese neurosurgeons have implanted 'reprogrammed' stem cells into the brain of a patient with Parkinson's disease for the first time.
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NASA's ARIA Maps California Wildfires from Space
California continues to be plagued by wildfires, including the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in Northern California, now one of the deadliest...
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Social Media Companies Grapple with New Forms of Political Misinformation
Social media companies are struggling to contain new forms of political misinformation on their platforms that bubbled up during this year's midterm elections. ...
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pgraded S Supercomputers Claim Top Two Spots on Top500 List
The US now can claim the top two machines on a list of the 500 fastest supercomputers, as Sierra, an IBM machine for nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore...
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Rough-and-Ready Quantum Memory May Link Disparate Quantum Systems
I'm a simple person. To me, a computer consists of three parts: data that goes in and out, operations that modify the data, and storage that holds the data.
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To Keep Pace With Moore's Law, Chipmakers Turn to 'Chiplets'
In 2016, the chip industry's clock ran out.
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Google in China: When 'Don't Be Evil' Met the Great Firewall
If you're planning on moving to China anytime soon, here's a piece of advice: Get yourself a WeChat account.
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In the Age of A.I., Is Seeing Still Believing?
In 2011, Hany Farid, a photo-forensics expert, received an e-mail from a bereaved father.
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A Robot Scientist Will Dream p New Materials to Advance Computing and Fight Pollution
In a laboratory that overlooks a busy shopping street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a robot is attempting to create new materials.
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ESA's Gravity-Mapper Reveals Relics of Ancient Continents nder Antarctic Ice
It was five years ago this month that ESA's GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure—giving...
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IBM Boasts Single-Atom Two-Bit Memory
This accomplishment will feed research on developing atomic-scale devices for storing digital bits, and the storage of quantum bits in the magnetic spin of atomic...
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Talent Gap Widens as Firms Battle for AI, Data Skills
A new study predicts demand for information technology workers will outstrip supply, due to growth in digital technologies, tighter labor markets, and few workers...
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Will NASA's Next Mission to Venus Be a Balloon?
After decades of neglect, hellish and cloud-enveloped Venus—sometimes called Earth's evil twin—is a world ready and waiting for renewed exploration.
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Chinese 'Gait Recognition' Tech IDs People by How They Walk
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them,...
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E.T., We're Home
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into...
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