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What Starlight Teaches S About Space (pretty Much Everything)
In the southern sky, there is a constellation called Centaurus, its arms outstretched and its flanks straddling the famous Southern Cross.
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How Machine Learning Can Help With Voice Disorders
A new diagnostic approach using machine learning could help detect speech disorders exacerbated by vocal misuse.
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Colors From Darkness: Researchers Develop Alternative Approach to Quantum Computing
Aalto University researchers in Finland have demonstrated the suitability of microwave signals in the coding of information for quantum computing.
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Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research
A lonely 3-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) mountain on Ceres is likely volcanic in origin, and the dwarf planet may have a weak, temporary atmosphere.
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How Maggots Are Influencing the Future of Robotics
The European Union-funded MINIMAL project says the learning processes of fruit fly larva (maggots) could have important applications for technology.
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.s. State Department Tackles Gender Gap in STEM Participation
The U.S. Department of State is seeking to address the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math fields.
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Poker-Playing AI 'bot' Carries Long-Range Impact
Florida International University professor Sam Ganzfried says computer poker research generates ideas that are starting to have applications in medicine and security...
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Building a New Tor that Can Resist Next-Generation State Surveillance
Since Edward Snowden stepped into the limelight from a hotel room in Hong Kong three years ago, use of the Tor anonymity network has grown massively.
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A Call From Outer Space, or a Cosmic Wrong Number?
It's probably just a piece of cosmic spam, the astrophysical equivalent of butt dialing. But nobody really knows for sure.
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Inferring rban Travel Patterns From Cellphone Data
A new computational system can use cellphone location data to infer urban mobility patterns.
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New Digital Antenna Could Revolutionize the Future of Mobile Phones
Aalto University researchers have developed a method that enables antennas to make the shift from the analog to the digital world.
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Graphene Key to Two-Dimensional Semiconductor With Extraordinary Properties
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University say they have developed a method for making two-dimensional materials that could lead to new properties for nitrides...
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This AI Software Can Tell If You're at Risk From Cancer Before Symptoms Appear
Artificial intelligence software developed by researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute in Texas can accurately predict breast cancer risk.
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Intelligent Technology--the Evolution and Future of Automation
Researchers argue core principles of automation and artificial intelligence must be reconsidered as the world experiences an information technology shift.
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So Much for Counter-Phishing Training: Half of People Click Anything Sent to Them
Security experts often talk about the importance of educating people about the risks of "phishing" e-mails containing links to malicious websites. But sometimes...
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Revealed: Google's Plan For Quantum Computer Supremacy
Somewhere in California, Google is building a device that will usher in a new era for computing.
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Forget Software: Now Hackers Are Exploiting Physics
Practically every word we use to describe a computer is a metaphor.
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The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors
Transistors, the electronic amplifiers and switches found at the heart of everything from pocket radios to warehouse-size supercomputers, were invented in 1947.
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