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Real Tremors, or Drug-Seeking Patient? New App Can Tell
A new app is designed to measure the strength of patients' tremors, providing objective guidance to direct treatment decisions.
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New Degree Program Is Big Test For Mooc-Style Higher Ed
An online masters degree program at the Georgia Institute of Technology shows potential for success with a massively open online course (MOOC) curriculum.
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Researchers Get $1.5 Million to Develop Solar Astronomy Data on Larger Scale
Researchers have been awarded a $1.5-million U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop software tools that can process large sets of solar astronomy data...
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New Smartphone App Can Detect Newborn Jaundice in Minutes
BiliCam is a new smartphone application that checks for jaundice in newborns and can deliver results to parents and doctors within minutes.
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Chinese Scientists Create Robot Arm Powered By Thought That Can Play Rock-Paper-Scissors
Zhejiang University researchers have equipped a patient with a special robotic arm that she can control with the power of her thoughts.
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Google Backs Second Quantum Computing Effort
Scientists can't seem to agree on what a quantum computer is. But the uncertainty hasn't deterred Google from backing a second major effort in the field.
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Brainy, Yes, but Far From Handy
In factories and warehouses, robots routinely outdo humans in strength and precision.
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Multiple Standards Hinder Growth of Wireless Charging
Three standards organizations promote two core technologies for charging mobile devices (and even electric cars) without plugging them in.
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Isis Displaying a Deft Command of Varied Media
The extremists who have seized large parts of Syria and Iraq have riveted the world's attention with their military prowess and unrestrained brutality.
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'face Time' For the Heart Diagnoses Cardiac Disease
New software can show whether or not an individual is experiencing atrial fibrillation.
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California, Texas Serve as Testing Grounds For Open Source Voting Technology
Several counties in California and Texas are hoping open source voting will be the solution to electronic voting machines now reaching the end of their lifespans...
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Student-Built Apps Teach Colleges a Thing or Two
College students across the United States have been developing their own apps, sometimes to great success.
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Finding the 'holy Grail' of Making Smarter Robots
Robots that can learn how to do just about anything, including anticipating what their human owners are about to do, may be lurking around the corner if scientists...
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Beyond Silicon: Transistors For the Future
A prototype transistor can operate on lower voltage than standard CMOS devices while maintaining high performance and power efficiency.
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The Final Isa Showdown: Is Arm, X86, or Mips Intrinsically More Power Efficient?
One of the canards that’s regularly trotted out in discussions of ARM vs. x86 processors is the idea that ARM chips are intrinsically more power efficient thanks...
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Memory Reformat Planned For Opportunity Mars Rover
An increasing frequency of computer resets on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has prompted the rover team to make plans to reformat the rover's flash...
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Baby X, The Intelligent Toddler Simulation, Is Getting Smarter Every Day
Holding a children's picture book up to his computer screen, a researcher for the Auckland Bioengineering Institute Laboratory for Animate Technologies in New Zealand...
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Experiment Tests Whether niverse Is a Hologram
The search for the fundamental units of space and time has officially begun.
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Bombarded By Information, Scientists Review New Ways to Analyze Big Data
The big data era is being propelled by massive amounts of unstructured data, continuously produced and stored at a decreasing cost. That has resulted in scientific...
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