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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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All Hacking Eyes on the Prize Money at Cansecwest
When it comes to hacking, it turns out that greed really is good.
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Scientists Build Thinnest-Possible Leds to Be Stronger, More Energy Efficient
University of Washington researchers say they have developed the thinnest-known light-emitting diode that can be used as a source of light energy in electronics...
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Chipmaking: When Silicon Leaves the Valley
Researchers are pursuing new ways of making chips, as it grows increasingly difficult to fit more transistors onto a silicon wafer.
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Stanford Lab Yields New Privacy-Based Social Network
The new Omlet social network allows users complete control over their personal data.
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AI Researcher Says Amoral Robots Pose a Danger to Humanity
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professor Selmer Bringsjord says understanding morality is increasingly important as robots become smarter and more autonomous. ...
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Facebook Feelings Are Contagious, Study Shows
Researchers found that positive Facebook posts encouraged positive posts and negative posts produced negative ones.
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Researchers Exchange Mooc Results in Learning@scale Conference
Nearly 200 attendees from both computer science and learning science met to exchange research on MOOCs at the first annual ACM Learning@Scale Conference in Atlanta...
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How Did Life Arise? Fuel Cells May Have Answers
How life arose from the toxic and inhospitable environment of our planet billions of years ago remains a deep mystery.
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Where in the Solar System Are We Most Likely to Find Life?
Last week, NASA announced one of its most exciting missions in recent memory: a plan to visit Europa, one of Jupiter's largest moons.
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The Search For Aliens Is Just Getting Started
Over the past 50 years, several SETI projects have scoured the cosmos but have yet to turn up anything conclusive. What do you make of this cosmic radio-silence...
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Robot Project Aims to Help Doctors Diagnose Human Stroke Victims
Researchers are developing spring-loaded muscles for the Roboy robot.
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Women of Color Nurture Minority Girls' Interest in STEM
Women represent a small fraction of those in science, technology, engineering, and math, and minority women even less, a National Science Foundation study finds...
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Diagnosing Diseases With Smart Phones
Researchers are developing a disease diagnostic system that offers results that could be read using a smartphone and an inexpensive lens attachment.
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Collecting Digital User Data Without Invading Privacy
Privada is a new a cryptographic method that makes it possible to simultaneously collect data and protect the privacy of the user.
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Stanford Students Show Phone Record Surveillance Can Yield Vast Amounts of Information
The National Security Agency's mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the...
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Soft Robotic Fish Moves Like the Real Thing
Soft robots—which don’t just have soft exteriors but are also powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels—have become a sufficiently popular research topic...
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Women in It: The Next Generation
The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory is working to improve the image of computer science by training the next generation of STEM workers.
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Taking an Age-Old Approach to i
Web and app designers need to be mindful of the changing capabilities of aging users.
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Gps Tech Built to Find Missing Aircraft Not Always Used
Aviation experts have cited multiple possible reasons for the problems in the multi-country effort to locate the Malaysia Airlines jetliner that dropped off the...
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