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Brain-Controlled Drones Are Here
Panos Artemiadis at Arizona State University's Human-Oriented Robotics and Control Lab says the next three to five years will likely see the advent of unmanned...
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wm-Developed App Helps Protect Patients' Brains During Surgery
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) say they have developed NeuroMapper, a tablet-based application that helps doctors make better decisions...
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Functional Languages Beat Procedural/object-Oriented
Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of California-Davis say they have completed a study evaluating the impact of programming languages...
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Phone-Powered AI Spots Sick Plants With Remarkable Accuracy
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University say they have designed a smartphone-based neural-network program that can automatically identify diseases in the cassava...
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Assessing Regional Earthquake Risk and Hazards in the Age of Exascale
Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are constructing the first-ever end-to-end simulation code to capture the geology...
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'mind-Boggling' Math Could Make Blockchain Work For Wall Street
A major breakthrough in cryptography may have solved one of the biggest obstacles to using blockchain technology on Wall Street: keeping transaction data private...
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A Summer Away From the Keyboard
Three computer science students explain the pros and cons of spending their summer away from coding.
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The Super-Earth that Came Home For Dinner
It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the...
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Cryo-Electron Microscopy Wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
One of the many perks of being human (upright walking, big brains, we can win awards) is our ability to transcend the limits of our senses. Take vision, for instance...
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China Demonstrates Quantum Encryption By Hosting a Video Call
Chinese researchers have completed a practical demonstration of quantum key distribution, showing that it's possible to encrypt and send data between two locations...
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A Field Farmed Only By Drones
Across the United Kingdom, the last of the spring barley has been brought in from the fields, the culmination of an agricultural calendar whose rhythm has remained...
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USC Isi Researchers Poised to Crack the Code on Reducing Workplace Stress
Researchers aim to relieve workplace stress by first understanding its causes.
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A Sea of Spinning Electrons
Researchers say they have found a sea of electrons that spin in opposing circles, a phenomenon known as the chiral spin mode.
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Fast-Moving Magnetic Particles Could Enable New Form of Data Storage
Researchers have shown they can create tiny disturbances in magnetic orientation at will in specific locations, which they say could be used to make a more efficient...
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Improving K–12 Computer Science Education
Code.org estimates fewer than half of U.S. K-12 schools offer computer science courses, which a 2016 Google-Gallup survey elevates to 75% when accounting for after...
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Two Intelligent Vehicles Are Better Than One
Researchers are working to improve intelligent vehicle systems by combining the data collected by such a vehicle with that collected from other intelligent vehicles...
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Collaborative Software Development Made Easy
Sebastian Neubert, a particle physicist at Heidelberg University in Germany, leads a group studying subatomic particles called pentaquarks. The six team members...
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Scientists in Mexico Scramble to Deploy Seismic Sensors
Late one night in September, Victor Cruz, a geophysicist at Mexico's National Autonomous University, submitted an article to a scientific journal describing progress...
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How a 130-Year-Old Technology Led to a Nobel Prize
In 1887, Albert Michelson built an experiment that he hoped would lead to the detection of luminiferous ether.
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