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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Dual-Function Nanorod Leds Could Make Multifunctional Displays
New light-emitting diode arrays can both emit and detect light.
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Algorithm Can Create a Bridge Between Clinton and Trump Supporters
Scientists have proposed an algorithmic solution to minimize societal polarization by linking people with opposing viewpoints and assessing them on Twitter.
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Software Helps Musicians Stop Slouching By Ruining Their Music
New software identifies when musicians' posture is poor and gives them an audible notification.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Earthquakes?
Predicting earthquakes is the holy grail of seismology.
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Liar, Liar, Brain on Fire
Brain scans appear to be better at discerning lies than polygraphs are.
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Engineers, Computer Scientists Team p to Improve Particle Simulations For Aerospace, More
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are using a $3-million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to use advanced supercomputing to improve particle...
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Now You Can 'build Your Own' Bio-Bot
A team of researchers has released a protocol for designing and building "bio-bots" powered by muscle cells and controlled with light and electrical signals.
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Protecting Bulk Power Systems From Hackers
New research explores worst-case scenarios in which hackers exploit security weaknesses in the electrical grid to cause equipment failure and blackouts.
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AI Predicts Autism From Infant Brain Scans
Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill have detected brain growth changes linked to autism in children as young as six months old.
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Novel Technique Tracks More Web sers Across Browsers
Researchers say they have developed the first cross-browser fingerprinting technique using machine-level features to identify users.
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Broad Institute Wins Bitter Battle Over Crispr Patents
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has upheld a series of patents granted for the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to the Broad Institute of MIT and...
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The Need For a Digital Geneva Convention
Responding to the rise in nation-state cybersecurity attacks.
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Observations Catch a Supernova Three Hours After It Exploded
The skies are full of transient events.
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Apple vs. Fbi One Year Later: Still Stuck in Limbo
It's been a year since Apple fought the FBI over data privacy, and we've barely heard a peep from either side on the issue.
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Pushing Boundaries
The recent Women in Data Science Conference provided a forum for female data scientists to discuss a range of topics in the field.
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A Chip Flaw Strips Away Hacking Protections For Millions of Devices
The VUSec team at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands has demonstrated an exploit that undercuts a basic safeguard used in all modern operating...
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New Software Will Standardize Data Collection For Great White Sharks
Researchers collaborated on software that helps researchers collect and manage data on great white sharks spotted along the coast.
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Success By Deception
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland say they have refined machine learning by deliberately misleading intelligent machines.
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Robotic Bee Could Help Pollinate Crops as Real Bees Decline
Researchers have created a drone that transports pollen between flowers.
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