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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Why Coding Is Your Child's Key to nlocking the Future
An increasing number of educators and activists are pushing to make programming a part of all children's basic education.
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Zero Downtime For Gnss Applications
The CALIBRA project team has developed new solutions for ionospheric disturbance, which can affect the positioning of global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)...
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sing Smartphones to Avoid Spatial Disorientation of Elderly
Researchers have turned to network operating technologies to locate and send alerts to elderly people with mild cognitive impairment during episodes of disorientation...
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Team Develops Faster, Higher Quality 3D Camera
Researchers have developed a three-dimensional capture camera they say is inexpensive, produces high-quality images, and works in all environments.
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You Can't Backdoor a Platform
According to law enforcement and intelligence agencies, encryption should come with a backdoor.
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Smartphone Secrets May Be Better Than a Password
Before you read this story, try to answer the following question: Who was the first person to text you today?
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Mercury Mission Set to End with Dramatic Crash
On 30 April, after more than four years in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER probe will plunge to its doom.
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Researchers Plan to Demonstrate a Wireless Car Hack This Summer
A note of caution to anyone who works on the security team of a major automobile manufacturer: Don't plan your summer vacation just yet.
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Security Experts Hack Teleoperated Surgical Robot
University of Washington in Seattle researchers are studying the issues associated with the communications technology involved in telesurgery.
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Soggy Computing: Liquid Devices Might Match the Brain's Efficiency
Researchers are studying a class of materials capable of switching from an insulating state to a conductive, metallic one.
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Iowa State Researchers Test Brain Activity to Identify Cybersecurity Threats
Iowa State University researchers are working to better understand internal cybersecurity threats by measuring brain activity.
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Australian Researchers Reveal Graphene 3D Display Tech
Graphene is at the center of a new technique for creating three-dimensional (3D) holographic displays featured in films such as "Star Wars" and "Avatar."
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Rosetta Captures Stunning New Images of Comet's Surface and Activity
What happens when you make a low-level flyby of a cometary nucleus?
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Online Discussion Forums Good For Well-Being, Study Shows
New research associates online forums with positive well-being and even increased community engagement offline.
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Prosthetics That Can Feel, Thanks to the Science of Touch
In 2012, Pennsylvania native Jan Scheuermann ate the most satisfying bite of chocolate of her life.
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Project Elysium Wants to se Vr to Revive Deceased Loved Ones
How far is too far when it comes to pushing the boundaries of virtual reality?
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nforgettable Hubble Space Telescope Photos
"This is a really new birthplace of stars," Jennifer Wiseman, senior project scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope, said of the new image, which shows a cluster...
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Ethics of Embryo Editing Paper Divides Scientists
In the wake of the first ever report that scientists have edited the genomes of human embryos, experts cannot agree on whether the work was ethical. They also disagree...
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Ccny Researchers se Novel Polarization to Increase Data Speeds
City College of New York researchers have developed an unconventional method for increasing data transmission speeds.
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