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Go Players React to Computer Defeat
For decades, the ancient game of Go has stood out as the one board game that computers couldn't crack.
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Enzyme Tweak Boosts Precision of Crispr Genome Edits
A powerful technique for editing genomes is now more precise.
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Japan's Venus Orbiter Makes Comeback
Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft has entered orbit around Venus, five years after its first attempt failed.
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Gene-Editing Summit Supports Some Research in Human Embryos
Gene-editing technology should not be used to modify human embryos that are intended for use in establishing a pregnancy, an international summit declared in a...
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Artificial Intelligence Called In to Tackle Lhc Data Deluge
The next generation of particle-collider experiments will feature some of the world's most advanced thinking machines, if links now being forged between particle...
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Biologists Create More Precise Molecular Scissors For Genome Editing
By tweaking an enzyme that cuts DNA, synthetic biologists say that they can make genome editing even more specific—an essential improvement if the technique is...
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Genome Editing: 7 Facts About a Revolutionary Technology
The ethics of human-genome editing is in the spotlight again as a large international meeting on the topic is poised to kick off in Washington DC.
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Leap-Second Decision Delayed By Eight Years
A leap second is gone in the blink of an eye. But a long-awaited decision on whether to ditch these occasional time insertions—which ensure that official time is...
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Software Predicts Slew of Fiendish Crystal Structures
Sketch the structure of an organic molecule on a napkin and it may not be apparent that there are millions of possible ways that it could assemble as a 3D crystal...
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Artificial-Intelligence Institute Launches Free Science Search Engine
With Google Scholar, PubMed, and other free academic databases at their fingertips, scientists may feel they have plenty of resources to trawl through the ever-growing...
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Vast Cosmic Voids Merge Like Soap Bubbles
Vast regions of near-empty space in the Universe are growing and shrinking, much as bubbles merge and separate in soapsuds, astronomers have discovered.
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Pluto's Geology Is Unlike Any Other
Take a pinch of Mars, a sprinkle of Saturn's moon Iapetus and a dash of Neptune's moon Triton—and the recipe will yield something like Pluto.
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Brain Scans Pinpoint Individuals from a Crowd
Our brains are wired in such distinctive ways that an individual can be identified on the basis of brain-scan images alone, neuroscientists report.
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se of Personalized Cancer Drugs Runs Ahead of the Science
As the costs of genetic sequencing fall, oncologists are starting to prescribe expensive new drugs that target the genetic profiles of their patients' tumours,...
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The Revolution Will Not Be Crystallized: A New Method Sweeps Through Structural Biology
In a basement room, deep in the bowels of a steel-clad building in Cambridge, a major insurgency is under way.
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The Tiniest Lego: A Tale of Nanoscale Motors, Rotors, Switches and Pumps
The robot moves slowly along its track, pausing regularly to reach out an arm that carefully scoops up a component.
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Online Security Braces For Quantum Revolution
Encryption fix begins in preparation for arrival of futuristic computers.
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Quantum 'spookiness' Passes Toughest Test Yet
The toughest test of quantum theory ever conducted has verified "spooky action at a distance" is inherent to the quantum domain.
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Pluto Snow Forecast Poses Atmospheric Conundrum
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft solved many mysteries about Pluto when it flew past the dwarf planet in July. But as mission controllers prepare to steer the probe...
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