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Genome Hacker ncovers Largest-Ever Family Tree
Using data pulled from online genealogy sites, a renowned 'genome hacker' has constructed what is likely the biggest family trees ever assembled.
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Brain Decoding: Reading Minds
Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated on the screen of a computer that is trying to decode...
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Researchers Split Over NSA Hacking
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has upset a great many people this year.
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Did a Hyper-Black Hole Spawn the niverse?
It could be time to bid the Big Bang bye-bye. Cosmologists have speculated that the Universe formed from the debris ejected when a four-dimensional star collapsed...
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Gaming Improves Multitasking Skills
Sixty-five-year-old Ann Linsey was starting to worry about how easily she got distracted from whatever she was doing.
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Quantum Paradox Seen in Diamond
A quantum effect named after an ancient Greek puzzle has been observed in diamond, paving the way for the use of diamond crystals in quantum computer chips.
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.s. Brain Project Puts Focus on Ethics
The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his colleagues caused mice to recall...
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Exotic Optics: Metamaterial World
Tom Driscoll would be happy if he never heard the phrase "Harry Potter-style invisibility cloak" again.
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Drones in Science: Fly, and Bring Me Data
The Tempest—wingspan 3.2 metres, cruising speed 75 knots—was designed to fly into severe storms.
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Computer Memory Can Be Read with a Flash of Light
Modern computer-memory technologies come with a trade-off. There is speedy but short-term storage for on-the-fly processing—random-access memory, or RAM—and slow...
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Neuroprosthetics: Once More, With Feeling
Sitting motionless in her wheelchair, paralysed from the neck down by a stroke, Cathy Hutchinson seems to take no notice of the cable rising from the top of her...
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Diamond Shows Promise For Quantum Internet
Today's Internet runs on linked silicon chips, but a future quantum version might be built from diamond crystals.
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Computer Engineering: Feeling the Heat
A laptop computer can double as an effective portable knee-warmer—pleasant in a cold office.
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Quantum Cryptography Conquers Noise Problem
It's hard to stand out from the crowd—particularly if you are a single photon in a sea of millions in an optical fibre.
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Computational Social Science: Making the Links
Jon Kleinberg's early work was not for the mathematically faint of heart.
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Mind-Controlled Robot Arms Show Promise
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature ...
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News Mining Might Have Predicted Arab Spring
You could have foreseen the Arab Spring if only you'd been paying enough attention to the news. That's the claim of a new study that shows how data mining of...
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Full-Field Implementation of a Perfect Eavesdropper on a Quantum Cryptography System
Quantum key distribution allows two remote parties to grow a shared secret key. Its security is founded on the principles of quantum mechanics, but in reality...
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