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Supercharged Crime-Scene DNA Analysis Sparks Privacy Concerns
Genetic sleuthing techniques that led to the arrest of a suspect in the infamous Golden State Killer case this year are set to become vastly more powerful, suggest...
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Japanese Rover Lands on Ancient Asteroid for 16-Hour Mission
A third rover has touched down on the surface of asteroid Ryugu, marking a hat-trick of successful landings for the Japanese Hayabusa2 space mission.
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A New Way to Capture the Brain's Electrical Symphony
Biophysicist Adam Cohen was strolling around San Francisco, California, in 2010, when a telephone call caught him by surprise. "We have a signal," said the caller...
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How to Stop Data Centers from Gobbling p the World's Electricity
Upload your latest holiday photos to Facebook, and there's a chance they'll end up stored in Prineville, Oregon, a small town where the firm has built three giant...
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How AI Technology Can Tame the Scientific Literature
When computer scientist Christian Berger's team sought to get its project about self-driving vehicle algorithms on the road, it faced a daunting obstacle.
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Artificial Intelligence Nails Predictions of Earthquake Aftershocks
A machine-learning study that analysed hundreds of thousands of earthquakes beat the standard method at predicting the location of aftershocks.
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Asteroid Ryugu Poses Landing Risks for Japanese Mission
After inspecting asteroid Ryugu for two months, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has revealed the sites where the Hayabusa2 spacecraft will touchdown...
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A Toolkit for Data Transparency Takes Shape
Julia Stewart Lowndes studied metre-long Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), tagging them to track their dives, as a graduate student at Stanford University in California...
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How npaywall Is Transforming Open Science
After being kicked out of a hotel conference room where they had participated in a three-day open-science workshop and hackathon, a group of computer scientists...
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LHC Physicists Embrace Brute-Force Approach to Particle Hunt
A once-controversial approach to particle physics has entered the mainstream at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
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CRISPR 'Barcodes' Map Mammalian Development in Exquisite Detail
For the first time, scientists have wielded CRISPR to track a mammal's development from a single egg into an embryo with millions of cells.
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Thousands of exotic 'Topological' Materials Discovered through Sweeping Search
The already buzzing field of topological physics could be about to explode.
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Entire Yeast Genome Squeezed Into One Lone Chromosome
For millions of years, brewer's yeast and its close relatives have packed their DNA into 16 distinct chromosomes.
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The Hackers Teaching Old DNA Sequencers New Tricks
In a basement storeroom at Stanford University in California, the guts of a dozen DNA sequencers lie exposed—hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cameras and...
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The Ethics of Computer Science: This Researcher Has a Controversial Proposal
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...
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There's Water on Mars! Signs of Buried Lake Tantalize Scientists
A large saltwater lake seems to lurk under ice near Mars's south pole.
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A Record-Breaking Microscope
In a paper Nature, Jiang et al.1 report the highest-magnification image ever obtained using a transmission electron microscope.
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3D Image Reveals Hidden Neurons in Fruit-Fly Brain
Scientists have produced a 3D image of a fruit fly's brain that's so detailed, researchers can trace connections between neurons across the entire organ.
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CRISPR Gene Editing Produces nwanted DNA Deletions
Researchers have embraced CRISPR gene-editing as a method for altering genomes, but some are cautioning that unwanted DNA changes may slip by undetected.
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