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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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AI-Controlled Brain Implants For Mood Disorders Tested in People
Brain implants that deliver electrical pulses tuned to a person's feelings and behaviour are being tested in people for the first time. Two teams funded by the...
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Small Group Scoops International Effort to Sequence Huge Wheat Genome
The wheat genome is finally complete.
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Crispr Hacks Enable Pinpoint Repairs to Genome
The toolbox for editing genes expanded this week, as two research groups announced techniques that enable researchers to make targeted alterations to DNA and RNA...
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The Shape of Work to Come
Last year, entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun set out to augment his sales force with artificial intelligence.
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Supercomputer Redesign of Aeroplane Wing Mirrors Bird Anatomy
Engineers have used a supercomputing technique that mimics natural selection to design the internal structure of an aircraft wing from scratch.
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Collaborative Software Development Made Easy
Sebastian Neubert, a particle physicist at Heidelberg University in Germany, leads a group studying subatomic particles called pentaquarks. The six team members...
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The Drug-Maker's Guide to the Galaxy
In 2016, the pharmaceutical firm Sunovion gave a group of seasoned employees an unusual assignment.
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Cassini Crashes Into Saturn but Could Still Deliver Big Discoveries
At 4:55 a.m. California time on 15 September, hundreds of scientists watched their life's work go up in flames.
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Global Fingerprints of Sea-Level Rise Revealed By Satellites
As an ice sheet melts, it leaves a unique signature behind. Complex geological processes distribute the meltwater in a distinct pattern, or 'fingerprint', thatthese...
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Geneticists Pan Paper that Claims to Predict a Person's Face from Their Dna
A storm of criticism has rained down on a paper by genome-sequencing pioneer Craig Venter that claims to predict people's physical traits from their DNA.
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Plot a Course Through the Genome
Chromatin does much more than just keep DNA neat and tidy.
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Cassini's 13 Years of Stunning Saturn Science—in Pictures
Twenty years ago, in the wee hours of a muggy Florida morning, the Cassini spacecraft lit up the skies as it blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
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Europe's X-Ray Laser Fires p
Scientists who make movies of molecules in motion have a new high-speed camera to shoot with. The €1.2-billion (US$1.4-billion) European X-ray Free Electron Laser...
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How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
Researchers are combining artificial intelligence and climate science to create deep-learning analyses of weather patterns.
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How Machine Learning Could Help to Improve Climate Forecasts
As Earth-observing satellites become more plentiful and climate models more powerful, researchers who study global warming are facing a deluge of data.
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Ultra-Small Antennas Point Way to Miniature Brain Implants
Metal antennas that send and receive TV signals and radio waves could soon be replaced by tiny films up to one hundred times smaller, scientists say.
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Mysteries of Turbulence nravelled
"When I meet God, I'm going to ask him two questions: why relativity? And why turbulence? I really believe he'll have an answer for the first."
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China Launches Brain-Imaging Factory
Neuroscientists who painstakingly map the twists and turns of neural circuitry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an industrial scale.
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Artificial Intelligence Identifies Plant Species For Science
Computer algorithms trained on the images of thousands of preserved plants have learned to automatically identify species that have been pressed, dried and mounted...
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