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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Faces from Ancient Egypt Coming Back to Life in Extraordinary Detail
Researchers at the U.K.'s Liverpool John Moores University and Egypt's Cairo University used software and a "reverse aging" process to replicate ancient Egyptian...
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Black Hole Hunters: Q&A With Katie Bouman
Scientists have revealed the first-ever image of a black hole. The picture is the result of a global collaboration in which scientists linked together telescopes...
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How China Landed the Change'4 Rover on the Far Side of the Moon
The Chinese National Space Administration placed its Chang'e-4 lander and rover on the far side of the Moon.
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You Will Be Replaced. Here's How
Route 9 skims by Boston and cuts clear across Massachusetts to Pittsfield, a city of roughly 50,000, the largest in Berkshire County.
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Scientists Create a 'Social Network of Brains'
Sending your thoughts directly into someone else's brain may seem like the stuff of science fiction. But this capability could be closer to reality than you think...
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This Is the Brightest Early niverse Object Ever Seen
A galaxy spinning around a hungry supermassive black hole that's guzzling down matter and shooting out plasma jets has grabbed the attention of astronomers 13 billion...
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Colliding Wormholes May Be Causing Gravitational Waves
One of the most significant scientific developments of recent times has been the five separate observations of the elusive ripples in space-time known as gravitational...
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New Horizons Is Awake Again to Fly by Distant Object
A nice nap always makes a long journey more bearable—and that's even more true when the journey covers billions of miles.
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Editing Memories and Sensations in the Brain With Tech
What if we had the ability to fool our brain into thinking that we'd experienced something that never happened?
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China: Police sing Facial-Recognition Sunglasses
The Chinese government is equipping its police with real-time facial-recognition sunglasses to instantly locate criminals in crowds.
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Can We Make a Hack-Proof Internet with Quantum Physics?
Is it possible to build a network that's impossible to hack? Quantum physicists believe it might.
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Gigantic Ice Spikes on Pluto Trace Climate
Pluto's Bladed Terrain is just as welcoming as the name sounds. The landscape type, which is found only in the high elevation areas around the dwarf planet's equator...
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Planet 9 Is Not a Stolen Exoplanet, So What Is It?
Scientists believe there may be a huge planet sitting at the far reaches of the solar system. Since new evidence of Planet 9's existence emerged a few years ago...
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Nasa's Voyager Missions Could Guide Aliens to Earth
The 40th anniversary of the launch of two of NASA's most remarkable spacecraft is fast approaching.
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Half of Milky Way's Matter Comes from Distant Galaxies
Up to half of the Milky Way is made up of matter that came from distant galaxies, having been ejected from its home during supernova explosions.
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Nasa Catches Glimpse of Ancient and Elusive Object
NASA just caught a glimpse of the mysterious and elusive object that its New Horizons spacecraft will visit next.
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Inside Earth, Visualized: Hd Video Models Planet's Core
Were it not for our Earth's magnetic field, the planet would be bombarded by charged particles from the sun.
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New Natural Selection: How Scientists Are Altering Dna to Genetically Engineer New Forms of Life
Before human beings wrote books or did math or composed music, we made leather.
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How Quantum Physics Will Change Cybersecurity
Quantum physics is an often mind-boggling branch of science filled with strange behavior and bizarre implications.
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