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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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Genetic 'adam' and 'eve' ncovered
Almost every man alive can trace his origins to one man who lived about 135,000 years ago, new research suggests. And that ancient man likely shared the planet...
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Guided Growth of Nanowires Leads to Self-Integrated Circuits
Researchers say they have created self-integrating nanowires whose position, length, and direction can be fully controlled.
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Want to Be a Professor? Choose Math
Are you an aspiring scientist with quantitative chops and a strong desire for a faculty career?
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How Computer Analysis ncovered J. K. Rowling's Secret Novel
A Duquesne University professor used computer analysis to determine that Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling wrote "The Cuckoo's Calling."
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Zombies Offer Fresh Insight Into Crowd Behaviour
A new computer game simulates a zombie invasion, in order to gather data on crowd behavior and the impact of stress on decision-making.
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Artificial Intellience in Mental Healthcare
The mental healthcare field is seeking to use artificial intelligent agents to provide training, consultation, and treatment services.
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How to Fit 1,000 Terabytes on a Dvd
Researchers have developed a technique that increases the data capacity of a single DVD from 4.7 gigabytes to one petabyte.
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Body-Double: Lifelike Android Demoed at Futuristic Conference
Osaka University Intelligent Robotics Laboratory director Hiroshi Ishiguro showed a robot that looks like him at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress.
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Researchers Reveal Next-Generation Emergency Response Technology
New smartphone apps can virtually place 9-1-1 operators at the scene of an emergency. The software enables operators to remotely control smartphone cameras so they...
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Computer Scientists Grapple With How to Manage the Digital Legacy of the Departed
Current concerns for privacy and access shows a disconnect between the disposition of digital legacies and the technological advancements for generating them.
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How Big Data Helps Big Cities
June 1 marked the first National Day of Civic Hacking, during which cities across the United States invited programmers to come together and improve local government...
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How Evolution May Help Build Better Robots
In the real world, animals have evolved the ability to get from point A to B by galloping, crawling, and jumping. Now, robots in the virtual world have accomplished...
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Touching the Future: Artificial Skin Isn't Sci-Fi
A whisper-thin new pressure sensor could be a step toward creating artificial skin that is able to actually feel.
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Intelligent Robots Will Overtake Humans By 2100, Experts Say
Some computer scientists believe the singularity at which artificial intelligence can match and overtake human intelligence could take place in only 16 years.
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Living in 'the Matrix' Requires Less Brain Power
Neurons called place cells in rat brains function differently when the animals are in virtual reality than when they are in the real world.
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Intelligent Robots Will Overtake Humans By 2100, Experts Say
Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords?
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Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time
In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea.
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Speed of Light May Not Be Constant, Physicists Say
The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes, a consequence of the...
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Google Predicts Stock-Market Crashes, Study Suggests
A new method of predicting whole stock market shifts is based on publicly available data on Google Trends search terms.
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