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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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Investments Boost Neurotechnology Career Prospects
Mark Cembrowski was a graduate student in applied mathematics with a taste for neurobiology at Northwestern University when he discovered a way to marry his two...
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World Cup Kickoff Looms For Demo of Brain-Controlled Machine
During the World Cup next week, there may be 1 minute during the opening ceremony when the boisterous stadium crowd in São Paulo falls silent: when a paraplegic...
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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A Face to Remember
Researchers have developed a way to change profile photos to highlight a person's most memorable facial features.
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Careers in Statistics Evolve and Expand
Workers with statistics backgrounds have long been in healthy demand for academic, actuarial, pharmaceutical, or government jobs.
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Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives
Most magnets shrug off tiny temperature tweaks.
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2013 Visualization Challenge
With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...
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Which Genes Did We Get From Neandertals?
Tens of thousands of years ago along the balmy Mediterranean coast, or in some desert oasis in the Middle East, a hunky Neandertal male lusted after a modern human...
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Findings From Data Management Pilot Announced
The Southeastern Universities Research Association recently announced the findings of the collaborative Dataverse Network project.
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Computers Can Be Hacked Using High-Frequency Sound
Using the microphones and speakers that come standard in many of today's laptop computers and mobile devices, hackers can secretly transmit and receive data using...
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New Results Send Mars Rover on a Quest For Ancient Life
When the Curiosity rover landed in Gale crater 16 months ago, its goal was to find a place on Mars that was habitable 4 billion years ago.
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In Cyberarms Race, North Korea Emerging As a Power, Not a Pushover
Often dismissed as a laggard in the global cyberarms race, North Korea has long been seen as a chronic cyber-superpower wannabe.
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Wormhole Is Best Bet For Time Machine, Astrophysicist Says
The concept of a time machine typically conjures up images of an implausible plot device used in a few too many science-fiction storylines.
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Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?
David Holz took the main stage at this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the annual innovation conference in Austin, Texas, looking like a hobbit on casual...
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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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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 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
Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords?
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