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Engineers Built a Stable Quantum Silicon Chip From Artificial Atoms
Researchers have found a way to make artificial atoms on a silicon chip more stable by drawing in additional electrons to the atoms' outer shell, which could produce...
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Brazil Takes a Page From China, Taps Facial Recognition to Solve Crime
Brazil is following China's example and adopting facial-recognition technology to crack down on crime.
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Robot Submarine Snaps First Images at Foundation of Antarctic Glacier
A robotic submarine captured the first-ever images of the foundations on the ocean floor of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica.
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New Insights Into How the Human Brain Solves Complex Decision-Making Problems
A new study helps explain how the human brain adapts to complexity in learning and decision-making.
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The Easy Route the Easy Way: Chip Calculates the Shortest Distance in an Instant
A new chip uses special components to calculate the possible shortest distance to traverse up to 22 cities in a short period of time.
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Deep Learning Expands Study of Nuclear Waste Remediation
Researchers have achieved exaflop performance on the Summit supercomputer.
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AI System Evolves to Evade Internet Censorship
A artificial intelligence system based on genetic evolution has learned to automatically evade online censorship by repressive governments.
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RoboBee Powered by Soft Muscles
Researchers have developed a resilient RoboBee powered by soft artificial muscles that can experience collisions without being damaged.
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Artificial Networks Shed Light on Human Face Recognition
Researchers have gained new insights on humans' ability to recognize faces, through the use of deep neural networks.
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Self-Folding 'Rollbot' Paves the Way for Fully Untethered Soft Robots
New soft robotic systems inspired by origami can move and change shape in response to external stimuli.
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Computer Model May Help to More Accurately Predict Volcano Eruptions
Scientists at the GFZ German Research Center in Potsdam, Germany, have developed a computer model which they say boosts the accuracy of volcanic eruption prediction...
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AI Radar System Can Spot Miniature Drones 3km Away
A new radar system can detect subminiature drones up to 3 kilometers (nearly 2 miles) away.
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German Scientists Pull Off Autonomous Aircraft Landing
C2Land is an automated landing system that uses GPS for flight control, but does not require any ground-based antennas.
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How to Evaluate Computers that Don't Quite Exist
A team of researchers compared quantum computers developed by IBM, Rigetti Computing, and the University of Maryland.
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A Single Punctuation Mark Has Been Skewing Our Entire System of Scientific Ranking
A study has determined that academic papers with hyphens in their titles are counted less frequently in citation-tallying datasets.
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Database Partitioning Method Supports High-Performance Data Processing
Researchers have developed a core technology that supports fast, efficient large-scale data analysis.
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CSL Researchers Add 'Time-Travel' Feature to Solid State Drives to Fight Ransomware Attacks
Researchers have demonstrated how to use the commodity storage devices already in conventional computers to protect files against ransomware attacks.
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For the First Time, Engineers Measure Accuracy of 2 Qubits in Silicon--and It Works
Researchers have quantified the accuracy of two-quantum-bit operations in silicon, in another step toward reliable quantum computing.
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Robot Precisely Moves Objects It's Never Seen Before
Researchers have developed a system that allows robots to do many different pick-and-place tasks, without having ever seen the objects with which they are interacting...
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