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Patients Drive New Wheelchair With Their Tongues
The new Tongue Drive System is a wearable system that enables paralyzed people to control wheelchairs with flicks of their pierced tongues.
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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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Disney Researchers se Automated Analysis to Find Weakness in Soccer Coaching Strategy
Researchers applying artificial intelligence to the analysis of professional soccer have discovered a strategic error often made by coaches of visiting teams.
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Crowdsourcing Weather Using Smartphone Batteries
A team of app developers and weather experts have created a system that crowdsources hundreds of thousands of smartphone temperature readings.
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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 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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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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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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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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