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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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The Search For Life on Mars Is About to Get Weird
Since the dawn of the space age NASA and other agencies have spent billions of dollars to reconnoiter Mars—assailing it with spacecraft flybys, photo-snapping orbiters...
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Ghost in the Sell: Hollywood's Mischievous Vision of AI
Watch enough science fiction movies and you'll probably come to the conclusion that humans are living on borrowed time.
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Brain-Computer Interface Allows Speediest Typing to Date
Ten years ago Dennis Degray's life changed forever when he slipped and fell while taking out the trash in the rain.
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Europa Mission Heralds Sea Change in the Search For Alien Life
It's not something NASA likes to advertise, but ever since its creation in 1958, the space agency has only conducted one direct, focused hunt for extraterrestrial...
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Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Earthquakes?
Predicting earthquakes is the holy grail of seismology.
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Trick of Tweet: Data Tool Pinpoints Words Seen as Credible
Sixty-two percent of Americans get their news from social media, according to a 2016 poll by Pew Research Center.
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150-Year Journey to Alpha Centauri Proposed
Interstellar travel, a timeworn staple of science fiction, can already be science fact if one has cash to spare
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How to Learn Morse Code—semiconsciously
Learning Morse code, with its tappity-tap rhythms of dots and dashes, could take far less effort—and attention—than one might think.
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Trump's Plans to Shake p the Tech World
Donald Trump's ascension to the White House had very little to do with his views on the spread of high-speed broadband, wireless spectrum allocation—or any number...
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Tangled p in Spacetime
"All the world’s a stage…," Shakespeare wrote, and physicists tend to think that way, too.
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New Take on an Ancient Method Improves Way to Find Prime Numbers
Mathematician Harald Helfgott at Germany's University of Gottingen has proposed a way to improve an ancient method for finding prime numbers.
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Human Brain Map Gets a Bold New Update
Most of us think little of hopping on Google Maps to look at everything from a bird's-eye view of an entire continent to an on-the-ground view of a specific street...
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Mind Aglow: Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain
When a single neuron fires, it is an isolated chemical blip. When many fire together, they form a thought.
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Mind-Controlled Robo-Skeleton Enables Paraplegics to Regain Some Motion
Patients paralyzed by a spinal cord injury can face a grim and grueling recovery process—one in which regaining function is far from a sure thing. But a new study...
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Hellish Venus Might Have Been Habitable For Billions of Years
Venus is—without a doubt—Earth's toxic sibling.
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Could Trashing Junk Proteins Quash Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Als and Huntington's?
Although clutter can be a nuisance, it does not typically pose a health threat—unless you're an aging neuron.
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Americans Are Wary About Body-Enhancement Technologies
Emerging technologies that draw from biomedical technology, nanotechnology, information technology and other fields are developing at a rapid pace and may lead...
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When Will Computers Have Common Sense? Ask Facebook
Facebook is well known for its early and increasing use of artificial intelligence.
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Tech Turns to Biology as Data Storage Needs Explode
Researchers have decoded the genomes of mammoths and a 700,000-year-old horse using DNA fragments extracted from fossils in the past few years. DNA clearly persists...
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