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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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Body of Knowledge
Some medical schools are turning to virtual reality to enable students to learn from cadaver dissection.
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Dumbing It Down in the Cockpit
Long gone are the leather jackets, goggles, and silk scarves flung over the shoulders of aviators who wrestled with flight controls, furiously scanned instruments...
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Build Something
Research has found that giving students a sense of the usefulness of their studies to the greater world can help improve learning. For the computer sciences one...
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Study: Swedish Boys Are Learning English From World of Warcraft
Swedish children, especially boys, may be learning more English during a late-night Minecraft session than from struggling through hours of homework.
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How Not to Build a Brain
Building a brain sounds like a worthy goal, one that makes it seem as though the future is within reach.
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Impostoritis: A Lifelong, but Treatable, Condition
The female president of Harvey Mudd College on how women in STEM can cope with feeling like they don’t belong.
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How to Fix the Gender Gap in Technology
Women currently hold 27 percent of all computer science jobs, down from 30 percent 10 years ago, and they account for just 20 percent of undergraduate computer...
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Why You Should Care About Robocup
This month, soccer fans are glued to Euro 2012. But another prestigious championship is about to kick off, too. The game is slower—much slower—and the players fall...
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What Geography Can Teach S About Basketball
The annual Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, created in 2006, has become something like Bonnaroo for sports nerds. And if there was a breakout star at this year's...
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The Other Academic Freedom Movement
In the summer of 1991, Paul Ginsparg, a researcher at the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory, set up an email system for about 200 string theorists to exchange papers...
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