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GRACE-FO: Cracking a Cold Case
Reports of the rapidly melting West Antarctic ice sheet often refer to how much the melting could add to global sea levels—as if meltwater raises the ocean evenly...
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Facebook Helped Create an AI Scavenger Hunt that Could Lead to the First seful Home Robots
Artificial-intelligence programs could develop some much-needed common sense by competing in scavenger hunts inside virtual homes filled with simulated coffee tables...
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Apps for Children Should Emphasize Parent and Child Choice, Researchers Say
Preschoolers can benefit from using electronic devices with thoughtfully designed content that intentionally supports parent-child interactions, according to researchers...
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What's Behind Russia's New Internet Crackdown
China has its own great firewall. Turkey has been blocking swaths of the internet, including YouTube, for at least a decade.
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Could Artificial Intelligence Predict the Next Avengers: Infinity War?
Some movies are obvious hits. Like, for example, Avengers: Infinity War, which made a record-breaking $258 million at the domestic box office last weekend, filling...
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Virtual-Reality Applications Give Science a New Dimension
As I put on a virtual-reality (VR) headset, the outside world disappears.
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Exascale System for Earth Simulation Introduced
The Energy Exascale Earth System Model has been unveiled after four years of development.
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Heart Is Where the Chips Are, Helping Keep the Beat
A new wireless pacemaker array opens new possibilities for medical sensors.
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Random Quantum Circuit Easiest Way to Beat Classical Computer
One of the near-term (but somewhat irrelevant) goals of quantum computing is something called quantum supremacy.
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Incredibly Detailed Embryo Maps Chart Each Cell's Developmental Fate
Painstaking genomic analyses of thousands of individual cells in frogs and fish have yielded the most detailed roadmaps yet charting an embryo's journey from a...
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Blockchain Will Be Theirs, Russian Spy Boasted at Conference
Last year, representatives of 25 countries met in Tokyo to work on setting international standards for the blockchain, the technology that was introduced by the...
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Mars Quakes Set to Reveal Tantalizing Clues to Planet's Early Years
A planetary stethoscope will soon be on its way to listen to the heartbeat of Mars.
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Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices
A new Web browser brings order to complex searches in a way not possible with conventional tabbed browsing.
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The Auto Plants of the Future May Have a Surprisingly Human Touch
Carmakers have big plans for their next generation of factories: smarter designs, artificial intelligence and collaborative robots building a wide range of vehicles...
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Human Brain Gain: Computer Models Hint at Why We Bested Neandertals
The parallel existence of an intelligent species closely related to us has long fascinated scientists and the public alike.
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Move Over, Tupac! Life-Size Holograms Set to Revolutionize Videoconferencing
Researchers have developed the first truly holographic videoconferencing system, allowing users in different locations to appear before one another life-size and...
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Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match
Past the end of a remote mountain road, down a rutted dirt track, in a concrete house that lacked running water but bristled with smartphones, 13 members of an...
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niverse's First Moments Mimicked with ltracool Atoms
Cosmologists think that in its first moments, the Universe ballooned from a subatomic size to bigger than a grapefruit. But testing theories about this period is...
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Some Startups se Fake Data to Train AI
Berlin startup Spil.ly had a problem last spring. The company was developing an augmented-reality app akin to a full-body version of Snapchat's selfie filters—hold...
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