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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A Sense of Scale: The Best Microscopy of 2016
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek was born while Galileo was still alive, and he ended up developing a similar skill in lens making to that of Galileo.
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niverse Has Ten Times More Galaxies Than Researchers Thought
The observable Universe contains about 2 trillion galaxies—more than ten times as many as previously estimated, according to the first significant revision of the...
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Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due
Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Edinburgh offer a solution in which citations...
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How Vector Space Mathematics Helps Machines Spot Sarcasm
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay led by Aditya Joshi report developing a new strategy to help computers better detect the presence of sarcasm...
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Exomars Spacecraft Splits in Two to Explore Mars Surface and Air
Sometimes breaking up is the right thing to do. On Sunday at 17:20 GMT, the twin spacecraft of the first stage of the ExoMars mission split in two – one of the...
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Stepping p Security For an Internet-of-Things World
The vision of the so-called internet of things—giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover—has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast...
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Teleporting Toward a Quantum Internet
Quantum physics is a field that appears to give scientists superpowers.
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Google's AI Reasons Its Way Around the London nderground
Artificial-intelligence systems known as neural networks can recognize images, translate languages and even master the ancient game of Go. But their limited ability...
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Conference For Research Software Engineers Hailed a Phenomenal Success
The world's first conference for Research Software Engineers, held in Manchester, U.K., was called a "phenomenal success" by one of its organizers.
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Pioneering Brain Implant Restores Paralysed Man's Sense of Touch
For the first time, a paralysed man has gained a limited sense of touch, thanks to an electric implant that stimulates his brain and allows him to feel pressure...
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China Has Now Eclipsed US in AI Research
Humanity may still be years if not decades away from producing sentient artificial intelligence.
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Building Blocks of Life's Building Blocks Come From Starlight
Life exists in a myriad of wondrous forms, but if you break any organism down to its most basic parts, it's all the same stuff: carbon atoms connected to hydrogen...
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The Search For Virtual Reality's Killer App
Sony Corp.'s release of the PlayStation VR on Thursday brings virtual reality to the cusp of mainstream adoption.
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Vr Started with Gaming, But It Will Take Over Every Other Industry
"We are looking at sensory immersion.
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Even Bugs Will Be Bugged
When mark zuckerberg posted a picture of himself on Facebook in June, a sharp-eyed observer spotted a piece of tape covering his laptop’s camera.
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Cybathlon: Battle of the Bionic Athletes
Bionic arms, robotic legs, powered exoskeletons, brain-controlled computer interfaces and supercharged wheelchairs - all took centre stage to compete at this weekend's...
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Nasa's Opportunity Rover to Explore Mars Gully
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission...
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Meet Noto, Google's Free Font For More Than 800 Language
Something funny happens when your computer or phone can’t display a font: A blank rectangular box pops up in place of the missing glyph.
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Alien Life Could Feed on Cosmic Rays
A bizarre microbe found deep in a gold mine in South Africa could provide a model for how life might survive in seemingly uninhabitable environments through the...
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