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Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants
Computer scientists at Stanford University and Google have created technology that can track time down to 100 billionths of a second. It could be just what Wall...
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Rough Terrain? No Problem for Beaver-Inspired Autonomous Robot
A new system allows autonomous robots to behave like beavers, termites, and other creatures that build structures in response to environmental cues.
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Inventing the Future in Chinese Labs: How Does China Do Science Today?
Genetic engineering, the search for dark matter, quantum computing and communications, artificial intelligence, brain science—the list of potentially disruptive...
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Complex Organics Bubble p from Enceladus
Data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal complex organic molecules originating from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, strengthening the idea that this ocean world...
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Robots or Job Training: Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes
For Anthony Nighswander, rock-bottom unemployment is both a headache and an opportunity. For businesses and workers, it could be the key to reversing one of the...
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Closing the Loop for Robotic Grasping
Scientists in Australia have developed a faster, more accurate way for robots to grasp objects, particularly in cluttered and changing environments.
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The Rise of DNA Data Storage
The 144 words of Robert Frost's seminal poem "The Road Not Taken" fit neatly onto a single printed page. Or in a 1-kilobyte data file.
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Daring Japanese Mission Reaches nexplored Asteroid Ryugu
After travelling for three-and-a-half years, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 this week makes its final approach to the asteroid Ryugu.
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China Extends Lead as Most Prolific Supercomputer Maker
America is now home to the world's speediest supercomputer. But the new list of the 500 swiftest machines underlines how much faster China is building them.
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Low-Cost Plastic Sensors Could Monitor a Range of Health Conditions
An international team of researchers has developed a low-cost sensor that can diagnose or monitor a wide range of health conditions.
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3D-Printed Soft Robots Can Be Controlled by Magnets
Engineers have developed small three-dimensionally printed structures whose movements can be controlled with external magnetic fields.
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Frank Heart, Who Linked Computers Before the Internet, Dies at 89
Frank Heart, who supervised development of the first routing computer for the precursor to the Internet, has passed away.
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Are We Alone in the niverse?
Say goodbye to ET, Marvin the Martian and Yoda. Humans are probably the only intelligent life in the universe, researchers from the University of Oxford have reported...
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NASA Asks: Will We Know Life When We See It?
In the last decade, we have discovered thousands of planets outside our solar system and have learned that rocky, temperate worlds are numerous in our galaxy.
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A .S. Machine Recaptures the Supercomputing Crown
Today, U.S. supercomputer advocates are cheering, because for the first time since 2012, a U.S. supercomputer—Oak Ridge National Laboratory's newly installed ...
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Adobe Is Using AI to Catch Photoshopped Images
While picture editors have tweaked images for decades, modern tools like Adobe Photoshop let them alter photos to the point of complete fabrication.
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Team's E-Whiskers May Be a Touchstone for Future of Electronic Skin
A new variety of electronic sensor made from shape-memory polymers was modeled after whiskers.
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India's Pratyush, Mihir among Top 100 Supercomputers Worldwide
India's two fastest supercomputers, Pratyush and Mihir, both rank among the top 100 fastest supercomputers in the world, according to the most recent Top500 list...
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