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Robotic Limbs Get a Sense of Touch
Advanced prosthetics have for the past few years begun tapping into brain signals to provide amputees with impressive new levels of control.
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The Revolution Will Not Be Crystallized: A New Method Sweeps Through Structural Biology
In a basement room, deep in the bowels of a steel-clad building in Cambridge, a major insurgency is under way.
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The Search For a Thinking Machine
Thanks, in part, to a new era of machine learning, computer are already starting to assimilate information from raw data in the same way as the human infant learns...
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nhackable Kernel Could Keep All Computers Safe from Cyberattack
An autonomous helicopter gunship is flying over a military base in Arizona. Suddenly, officers on the ground lose radio contact: hackers have taken control of an...
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China Tries to Extract Pledge of Compliance From .s. Tech Firms
The Chinese government, which has long used its country's vast market as leverage over American technology companies, is now asking some of those firms to directly...
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The People Hoping to Continue to Exist Through Technology
"We have this strange idea that dying is something we need to do."
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Cassini Finds Global Ocean in Saturn's Moon Enceladus
A global ocean lies beneath the icy crust of Saturn's geologically active moon Enceladus, according to new research using data from NASA's Cassini mission.
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Engineers Are Modeling Quantum Computers Based on Sound
Sound, instead of wires or fiber optics, could be used to connect distant quantum bits, according to researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics...
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Cyberthreat Posed By China and Iran Confounds White House
A question from a member of the Pentagon’s new cyberwarfare unit the other day prompted President Obama to voice his frustration about America's seeming inability...
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Brain-Controlled Smart Home Lets You Turn the Tv On By Thinking
Feeling cold? Your home already knows, and turns up the heat. Sick of the TV show you are watching? Your home changes the channel.
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Google Is 2 Billion Lines of Code—and It's All in One Place
How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or, well, metaphysical influence.
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The Milky Way's Missing Mass: Partially Found
Giant galaxies such as the Milky Way and Andromeda consist mostly of exotic dark matter.
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Nasa's Lro Discovers Earth's Pull Is 'massaging' Our Moon
In August, 2010, researchers using images from LRO's Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) reported the discovery of 14 cliffs known as "lobate scarps" on the moon's surface...
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Mars Panorama from Curiosity Shows Petrified Sand Dunes
Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that...
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The False Science of Cryonics
I woke up on Saturday to a heartbreaking front-page article in the New York Times about a terminally ill young woman who chooses to freeze her brain.
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How the Nfl—not the Nsa—is Impacting Data Gathering Well Beyond the Gridiron
As guards were going so far as to check inside NFL fans' wallets as part of routine security measures before a recent preseason game at Levi's Stadium, a different...
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This Helmet Will Make F-35 Pilots Missile-Slinging Cyborgs
Much rightful snark and scorn has been thrown at the F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter, the multi-multi-multi-billion dollar jet meant to be the mainstay of...
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First Detailed Public Map of .s. Internet Backbone Could Make It Stronger
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took...
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New Pluto Images from Nasa's New Horizons: It's Complicated
New close-up images of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface features that have scientists reeling because of their...
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