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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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nder Pressure, Western Tech Firms Bow to Russian Demands to Share Cyber Secrets
Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time...
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Cornell to Team With IBM to Protect Global Milk Supply
Researchers will use genetic sequencing and big data analysis to help keep the global milk supply safe.
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Here's What You Need to Know About the Google E.u. Fine
The European Union's head of antitrust enforcement announced a record $2.7 billion fine against Google on Tuesday, accusing the search engine for illegally favoring...
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How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms
At a White House gathering of tech titans last week, Timothy D. Cook, the chief executive of Apple, delivered a blunt message to President Trump on how public schools...
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Eyes In the Sky
One of America's least known National Historic Landmarks may also be its ugliest. It''s kept hidden inside Building 32 on the grounds of the Johnson Space Center...
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Facial Recognition May Boost Airport Security But Raises Privacy Worries
Passengers at Boston's Logan International Airport were surfing their phones and drinking coffee, waiting to board a flight to Aruba recently when a JetBlue agent...
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Synthetic Iris Could Let Cameras React to Light Like Our Eyes Do
An artificial iris can open and close in response to sunlight without any other outside control, just like the ones in your eyes.
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Cracking the Code on DNA Storage
Researchers are tapping DNA to create a new and different type of storage media. The technology could prove revolutionary.
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New Model of Evolution Finally Reveals How Cooperation Evolves
One of the great unanswered question in biology is why organisms have evolved to cooperate.
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Solar System Survey Casts Doubt on Mysterious 'planet Nine'
An analysis of four icy bodies discovered in the outer Solar System reveals no sign that they are being influenced by a large, unseen planet lurking beyond Neptune...
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New Algorithm Generates Folding Patterns to Produce Any 3-D Origami Structure
In July, researchers at the University of Tokyo will announce a universal algorithm for folding origami shapes that guarantees a minimum number of seams.
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Yearning For New Physics at Cern, in a Post-Higgs Way
The world's biggest and most expensive time machine is running again.
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Curiosity Doesn't Need Your Help Blasting Rocks with a Laser
As cars here on Earth begin to drive themselves and robots autonomously roam sidewalks delivering food and nearly running over dogs, over on Mars, the Curiosity...
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How the Government Can Read Your Email
With Congress focused on reforming the tax code and replacing Obamacare—plus keeping the government open—there's little oxygen for other policy issues.
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Beyond the Five Senses
The world we experience is not the real world. It's a mental construction, filtered through our physical senses. Which raises the question: How would our world...
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Nasa Completes Study of Future 'ice Giant' Mission Concepts
A NASA-led and NASA-sponsored study of potential future missions to the mysterious "ice giant" planets Uranus and Neptune has been released—the first in a series...
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The Fight to Save Thousands of Lives with Sea-Floor Sensors
Jerry Paros is worried about the geological time bomb ticking away just off the coast near his home in Washington state.
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X-Ray Eyes in the Sky
Researchers have demonstrated three-dimensional (3D) imaging of objects through walls using Wi-Fi signals.
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How an Entire Nation Became Russia's Test Lab For Cyberwar
The clocks read zero when the lights went out.
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