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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Excitons Observed in Action for the First Time
A quasiparticle called an exciton—responsible for the transfer of energy within devices such as solar cells, LEDs, and semiconductor circuits—has been understood...
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Computer-Assisted Accelerator Design
Brookhaven National Laboratory scientist Stephen Brooks is testing proposed designs for an electron accelerator for the lab's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.
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Sheffield Team Shows Simplicity Is Key to Cooperative Robots
Engineers have found a way to get a large number of robots to cluster together and execute tasks without using any memory or processing power.
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A Small Connection With Big Implications: Wiring Up Carbon-Based Electronics
Researchers say they have advanced comprehension of electric contacts in carbon-based nanoelectronics with a breakthrough development.
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How to Build a Neanderthal
The DNA sequences of Neanderthals and other extinct human relatives have exposed lost migrations, sexual escapades and even new species.
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What Makes an Alien Intelligent?
On Thursday, astronomers announced that they'd reached a new milestone in the search for Earth's "twin," or a planet much like ours that orbits in what's known...
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The Telescope Big Enough to Spot Signs of Alien Life on Other Planets
Cerro Armazones is a crumbling dome of rock that dominates the parched peaks of the Chilean Coast Range north of Santiago.
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Watch the Astounding Dexterity of Honda's Dancing Humanoid Robot
Even in today's rapidly evolving world of technology, there are few things that make your jaw drop when you see them in real life.
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Microrobots, Working Together, Build with Metal, Glass, and Electronics
Someone glancing through the door of Annjoe Wong-Foy's lab at SRI International might think his equipment is infested by ants.
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Five Wonder Materials That Could Change the World
"The history of materials is a history of mistakes," says Mark Miodownik, a materials scientist at University College London, who traces his own fascination with...
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Why Nobody Can Tell Whether the World's Biggest Quantum Computer Is a Quantum Computer
For the past several years, a Canadian company called D-Wave Systems has been selling what it says is the largest quantum computer ever built.
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The Truth About Google X
Astro Teller is sharing a story about something bad. Or maybe it's something good.
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World Cup Mind-Control Demo Faces Deadlines, Critics
In less than 60 days, Brazil will begin hosting soccer's 2014 World Cup, even though workers are still hurrying to pour concrete at three unfinished stadiums.
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New Research on Gigabit Wireless Communications
Two papers presented at the recent IEEE 2014 Wireless Communications and Networking Conference could significantly impact the future of mobile devices.
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Ancient Mars Probably Too Cold For Liquid Water
Mars' atmosphere was probably never thick enough to keep temperatures on the planet's surface above freezing for the long term, suggests research published today...
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Future Computers That Are 'normally Off'
Researchers have outlined the future of spin-transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory.
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