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Technology Earns Smart 50 Award
Researchers have won a Smart 50 Award for one of the 50 "most transformative smart projects each year."
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sing Biomimicry to Detect Outbreaks Faster
Researchers have been working to enhance the U.S. biosurveillance system, which alerts authorities to disease outbreaks.
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Mercury in Retrograde Now, Stumping Scientists Always
Until April 15, here's a convenient excuse for any troubles in your life: It's all the fault of a quirk of the planetary dance that constantly unfolds across our...
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A Tough Task for Facebook: European-Type Privacy for All
Next month, a comprehensive new data protection law goes into effect in the European Union, placing greater requirements on how companies like Facebook and Google...
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A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers a New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins
Researchers are using an 1816 legal precedent to track down stolen bitcoins.
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Migration Forecasts Could Help Prevent Wind Turbines and Buildings From Killing Millions of Birds
A team of researchers have constructed a computer model of weather and bird migration to help prevent bird deaths by wind farms and buildings.
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Researchers Devise Novel Laser Steering for Autonomous Cars
Researchers say they have discovered a novel laser light sensing technology that is more robust and less expensive than conventional systems.
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Beijing Launches Pioneering Brain-Science Centre
Beijing has announced plans to build a brain-science centre that will rival in size some of the world's largest neuroscience organizations. It will also serve as...
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Blue Waters Supercomputer Brings Subatomic Resolution to Computational Microscope
A new "computational microscope" can model the atomic and subatomic forces driving molecular interactions.
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A Brain-Boosting Prosthesis Moves From Rats to Humans
The shape on the screen appears only briefly—just long enough for the test subject to commit it to memory. At the same time, an electrical signal snakes past the...
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The Quest to Map the Mysteries of the Ocean Floor
Geologists have charted mountain ranges and forests and desert tundras, astronomers the heavens above, yet our planet's oceans remain largely unexplored; it's often...
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Your Alexa and Fitbit Can Testify Against You in Court
Ross Compton had no idea his pacemaker would finger him for arson.
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Digital Life Team Creates Animated 3D Models of Sea Turtles From Live Specimens
The Digital Life team at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst has unveiled three-dimensional models of a loggerhead and a green sea turtle.
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The Next NSA Chief Is More sed to Cyberwar Than Spy Games
After sailing through two friendly Senate hearings—one so uncontroversial that only six senators tops bothered to even show up at any given point in the hour—Lieutenant...
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John Bolton, Cyber Warrior
John Bolton has spent years imploring the U.S. to go on the attack in cyberspace—a stance that some digital warfare experts caution could set up the nation for...
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Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence Leading the Way to Smart Houses
Researchers are studying deep learning, with a focus on improving medical imaging and advancing the future of truly smart houses that will perform manual labor...
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Hubble ncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen
More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen.
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Scientists se AI to Predict Biological Age Based on Smartphone, Wearables Data
Researchers in Russia have demonstrated that physical activity data obtained from wearable computing devices can be used to generate digital biomarkers of aging...
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Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problems It Created: Blockchain
Entrepreneurs, companies, and governments look to use databases like Blockchain—often independent of Bitcoin—to solve some of the most intractable issues facing...
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