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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Google, Facebook and Twitter scramble to Hold Washington at Bay
Google summoned about 200 policy staff from around the world last month for a debate on whether the company's size has made it too attractive as a target for government...
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How Computers Turned Gerrymandering Into a Science
About as many Democrats live in Wisconsin as Republicans do.
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Examining Mars' Moon Phobos in a Different Light
NASA's longest-lived mission to Mars has gained its first look at the Martian moon Phobos, pursuing a deeper understanding by examining it in infrared wavelengths...
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An Edible Actuator For Ingestible Robots
Researchers recently unveiled a prototype for a soft, edible pneumatic actuator fabricated from gelatin, which can serve as a crucial mechanism for ingestible robots...
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Good Vibrations For the Future of Computing
Researchers say they have demonstrated a new technology based on mechanical vibrations to perform logic operations.
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Supercomputer Redesign of Aeroplane Wing Mirrors Bird Anatomy
Engineers have used a supercomputing technique that mimics natural selection to design the internal structure of an aircraft wing from scratch.
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Russians Took a Page from Corporate America By sing Facebook Tool to Id and Influence Voters
Russian operatives set up an array of misleading Web sites and social media pages to identify American voters susceptible to propaganda, then used a powerful Facebook...
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'mind-Boggling' Math Could Make Blockchain Work For Wall Street
A major breakthrough in cryptography may have solved one of the biggest obstacles to using blockchain technology on Wall Street: keeping transaction data private...
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The Super-Earth that Came Home For Dinner
It might be lingering bashfully on the icy outer edges of our solar system, hiding in the dark, but subtly pulling strings behind the scenes: stretching out the...
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Cryo-Electron Microscopy Wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
One of the many perks of being human (upright walking, big brains, we can win awards) is our ability to transcend the limits of our senses. Take vision, for instance...
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China Demonstrates Quantum Encryption By Hosting a Video Call
Chinese researchers have completed a practical demonstration of quantum key distribution, showing that it's possible to encrypt and send data between two locations...
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A Field Farmed Only By Drones
Across the United Kingdom, the last of the spring barley has been brought in from the fields, the culmination of an agricultural calendar whose rhythm has remained...
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A Sea of Spinning Electrons
Researchers say they have found a sea of electrons that spin in opposing circles, a phenomenon known as the chiral spin mode.
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Fast-Moving Magnetic Particles Could Enable New Form of Data Storage
Researchers have shown they can create tiny disturbances in magnetic orientation at will in specific locations, which they say could be used to make a more efficient...
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Collaborative Software Development Made Easy
Sebastian Neubert, a particle physicist at Heidelberg University in Germany, leads a group studying subatomic particles called pentaquarks. The six team members...
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Scientists in Mexico Scramble to Deploy Seismic Sensors
Late one night in September, Victor Cruz, a geophysicist at Mexico's National Autonomous University, submitted an article to a scientific journal describing progress...
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How a 130-Year-Old Technology Led to a Nobel Prize
In 1887, Albert Michelson built an experiment that he hoped would lead to the detection of luminiferous ether.
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Russian Facebook Ads Showed a Black Woman Firing a Rifle, Amid Efforts to Stoke Racial Strife
One of the Russian-bought advertisements that Facebook shared with congressional investigators on Monday featured photographs of an armed black woman "dry firing"...
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Risk of Human-Triggered Earthquakes Laid Out in Biggest-Ever Database
From mining projects to oil and gas operations, human activity has set off earthquakes around the world and in many geological settings.
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