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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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Supercomputers Help Solve a 50-Year Homework Assignment
A group of theoretical physicists is using supercomputers to try to understand why the early universe ended up with an excess of matter.
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Seeing Light in a New Way
Scientists from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are challenging the conventional wisdom about light, and they didn't need to go...
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Some Robots Are Starting to Move More Like Humans
Robots usually look rigid and nonhuman, with joints engineered to avoid the elasticity that can make their movements less predictable and harder to control.
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Cache and Not Carry: Next Mars Rover to Collect Samples For Return to Earth—someday
Have rover, need payload. That's the state of things for NASA, which is planning to launch its next rover to Mars in 2020.
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Creating Matter That Behaves Like Luke Skywalker’s Light Saber
Scientists have created a new photon-based matter that is essentially like the light sabers in the movie Star Wars.
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Science Benefits From Diverse Landing Area of Nasa Mars Rover
NASA's Curiosity rover is revealing a great deal about Mars, from long-ago processes in its interior to the current interaction between the Martian surface and...
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Why Space Telescope Mirror Is Most Complex Ever Built
"You will not be touching anything."
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Bringing 'common Sense' to Text Analytics
Bringing "common sense" to artificial intelligence is one of the biggest challenges in computer science: It entails equipping computers with the shared knowledge...
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Making the Internet Safe For Gadgets
Initiatives favor direct connections, named resources, and cryptography.
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Software Helps Linguists Reconstruct, Decipher Ancient Languages
Linguists who once spent an entire career reconstructing a major language family now can accomplish that in just a few hours.
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Man Controls New Prosthetic Leg sing Thought Alone
A man missing his lower leg has gained precise control over a prosthetic limb, just by thinking about moving it—all because his unused nerves were preserved during...
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Why Today's Inventors Need to Read More Science Fiction
How will police use a gun that immobilizes its target but does not kill? What would people do with a device that could provide them with any mood they desire? What...
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NASA Curiosity Rover Detects No Methane on Mars
Data from NASA's Curiosity rover has revealed the Martian environment lacks methane. This is a surprise to researchers because previous data reported by U.S. and...
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Nasa's Asteroid-In-A-Bag Recipe
"It’s not as crazy as it seemed at the beginning," Charles Elachi, the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told the Washington Post, about NASA's latest...
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How Robots Can Trick You Into Loving Them
I like to think of my Roomba as cute and industrious.
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Say Goodbye to the Password
Here's the fundamental problem with passwords: They are most effective in protecting a company when they are long, complicated and changed frequently. In other...
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The Skies. The Limits.
Long ago, in a dreamier era, space stations were imagined as portals to the heavens.
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Mars Rover Camera Invention Could Help Nasa Robots Explore Solo
Every second that a NASA rover roams across the surface of Mars is extremely expensive.
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