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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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A New Mobile Application Helps Scientists Map the Sound Environment
NoiseCapture is an application that unites specialists in environmental acoustics and geographic information.
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Pupilscreen Aims to Allow Parents, Coaches, Medics to Detect Concussion, Brain Injuries With a Smartphone
The PupilScreen smartphone application can objectively detect concussions and other traumatic brain injuries.
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Mark Sagar Made a Baby in His Lab. Now It Plays the Piano
People get up to weird things in New Zealand.
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Our Weather-Prediction Models Keep Getting Better, and Hurricane Irma Is the Proof
By Wednesday of last week, even as Tropical Storm Harvey continued to rain devastation on the Gulf Coast, a new storm, Irma, was taking shape in the eastern Atlantic...
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Massive Genetic Study Shows How Humans Are Evolving
A huge genetic study that sought to pinpoint how the human genome is evolving suggests that natural selection is getting rid of harmful genetic mutations that shorten...
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In a High-Tech World, Car Designers Still Rely on Clay
Car designers have every kind of software and virtual reality tool. But when they want to make sure a car's curves look just right, they rely on one of the world's...
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Radiation Analysis Software Makes Emergency Responders' Jobs Quicker, Easier
InterSpec is a program for mobile and traditional computing devices designed to analye gamma radiation data at the scene of a disaster.
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Asu Researcher Works to Design Algorithms For More Robust Networks
Researchers at Arizona State University say they are trying to design effective intervention strategies and algorithms when networks are likely to fail.
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How to Make Robots That We Can Trust
The design of trustworthy autonomous systems must entail consideration of the ability to explain decisions and recourse options when things go awry.
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How Apple Finally Made Siri Sound More Human
The first time Alex Acero saw Her, he watched it like a normal person.
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Facebook AI Learns Human Reactions After Watching Hours of Skype
There's something not quite right about humanoid robots.
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Plot a Course Through the Genome
Chromatin does much more than just keep DNA neat and tidy.
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Jupiter's Aurora Presents a Powerful Mystery
Scientists on NASA''s Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter's polar regions that contribute to the giant planet's powerful...
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Fear of Robots Taking Jobs Spurs a Bold Idea: Guaranteed Pay
Driverless trucks. Factory robots. Delivery drones. Virtual personal assistants.
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Neuroscientist Harnesses the Power of Virtual Reality to nlock the Mysteries of Memory
Researchers are using virtual reality to study how a person's brain encodes and retrieves memories while they explore a new virtual environment.
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Google's New Street View Cameras Will Help Algorithms Index the Real World
Steve Silverman helped build cameras for two NASA rovers that went to Mars.
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The Smartphone's Future: It's All About the Camera
We all know the drill. For the last decade, smartphones have gotten thinner and faster and thinner and faster and, well, you get the picture.
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nlocking Wind's Potential: Supercomputing's Grand Challenge
Supercomputing-led scientific advances could halve the cost of wind energy by 2030.
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Can AI Solve Poverty?
Researchers are turning to artificial intelligence to gain insights into factors that lead to poverty and other social problems.
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