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Geneticists Attempt to Heal Rifts with Aboriginal Communities
In 1938, anthropologists Norman Tindale and Joseph Birdsell set off on an 18-month, 29,000-kilometre expedition to survey Australia's indigenous groups.
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Federal Officials Plan Aggressive Approach to Driverless Cars
U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx on Monday announced plans to aggressively influence the launch of driverless car technology.
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An Autonomous Fleet For Amsterdam
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has partnered with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions to test a fleet of autonomous boats.
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In Backing Autonomous Cars, .s. Tells Automakers to Figure It Out
The Obama administration's approach to hands-free driving is remarkably hands-off.
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Obama's Science Advisors: Much Forensic Work Has No Scientific Foundation
Last year, the US Department of Justice released a report that involved some painful self-examination.
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Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming. But Why Now?
This is the year artificial intelligence came into its own for mainstream businesses, at least as a marketing feature.
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Hubble Telescope Snaps Best-Ever Views of a Comet's Disintegration
Building-size chunks of rock were photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope in January as they broke free from a disintegrating comet zooming around the sun.
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Loyola Faculty Win $280k Grant From National Science Foundation to Supercharge Research Computing Power Available on Campus
Four Loyola University Maryland faculty members have received more than $280,000 to build the university's first high-performance computing cluster.
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Lightweight, Wearable Tech Efficiently Converts Body Heat to Electricity
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new design for harvesting body heat and converting it into electricity for use in wearable electronics...
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Confused About Those Emergency Cellphone Alerts? Here's How They Work.
Many New York-area commuters on Monday were interrupted by this alert on their cellphones: "WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami, 28-yr-old male. See media for pic. Call 9...
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How Police Trace Cellphones in Ieds Like the Ones in Nyc
A cellphone makes a convenient detonator for an improvised explosive device. But it's also one of the most conveniently trackable devices under the eye of American...
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Human Brain Map Gets a Bold New Update
Most of us think little of hopping on Google Maps to look at everything from a bird's-eye view of an entire continent to an on-the-ground view of a specific street...
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A Lesson of Tesla Crashes? Computer Vision Can't Do It All Yet
Jitendra Malik, a researcher in computer vision for three decades, doesn't own a Tesla, but he has advice for people who do.
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Saving Lives By Letting Cars Talk to Each Other
Wireless connectivity offers to improve safety as semi-autonomous and fully autonomous cars mature and proliferate.
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Hardware Hack Defeats Iphone Passcode Security
University of Cambridge professor Sergei Skorobogatov has cloned iPhone memory chips, giving him an unlimited number of attempts to guess the passcode.
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Complex Materials Can Self-Organize Into Circuits, May Form Basis For Multifunction Chips
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory say they have discovered unique behaviors of nanoscale materials that could advance microprocessor technology.
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Wireless Alerts Sound For Nyc Bombing Suspect
New Yorkers' morning commute was interrupted this morning by a chorus of emergency alerts, part of a manhunt for bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami.
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How the Fbi Could Have Hacked the San Bernardino Shooter's Iphone
More than six months have passed since the FBI first ordered Apple to help the agency bypass the encryption on the iPhone 5c of Rizwan Syed Farook, an ISIS supporter...
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Cassini Begins Epic Final Year at Saturn
After more than 12 years studying Saturn, its rings and moons, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has entered the final year of its epic voyage.
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