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Our Hidden Neandertal Dna May Increase Risk of Allergies, Depression
Depressed? Your inner Neandertal may be to blame.
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Einstein's Gravitational Waves Found at Last
One hundred years after Albert Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, scientists have finally spotted these elusive ripples in space-time.
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Transistors Minus Semiconductors
Michigan Technological University professor Yoke Khin Yap has developed a room-temperature approach to harnessing tunneling field-effect transistors.
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The Chips Are Down For Moore's Law
Next month, the worldwide semiconductor industry will formally acknowledge what has become increasingly obvious to everyone involved: Moore's law, the principle...
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Scientists Debate Signatures of Alien Life
Huddled in a coffee shop one drizzly Seattle morning six years ago, the astrobiologist Shawn Domagal-Goldman stared blankly at his laptop screen, paralyzed.
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S Military: Robot Wars
When historians come to write about technological innovation in the first half of this century, they are likely to pay special attention to a US Navy drone called...
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New Software Can Actually Edit Actors' Facial Expressions
FaceDirector software from Disney Research and the University of Surrey can blend images from multiple takes, making it possible to edit emotions on actors' faces...
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Mind-Reading Tech Helps Beginners Quickly Learn to Play Bach
Every potential virtuoso needs a mentor. It just so happens that this one is a computer.
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3D-Printed Display Lets Blind People Explore Images By Touch
Blind and partially sighted people often use tactile displays to interact with computers.
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Fbi Director Says Investigators nable to nlock San Bernardino Shooter's Phone Content
FBI Director James Comey said on Tuesday that federal investigators have still been unable to access the contents of a cellphone belonging to one of the killers...
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Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot
One night in late July 2014, a journalist from the Chinese newspaper Southern Weeklyinterviewed a 17-year-old Chinese girl named Xiaoice (pronounced Shao-ice).
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Study: Long-Term Global Warming Needs External Drivers
A study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, shows, in detail, the reason why...
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New Ways Into the Brain's 'music Room'
Whether to enliven a commute, relax in the evening or drown out the buzz of a neighbor's recreational drone, Americans listen to music nearly four hours a day.
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Developing Accessible Apps For Secure Mobile Banking
The University of Washington's Computer Science and Engineering Department is working to provide the developing world with some basic financial instruments.
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Pic-Scanning AI Estimates City Air Pollution From Mass of Photos
A research team at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore has designed an application to estimate air quality by analyzing a large number of photos of a...
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The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
There's a battle raging over whether academic research should be free, and it’s overflowing into the dark web.
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An Icky New Hero: Roach-Like Robots May Help in Disasters
When buildings collapse in future disasters, the hero helping rescue trapped people may be a robotic cockroach.
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Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Fully Assembled
The 18th and final primary mirror segment is installed on what will be the biggest and most powerful space telescope ever launched.
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How the British and Americans Started Listening In
It was late on 8 February 1941 when four Americans arrived at Bletchley Park.
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