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Color-Shifting Electronic Skin Could Have Wearable Tech and Prosthetic ses
Researchers have developed a user-interactive electronic skin with a color change perceptible to the human eye.
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Nasa's Voyager Spacecraft Still Reaching For the Stars After 40 Years
Humanity's farthest and longest-lived spacecraft, Voyager 1 and 2, achieve 40 years of operation and exploration this August and September. Despite their vast distance...
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Half of Milky Way's Matter Comes from Distant Galaxies
Up to half of the Milky Way is made up of matter that came from distant galaxies, having been ejected from its home during supernova explosions.
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Nanoneurons Enable Neuromorphic Chips For Voice Recognition
Last month, IEEE Spectrum ran a special report focusing on the question "Can We Copy the Brain?" The report offered a thorough examination of all the ongoing efforts...
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Google Enters Race For Nuclear Fusion Technology
Google Research and Tri Alpha Energy have developed a computer algorithm called Optometrist that facilitates integrating high-powered computation with human judgment...
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Storing Data in Dna Brings Nature Into the Digital universe
Humanity is producing data at an unimaginable rate, to the point that storage technologies can't keep up.
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First Human Embryos Edited in .s.
The first known attempt at creating genetically modified human embryos in the United States has been carried out by a team of researchers in Portland, Oregon, MIT Technology...
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Robots, Start Your Engines!
There's nothing like a throw-down to push new technologies out to the masses.
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Large, Distant Comets More Common Than Previously Thought
Comets that take more than 200 years to make one revolution around the Sun are notoriously difficult to study.
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Complex Biological Computer Commands Living Cells
Researchers have developed a biological computer that functions inside living bacterial cells and tells them what to do, according to a report published yesterday...
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Big Names in Statistics Want to Shake p Much-Maligned value
Science is in the throes of a reproducibility crisis, and researchers, funders and publishers are increasingly worried that the scholarly literature is littered...
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New Grid Study Sees .s. Vulnerable to Cyberattacks
The U.S. needs to do more to protect its electrical grid against high-impact cyberattacks, according to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine...
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Two Groups Both Win $7.5m to Study Ai, Autonomous Systems
The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded $15 million to two Cornell University research teams to pursue autonomous systems and artificial intelligence.
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China's Robot Revolution
The Chinese Robotics Industry Alliance aims to use robotics and automation to help China become increasingly a high-tech manufacturing nation.
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The Data that Transformed AI Research, and Possibly the World
It's not about the algorithm.
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Scientists Build Dna from Scratch to Alter Life's Blueprint
At Jef Boeke's lab, you can whiff an odor that seems out of place, as if they were baking bread here.
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Cpu Architecture After Moore's Law: What's Next?
Views differ on how central-processing unit architecture will proceed as Moore's Law becomes increasingly irrelevant.
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Five Times the Computing Power
Researchers have developed a method to increase by the computing power of a standard algorithm when performed on a field-programmable gate array.
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