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Ibm's Hub For Wearables Could Have You Out of the Hospital Faster
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Ibm's Hub For Wearables Could Have You Out of the Hospital Faster

IBM Research scientists have created a device that siphons health data from multiple wearable devices and shares the results with a patient's doctor.

A New Spin on Electronics
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A New Spin on Electronics

Researchers have successfully demonstrated the production, transport, and detection of electronic spin information at room temperature, using the boundary layer...

Nasa's 'pointer' Tracks First Responders Where Gps Fails
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Nasa's 'pointer' Tracks First Responders Where Gps Fails

That little blue dot likes to mock.

What News-Writing Bots Mean For the Future of Journalism
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What News-Writing Bots Mean For the Future of Journalism

When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim Weaver in the race for Iowa's 4th congressional district seat in November, The Washington Post snapped...

Nasa: Snow Science Supporting the ­s Water Supply
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Nasa: Snow Science Supporting the ­s Water Supply

Researchers have completed the first flights of a NASA-led field campaign that is targeting one of the biggest gaps in scientists' understanding of Earth's water...

Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Earthquakes?
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Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Earthquakes?

Predicting earthquakes is the holy grail of seismology.

Engineers, Computer Scientists Team ­p to Improve Particle Simulations For Aerospace, More
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Engineers, Computer Scientists Team ­p to Improve Particle Simulations For Aerospace, More

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder are using a $3-million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to use advanced supercomputing to improve particle...

AI Predicts Autism From Infant Brain Scans
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AI Predicts Autism From Infant Brain Scans

Researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill have detected brain growth changes linked to autism in children as young as six months old.

Novel Technique Tracks More Web ­sers Across Browsers
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Novel Technique Tracks More Web ­sers Across Browsers

Researchers say they have developed the first cross-browser fingerprinting technique using machine-level features to identify users.

Broad Institute Wins Bitter Battle Over Crispr Patents
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Broad Institute Wins Bitter Battle Over Crispr Patents

The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has upheld a series of patents granted for the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to the Broad Institute of MIT and...

The Need For a Digital Geneva Convention
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The Need For a Digital Geneva Convention

Responding to the rise in nation-state cybersecurity attacks.

Observations Catch a Supernova Three Hours After It Exploded
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Observations Catch a Supernova Three Hours After It Exploded

The skies are full of transient events.

A Chip Flaw Strips Away Hacking Protections For Millions of Devices
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A Chip Flaw Strips Away Hacking Protections For Millions of Devices

The VUSec team at the Free University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands has demonstrated an exploit that undercuts a basic safeguard used in all modern operating...

New Software Will Standardize Data Collection For Great White Sharks
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New Software Will Standardize Data Collection For Great White Sharks

Researchers collaborated on software that helps researchers collect and manage data on great white sharks spotted along the coast.

Success By Deception
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Success By Deception

Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland say they have refined machine learning by deliberately misleading intelligent machines.

Robotic Bee Could Help Pollinate Crops as Real Bees Decline
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Robotic Bee Could Help Pollinate Crops as Real Bees Decline

Researchers have created a drone that transports pollen between flowers.

Lasers Could Give Space Research Its 'broadband' Moment
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Lasers Could Give Space Research Its 'broadband' Moment

Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day.

­S Science Advisers Outline Path to Genetically Modified Babies
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­S Science Advisers Outline Path to Genetically Modified Babies

Scientists should be permitted to modify human embryos destined for implantation in the womb to eliminate devastating genetic diseases such as sickle-cell anaemia...

Wave of the Future: Terahertz Chips a New Way of Seeing Through Matter
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Wave of the Future: Terahertz Chips a New Way of Seeing Through Matter

Researchers at Princeton University say they have created microchips capable of transmitting and receiving terahertz waves.

Intel Researches Tech to Prepare For a Future Beyond Today's Pcs
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Intel Researches Tech to Prepare For a Future Beyond Today's Pcs

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich says his company is investigating and investing in technologies that promise to transcend the computing capabilities of current PCs and...
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