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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Speed of Light Lingers in Face of New Camera
More than 70 years ago, the MIT electrical engineer Harold (Doc) Edgerton began using strobe lights to create remarkable photographs: a bullet stopped in flight...
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Computational Modeling For Biotechnology: Predictions For Optimal Production
The BioPreDyn project aims to develop computational tools that integrate and analyze the large amounts of data in biology and biotechnology, focusing on improving...
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Health Care Innovation Challenge
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently launched its Health Care Innovation Challenge, with as much as $1 billion in grant funding being offered...
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Computer Scientists May Have What It Takes to Help Cure Cancer
Computer scientists should be signing up in droves to fight cancer because they may have the best skills to help cure the disease, writes University of California...
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Real, Artificial Brains Make Magical Music
College of Charleston researchers have developed Monterey Mirror, an interactive music performance system. When a musician plays a piece of music, Monterey Mirror...
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Dawn Soars Over Asteroid Vesta in 3D
Glide over the giant asteroid Vesta with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in a new 3D video. Dawn has been orbiting Vesta since July 15, obtaining high-resolution images...
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Following Digital Breadcrumbs to 'big Data' Gold
What do Facebook, Groupon, and biotech firm Human Genome Sciences have in common? They all rely on massive amounts of data to design their products. Terabytes...
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Making Collective Wisdom Wiser
Tel Aviv University researchers have developed database technology that can automatically evaluate information submitted by the crowd.
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Google sability Chief: Ideas Have to Be Discoverable
Google's Dan Russell recently spoke to New Scientist on improving searches.
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Kilobots Are Leaving the Nest
Harvard University computer scientists and engineers have developed technology designed to test collective algorithms on hundreds or even thousands of tiny robots...
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Dod Looks to Make a Game of Software Testing
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently launched the Crowd Sourced Formal Verification project, which aims to use crowdsourcing technology to...
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M Researchers Develop Tool That Saves Time, Eliminates Mistakes in Diabetes Care
Doctors will be able to make the right decisions for diabetes treatment by using the diabetes dashboard, a tool that allows them to view patient information on...
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New Stanford Software Takes Folding@home's Biological Research to Supercomputers
Stanford University researchers have developed Copernicus, a distributed framework for supercomputers that is based on Folding@home, a distributed computing project...
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The Problem With Landing Humans on Mars (and How to Fix It)
When NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory—scheduled to lift-off from Cape Canaveral later this week—touches down on the Red Planet in August of 2012, the one-ton probe...
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Brave NUI World
Natural user interface developments, such as Microsoft's Kinect, may indicate the beginning of the end for the mouse.
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The Rise of Molecular Machines
The field of molecular computing is achieving new levels of control over biochemical processes and fostering sophisticated connections between computer science...
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Burns App Could Save Lives at the Touch of a Button
Mersey Burns, an iPhone and iPad app created by University of Manchester student Chris Seaton, has the potential to save the lives of soldiers and prevent severe...
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Sound, Digested
Backed by funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, Imagine Research has developed MediaMined, an artificial intelligence system for understanding and...
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The Revolution in Photography
When a set of online teasers for a new camera called the Lytro appeared earlier this year, you could have been forgiven for seeing the invention as just another...
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