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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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The Computer Chip That Never Forgets
In 1945, mathematician John von Neumann wrote down a very simple recipe for a computer.
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Making a Better Semiconductor
Researchers at Michigan State University have developed a method for changing the electronic properties of materials that could lead to new, improved semiconductors...
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Asu Professor Develops Artificial Intelligence Tools For Environmental Research
Artificial intelligence tools developed by researchers at Arizona State University could tell scientists and environmental planners everything they want to know...
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Discovery Paves Way For New Kinds of Superconducting Electronics
University of California, San Diego researchers have developed a new way to control the transport of electrical currents through high-temperature superconductors...
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Iu Researchers Participate in Linkedin Project to Tackle Economic, Employment Challenges
The LinkedIn Economic Graph Challenge invites researchers, academics, and others to propose strategies for using LinkedIn data to address major economic problems...
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Mit’s Bitcoin-Inspired 'enigma' Lets Computers Mine Encrypted Data
The cryptography behind bitcoin solved a paradoxical problem: a currency with no regulator, that nonetheless can't be counterfeited.
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Watson's Next Feat? Taking on Cancer
IBM's Watson supercomputer is being trained to find personalized cancer treatments.
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June Will End with a Rare 61-Second Minute
We'll need to wait for July just a shade longer, as the world's timekeepers have added a leap second June 30—to officially keep Earth and our precise, atomic clocks...
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w Researchers Demonstrate System to Transmit Power Over Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi can power connected devices using a new system developed by a team at the University of Washington.
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Breakthrough in Graphene Production Could Trigger Revolution in Artificial Skin Development
University of Exeter researchers say they have discovered a new way to produce graphene that is significantly less expensive, and easier, than previous methods. ...
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Widespread Backing For .k. Robotics Network
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has launched the U.K. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Network to boost Britain's robotics research.
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Hospital Icus Mine Big Data in Push For Better Outcomes
Some hospitals are using a big-data approach to mine intensive-care unit data to help providers and patients realize improved outcomes.
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Automatic Bug Repair
At the Association for Computing Machinery's Programming Language Design and Implementation conference this month, MIT researchers presented a new system that repairs...
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Pluto-Bound Probe Faces Its Toughest Task: Finding Pluto
Some 4.7 billion kilometres from Earth, the New Horizons spacecraft is heading for a historic rendezvous with Pluto. To achieve this, it will need to hit a very...
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Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is accelerating its efforts to mandate vehicle-to-vehicle communications, a step that could help lower the number...
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Iowa State Engineers Develop Micro-Tentacles So Tiny Robots Can Handle Delicate Objects
Iowa State University researchers have developed spiraling microrobotic tentacles which they say will enable robots to handle delicate objects.
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Storing Digital Data For Eternity
Vint Cerf is sometimes called the "father of the Internet." He helped develop TCP/IP (the communications protocol for the Internet) and later became chairman of...
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The Filter Bubble: Is It Real? Does It Matter?
What are the consequences of the same searches yielding different results for different people?
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In Search For Alien Life, Experts Reveal Cutting-Edge Science
Where can scientists find clues to help them locate and understand life beyond Earth?
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