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Mind Aglow: Scientists Watch Thoughts Form in the Brain
When a single neuron fires, it is an isolated chemical blip. When many fire together, they form a thought.
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Auto, Technology Industries Clash Over Talking Cars
Cars that wirelessly talk to each other are finally ready for the road, creating the potential to dramatically reduce traffic deaths, improve the safety of self...
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35 Years On, Voyager's Legacy Continues at Saturn
Saturn, with its alluring rings and numerous moons, has long fascinated stargazers and scientists.
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All the Ways Your Wi-Fi Router Can Spy on You
City dwellers spend nearly every moment of every day awash in Wi-Fi signals.
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Beyond Terminator: Squishy 'octobot' Heralds New Era of Soft Robotics
A squishy octopus-shaped machine less than 2 centimetres tall is making waves in the field of soft robotics.
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Test For Damp Ground at Mars' Seasonal Streaks Finds None
Seasonal dark streaks on Mars that have become one of the hottest topics in interplanetary research don't hold much water, according to the latest findings from...
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Microsoft Sheds Some Light on Its Mysterious Holographic Processing nit
Since it was first unveiled, we've learned bits and pieces about the hardware inside Microsoft's HoloLens augmented reality headset.
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Smartphone Speech Recognition Can Write Text Messages Three Times Faster Than Human Typing
Smartphone speech recognition software gets a bad rap. Most users find the nascent technology to be frustratingly slow, and there are entire blogs dedicated to...
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Hints Suggest an Insider Helped the Nsa 'equation Group' Hacking Tools Leak
A group called the Shadow Brokers made headlines this month by leaking a hacking tool belonging to the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO) team. Now this week...
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Happy 25th Birthday to the World Wide Web
Internauts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together! On August 23, 1991--25 years ago today--the public gained access for the first...
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Linux Turns 25, Is Bigger and More Professional Than Ever
The Linux operating system kernel is 25 years old this month. It was August 25, 1991 when Linus Torvalds posted his famous message announcing the project, claiming...
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Brain's Chemical Signals Seen in Real Time
Neuroscientists have invented a way to watch the ebb and flow of the brain's chemical messengers in real time.
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Arm Wrestles Its Way Into Supercomputing
The designer of the chips that run most of the world's mobile devices has announced its first dedicated processor for use in supercomputers.
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Sense of the Stars: New Telescopes Poised to nlock the niverse
For nearly as long as we've walked the Earth, humans have tried to make sense of the stars.
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'radically Rewritten' Bacterial Genome nveiled
Synthetic biologists report the most far-reaching rewiring yet of a bacterial genome.
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How It Feels to Live in Darkness
I know there isn't one dot of light, but I frantically scan the pitch-black area surrounding me out of habit nonetheless.
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Let the Structural Symphony Begin
Like other structural biologists, Eva Nogales works in extraordinary times.
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New Brain-Mapping Technique Captures Every Connection Between Neurons
The human brain is among the universe’s greatest remaining uncharted territories. And as with any mysterious land, the secret to understanding it begins with a...
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