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Robotic Shoulders May Be Key to Lab-Made Tendon Grafts
U.K. and German scientists developed a proof of concept for using robotic skeletons to grow tendons that are strong enough for human transplants.
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Ukrainian Volunteers Use 3D Printers to Save Lives
During the war in Ukraine's first 16 days, volunteers used three-dimensional printers to produce 3,019 parts for 930 products for the country's armed forces.
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ML Helps Determine Health of Soybean Fields
Ohio State University researchers combined machine learning and flying drones into a tool for assessing the health of crop fields.
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Researchers Achieve 'Absurdly Fast' Algorithm for Network Flow
Computer scientists can now solve a decades-old problem in practically the time it takes to write it down.
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The Future of the Datacenter
Existing and new technologies can help cut datacenters' carbon footprint.
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Radio Waves for the Detection of Hardware Tampering
Scientists in Germany have developed a technique that uses radio waves to monitor hardware for tampering.
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AI Translates Math Problems into Code to Make Them Easier to Solve
Researchers used the Codex neural network of artificial intelligence research company OpenAI to translate mathematical problems from plain English into formal code...
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How 'Trustless' Is Bitcoin, Really?
In myth, the cryptocurrency is egalitarian, decentralized and all but anonymous. The reality is very different, scientists have found.
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Companies Are Hacking Their Way Around the Chip Shortage
The supply chain issues have no end in sight, so manufacturers are being forced to improvise.
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USF Researcher Harnesses Brain Power to Create Art
The University of South Florida's Marvin Andujar has developed a prototype brain-computer interface that permits users to create abstract art with their thoughts...
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Great Timing, Supercomputer Upgrade Leads to Successful Forecast of Volcanic Eruption
A multi-institutional team of scientists used a forecasting modeling program to predict the June 2018 Sierra Negra volcanic eruption on Ecuador's Galapagos Islands...
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Reno Trusting the Blockchain with Building Records
Reno, NV, has launched a blockchain-based program for storing records in order to improve "clarity and transparency" in record-keeping.
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Thefts, Fraud and Lawsuits at the World's Biggest NFT Marketplace
OpenSea, one of the highest-profile crypto start-ups, is facing a backlash over stolen and plagiarized nonfungible tokens.
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Tension Inside Google Over a Fired AI Researcher's Conduct
Google employees claim a senior researcher fired earlier this year sought to undermine two more junior AI researchers by suggesting their results were wrong or...
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Advanced Quantum Computer Available to the Public
The researchers behind a quantum computer that encodes data in pulses of light have connected it to the Internet and made it available for public use.
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Seeing How Odor Is Processed in the Brain
Researchers created an odor delivery device, then used machine learning to analyze electroencephalograms to determine how the brain processes scents.
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Drones Could Scare Birds Off Agricultural Fields
An autonomous system can patrol agricultural fields around the clock to drive away birds that feed on the crops.
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No Sign of China's New Supercomputers Among World's Top500
Chinese developers of the new systems have not officially submitted details to the list organizers.
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Researchers Find Critical Vulnerability in Smartphone Chips
The researchers said they found "several out-of-bound read issues when the NAS handler functions read data from outside the Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message."
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