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How Future Cars Will Predict Your Driving Maneuvers Before You Make Them
Buy a new car these days and the chances are that it will be fitted with an array of driver-assistance technologies.
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Scientists Capture Crispr's Gene-Cutting in Action
For all the furious hype around the gene-editing tool Crispr/Cas9, no one has ever really seen it in action. Like really seen it.
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Wikipedia Turns 15
It must be difficult for the roughly half a billion people who visit Wikipedia every month to remember a world without the free online encyclopedia.
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Microsoft Neural Net Shows Deep Learning Can Get Way Deeper
A Microsoft researcher team won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge in December with a new approach to deep learning.
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China's Quantum Space Pioneer: We Need to Explore the nknown
Physicist Pan Jian-Wei is the architect of the world's first attempt to set up a quantum communications link between Earth and space—an experiment that is set to...
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Gene Editing Shows Promise in Treating Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is one of the most common fatal genetic diseases. It causes muscle degeneration and eventually death due to weakened heart and lung...
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Programmable Material Algorithm Solves niversal Coating Problem
Research from Arizona State University answers a question that has stumped mathematicians pondering the properties of programmable materials.
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Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up
A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advancesince the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark...
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New Details on Ceres Seen in Dawn Images
Features on dwarf planet Ceres that piqued the interest of scientists throughout 2015 stand out in exquisite detail in the latest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft...
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In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...
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An Easy Way For Hackers to Remotely Burn Industrial Motors
Hacks that cause physical destruction are so rare they can be counted on one hand.
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Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA
Every time a new year rolls in, lots of people make predictions. Most will either be obvious (Apple will put out some new products) or wrong (still waiting for...
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Philae Lander Fails to Respond to Last-Ditch Efforts to Wake It
Farewell, Philae. The space lander that touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (and in our hearts) in November 2014 has not responded to a last-ditch attempt...
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2015 Was the Best Year Ever in Space
With 2015 now behind us, what truly stands out?
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The New Way Police Are Surveilling You: Calculating Your Threat 'score'
While officers raced to a recent 911 call about a man threatening his ex-girlfriend, a police operator in headquarters consulted software that scored the suspect's...
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MIT Researchers Want to Teach Robots How to Wash Dishes
The robots arrived years ago. They help build stuff in factories. They shuttle packages and products across the massive warehouses that drive Amazon’s worldwide...
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Rebooted Kepler Spacecraft Hauls in the Planets
In the second phase of its life as a planet hunter, NASA's Kepler spacecraft is raking in exoplanet discoveries that are surprisingly different from those found...
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Bug Eyes: Tiny Glasses Confirm 3D Vision in Insects
Newcastle University researchers have found the praying mantis uses stereopsis, or three-dimensional perception, for hunting.
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Science Can Tell If North Korea's Test Was Really an H-Bomb
It was the whomp felt 'round the world.
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