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The Origin of Complex Life on Earth Just Got a Little Less Mysterious
Life on Earth goes back at least two billion years, but it was only in the last half-billion that it would have been visible to the naked eye.
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Microsoft Develops Tool to Repair Code
Researchers at Microsoft, Peking University, and the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China have developed the Accurate Condition System, which...
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Nasa's Voyager Missions Could Guide Aliens to Earth
The 40th anniversary of the launch of two of NASA's most remarkable spacecraft is fast approaching.
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China Launches Brain-Imaging Factory
Neuroscientists who painstakingly map the twists and turns of neural circuitry through the brain are about to see their field expand to an industrial scale.
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The Imperfect Crime: How the Wannacry Hackers Could Get Nabbed
When hackers unleashed the WannaCry "ransomware" in mid-May, not only did they wreak havoc on European hospitals, telecoms and railways, they also made off with...
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China's Plan For World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy After All
Xu Li's software scans more faces than maybe any on earth. He has the Chinese police to thank.
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Cassini Prepares to Say Goodbye to a True Titan
Mere weeks away from its dramatic, mission-ending plunge into Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has a hectic schedule, orbiting the planet every week in its ...
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Teaching A.i. Systems to Behave Themselves
At OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab founded by Tesla's chief executive, Elon Musk, machines are teaching themselves to behave like humans. But sometimes,...
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Inside the Increasingly Complex Algorithms That Get Packages to Your Door
If you had to hand-deliver 50 packages, how would you go about planning the best route?
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25 Years of Global Sea Level Data, and Counting
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of a revolutionary ocean research vessel—a space "ship."
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How A.i. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
In the mid-1990s, Douglas Eck worked as a database programmer in Albuquerque while moonlighting as a musician.
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Artificial Intelligence Identifies Plant Species For Science
Computer algorithms trained on the images of thousands of preserved plants have learned to automatically identify species that have been pressed, dried and mounted...
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Biohackers Encoded Malware in a Strand of Dna
When biologists synthesize DNA, they take pains not to create or spread a dangerous stretch of genetic code that could be used to create a toxin or, worse, an infectious...
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First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role in Spreading Fake News
Fake news and the way it spreads on social media is emerging as one of the great threats to modern society.
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Cassini to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close passes through...
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Deepmind AI Teaches Itself About the World By Watching Videos
To an untrained AI, the world is a blur of confusing data streams.
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ta Researcher Seeks to Minimize Risks For nmanned Aerial Systems Over Populated Areas
A researcher will use a $550,000 U.S. National Science Foundation grant to quantify risks posed by unmanned aerial systems and create algorithms to reduce those...
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Jpl's Design For a Clockwork Rover to Explore Venus
The longest amount of time that a spacecraft has survived on the surface of Venus is 127 minutes.
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How to Map the Circuits That Define S
Marta Zlatic owns what could be the most tedious film collection ever.
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