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National Ignition Facility Recreates the Interior of Heavy Stars
In a lot of ways, stars are our model for creating nuclear fusion here on Earth, with fusion power often promoted as "harnessing the power of the Sun."
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New Clues to niverse's Structure Revealed
What is our universe made of, and has its composition changed over time?
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New Tool Increases Adaptability, Autonomy of 'skyrim' Nonplayer Characters
CIF-CK is a new artificial intelligence architecture program that uses social behavior models to make individual "Skyrim" non-player characters more reactive and...
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In Memoriam Peter Wegner: 1932-2017
Wegner made significant contributions to the theory of object-oriented programming.
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New Horizons' Next Target Just Got a Lot More Interesting
Could the next flyby target for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft actually be two targets?
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Radio Navigation Set to Make Global Return as Gps Backup, Because Cyber
Way back in the 1980s, when I was a young naval officer, the Global Positioning System was still in its experimental stage.
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Gene Editing For 'designer Babies'? Highly nlikely, Scientists Say
Now that science is a big step closer to being able to fiddle with the genes of a human embryo, is it time to panic?
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The Death of Ruby? Developers Should Learn These Languages Instead
The Ruby programming language's popularity has plummeted steeply in the past few years, owing to scalability limits, slower application runtimes, and an inability...
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Cosmic Map Reveals a Not-So-Lumpy niverse
Cosmologists have produced the biggest map yet of the Universe's structure and they find it less lumpy than previous surveys have suggested.
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The Ghostly Radio Station That No One Claims to Run
In the middle of a Russian swampland, not far from the city of St Petersburg, is a rectangular iron gate.
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Ever-Elusive Neutrinos Spotted Bouncing Off Nuclei For the First Time
Neutrinos are famously antisocial. Of all the characters in the particle physics cast, they are the most reluctant to interact with other particles.
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The Race to Reveal Antimatter's Secrets
In a high-ceilinged hangar at CERN, six rival experiments are racing to understand the nature of one of the Universe's most elusive materials.
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Five Years Ago and 154 Million Miles Away: Touchdown!
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which landed near Mount Sharp five years ago this week, is examining clues on that mountain about long-ago lakes on Mars.
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How Apps Can Motivate You By Tapping Into Your Personality
Rita Orji at the University of Waterloo in Canada is designing interactive persuasive computer games customized to the player's motivational style.
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Teaching Robots Right From Wrong
Artificial intelligence is outperforming the human sort in a growing range of fields—but how do we make sure it behaves morally?
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New Web Tool Tracks Russian 'influence Ops' on Twitter
The Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan project backed by the German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), has launched a Web tool to keep tabs on...
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Crispr Fixes Disease Gene in Viable Human Embryos
An international team of researchers has used CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing—a technique that allows scientists to make precise changes to genomes with relative ease—to...
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Two Voyagers Taught S How to Listen to Space
As NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft were changing our understanding of the solar system, they also spurred a leap in spacecraft communications.
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4d Movies Capture People in Clothing, Creating Realistic Virtual Try-on
ClothCapture is new technology that can digitally capture clothing on moving people, turn it into a three-dimensional digital platform, and dress virtual avatars...
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