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Another Day, Another Exoplanet: NASA's TESS Keeps Counting More
NASA's new planet-hunting machine, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is racking up scores of alien worlds.
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Computer Simulation Sheds New Light on Colliding Stars
An international research team used supercomputers to run a three-dimensional computer model of a neutron star collision.
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Milky Way to Face a One-Two Punch of Galaxy Collisions
If our knowledge of galaxy structures was limited to the Milky Way, we'd get a lot of things wrong. The Milky Way, it turns out, is unusual.
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Chinese Tech Investors Flee Silicon Valley as Trump Tightens Scrutiny
New Trump administration policies aimed at curbing China's access to American innovation have all but halted Chinese investment in U.S. technology startups, as...
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DNA Design That Anyone Can Do
A new computer program allows users to translate any free-form drawing into a two-dimensional, nanoscale structure made of DNA.
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With Drone Deliveries on the Horizon, Europe Moves to Set Ground Rules
A group of companies are testing unmanned aviation technology to prove drones can fly delivery routes without crashing into each other, and that they can be tracked...
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'DeepSqueak' Helps Researchers Decode Rodent Chatter
Researchers have developed a software program to identify and decode rodent vocalizations.
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Artificial Intelligence Vs. the Hackers
Last year, Microsoft Corp.'s Azure security team detected suspicious activity in the cloud computing usage of a large retailer: One of the company's administrators...
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Customizing Computer-Aided Design
A new technique developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology "reverse-engineers" complex three-dimensional (3-D) computer-aided design...
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The S and China Are in a Quantum Arms Race that Will Transform Warfare
In the 1970s, at the height of the Cold War, American military planners began to worry about the threat to US warplanes posed by new, radar-guided missile defenses...
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Curbs on A.I. Exports? Silicon Valley Fears Losing Its Edge
A common belief among tech industry insiders is that Silicon Valley has dominated the internet because much of the worldwide network was designed and built by Americans...
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Wireless 'Pacemaker for the Brain' Could Be New Standard Treatment for Neurological Disorders
A new neurostimulator developed by engineers at UC Berkeley can listen to and stimulate electric current in the brain at the same time, potentially delivering fine...
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China Becomes First Nation to Land on the Moon's Far Side
A Chinese probe has made a historic touch-down on the far side of the Moon, according to the country's state-run media. It is the first time a probe has visited...
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NASA’s New Horizons Mission Releases Snowman-like Picture of ltima Thule
Ultima Thule, an icy world 4 billion miles from the sun, looks like a big snowman.
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How the Artificial-Intelligence Program AlphaZero Mastered Its Games
A few weeks ago, a group of researchers from Google's artificial-intelligence subsidiary, DeepMind, published a paper in the journal Science that described an A...
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Rail Passengers to Benefit From New GPS Technology as Early as Next Month
New global positioning system technology will be deployed on rail systems in the U.K. starting in January.
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The German Sub Sank 76 Years Ago. Now Its Story Is Being Revealed in Eerie Fluorescent Detail.
The U-boat seems to loom out of the blackness, careening to starboard, as if to avoid a collision.
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One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine
In early December, researchers at DeepMind, the artificial-intelligence company owned by Google's parent corporation, Alphabet Inc., filed a dispatch from the frontiers...
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Machine Vision Can Create Harry Potter-Style Photos for Muggles
New software can animate the central character in a photograph while leaving the rest of the image untouched.
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