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Crispr Pioneer Muses About Long Journey from China to Pinnacle of American Science
Feng Zhang occupies a corner office on the 10th floor of the gleaming, modern biotechnology palace called the Broad Institute.
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Nasa's Juno to Remain in Current Orbit at Jupiter
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the...
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Quantum Computers Finally Go Head-to-Head
In the red corner, weighing in with just five qubits, a quantum computer from the University of Maryland in College Park. In the blue corner, also with five qubits...
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A Computer to Rival the Brain
More than two hundred years ago, a French weaver named Joseph Jacquard invented a mechanism that greatly simplified textile production.
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Europa Mission Heralds Sea Change in the Search For Alien Life
It's not something NASA likes to advertise, but ever since its creation in 1958, the space agency has only conducted one direct, focused hunt for extraterrestrial...
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Nasa's 'pointer' Tracks First Responders Where Gps Fails
That little blue dot likes to mock.
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What News-Writing Bots Mean For the Future of Journalism
When Republican Steve King beat back Democratic challenger Kim Weaver in the race for Iowa's 4th congressional district seat in November, The Washington Post snapped...
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Nasa: Snow Science Supporting the s Water Supply
Researchers have completed the first flights of a NASA-led field campaign that is targeting one of the biggest gaps in scientists' understanding of Earth's water...
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Software Helps Musicians Stop Slouching By Ruining Their Music
New software identifies when musicians' posture is poor and gives them an audible notification.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Earthquakes?
Predicting earthquakes is the holy grail of seismology.
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Broad Institute Wins Bitter Battle Over Crispr Patents
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has upheld a series of patents granted for the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to the Broad Institute of MIT and...
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Observations Catch a Supernova Three Hours After It Exploded
The skies are full of transient events.
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Apple vs. Fbi One Year Later: Still Stuck in Limbo
It's been a year since Apple fought the FBI over data privacy, and we've barely heard a peep from either side on the issue.
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Lasers Could Give Space Research Its 'broadband' Moment
Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day.
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S Science Advisers Outline Path to Genetically Modified Babies
Scientists should be permitted to modify human embryos destined for implantation in the womb to eliminate devastating genetic diseases such as sickle-cell anaemia...
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Elusive Triangulene Created By Moving Atoms One at a Time
Researchers at IBM have created an elusive molecule by knocking around atoms using a needle-like microscope tip.
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Physicists Teach AI to Identify Exotic States of Matter
Put a tray of water in the freezer. For a while, it's liquid. And then—boom—the molecules stack into little hexagons, and you've got ice.
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ts to Launch Programming Environment For the Quantum Era
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney in Australia say they will soon unveil a quantum-era programming environment at the UTS Center for Quantum Software...
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Nae's Newest Members Include 17 Computer Scientists
Seventeen computer scientists were among the 84 new members and 22 new foreign members recently announced by The National Academy of Engineering.
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