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Nasa Space Telescopes See Magnified Image of Faintest Galaxy from Early niverse
Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest object ever seen in the early universe. It existed...
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Data Storage on Dna Can Keep It Safe For Centuries
Two separate recent experiments have demonstrated the possibilities of encoding information in synthetic DNA molecules.
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What Makes Paris Look Like Paris? Let an Algorithm Tell You
Sure, you might be able to tell whether a city is a city by just looking at it. But can you train a machine to be even better than humans at recognizing them?
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Gene-Editing Summit Supports Some Research in Human Embryos
Gene-editing technology should not be used to modify human embryos that are intended for use in establishing a pregnancy, an international summit declared in a...
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Patients Favor Changing the Genes of the Next Generation with Crispr
Jeff Carroll inherited the DNA mutation that causes Huntington's disease.
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Zero to Expert in Eight Hours: These Robots Can Learn For Themselves
A yellow robotic arm pauses over a pile of metal cylinders, snaps a photo, then proceeds to confidently pick pieces out of the jumble.
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Artificial Intelligence Ethics a New Focus at Cambridge niversity
A new center to study the implications of artificial intelligence and try to influence its ethical development has been established at the U.K.'s Cambridge University...
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'improving' Humans with Customized Genes Sparks Argument Among Scientists
"Today we sense we are close to be being able to alter human heredity," Nobel Laureate and California Institute of Technology virologist David Baltimore said December...
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Statisticians' Plea: Please Pick Up the Phone
In the era of big data, when demand for statistics is higher than ever, a shadow of danger looms over the numbers revolution: People are increasingly refusing to...
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Teaching AI to Play Atari Will Help Robots Make Sense of Our World
Google is teaching machines to play Atari games like Space Invaders, Video Pinball, andBreakout. And they're getting pretty good.
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'li-Fi 100 Times Faster Than Wi-Fi'
A new method of delivering data, which uses the visible spectrum rather than radio waves, has been tested in a working office.
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Artificial Intelligence Called In to Tackle Lhc Data Deluge
The next generation of particle-collider experiments will feature some of the world's most advanced thinking machines, if links now being forged between particle...
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Biologists Create More Precise Molecular Scissors For Genome Editing
By tweaking an enzyme that cuts DNA, synthetic biologists say that they can make genome editing even more specific—an essential improvement if the technique is...
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Everything You Need to Know About Crispr Gene Editing's Monster Year
Muscle-bound beagles. Hornless cows. Better potatoes. Genetically modified human embryos.
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Sandia's Panther Predicts Movement
A team at Sandia National Laboratories has developed software that will enable security data analysts to work more efficiently with big data sets.
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The Most Important Number in Climate Change
The furious majesty of a thunderstorm defies computer simulation.
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No, Nsa Phone Spying Has Not Ended
At 11:59 P.M. on Saturday night, the U.S. National Security Agency supposedly yanked the cord on its bulk telephone records collection, thereby ending an expansive...
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Strange Star Likely Swarmed By Comets
A star called KIC 8462852 has been in the news recently for unexplained and bizarre behavior.
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Genome Editing: 7 Facts About a Revolutionary Technology
The ethics of human-genome editing is in the spotlight again as a large international meeting on the topic is poised to kick off in Washington DC.
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