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Improving Clinical Trials With Machine Learning
Machine learning could improve the ability to determine whether a new drug works in the brain, and could enable researchers to detect drug effects missed by conventional...
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New Quantum Materials Offer Novel Route to 3D Electronic Devices
Researchers at Aalto University in Finland have demonstrated how the principles of general relativity can open a pathway to novel electronic applications.
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Co-Design Center Develops Next-Gen Simulation Tools
The Exascale Computing Project's Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations collaborates to create highly optimized discretization libraries and next-generation...
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Only If It Serves the State: North Korea's Online Experience
Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
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Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution
Surface features on Ceres—the largest world between Mars and Jupiter—and its interior evolution have a closer relationship than one might think.
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Facebook Can Make Your Profile Pic Wink and Scowl
Researchers have been developing a tool that can take a single image of a face and create an animated version that puts on either a happy, sad, or angry expression...
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Slac Knows How the niverse Works. Now It's Targeting Your Needs
You could be forgiven for thinking the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's glory days are long over.
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Texas Gunman's Iphone Could Reignite Fbi-Apple Feud Over Encryption
The FBI and Apple are bracing for another potential fight over encryption, this time because of the iPhone of the dead gunman in Sunday's Texas church shooting,...
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The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Paper
For years, Barbara Simons was the loneliest of Cassandras—a technologist who feared what technology had wrought. Her cause was voting: Specifically, she believed...
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Fbi Again Finds Itself nable to nlock a Gunman's Cellphone
The Texas church massacre is providing a familiar frustration for law enforcement: FBI agents are unable to unlock the gunman's encrypted cellphone to learn what...
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Nanoscale 'abacus' ses Pulses of Light Instead of Wooden Beads to Perform Calculations
Researchers have developed a nanoscale optical "abacus" that uses light signals to perform arithmetic computation.
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The Subatomic Discovery That Physicists Considered Keeping Secret
A pair of physicists announced the discovery of a subatomic event so powerful that the researchers wondered if it was too dangerous to make public.
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Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon
Heat from friction could power hydrothermal activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus for billions of years if the moon has a highly porous core, according to a new modeling...
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China's Technology Ambitions Could pset the Global Trade Order
When President Trump arrives in Beijing on Wednesday, he will most likely complain about traditional areas of dispute like steel and cars.
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Johns Hopkins-Led Team Aims to Turn Computer Systems Into Digital Detectives
An international team of researchers is using an $11-million U.S. Department of Defense grant to streamline investigations by developing algorithms for extracting...
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Bringing History to Life
Sankofa is a new immersive computer game that aims to bring the cultural history of Ghana to life via gameplay while providing a unique learning experience.
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Building A.i. That can Build A.i.
They are a dream of researchers but perhaps a nightmare for highly skilled computer programmers: artificially intelligent machines that can build other artificially...
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Wormholes Join Black Holes By Quantum Teleportation
A century after wormholes were first theorized, scientists have posited that passages through space-time can be traversed using a special quantum connection between...
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A Better Technique For Spotting Bugs in Self-Driving AI Could Save Lives
Most software bugs won't kill you.
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