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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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More Eyes on the Skies
The future, it is often said, belongs to those who plan for it.
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Harold Edgerton: The Man Who Froze Time
Every time you use the flash on your smartphone or camera, you should give silent praise to Harold Eugene Edgerton.
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Mars Slow to Yield Its Secrets
Thunderous applause greeted planetary cartographer Ken Tanaka of the US Geological Survey on 14 July as he unveiled a new geological map of Mars.
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Birdsongs Automatically Decoded by Computer Scientists
Researchers have developed a successful way of identifying bird sounds from large audio collections.
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Transistor Successor Set to Bring on "the Machine" Age Soon
A replacement for the ordinary transistor may make it to market by the end of this decade, an event that will herald a radical redesign of traditional computer...
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Supercomputers Reveal Strange, Stress-Induced Transformations in World's Thinnest Materials
Researchers used Brookhaven National Laboratory supercomputers to compare the transformations and breaking points of graphene and other monolayers.
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Will Science Burst the Multiverse's Bubble?
This philosophical question overlaps with real physics when hypothesizing what lies beyond the boundary of our observable universe.
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Oco-2 Data to Lead Scientists Forward Into the Past
NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, which launched on July 2, will soon be providing about 100,000 high-quality measurements each day of carbon dioxide concentrations...
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Scientists Track Quantum Errors in Real Time: Step Toward Age of Quantum Computing
Researchers have brought functional quantum computing another step forward by developing a method for real-time tracking of quantum errors.
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Neuroscience: 'i Can Read Your Mind'
Jack Gallant can read your mind. Or at least, he can figure out what you're seeing if you're in his machine watching a movie he's playing for you.
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Air Force Research: How to se Social Media to Control People Like Drones
Facebook isn't the only organization conducting research into how attitudes are affected by social media.
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Fiendish Wheat Genome Reveals Grain's History
A draft genome sequence of wheat promises to speed efforts to breed new types of one of the world's most important crops — and to reveal the tangled genomic history...
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The Moral Hazards and Legal Conundrums of Our Robot-Filled Future
The robots are coming, and they're getting smarter.
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Joining the Dots For Quantum Computing
Researchers have demonstrated the scalability of quantum dot architectures by trapping and controlling four electrons in a single device.
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Inside the Artificial Brain That's Remaking the Google Empire
It was one of the most tedious jobs on the Internet. A team of Googlers would spend day after day staring at computer screens, scrutinizing tiny snippets of street...
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The World's First Photonic Router
A team of scientists have demonstrated the world's first photonic router, a step toward overcoming the difficulties of building quantum computers.
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Ethical, Autonomous Robots of the Near Future
Researchers are giving serious consideration to the ethics of artificial intelligence as they consider a world with autonomous robots.
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Nasa Seeks Proposals For Europa Mission Science Instruments
NASA has issued an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) for proposals about science instruments that could be carried aboard a future mission to Jupiter's moon Europa...
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Meet Jibo, the Cute Social Robot that Knows the Family
In suite 712 of the Eventi Hotel, high above the sticky June bustle of Midtown Manhattan, New York, one of the world's most advanced consumer robots awaits command...
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