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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Computer Model Predicts Academic Success
The mantra "publish or perish" is drilled into every early-career scientist—and for good reason, a computer model suggests.
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Bake Your Own Robot
Printable robots—those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers—have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna...
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Automating Cybersecurity
If only computers themselves were smart enough to fight off malevolent hackers.
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A Stellar Discovery on the Milky Way's Far Side
A single Hubble Space Telescope image can capture scores of distant galaxies, but the one galaxy we'll never see from the outside is our own.
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Skip the Humans: Drug Discovery By Simulating Cells
The future of medicine, we're often told, will be personalized.
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Flashes of Light Show How Memories Are Made
Neuroscientists can breathe a collective sigh of relief.
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The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat Ptsd
How well can you predict your next mood swing?
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Why Did the Justice Department Indict Five Chinese Military Officers?
At first glance, the Justice Department's 31-count indictment of five Chinese military officers for hacking into the computers of six American corporations, in...
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Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data
Scientists in the Netherlands have moved a step closer to overriding one of Albert Einstein's most famous objections to the implications of quantum mechanics, which...
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A Tour of Bletchley Park: Codebreaking that Helped Win Wwii, and the Birthplace of the Modern Computer
MI6 called it Station X.
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Robots As Furniture?
Planning the menu for a dinner party in a tiny apartment can be far easier than making sure guests have a place to sit: Many apartment dwellers simply don’t have...
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Get Ready For the Computers of the Future
Sandia National Laboratories computer scientists are exploring ways next-generation computers can make performance gains while reducing energy consumption.
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Quantum Cryptography With Ordinary Equipment
Japanese researchers have proposed an approach to quantum cryptography they say could work with commercially available equipment.
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Computer Scientists Study Other Computer Scientists
A study and data set from Brown University on computer science faculty at the 50 top U.S. schools yielded interesting findings.
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Computer Worms
The informal, crowd-funded OpenWorm project aims to develop the world's first simulated organism, a worm known as Caenorhabditis elegans.
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How Darpa's Augmented Reality Software Works
Six years ago, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) decided that they had a new dream. The agency wanted a system that would overlay digital tactical...
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Cloud and Supercomputing Cooperate in Molecular Dynamics Research
The director of the biophysics program at Stanford University says cloud computing and supercomputing technologies are bothnecessary for many fields of study.
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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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