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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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The Genesis of Kuri, the Friendly Home Robot
Over the course of thousands of years, dogs have evolved alongside humans to be awesome.
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Scientists Release a How-To For Building a Smartphone Microscope
Researchers have released an open source dataset offering instructions to anyone interested in building their own smartphone microscope.
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Microwave-Based Test Method Can Help Keep 3D Chip Designers' Eyes Open
Researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have developed a new way to test multilayered, three-dimensional computer chips.
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'alien' Dna Makes Proteins in Living Cells For the First Time
Life has spent the past few billion years working with a narrow vocabulary. Now researchers have broken those rules, adding extra letters to biology's limited lexicon...
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Nasa Builds Its Next Mars Rover Mission
In just a few years, NASA's next Mars rover mission will be flying to the Red Planet.
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Artificial Muscles Give Soft Robots Superpowers
Researchers have developed origami-inspired muscles that strengthen soft robots, enabling them to lift objects up to 1,000 times their own weight using air or water...
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Pipefish Robot Patrols City Pipes to Detect nderground Water Leaks
PipeFish is an autonomous robot that can quickly and inexpensively detect damage in municipal water pipes.
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Beetle With Tiny Computer Backpack Is World's Smallest Cyborg Insect
Researchers in Singapore have developed the world's smallest cyborg insect, which they can control to move in four directions at the click of a button.
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Can Police Track You Through Your Cellphone Without a Warrant?
The U.S. Supreme Court confronts the digital age again on Wednesday when it hears oral arguments in a case that promises to have major repercussions for law enforcement...
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How an nderwater Sensor Network Is Tracking Argentina's Lost Submarine
On 15 November, Argentina's Navy lost contact with the ARA San Juan, a small diesel-powered submarine that had been involved in exercises off the east coast of...
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To Build the World's Smallest Atomic Clock, Trap a Nitrogen Atom in a Carbon Cage
For Fridtjof Nansen, 13 April 1895 started well.
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Google's AI Can Now Spot Shoulder-Surfers Peeking at Your Screen
Google researchers have developed an "electronic screen protector" application that can immediately spot people glancing at a user's handheld screen.
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Lawrence Livermore's Newest and Fastest Supercomputer Is Taking Shape
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Livermore Computing Complex will be the home of the lab's newest high-performance supercomputer, scheduled for acceptance...
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AI-Controlled Brain Implants For Mood Disorders Tested in People
Brain implants that deliver electrical pulses tuned to a person's feelings and behaviour are being tested in people for the first time. Two teams funded by the...
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How the Pentagon Is Preparing For the Coming Drone Wars
More than a decade after the improvised explosive device became the scourge of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon is battling another relatively rudimentary...
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tc Students' Research Project Controls Drones sing Brainwaves
Researchers are developing a system in which a person can control multiple drones by thought alone.
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Parallel Computational Thinking
Applications must be programmed to process instructions in parallel to take full advantage of the new multicore processors.
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Perovskites Boost Solar-Cell Potential
New materials could allow cheaper, more efficient solar cells for both traditional and novel applications.
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How Traveling Back In Time Could Really, Physically Be Possible
It's one of the greatest tropes in movies, literature, and television shows: the idea that we could travel back in time to alter the past.
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