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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Crispr Hacks Enable Pinpoint Repairs to Genome
The toolbox for editing genes expanded this week, as two research groups announced techniques that enable researchers to make targeted alterations to DNA and RNA...
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Two Ornl-Led Research Teams Receive $10.5 Million to Advance Quantum Computing For Scientific Applications
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded two research teams more than $10 million to assess the feasibility of quantum architectures in addressing big science...
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Resistive Memory Components the Computer Industry Can't Resist
Researchers have developed new memristor devices that last 1 trillion cycles, an achievement they say far surpasses the endurance of commercial flash memories for...
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How We Feel About Robots That Feel
Octavia, a humanoid robot designed to fight fires on Navy ships, has mastered an impressive range of facial expressions.
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These Neurons Are Alive and Firing. And You Can Watch Them in 3-D
For patients with epilepsy, or cancerous brain lesions, sometimes the only way to forward is down.
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Higgs Boson ncovered By Quantum Algorithm on D-Wave Machine
Machine learning has returned with a vengeance. I still remember the dark days of the late '80s and '90s, when it was pretty clear that the current generation of...
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Like Magic: The Tech That Goes Into Making Money Harder to Fake
In 2005, shortly after earning a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering, Sam Cape was looking for work online when he came across a cryptic help...
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Photons Pair Up Like Superconducting Electrons
Superconductivity—a phenomenon in which electrons can travel through certain materials with zero resistance—has revolutionized parts of medicine, travel and science...
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A Block on the Old Chip
Block copolymers may help transistors shrink to tinier dimensions.
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Overcoming Disabilities
Brain-computer interfaces hold the promise of fully featured replacements for body parts that don't work or are missing.
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Wpi Researchers Developing Autonomous Snake-Like Robots to Support Search-and-Rescue Teams
Researchers have received a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to develop snake-like robots that can navigate through debris following a disaster.
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Material Could Bring Optical Communication Onto Silicon Chips
Researchers say they have created a solution to the "interconnect bottleneck" that slows communication between different chip elements.
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Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords
Roboticists say they now are focused on human-robot interaction in the performance of complex tasks.
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How Fiction Becomes Fact on Social Media
Hours after the Las Vegas massacre, Travis McKinney's Facebook feed was hit with a scattershot of conspiracy theories.
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Take a Walk on Mars, in Your Own Living Room
When NASA scientists want to follow the path of the Curiosity rover on Mars, they can don a mixed-reality headset and virtually explore the Martian landscape.
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This Company's Robots Are Making Everything, and Reshaping the World
The headquarters of Fanuc sit in the shadow of Mt. Fuji, on a sprawling, secluded campus of 22 windowless factories and dozens of office buildings.
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Fbi Couldn't Access Nearly 7k Devices Because of Encryption
The FBI hasn't been able to retrieve data from more than half of the mobile devices it tried to access in less than a year, FBI Director Christopher Wray said Sunday...
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Rendering the Invisible Visible
Researchers at multiple institutions are working on the Mobile Material Characterization and Localization by Electromagnetic Sensing project.
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Deep Space Communications via Faraway Photons
A spacecraft destined to explore a unique asteroid will also test new communication hardware that uses lasers instead of radio waves.
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