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Protecting Bulk Power Systems From Hackers
New research explores worst-case scenarios in which hackers exploit security weaknesses in the electrical grid to cause equipment failure and blackouts.
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Novel Technique Tracks More Web sers Across Browsers
Researchers say they have developed the first cross-browser fingerprinting technique using machine-level features to identify users.
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Broad Institute Wins Bitter Battle Over Crispr Patents
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has upheld a series of patents granted for the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology to the Broad Institute of MIT and...
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Observations Catch a Supernova Three Hours After It Exploded
The skies are full of transient events.
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Apple vs. Fbi One Year Later: Still Stuck in Limbo
It's been a year since Apple fought the FBI over data privacy, and we've barely heard a peep from either side on the issue.
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Pushing Boundaries
The recent Women in Data Science Conference provided a forum for female data scientists to discuss a range of topics in the field.
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Lasers Could Give Space Research Its 'broadband' Moment
Thought your Internet speeds were slow? Try being a space scientist for a day.
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S Science Advisers Outline Path to Genetically Modified Babies
Scientists should be permitted to modify human embryos destined for implantation in the womb to eliminate devastating genetic diseases such as sickle-cell anaemia...
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Millimeter-Scale Computers: Now With Deep Learning Neural Networks on Board
University of Michigan computer scientists are researching micro mote computers.
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Fixing the Fake News Problem
Unsubstantiated information can spread like wildfire through social media; new tools aim to make it easy to track down sources of misinformation, no matter where...
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Sensors Embedded in Sports Equipment Could Provide Real-Time Analytics to Your Smartphone
Researchers are experimenting with Internet of Things devices that can be embedded into sports equipment, as well as in wearable devices, to make data analytics...
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Elusive Triangulene Created By Moving Atoms One at a Time
Researchers at IBM have created an elusive molecule by knocking around atoms using a needle-like microscope tip.
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Physicists Teach AI to Identify Exotic States of Matter
Put a tray of water in the freezer. For a while, it's liquid. And then—boom—the molecules stack into little hexagons, and you've got ice.
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Inside the Far-Out Glass Lab
Engineers at Corning's research lab in New York are developing new materials in their quest to expand the capabilities of glass.
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The Internet and Your Brain Are More Alike Than You Think
Researchers say they have found parallels between an Internet algorithm and human brain activity that improve the understanding of engineered and neural networks...
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Automated Rescue
The Texas A&M University Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue builds robots that can work with first responders in search-and-rescue operations.
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New System Makes It Harder to Track Bitcoin Transactions
Researchers have developed a program that could make it more difficult for observers to track any single bitcoin transaction.
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Scientists Shortlist Three Landing Sites For Mars 2020
Participants in a landing site workshop for NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission have recommended three locations on the Red Planet for further evaluation.
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AI Learns to Solve Quantum State of Many Particles at Once
The same type of artificial intelligence that mastered the ancient game of Go could help wrestle with the amazing complexity of quantum systems containing billions...
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