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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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Nasa, Uci Reveal New Details of Greenland Ice Loss
Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic...
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A Healthy Approach?
A new wave of consumer-centric connected fitness and health-related devices is changing healthcare.
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Pioneering Chip Extends Sensors' Battery Life
Engineers have developed an inexpensive, ultra-low-power computer chip that can extend the battery life of sensors.
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Kingston niversity to Explore How Drones, Smart Wristbands, and Cameras Could Transform Future of Concert Security
Researchers will investigate how networked drones, smart wristbands, and body-mounted video cameras could enhance concert security.
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This Technology Could Finally Make Brain Implants Practical
In labs testing how brain implants could help people with physical disabilities, tales of success can be bittersweet.
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Trick of Tweet: Data Tool Pinpoints Words Seen as Credible
Sixty-two percent of Americans get their news from social media, according to a 2016 poll by Pew Research Center.
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Why the Earth's Magnetic Poles Could Be About to Swap Places, and How It Would Affect us
The Earth's magnetic field surrounds our planet like an invisible force field, protecting life from harmful solar radiation by deflecting charged particles away...
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Information Paradox and Black Holes in Plasmas
Black holes are a problem for physics, and the physics community has never fully warmed to the idea of them.
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Voice-Checking Device Stops Hackers Hijacking Your Siri or Alexa
A wearable device under development at the University of Michigan provides continuous authentication for voice assistants such as Apple's Siri or Amazon's Alexa...
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Sharpens Paradox of Ancient Mars
Mars scientists are wrestling with a problem.
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Google Brain Super-Resolution Image Tech Makes 'zoom, Enhance!' Real
Google Brain has devised some new software that can create detailed images from tiny, pixelated source images. Google's software, in short, basically means thetrope...
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How Plants Evolved Into Carnivores
Any insect unlucky enough to land on the mouth-like leaves of an Australian pitcher plant will meet a grisly end.
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150-Year Journey to Alpha Centauri Proposed
Interstellar travel, a timeworn staple of science fiction, can already be science fact if one has cash to spare
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Turbocharging Science
The National Center for Atmospheric Research has commenced operations of the new Cheyenne supercomputer, one of the world's most powerful and energy-efficient systems...
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Volunteers Archive Government Data, Worry Trump Administration Could Cut Access
Volunteers are working to archive public databases hosted by U.S. government agencies because they are worried access to the data could be cut off by the Trump...
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China Claims Supercomputer Powers Surpasses U.s., Europe
The processing power of China's Tianhe supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin exceeds that of its U.S. and European counterparts, according...
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China's Intelligent Weaponry Gets Smarter
Robert O. Work, the veteran defense official retained as deputy secretary by President Trump, calls them his "A.I. dudes."
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Cosmic Test Backs 'quantum Spookiness'
A version of an iconic experiment to confirm quantum theory has for the first time used the light of distant stars to bolster the case for a phenomenon that Albert...
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