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Collapse of Aztec Society Linked to Catastrophic Salmonella Outbreak
One of the worst epidemics in human history, a sixteenth-century pestilence that devastated Mexico's native population, may have been caused by a deadly form of...
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Hpc Technique Propels Deep Learning at Scale
Baidu's Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Lab has released a modified implementation of the ring all-reduce OpenMPI algorithm for the deep-learning community...
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Computer Bots Are Like Humans, Having Fights Lasting Years
Software robots designed to fix errors on Wikipedia often engage in online fights lasting years, with bots repeatedly undoing each other's edits.
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Trump Inspires Encryption Boom in Leaky D.c.
Poisonous political divisions have spawned an encryption arms race across the Trump administration, as both the president’s advisers and career civil servants scramble...
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Craig Venter Mapped the Genome. Now He's Trying to Decode Death
The world's most extreme physical exam starts in the world's plushest exam room, complete with a couch, a private bathroom and a teeming fruit plate.
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Single Atom Feels the Quantum Heat
Thermal transport—the way heat is carried away from a processor, for instance—is very familiar to us.
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Here's Why Self-Driving Cars May Never Really Be Self-Driving
Researchers are exploring unpredictable issues with autonomous car technology that might be solved with embedded software to avoid accidents.
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Project Looks at Human Eye to Sharpen Sight of Robots and Drones
Researchers in the U.K. are working to develop advanced machine-to-machine communication systems that capture and transmit images from highly efficient vision sensors...
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Rethinking Hpc Platforms For 'second Gen' Applications
Researchers in the U.K. are suggesting a new approach to high-performance computing infrastructure involving containerization is required by second-generation applications...
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Malware Lets a Drone Steal Data By Watching a Computer's Blinking Led
A few hours after dark one evening earlier this month, a small quadcopter drone lifted off from the parking lot of Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, Israel.
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Cosmos Controversy: The niverse Is Expanding, but How Fast?
There is a crisis brewing in the cosmos, or perhaps in the community of cosmologists. The universe seems to be expanding too fast, some astronomers say.
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Is a Stretchable Smart Tablet in Our Future?
Michigan State University researchers have developed the first stretchable integrated circuit that is made using an inkjet printer.
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Columbus, Ohio, Region Boosts Smart Mobility Research
The Columbus, OH, region is funding smart mobility and driverless vehicle research.
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Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Earthquakes?
Paul Johnson's research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is applying artificial intelligence to earthquake prediction, using machine-learning algorithms,...
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Brain-Computer Interface Allows Speediest Typing to Date
Ten years ago Dennis Degray's life changed forever when he slipped and fell while taking out the trash in the rain.
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The Race to Map the Human Body, One Cell at a Time
The first time molecular biologist Greg Hannon flew through a tumour, he was astonished—and inspired.
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Crispr Pioneer Muses About Long Journey from China to Pinnacle of American Science
Feng Zhang occupies a corner office on the 10th floor of the gleaming, modern biotechnology palace called the Broad Institute.
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Nasa's Juno to Remain in Current Orbit at Jupiter
NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the...
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Tiny 3D-Printed Camera Lens Could Give Drones Vision Like Ours
Researchers at the University of Stuttgart in Germany have created a camera that combines four three-dimensionally-printed lenses to mimic natural vision.
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