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New Human Gene Tally Reignites Debate
One of the earliest attempts to estimate the number of genes in the human genome involved tipsy geneticists, a bar in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, and pure guesswork...
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New AI System Can Imagine What It Hasn't Seen
"Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don't we do something about natural stupidity?" computer scientist Steve Polyak once joked.
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Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material ejected when the powerful gravity of a supermassive...
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Spotlight Falls on Russian Threat to ndersea Cables
The Trump administration's new sanctions on Russia are casting light on the threat posed to the undersea cables that carry the world's electronic communications...
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If You're A Facebook ser, You're Also a Research Subject
The professor was incredulous.
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Seafloor Fiber Optic Cables Can Work Like Seismometers
There are enough seismometers around these days to detect and locate nearly all earthquakes on land, except the most minuscule ones.
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Colliding Wormholes May Be Causing Gravitational Waves
One of the most significant scientific developments of recent times has been the five separate observations of the elusive ripples in space-time known as gravitational...
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Cosmic Ray Showers Crash Supercomputers. Here's What to Do About It
The Cray-1 supercomputer, the world's fastest back in the 1970s, does not look like a supercomputer.
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The niverse Is Not a Simulation, but We Can Now Simulate It
In the early 2000s, a small community of coder-cosmologists set out to simulate the 14-billion-year history of the universe on a supercomputer.
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AI Could Get 100 Times More Energy-Efficient with IBM's New Artificial Synapses
Neural networks are the crown jewel of the AI boom. They gorge on data and do things like transcribe speech or describe images with near-perfect accuracy (see "10...
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Why Emergency Braking Systems Sometimes Hit Parked Cars and Lane Dividers
The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday provided new details about a March crash in Mountain View, California, that claimed the life of engineer Walter...
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NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as well as new evidence in...
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New Horizons Is Awake Again to Fly by Distant Object
A nice nap always makes a long journey more bearable—and that's even more true when the journey covers billions of miles.
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Gravitational Waves Reveal the Hearts of Neutron Stars
Inside a neutron star—the city-size, hyperdense cinder left after a supernova—modern physics plunges off the edge of the map.
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Ted Dabney, a Founder of Atari and a Creator of Pong, Dies at 81
Samuel F. Dabney, an electrical engineer who laid the groundwork for the modern video game industry as a co-founder of Atari and helped create the hit console game...
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Are You Scared Yet? Meet Norman, the Psychopathic AI
Norman is an algorithm trained to understand pictures but, like its namesake Hitchcock's Norman Bates, it does not have an optimistic view of the world.
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Tiny, Far-Flung Worlds Could Explain Outer Solar System's Strange Geometry
Hundreds of Moon-sized worlds may orbit the Sun far beyond Neptune, sculpting the geometry of the outer Solar System.
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Asia Pacific's Most Innovative niversities – 2018
Every scientist hopes for a "Eureka" moment—the jolt of sudden insight when a discovery becomes clear. But great advances always follow regular progress, and while...
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