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Paradox at the Heart of Mathematics Makes Physics Problem nanswerable
A logical paradox at the heart of mathematics and computer science turns out to have implications for the real world, making a basic question about matter fundamentally...
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Nasa Mars Rover Curiosity Reaches Sand Dunes
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has begun an up-close investigation of dark sand dunes up to two stories tall. The dunes are on the rover's trek up the lower portion...
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Backslash: Anti-Surveillance Gadgets For Protesters
When riot police descended on protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, last year sporting assault rifles and armored vehicles, the images sparked an awareness of the military...
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For Google, Quantum Computing Is Like Learning to Fly
At a NASA lab in Silicon Valley, Google is testing a quantum computer—a machine based on the seemingly magical principles of quantum mechanics, the physics of things...
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A Learning Advance in Artificial Intelligence Rivals Human Abilities
Taking inspiration from the way humans seem to learn, scientists have created AI software capable of picking up new knowledge in a far more efficient and sophisticated...
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The Most Likely Spots for Life in the Milky Way
Our home galaxy isn't as hospitable to life as you might think.
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Americans Attracted to Isis Find an 'echo Chamber' on Social Media
When a lonely Virginia teenager named Ali Amin got curious about the Islamic State last year and went online to learn more, he found a virtual community awaiting...
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These 3 Guys May Have Figured Out How to Predict Awesome Sunsets
Three young weather enthusiasts in Pennsylvania have developed a new computer model that can predict visually striking sunsets.
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Improved Tools For Structured Matrix Computations
A researcher has built stratification graphs to provide deeper understanding of how characteristics of an underlying physical system can change from small perturbations...
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Baidu's Self-Driving Car Takes On Beijing Traffic
Driving around Beijing often feels unnervingly like a contact sport, with vehicles recklessly plunging through thick traffic, sneaking along the shoulder, or cutting...
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Why Memory and Mimicry Are The Next Big Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
For the last five years the effort to teach computers to think more like humans, to learn how to recognize speech and images on their own has been the goal of ...
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New Clues to Ceres' Bright Spots and Origins
Ceres reveals some of its well-kept secrets in two new studies in the journal Nature, thanks to data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft.
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Hacker Lexicon: Malvertising, the Hack That Infects Computers Without a Click
Malvertising is when hackers buy ad space on a legitimate website, and, as the name suggests, upload malicious advertisements designed to hack site visitor’s computers...
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Chinese Researchers Unveil Brain-Powered Car
Chinese researchers from Nankai University have spent the last two years developing a mind-controlled car.
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Here's What Developers Are Doing with Google’s AI Brain
An artificial intelligence engine that Google uses in many of its products, and that it made freely available last month, is now being used by others to perform...
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Army to Stop Putting Social Security Numbers on Dog Tags
Soldiers' Social Security numbers will no longer be part of their dog tags, the Army announced Tuesday.
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China Wants to Replace Millions of Workers with Robots
China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.
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To Jupiter with Junocam!
When NASA's Juno mission arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, new views of the giant planet's swirling clouds will be sent back to Earth, courtesy of its color camera...
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Virtual Reality Room Facilitates New Research
Brown University's YURT Ultimate Reality Theater creates images viewable with three-dimensional (3D) glasses.
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