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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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sing Biomimicry to Detect Outbreaks Faster
Researchers have been working to enhance the U.S. biosurveillance system, which alerts authorities to disease outbreaks.
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Ancient Paper Art Poised to Improve Smart Clothing
Researchers have used kirigami in their execution of a project to build malleable electronic circuits, which could enhance smart apparel.
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Smart Ink Adds New Dimensions to 3D Printing
A new smart ink turns three-dimensionally-printed structures into objects that change shape and color.
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A 200-Year-Old Idea Offers a New Way to Trace Stolen Bitcoins
Researchers are using an 1816 legal precedent to track down stolen bitcoins.
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Migration Forecasts Could Help Prevent Wind Turbines and Buildings From Killing Millions of Birds
A team of researchers have constructed a computer model of weather and bird migration to help prevent bird deaths by wind farms and buildings.
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Researchers Devise Novel Laser Steering for Autonomous Cars
Researchers say they have discovered a novel laser light sensing technology that is more robust and less expensive than conventional systems.
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Blue Waters Supercomputer Brings Subatomic Resolution to Computational Microscope
A new "computational microscope" can model the atomic and subatomic forces driving molecular interactions.
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A Brain-Boosting Prosthesis Moves From Rats to Humans
The shape on the screen appears only briefly—just long enough for the test subject to commit it to memory. At the same time, an electrical signal snakes past the...
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The Quest to Map the Mysteries of the Ocean Floor
Geologists have charted mountain ranges and forests and desert tundras, astronomers the heavens above, yet our planet's oceans remain largely unexplored; it's often...
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How Human is Your Robot?
A Brown University team develops a way to 'score' robots for being more (or less) like people.
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Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence Leading the Way to Smart Houses
Researchers are studying deep learning, with a focus on improving medical imaging and advancing the future of truly smart houses that will perform manual labor...
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Twisting Graphene Into Spirals
Researchers in Japan have synthesized helical nanographene, a breakthrough that could lead to nanoscale induction coils and molecular springs for use in nanomechanics...
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Hubble ncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen
More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen.
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Scientists se AI to Predict Biological Age Based on Smartphone, Wearables Data
Researchers in Russia have demonstrated that physical activity data obtained from wearable computing devices can be used to generate digital biomarkers of aging...
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Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problems It Created: Blockchain
Entrepreneurs, companies, and governments look to use databases like Blockchain—often independent of Bitcoin—to solve some of the most intractable issues facing...
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Are We Quantum Computers?
An international team of researchers will explore the brain's potential for quantum computation.
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To Speed p AI, Mix Memory and Processing
The University of Illinois' Naresh Shanbhag is pushing for a new computer architecture that blends computing and memory so devices can be smarter without consuming...
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Augmented Reality App Created by NY Students Can Translate Sign Language in Real Time
ARSL is a new app that enables users to capture sign language with a smartphone camera and see a live translation into their native language.
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Military Documents Reveal How the S Army Plans to Deploy AI in Future Wars
Tomorrow's wars will be fought with a lethal combination of soldiers, drones, and AI-powered systems. The Internet of Battle Things, as it's being called, is a vast...
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