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Fused Imaging Reveals Sixth-Century Writing Hidden Inside Bookbinding
Northwestern University researchers say they have developed a new, non-destructive technology that reveals medieval texts hidden inside of ancient bookbindings....
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Automated Security Kiosk Could Alleviate Travel, Border Woes
Nathan Twyman at the Missouri University of Science and Technology has created an automated screening kiosk to enhance safety at airports and border crossings. ...
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How The Military Is Altering the Limits of Human Performance
Imagine a group of volunteers, their chests rigged with biophysical sensors, preparing for a mission in a military office building outfitted with cameras and microphones...
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Satellite Snafu Masked True Sea-Level Rise For Decades
The numbers didn't add up. Even as Earth grew warmer and glaciers and ice sheets thawed, decades of satellite data seemed to show that the rate of sea-level rise...
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Detecting Long-Term Concussion in Athletes
Researchers recently conducted a study examining the brains of athletes who had suffered concussions, and comparing them to athletes who had not suffered concussions...
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Code @ Tacc Robotics Camp Delivers on Self-Driving Cars
The Texas Advanced Computing Center last month hosted a week-long summer camp during which 34 students received instruction from five staff scientists and two guest...
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Twitter Data Changing Future of Population Research
Researchers have collected more than 30 terabytes of geo-tagged tweets as part of a project they say could change the landscape of population research.
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Pocket Brains: Neuromorphic Hardware Arrives For Our Brain-Inspired Algorithms
As the world's great companies pursue autonomous cars, they're essentially spending billions of dollars to get machines to do what your average two-year-old can...
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AI Coach Will Train Hopeless Chatbots to Pass the Turing Test
"I can't define obscenity, but I know it when I see it." US Justice Potter Stewart's famous turn of phrase could also be an apt description of the Turing test,...
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Technology That Could Revolutionize Banking
The Ripple cryptocurrency is being used by global banks to speed cross-border payments.
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How Can We Stop Algorithms Telling Lies?
Algorithms can dictate whether you get a mortgage or how much you pay for insurance. But sometimes they're wrong – and sometimes they are designed to deceive.
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The Search For the Solar System's Most Likely Place For Life
Chris McKay has fallen out of love with Mars. The red, dusty, corroded world no longer holds the allure it once did.
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New Nasa Tech Kills Trespassing Drones Without Touching Them
In the most nightmarish drone scenarios, one of the little whirlybirds flies into an airliner, or wanders into military airspace, or swoops down on the White House...
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Wheelchairs Get Robotic Retrofit to Become Self-Driving
Researchers have used sensors and artificial intelligence to create self-driving electric wheelchairs.
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Watch 3-D Movies at Home, Sans Glasses
"Home3D" allows users to watch three-dimensional movies without wearing special glasses.
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Nasa Video Soars Over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains
In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons – amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a...
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S to Create Independent Military Cyber Command
After months of delay, the Trump administration is finalizing plans to revamp the nation's military command for defensive and offensive cyber operations in hopes...
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Elon Musk Lays Out Worst-Case Scenario For AI Threat
Powerful technology will threaten all human jobs, could even spark a war, Tesla CEO says.
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Want a Robot that Can Really Feel? Give It Whiskers
Among the many reasons humans are bizarre among mammals (the dearth of body hair, the bipedalism, the fact that someone invented the turducken) is a sad shortcoming...
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