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Vast Cosmic Voids Merge Like Soap Bubbles
Vast regions of near-empty space in the Universe are growing and shrinking, much as bubbles merge and separate in soapsuds, astronomers have discovered.
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How the Nsa Can Break Trillions of Encrypted Web and Vpn Connections
For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic...
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An Error Leads to a New Way to Draw, and Erase, Computing Circuits
For the physics researcher Andrew L. Yeats, a light-bulb moment led to an important new insight.
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IBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses of the brain (see "IBM Chip Process Data Similar to the Way...
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Sensors May Soon Give Prosthetics a Lifelike Sense of Touch
Prosthetic limbs may work wonders for restoring lost function in some amputees, but one thing they can't do is restore an accurate sense of touch.
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Closest Northern Views of Saturn's Moon Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has begun returning its best-ever views of the northern extremes of Saturn's icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus.
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Flowing Toward Red Blood Cell Breakthroughs
A team of researchers is using Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Cray XK7 Titan supercomputer to help understand and fight diseases affecting red blood cells.
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An Algorithm Helps Robots Fall Safely
At a major robotics competition held in June, several multi-million-dollar robots struggled to perform even simple tasks like climbing a flight of stairs; someimpeccable...
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Hackers Can Silently Control Siri From 16 Feet Away
Siri may be your personal assistant. But your voice is not the only one she listens to.
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Pluto's Geology Is Unlike Any Other
Take a pinch of Mars, a sprinkle of Saturn's moon Iapetus and a dash of Neptune's moon Triton—and the recipe will yield something like Pluto.
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New Tool: How to Get Meaningful Information Out of Big Data
ClustEval is a new tool designed to aid researchers in their efforts to retrieve meaningful knowledge from big data.
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These Computer Scientists Are Making a 'global Map of Sexism'
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute are building a "map of sexism" by analyzing data from the Everyday Sexism Project.
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The Brave New World of Computer Security
Northeastern University professor Cristina Nita-Rotaru has been researching how to keep information both accessible and safe for 17 years.
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Researchers Aim to Refocus Wandering Minds
University of Notre Dame researchers say they have developed a prototype system that can detect when the mind of a student is wandering.
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Robots and US
The dream of full automation is outdated and does not lead to the best outcomes, according to Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor David Mindell.
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An Algorithm Might Save Your Life: How the Amazon and Netflix Method Might Someday Cure Cancer
Machine-learning algorithms underlying Amazon and Netflix recommendation engines might one day have a transformative effect on humanity.
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Brain Scans Pinpoint Individuals from a Crowd
Our brains are wired in such distinctive ways that an individual can be identified on the basis of brain-scan images alone, neuroscientists report.
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Bioinspired Robotic Finger Advances Prosthetics Technology
Florida Atlantic University researchers have developed a robotic finger.
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Magnetic Skyrmions at Room Temperature: New Digital Memory?
Researchers at the University of California, Davis and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have made magnetic skyrmions at room temperature.
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