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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Nasa Mission Successfully Flies By Comet Hartley 2
NASA's EPOXI mission successfully flew by comet Hartley 2 at about 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT) today, and the spacecraft has begun returning images. Hartley 2 is...
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Long-Range Undersea Robot Does Its Own Research
A new breed of undersea robot promises to give oceanographers a deeper understanding of ocean life by going faster, farther, and longer than its predecessors—and...
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Piracy Technology to Revolutionize Market Research in Cinema
Researchers are developing piracy tracking technology for movie theatres. "We plan to build on the capabilities of current technology . . . to detect criminals...
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Implanted Chip 'allows Blind People to Detect Objects'
A man with an inherited form of blindness has been able to identify letters and a clock face using a pioneering implant, researchers say.
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Better Hands May Help Robots Grasp Meaning
Two recent studies show that roboticists are applying some fresh thinking to the building and operation of robot hands, and a third suggests why the work is so...
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Helping New Medical Graduates to Prescribe Safely
Aston University researchers have developed a software-based program designed to ensure that new doctors prescribe medicine safely from their first day on the job...
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Computer Software Program Allows Observation of Viruses
Two New Mexico State University scientists have developed software that generates approximate three-dimensional models of complex and unknown proteins, which could...
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Argonne Launches Tool to Help Auto Industry Reduce Costs
Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory's Center for Transportation recently unveiled Autonomie, a modeling tool designed to address the auto industry's...
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Career Opportunities
What are the job prospects for today's—and tomorrow's—graduates?
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Security in the Cloud
Cloud computing offers many advantages, but also involves security risks. Fortunately, researchers are devising some ingenious solutions.
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Turning Data Into Knowledge
Today's data deluge is leading to new approaches to visualize, analyze, and catalog enormous datasets.
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Britain's Biggest Security Threat
Cyberwarfare, not conventional armed conflict, is the country’s No. 1 national-security concern, says a new report from the U.K.'s National Security Council.
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Adding Human Intelligence to Software
MIT researchers have developed TurKit, a toolkit that enables users to write algorithms to coordinate online workers using Javascript and create human intelligence...
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Twitter Can Predict the Stock Market
The emotional roller coaster captured on Twitter can predict the ups and downs of the stock market, a new study finds. Measuring how calm the Twitterverse is...
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German Radar Satellites Fly Tight Space Waltz
It is a remarkable acrobatic display. Two German radar satellites are now flying in tight formation as they prepare to make the most detailed ever 3D map of the...
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Robot Limbs to Plug Into the Brain with Light
Imagine a bionic arm that plugs directly into the nervous system, so that the brain can control its motion, and the owner can feel pressure and heat through their...
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Beno
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed an innovative theory of roughness and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields...
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Computational Power Against Noise
The Swiss Federal Office for the Environment is working with Empa's Acoustics and Noise Control Laboratory to develop a computer model to simulate noise levels...
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Ecs Research Advances Identification of People By Their Ears
A new biometric technique developed by computer scientists at the University of Southampton can automatically identify people by their ears. The technique uses...
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