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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Global Climate Model Helps Untangle Complex Webs of Cause and Effect
The U.S. Department of Energy is pushing climate researchers to integrate observational science and scientific models.
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Smart Microgrids to Help Data Centers, Farm Communities se Locally Produced Power
A team of researchers and students are working to develop smart power management technologies.
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Meet the New Generation of Robots For Manufacturing
A new generation of robots is on the way—smarter, more mobile, more collaborative and more adaptable.
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Gadgets Powered Wirelessly at Home With a Simple Wi-Fi Router
A multi-university team of researchers has developed a system that can power electrical devices with just a wireless router's signal.
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Crispr, the Disruptor
Three years ago, Bruce Conklin came across a method that made him change the course of his lab.
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Improving the Experience of the Audience With Digital Instruments
A new augmented reality display could give music fans a better appreciation of what musicians are doing with digital instruments.
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Fly-Catching Robot Developed By Stanford Scientists Speeds Biomedical Research
Researchers at Stanford University have developed a robotic system that can inspect fruit flies and carry out previously impossible behavioral experiments.
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Emtech Digital: Project Loon Head Details How the Balloons Interact
Google's Project Loon intends to use interconnected balloons to bring Internet service to parts of the world that remain largely disconnected.
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Want Your Writing to Look Like Einstein's? Computers Mimic Handwriting of the Famous
Harald Geisler wants to make you as brilliant as Albert Einstein. Or at least let you write like him. Or at least write in his handwriting.
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Medical Microbots Take a Fantastic Voyage Into Reality
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the...
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Nasa Instrument on Rosetta Makes Comet Atmosphere Discovery
Data collected by NASA's Alice instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft reveal that electrons close to the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov...
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New Sensing Technology Could Improve Our Ability to Detect Diseases, Fraudulent Art, Chemical Weapons and More
An international team of researchers have developed a nanotechnology that promises to make surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy simpler and cheaper.
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Entangled Photons nlock New Super-Sensitive Characterization of Quantum Technology
A newly demonstrated protocol for estimating unknown optical processes, called unitary operations, features precision enhanced by quantum mechanics.
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One Step Closer to a Single-Molecule Device
Researchers have designed a new technique to create a single-molecule diode that can perform 50 times better than prior designs.
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Engineering Phase Changes in Nanoparticle Arrays
Scientists are developing dynamic nanomaterials whose structure and associated properties can be switched on demand.
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Cassini Prepares For Last p-Close Look at Hyperion
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will make its final close approach to Saturn's large, irregularly shaped moon Hyperion on Sunday, May 31.
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An Algorithm That Can Help Robots Walk Off Injuries
University of Wyoming and Pierre and Marie Curie University researchers are developing robots that find ways to adapt and keep moving after an injury.
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Solid-State Photonics Goes Extreme ltraviolet
Researchers have demonstrated the emission of extreme ultraviolet radiation from thin dielectric films using ultrashort laser pulses.
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A Chip Placed nder the Skin For More Precise Medicine
A new biosensor chip can simultaneously monitor the concentration of a number of molecules and certain drugs in a person.
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