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niverse Has Ten Times More Galaxies Than Researchers Thought
The observable Universe contains about 2 trillion galaxies—more than ten times as many as previously estimated, according to the first significant revision of the...
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Stepping p Security For an Internet-of-Things World
The vision of the so-called internet of things—giving all sorts of physical things a digital makeover—has been years ahead of reality. But that gap is closing fast...
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Teleporting Toward a Quantum Internet
Quantum physics is a field that appears to give scientists superpowers.
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Google's AI Reasons Its Way Around the London nderground
Artificial-intelligence systems known as neural networks can recognize images, translate languages and even master the ancient game of Go. But their limited ability...
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T-Rays Could Push Computer Memory Into Overdrive By Factor of 1,000
Terahertz radiation (t-rays) could boost computer memory speeds by a factor of 1,000, according to computer scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and...
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Pioneering Brain Implant Restores Paralysed Man's Sense of Touch
For the first time, a paralysed man has gained a limited sense of touch, thanks to an electric implant that stimulates his brain and allows him to feel pressure...
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China Has Now Eclipsed US in AI Research
Humanity may still be years if not decades away from producing sentient artificial intelligence.
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Building Blocks of Life's Building Blocks Come From Starlight
Life exists in a myriad of wondrous forms, but if you break any organism down to its most basic parts, it's all the same stuff: carbon atoms connected to hydrogen...
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The Search For Virtual Reality's Killer App
Sony Corp.'s release of the PlayStation VR on Thursday brings virtual reality to the cusp of mainstream adoption.
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Vr Started with Gaming, But It Will Take Over Every Other Industry
"We are looking at sensory immersion.
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Even Bugs Will Be Bugged
When mark zuckerberg posted a picture of himself on Facebook in June, a sharp-eyed observer spotted a piece of tape covering his laptop’s camera.
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Cybathlon: Battle of the Bionic Athletes
Bionic arms, robotic legs, powered exoskeletons, brain-controlled computer interfaces and supercharged wheelchairs - all took centre stage to compete at this weekend's...
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Smallest. Transistor. Ever.
A research team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has created a transistor with a working 1-nanometer gate.
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Alien Life Could Feed on Cosmic Rays
A bizarre microbe found deep in a gold mine in South Africa could provide a model for how life might survive in seemingly uninhabitable environments through the...
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How the Street Light Has Been Given a Hi-Tech Makeover
Not only are light bulbs getting sharper and more energy efficient as they are upgraded to LEDs, but they increasingly help fight crime, promote safe cycling and...
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Japanese Robotics Giant Gives Its Arms Some Brains
The big, dumb, monotonous industrial robots found in many factories could soon be quite a bit smarter, thanks to the introduction of machine-learning skills that...
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Study Predicts Next Global Dust Storm on Mars
Global dust storms on Mars could soon become more predictable—which would be a boon for future astronauts there—if the next one follows a pattern suggested by those...
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World's Tiniest Machines Win Chemistry Nobel
Three chemists who created tiny molecular machines have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their intricate designs.
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Science at Cusp of 'transformational' Grasp of Life via Cell Modeling, Researchers Say
A new paper recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology shows how advances in molecular biology and computer science around the world soon may lead to...
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