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Surprising Bacterial Nanowire Discovery May Lead to Living, Self-Repairing Electrical Circuits
Cooling speeds up electrons in bacterial nanowires.
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Unexpected Semiconductor Properties Revealed by Innovative New Tool
Discovery reveals the role of oxygen impurities in semiconductor properties.
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Europe's New Law Will Force Secretive TikTok to Open Up
The Digital Services Act will extract more new information from the young app than from older platforms like Facebook.
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Wearable Technology for Plants
Researchers have developed a wearable sensor for plant leaves that enables remote management of drought stress in gardens and farms.
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Does Presenting Credibility Labels of Journalistic Sources Affect News Consumption? Study Finds Limited Effects
New York University researchers found labeling the credibility of information sources may improve the online news consumption to a limited degree.
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Researchers Can Predict Battery Lifetimes with ML
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory used a machine learning algorithm to forecast the longevity of various battery chemistries...
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How Smart Is AI After All These Years?
Virtual assistants seem to be great at retrieving facts, and absolutely terrible at giving advice as they have no common sense.
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Neon Ice Shows Promise as Qubit Platform
Researchers created a new quantum bit (qubit) platform using frozen neon gas.
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Unpacking Black-Box Models
A mathematical framework aims to quantify and evaluate the understandability of a machine learning model's explanations for its predictions.
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Researchers Highlight More Equitable Way to Analyze DNA Data from Understudied Groups
Brown University scientists led a multi-institutional team in employing new DNA analysis methods to better understand genetic conditions' impact across different...
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Self-Driving Microscopes Discover Shortcuts to New Materials
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are training microscopes to find new materials faster using an intuitive algorithm. ...
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Chemical Computer Can Be Programmed to Solve Hard Problems
Researchers have programmed a chemical computer to solve specific problems, following earlier research on encoding data into the system.
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What It's Like to Have a Robot Paint Your Nails for $10
Retail giant Target has deployed fingernail-painting robots manufactured by the Clockwork company at three stores in California and Minnesota.
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Crowdfunding a War: How Online Appeals Are Bringing Weapons to Ukraine
The online campaign has tapped into widespread Western sympathy and produced meaningful donations for the country's war effort.
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Russia Was Behind Cyberattack in Run-Up to Ukraine War, Investigation Finds
The attack focused on a system run by Viasat, a California company that provides high-speed satellite communication services — and was used heavily by the Ukrainian...
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Machine Learning Program for Games Inspires Development of Groundbreaking Scientific Tool
A reinforcement learning algorithm aims to speed up materials discovery by modeling material properties at the atomic and molecular scale.
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Lego to Expand Online Ambitions by Tripling Total of Software Engineers
The world's largest toymaker has long feared the digital world could erode the appeal of its bricks.
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Proposed Search Strategies Improve Computational Cost of Bicycle-Sharing Problem
Researchers at Japan's Tokyo University of Science proposed two methods for reducing the computational cost of bicycle sharing systems without impacting performance...
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Costa Rica's New President Declares State of Emergency After Conti Ransomware Attack
The attack crippled the country's customs and taxes platforms alongside several other government agencies, even bringing down one Costa Rican town's energy supplier...
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