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A Robot Scientist Will Dream p New Materials to Advance Computing and Fight Pollution
In a laboratory that overlooks a busy shopping street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a robot is attempting to create new materials.
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Stanford Researchers Develop New Data Privacy Technique
A new system for aggregating data usage reports emphasizes maintaining personal privacy.
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ESA's Gravity-Mapper Reveals Relics of Ancient Continents nder Antarctic Ice
It was five years ago this month that ESA's GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure—giving...
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Will NASA's Next Mission to Venus Be a Balloon?
After decades of neglect, hellish and cloud-enveloped Venus—sometimes called Earth's evil twin—is a world ready and waiting for renewed exploration.
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Chinese 'Gait Recognition' Tech IDs People by How They Walk
Chinese authorities have begun deploying a new surveillance tool: "gait recognition" software that uses people's body shapes and how they walk to identify them,...
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FDA Not Doing Enough to Prevent Medical Device Hacking, HHS Report Says
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is not sufficiently protecting medical devices from being hacked, according to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
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E.T., We're Home
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into...
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sing Wi-Fi to 'See' Behind Closed Doors Is Easier than Anyone Thought
Wi-Fi fills our world with radio waves. In your home, in the office, and increasingly on city streets, humans are bathed in a constant background field of 2.4-...
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Astronomers Creep p to the Edge of the Milky Way's Black Hole
For the first time, scientists have spotted something wobbling around the black hole at the core of our galaxy.
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Machine Learning Spots Natural Selection at Work in Human Genome
Pinpointing where and how the human genome is evolving can be like hunting for a needle in a haystack.
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Quantum Physicists Found a New, Safer Way to Navigate
In 2015, the U.S. Naval Academy decided that its graduates needed to return to the past and learn how to navigate using the stars.
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To Fight Email Scammers, Take a Different View. Literally.
Researchers have developed a visual analytics tool that dramatically speeds up forensic email investigations and highlights critical links within email data.
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Even a Few Bots Can Shift Public Opinion in Big Ways
Nearly two-thirds of the social media bots with political activity on Twitter before the 2016 U.S. presidential election supported Donald Trump.
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English Has the Scientific Edge, for Now
For centuries, science was a multilingual affair, powered by French, German, English and other tongues. But since the early 1970s, English has become the undisputed...
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Tech Giants May Have to be Broken Up, says Tim Berners-Lee
The World Wide Web inventor says Silicon Valley firms have too much clout and 'optimism has cracked'.
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Here's How Much Bots Drive Conversation During News Events
Last week, as thousands of Central American migrants made their way northward through Mexico, walking a treacherous route toward the US border, talk of "the caravan...
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NASA's Dawn Mission to Asteroid Belt Comes to End
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has gone silent, ending a historic mission that studied time capsules from the solar system's earliest chapter.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Learning to Keep Learning
What if you stopped learning after graduation? It sounds stultifying, but that is how most machine-learning systems are trained.
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The World's Strongest MRI Machines Are Pushing Human Imaging to New Limits
On a cold morning in Minneapolis last December, a man walked into a research centre to venture where only pigs had gone before: into the strongest magnetic resonance...
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