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For Now, Self-Driving Cars Still Need Humans
Car enthusiasts, after hearing industry executives discussing the self-driving technology being built into their vehicles, might be forgiven for thinking robotic...
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Star's Bizarre Optical Antics Go Back at Least a Century
For over a century, a star's bizarre behavior has been hiding in plain sight.
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Race of World's Tiniest Cars Set to Drive Nano-Robot Revolution
Scientists from around the world will meet in Toulouse, France, in November for the world's first car race conducted at the nanoscopic level.
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'hack the Dinos' Helps Paleontologists
Kaleigh Clary, a computer science graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, drove down to offer a day of free work for the American Museum of...
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Most Luminous Galaxy Is Ripping Itself Apart
In a far-off galaxy, 12.4 billion light-years from Earth, a ravenous black hole is devouring galactic grub. Its feeding frenzy produces so much energy, it stirs...
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How Future Cars Will Predict Your Driving Maneuvers Before You Make Them
Buy a new car these days and the chances are that it will be fitted with an array of driver-assistance technologies.
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Scientists Capture Crispr's Gene-Cutting in Action
For all the furious hype around the gene-editing tool Crispr/Cas9, no one has ever really seen it in action. Like really seen it.
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Wikipedia Turns 15
It must be difficult for the roughly half a billion people who visit Wikipedia every month to remember a world without the free online encyclopedia.
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Microsoft Neural Net Shows Deep Learning Can Get Way Deeper
A Microsoft researcher team won the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge in December with a new approach to deep learning.
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China's Quantum Space Pioneer: We Need to Explore the nknown
Physicist Pan Jian-Wei is the architect of the world's first attempt to set up a quantum communications link between Earth and space—an experiment that is set to...
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Gene Editing Shows Promise in Treating Muscular Dystrophy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is one of the most common fatal genetic diseases. It causes muscle degeneration and eventually death due to weakened heart and lung...
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Programmable Material Algorithm Solves niversal Coating Problem
Research from Arizona State University answers a question that has stumped mathematicians pondering the properties of programmable materials.
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Bitter Fight Over Crispr Patent Heats Up
A versatile technique for editing genomes has been called the biggest biotechnology advancesince the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the US Patent and Trademark...
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New Details on Ceres Seen in Dawn Images
Features on dwarf planet Ceres that piqued the interest of scientists throughout 2015 stand out in exquisite detail in the latest images from NASA's Dawn spacecraft...
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In Pursuit of an Affordable Tablet For the Blind
An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...
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An Easy Way For Hackers to Remotely Burn Industrial Motors
Hacks that cause physical destruction are so rare they can be counted on one hand.
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Prediction Machines Will See the Future For Hedge Funds, CIA
Every time a new year rolls in, lots of people make predictions. Most will either be obvious (Apple will put out some new products) or wrong (still waiting for...
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Philae Lander Fails to Respond to Last-Ditch Efforts to Wake It
Farewell, Philae. The space lander that touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (and in our hearts) in November 2014 has not responded to a last-ditch attempt...
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2015 Was the Best Year Ever in Space
With 2015 now behind us, what truly stands out?
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