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Saving Lives with Aerial Drones
Aerial drone swarms could self-assemble into hovering rescue platforms.
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Exascale System for Earth Simulation Introduced
The Energy Exascale Earth System Model has been unveiled after four years of development.
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Heart Is Where the Chips Are, Helping Keep the Beat
A new wireless pacemaker array opens new possibilities for medical sensors.
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There's a New Test in Town for Ranking Supercomputers
Researchers have devised a new benchmark for rating the world’s 500 most powerful supercomputers.
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Editing Brain Activity With Holography
Researchers are building equipment to project holographs into the human brain to trick it into thinking it has felt, seen, or sensed something.
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AI Cracking Open the Vatican's Secret Archives
The In Codice Ratio project uses artificial intelligence and optical character recognition software to mine the Vatican Secret Archives and make its documents available...
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Random Quantum Circuit Easiest Way to Beat Classical Computer
One of the near-term (but somewhat irrelevant) goals of quantum computing is something called quantum supremacy.
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Incredibly Detailed Embryo Maps Chart Each Cell's Developmental Fate
Painstaking genomic analyses of thousands of individual cells in frogs and fish have yielded the most detailed roadmaps yet charting an embryo's journey from a...
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Face Recognition for Galaxies: Artificial Intelligence Brings New Tools to Astronomy
University of California, Santa Cruz researchers used computer simulations of galaxy formation to train a deep learning algorithm to recognize three phases of galaxy...
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Speeding Up Material Discovery
A new algorithm has been developed to help discover and optimize new thermoelectric materials by tackling quantum mechanical equations without experimental input...
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Meet Celeris, the First Interactive Coastal Wave Modeling Software That Runs Faster Than Real-Time
Newly developed open-source nearshore modeling software runs faster than real-time.
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Blockchain Will Be Theirs, Russian Spy Boasted at Conference
Last year, representatives of 25 countries met in Tokyo to work on setting international standards for the blockchain, the technology that was introduced by the...
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Motion Sickness a Major Problem with Self-Driving Cars
Motion sickness could prevent some of the benefits expected from autonomous vehicles.
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Stretchable Smart Sensor a Promising Alternative to Painful Blood Tests
A new flexible wireless sensor worn on the skin monitors the pH of the wearer's sweat in real time.
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Mars Quakes Set to Reveal Tantalizing Clues to Planet's Early Years
A planetary stethoscope will soon be on its way to listen to the heartbeat of Mars.
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Machine Speak: Left to Their Own Devices, Computers Can Figure it Out
Researchers are using new machine learning techniques to teach electronic devices to share data and communicate with other machines without human assistance.
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Bento Browser Makes It Easier To Search On Mobile Devices
A new Web browser brings order to complex searches in a way not possible with conventional tabbed browsing.
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European Commission Unveils €1.5 Billion AI Funding
The European Commission will be investing an extra €1.5 billion in artificial intelligence through 2020 under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. ...
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Researchers 3D-Print Electronics, Cells Directly on Skin
University of Minnesota researchers have printed electronics on a real hand for the first time.
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AI to Find Optimal Electric Car Recharge Point Locations
A new artificial intelligence tool can determine the best locations for electric car charging stations.
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