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New York City Takes Aim at AI
The Big Apple fields an action plan for artificial intelligence.
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Inside Microsoft's Quest For a Topological Quantum Computer
The race is on build a "universal" quantum computer. Such a device could be programmed to speedily solve problems that classical computers cannot crack, potentially...
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The Power of Prediction Markets
It was a great way to mix science with gambling, says Anna Dreber.
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The Polling Crisis: How to Tell What People Really Think
Hillary Clinton is heading for a landslide victory over Donald Trump. But wait.
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Europe and Russia Prepare For Historic Landing on Mars
Almost three weeks after it crash-landed the Rosetta orbiter on a comet, the European Space Agency (ESA) is gearing up to land another spacecraft—this time on Mars...
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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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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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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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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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Can We Open the Black Box of Ai?
Dean Pomerleau can still remember his first tussle with the black-box problem.
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Deep Learning Boosts Google Translate Tool
Google's online translation service, Google Translate, will soon be using a new algorithm that is entirely based on deep learning, the company announced on 27 September...
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S Sharpens Surveillance of Crippling Solar Storms
In the fight to protect Earth from solar storms, the battle lines are drawn in space at a point 1.6 million kilometres away.
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Comet Crash: A Guide to Rosetta's Big Finale
The Rosetta comet orbiter will meet a sticky end on 30 September, but not before a finale that should see it gather the most detailed images yet of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko—or...
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Daring Chinese Telescope Is Poised to Transform Astronomy
Set in a remote natural depression in the mountainous region of Guizhou, China, the world's largest single-dish telescope is on the brink of sparking a new era...
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Worldwide Brain-Mapping Project Sparks Excitement, and Concern
Worries include how to coordinate research programs and resources from different countries.
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Geneticists Attempt to Heal Rifts with Aboriginal Communities
In 1938, anthropologists Norman Tindale and Joseph Birdsell set off on an 18-month, 29,000-kilometre expedition to survey Australia's indigenous groups.
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Mars Contamination Fear Could Divert Curiosity Rover
Four years into its travels across Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover faces an unexpected challenge: wending its way safely among dozens of dark streaks that could indicate...
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Print Your Own 3D Lucy to Work Out How the Famous Hominin Died
The world's most famous fossil is now open source. 3D scans of Lucy—a 3.18-million-year-old hominin found in Ethiopia—were released on 29 August, allowing anyone...
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Majority of Mathematicians Hail from Just 24 Scientific 'families'
Most of the world's mathematicians fall into just 24 scientific 'families', one of which dates back to the fifteenth century.
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Beyond Terminator: Squishy 'octobot' Heralds New Era of Soft Robotics
A squishy octopus-shaped machine less than 2 centimetres tall is making waves in the field of soft robotics.
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