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Seeing the Brain's Electrical Activity
Researchers say they have developed a light-sensitive protein that can indicate how much voltage a particular nerve cell is experiencing.
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Robo-Picker Grasps and Grabs
A new "pick-and-place" robot features a standard industrial robotic arm equipped with a custom gripper and suction cup.
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Physicists Create New Form of Light
Researchers have demonstrated the successful interaction of photons, which could clear a path toward using light particles in quantum computing.
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Energy-Efficient Encryption for the Internet of Things
A new chip performs public-key encryption while consuming only 1/400 as much power as software execution of the same protocols would.
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Automating Materials Design
Researchers say they have developed a system that can numerically specify the properties designers want in a material, then generate a microstructure that matches...
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Engineers Design Artificial Synapse For 'brain-on-a-Chip' Hardware
When it comes to processing power, the human brain just can't be beat.
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Programmable Droplets
New hardware applies electric fields to manipulate droplets of chemical or biological solutions around a surface, mixing them to test thousands of reactions in...
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Can Computers Help S Synthesize New Materials?
Following their proposal of a neural network-based artificial intelligence system that sifts through scientific papers and finds "recipes" for specific types of...
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Reading a Neural Network's Mind
Researchers at MIT CSAIL and the Qatar Computing Research Institute have used an interpretive method to analyze neural networks trained for machine translation...
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Researchers Develop Flexible, Stretchable Photonic Devices
Researchers have made flexible and stretchable photonic devices using a specialized type of glass formed into a spring-like coil.
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Crowdsourcing Big-Data Analysis
FeatureHub is a new collaboration tool designed to make feature identification more efficient and effective.
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Let Your Car Tell You What It Needs
Researchers are developing software that measures automotive sounds and communicates any service requirements and other diagnostic information to drivers via a...
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Material Could Bring Optical Communication Onto Silicon Chips
Researchers say they have created a solution to the "interconnect bottleneck" that slows communication between different chip elements.
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sing Artificial Intelligence to Improve Early Breast Cancer Detection
Researchers are working to apply artificial intelligence to improving the detection and diagnosis of breast cancer.
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Fast-Moving Magnetic Particles Could Enable New Form of Data Storage
Researchers have shown they can create tiny disturbances in magnetic orientation at will in specific locations, which they say could be used to make a more efficient...
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'superhero' Robot Wears Different Outfits For Different Tasks
Primer is a shape-shifting robot that can reconfigure itself into different exoskeletal "outfits" to perform distinct tasks.
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Making Datacenters More Energy Efficient
BlueCache is a more energy-efficient datacenter caching system that uses flash memory.
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sing Machine Learning to Improve Patient Care
Researchers are investigating how computers can enhance medical decisions.
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Designing the Microstructure of Printed Objects
Researchers have developed a design system to catalog the physical characteristics of a huge number of tiny cube clusters that can function as building blocks for...
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