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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Neuroscience: Big Brain, Big Data
As big brain-mapping initiatives go, Taiwan's might seem small.
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D-Wave pgrade: How Scientists Are sing the World's Most Controversial Quantum Computer
The company that makes the world's only commercially available quantum computers has released its biggest machine yet—and researchers are paying close attention...
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Google Reveals Secret Test of AI Bot to Beat Top Go Players
A mystery player causing a stir in the world of the complex strategy game Go has been revealed as an updated version of AlphaGo, the artificial-intelligence program...
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How Scientists se Slack
When geneticist Daniel MacArthur checks into his lab, the first thing he does is fire up Slack, a workplace messaging app.
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Ephemeral Antimatter Atoms Pinned Down in Milestone Laser Test
In a technical tour-de-force, physicists have made the first measurements of how antimatter atoms absorb light.
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Tech Giants Open Virtual Worlds to Bevy of AI Programs
The Minecraft video game was familiar to José Hernández-Orallo long before he started using it for his own research.
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Algorithms Compete to Predict Recipe For Cancer Vaccine
Could predictive algorithms be the key to creating a successful cancer vaccine?
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Controversial Impact Factor Gets a Heavyweight Rival
One of science's most contentious metrics has a flashy new rival. On 8 December, publishing giant Elsevier launched the CiteScore index to assess the quality of...
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Graphene-Spiked Silly Putty Picks p Human Pulse
A dash of graphene can transform the stretchy goo known as Silly Putty into a pressure sensor able to monitor a human pulse or even track the dainty steps of a...
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CRISPR Heavyweights Battle in US Patent Court
It was a tough day in US patent court for the University of California, Berkeley.
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AI Science Search Engines Expand Their Reach
A free AI-based scholarly search engine that aims to outdo Google Scholar is expanding its corpus of papers to cover some 10 million research articles in computer...
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Brain Implants Allow Paralysed Monkeys to Walk
For more than a decade, neuroscientist Grégoire Courtine has been flying every few months from his lab at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne...
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The Real-Time Technicolour Living Brain
Rosa Cossart thinks she knows what a memory looks like.
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Donald Trump's US Election Win Stuns Scientists
Republican businessman and reality-television star Donald Trump will be the United States' next president.
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Scientists Can Publish Their Best Work at Any Age
Hoping that your next paper will be the big one?
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Computing Glitch May Have Doomed Mars Lander
Photos of a huge circle of churned-up Martian soil leave few doubts: a European Space Agency (ESA) probe that was supposed to test landing technology on Mars crashed...
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Icy Heart Could Be Key to Pluto's Strange Geology
Pluto's icy heart beats with a planetary rhythm.
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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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