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Atom Circuits a Step Closer
A memory effect that is crucial in electronics has been seen for the first time in a cloud of ultracold atoms.
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Medicine Gets p Close and Personal
Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) in Seattle, Washington, likes to talk about what he calls P4 medicine: health care that is predictive...
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Scientists Reading Fewer Papers For First Time in 35 Years
A 35-year trend of researchers reading ever more scholarly papers seems to have halted.
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Laser Looks nder the Surface of Art
Chemists have unveiled a technique that can get under the skin of paintings to provide a three-dimensional analysis of the old masters' works without causing any...
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The Best Time to Wage Cyberwar
If you discover a way to hack into your enemy's computers, do you strike while the iron is hot, or patiently wait for a better opportunity to arise?
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Computer Science: The Learning Machines
Deep-learning computers are advancing toward true artificial intelligence that will enable them to think as humans do.
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Nasa Lays Out Long-Term Vision For Astrophysics
A new year is a good time to make long-term plans, and NASA has jumped into the deep end of planning.
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Distant Planet Weighed sing Clues from Starlight
Researchers have weighed a planet orbiting a distant star by measuring the starlight passing through its atmosphere.
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Nasa's Chief Scientist on Mars, Moons, and Money
Planetary geologist Ellen Stofan joined NASA in August as the agency's chief scientist, an overarching role in which she advises on the science of all NASA programmes...
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Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram
A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection.
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Graphene: The Quest For Supercarbon
Mr G gazes out from a recruitment poster hanging in an engineering building in Cambridge, U.K.
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Physicists Plan to Build a Bigger Lhc
When Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started up in 2008, particle physicists would not have dreamt of asking for something bigger until they got their US$5...
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Genome Hacker ncovers Largest-Ever Family Tree
Using data pulled from online genealogy sites, a renowned 'genome hacker' has constructed what is likely the biggest family trees ever assembled.
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Brain Decoding: Reading Minds
Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated on the screen of a computer that is trying to decode...
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Researchers Split Over NSA Hacking
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has upset a great many people this year.
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Formula Predicts Research Papers' Future Citations
It sounds like a science administrator’s dream—or a scientist's worst nightmare: a formula that predicts how often research papers will be cited.
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