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Autonomous Vehicles: No Drivers Required
This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, U.K., in electric shuttles with no one's hands on the steering wheel—or any steering wheel at...
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Attempts to Predict Terrorist Attacks Hit Limits
From France to Nigeria, the world is reeling from a wave of deadly terrorist attacks.
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S Regulators Move on Thought-Controlled Prosthetics
For the first time since accidents severed the neural connection between their brains and limbs, a small number of patients are reaching out and feeling the world...
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Google Scholar Pioneer on Search Engine’s Future
As the search engine approaches its 10th birthday, Nature speaks to the co-creator of Google Scholar.
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Row Hits Flagship Brain Plan
The European Union's high-profile, €1-billion Human Brain Project, launched last October, has come under fire from neuroscientists, who claim that poor management...
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3D Images Remodel History
It took hundreds of thousands of workers decades to create China's terracotta army, but digital avatars made in minutes could solve the lingering mystery of one...
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Sound Clue in Hunt For Mh370
Researchers are exploring what may be the first promising lead in months in the search for the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
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Basic Science Finds Corporate Refuge
Microsoft makes Windows, Word, and the Xbox. But it also employs scientists who make sensors to stick on the hides of elephants and rhinoceroses.
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Mugshots Built from Dna Data
Leaving a hair at a crime scene could one day be as damning as leaving a photograph of your face.
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The $1,000 Genome
In Silicon Valley, Moore's law seems to stand on equal footing with the natural laws codified by Isaac Newton.
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Autonomous Drones Flock Like Birds
A Hungarian team has created the first drones that can fly as a coordinated flock.
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Publishers Withdraw More Than 120 Gibberish Papers
The publishers Springer and IEEE are removing more than 120 papers from their subscription services after a French researcher discovered that the works were computer...
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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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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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.s. Brain Project Puts Focus on Ethics
The false mouse memories made the ethicists uneasy. By stimulating certain neurons in the hippocampus, Susumu Tonegawa and his colleagues caused mice to recall...
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