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With deadly new viruses emerging these days in Saudi Arabia and China, it can be hard to imagine that viruses can be good for anything. It's easy to forget that we are home to trillions--perhaps qu...
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If you run a website, you have access to a potential wealth of data about your visitors: their location, gender, approximate age, and maybe even their names, with the help of a simple cookie. If...
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Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas | ExtremeTech
Against all probability, a device that purports to use cold fusion to generate vast amounts of power has been verified by a panel of independent scientists.
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A sample Watson smartphone app. IBM's question-answering Watson supercomputer is building quite the résumé. First it won a much-publicized showdown against the two greatest Jeopardy!
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"The City Is A Battlesuit For Surviving The Future" Matt Jones wrote in 2009, referencing Archigram's Walking City. As I've noted before we fill that same role for bacteria. Food guru Michael P
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Researchers have pinpointed a catalytic trigger for the onset of Alzheimer's disease -- when the fundamental structure of a protein molecule changes to cause a chain reaction that leads to the death of neurons in the brain.
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A man blinded by the degeneration of his retinal cells can see well enough to get a driver's licence after receiving a stem-cell transplant
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This flexible new camera can see even better than bugs do
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Harnessing the unique features of the quantum world promises a dramatic speed-up in information processing as compared to the fastest classical machines.
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As someone who has been involved in numerous space-research projects with the Canadian Space Agency, NASA and Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Biomedical Problems, I have come to learn a lot about human involvement in space flight.
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Original Broadcast Date: April 11th, 2013 Tomorrow's World: A Horizon Special - BBC
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She may be only 18, but Brittany Wenger built a custom, cloud-based artificial neural network that can help with leukemia diagnosis.
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Researchers have now uncovered an area in the brain about the size of almond in humans that wields powerful control over the body’s aging process.
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What happens when Watson learns a million databases? RPI students and faculty hope to find out
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h+ Magazine is a new publication that covers technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing human beings in fundamental ways.
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Now, a team led by University of Pennsylvania physicists has used solid-state nanopores to differentiate single-stranded DNA molecules containing sequences of a single repeating base.
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Researchers have pinpointed a catalytic trigger for the onset of Alzheimer's disease -- when the fundamental structure of a protein molecule changes to cause a chain reaction that leads to the death of neurons in the brain.
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Dear Consumers: A disturbing trend has come to our attention. You, the people, are thinking more about health, and you’re starting to do something about it. ...
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Ionut Budisteanu of Romania Wins Top Prize at Intel International Science and Engineering Fair NEWS HIGHLIGHTS The world's largest high school science research competition, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a program of...
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Smarter Object combines the adaptability of digital interfaces with the ease of use of real world devices.
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In Khannea SunTzu remarkable new novel she’ll never write - The NeoProgressive’s New Deal - the leader character, Cassandra Assange (Daughter of Julian Assange, born in 2003), is the target of literal micro drone assassination attempts, a vicious...
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