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When a massive cache of private information is all stored in one place, it will naturally be a target for hackers. Though there hasn’t been a hack of any consumer genetic testing company yet, it may just a matter of time before someone breaches one of these sites and gains access to not just your…

Known as SimSensei, the tool listens to patient’s voices during diagnostic interviews for reductions in vowel expression characteristic of psychological and neurological disorders that may not be sufficiently clear to human interviewers. The idea is (of course) not to replace those interviewers, but to add additional objective weight to the diagnostic process.

In 570 BC, the legendary Greek poet Sappho portrayed the sky over her native island of Lesbos in her “Midnight Poem.” Now, scientists at the University of Texas in Arlington have used the details in it and sophisticated astronomical software to pinpoint the approximate date it was written.

Drones can best avoid each other if they know about each other, and this is the essence of Hall’s Geocast Air Operations Framework (GAOF) prototype.

A paper published this week in the Physical Review Letters offers the possibility for an alternative explanation for the ringdown signal registered via LIGO. That is, what if the observations were caused by something even stranger? That thing could be the gravastar predicted by some fringe theories that nix black holes from the universe entirely.

Thanks to new research, scientists were able to identify the key neural mechanisms regulating our transitions between wakefulness and sleep, shedding some light on this elusive phenomenon.

Life in space is fraught with a dizzying array of potential calamities. With no quick lifeline to an ambulance or hospitals, astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have to be prepared to tackle medical emergencies, literally on the fly.

The rise of AlphaGo contributed directly to the demise of at least one very interesting chess engine: Giraffe, which was developed by Matthew Lai as part of his advanced computing thesis at Imperial College London.

Researchers from the University of Melbourne have developed a matchstick-sized stent that can be inserted through a vein in a patient’s neck and the delivered to a suitable eavesdropping location within their skull. From this outpost, the stent (a small mesh tube meant to be implanted in a blood vessel) sends signals through wires to…