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What Can a Hacker Do with Your Genetic Information?
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 […]
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Machine Learning Algorithm Spots Depression in Speech Patterns
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 […]
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Scientists Use the Stars to Date a 2500-Year-Old Poem
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 […]
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The Internet of Drones Is Coming
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.
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Did LIGO’s Gravitational Waves Really Come from Merging Black Holes?
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 […]
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Scientists Discover Key Neural Pathways that Allow Transition to Sleep
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.
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An Exhaustive Inventory of the International Space Station’s Medicine Cabinet
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 […]
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The Chess Engine that Died So AlphaGo Could Live
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 […]
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New ‘Stentrode’ Goes Deep Inside the Brain Without the Need for Brain Surgery
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 […]