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Creating Zika-Proof Mosquitoes Means Rigging Natural Selection
OF THE MANY great things promised by Crispr gene editing technology, the ability to eliminate disease by modifying organisms might just top the list. But doing that requires p...
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Farm Researchers Are Using Military Face-Recognition Software To Inspect Grapes
Somewhere in a field in South Carolina, a robot drives slowly through the dry soil between tall, swaying rows of sorghum: a nutrient-rich grain. The robot scans the stalks of ...
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Sarah Parcak Is A Space Archaeologist. Soon You Will Be Too
To be fair, she’s not so much playing as she is demonstrating, but nonetheless, Parcak is sitting in a fancy New York restaurant and is definitely not eating her $12 bow...
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New Research Says Dark Energy Doesn't Need To Exist
On Thursday, a team of researchers from Hungary's Eötvös Loránd University published research in which they claim that dark energy—the elusive substance...
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This Computer Program Detects Cancer Earlier Than Ever—Without Surgery
Cancer is often found when someone starts to feel symptoms—pain, an abnormal growth, or maybe just fatigue. Now scientists have developed a computer program that could i...
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Scientists Hack A Human Cell And Reprogram It Like A Computer
CELLS ARE BASICALLY tiny computers: They send and receive inputs and output accordingly. If you chug a Frappuccino, your blood sugar spikes, and your pancreatic cells get the ...
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We Are Living In The Age Of The Reusable Rocket
What you're looking at above is the first stage of a rocket that's been to space twice. For the first time, SpaceX has reused one of its Falcon 9 rockets, this time to deliver...
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Quadriplegic Man Regains Use Of Arms With Brain-Computer Interface
A man paralyzed from the shoulders down regained some use of his arms and hands via a brain-computer interface, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University. It...
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The Crazy New Camera Tech That Made Planet Earth 2 Possible
PLENTY OF PEOPLE know that leopards wander the streets of Mumbai, but few people ever see them. The elusive cats hunt at night, shrouded by darkness and the din of the city. T...
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New AI Algorithm Beats Even The World's Worst Traffic
The height of individual vs. collective irrationality has to be automobile traffic. We build roadways around the assumption that we as individual human actors will behave in w...
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