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This Music App Wants To Improve Your Hearing

Here's how it works: First, you put in your headphones—ideally the ones that came with your phone—and go somewhere quiet. Then, take a hearing test for each ear...

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Here’s How to Build The First Large-Scale Quantum Computer

In what may best be described as a quantum leap, a group of researchers from the University of Sussex have unveiled what they claim is the first realistic blueprint for the...

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The Artist Who’s Helping NASA Get To An Asteroid

Artist Peter Rubin, a prolific cinematic illustrator, has lent his talents to Hollywood movies ranging from Roland Emmerich's 1994 epic Stargate to the upcoming reboot Spid...

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This Futuristic Cap Lets People With Paralysis Communicate

It’s a patient’s worst nightmare: They’re paralyzed from an accident or disease, and slowly, even the ability to signal by blinking is taken from them. It...

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This AI Can Diagnose A Rare Eye Condition As Well As A Human Doctor

Diagnosing medical conditions is among the more classic examples of actually useful, achievable real-world machine learning. Machines have data, lots of it, and they have t...

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NASA's Groundbreaking New Development In Rocket Science Is … Paint?


Paint probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of rocket science, but NASA’s Ames Research Center has discovered it can use paint ...

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Mathematician Proposes Blocking Tsunamis With Sound Waves

Usama Kadri, a mathematician at Cardiff University in the UK, has published new calculations in the open-access journal Heliyon demonstrating the possibility of neutralizin...

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This Boat Will Run for Six Years on Nothing But Wind, Water And Hydrogen

Talk about energy efficient, this boat will use only sun, wind, and hydrogen for power to last six years as it travels around the world. Called the "Energy Observer," the e...

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These Plankton-Like Robots Are Drifting Through The Ocean To Help Save Sea Life

Twenty years after they first met and 15 years since they began work on the project, oceanographers Jules Jaffe and Peter Franks have finally realized their vision of a rob...

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Nepal Announces New Ambitious Action Plan To Help Secure Future for Its Snow Leopards

The Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan 2017-2021 sets the stage for Nepal to achieve its goal of ensuring that at least 100 snow leopards of breeding age populate each t...

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