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Blinding the Watchman
Internet constellations could thwart killer asteroid discovery algorithms.
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k Mapped Out By Genetic Ancestry
Researchers have found genetic signatures among Britons that betray their historical roots in particular locales of the United Kingdom, leading to the finest-scale...
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Five Solar System Sights Nasa Should Visit
It's show time for NASA's planetary programme.
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Dna Mutation Clock Proves Tough to Set
Mathematicians keep refining π even though they know it to more than 12 trillion digits; physicists beat themselves up because they cannot pin down the gravitational...
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Mistrust and Meddling nsettles .s. Science Agency
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has had a tough couple of years.
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Mediators Call For Change to Science of Human Brain Project
Mediators appointed to analyse the rifts within Europe’s ambitious €1-billion (US$1.1 billion) Human Brain Project (HBP) have called for far-reaching changes both...
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Robo-Rescuers Battle It Out in Disaster Challenge
When the humanoid robot SAFFiR gets a shove, it reflexively moves to maintain its balance. SAFFiR can also walk over uneven terrain, turn its head to scan its surroundings...
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Game-Playing Software Holds Lessons For Neuroscience
DeepMind, the Google-owned artificial-intelligence company, has revealed how it created a single computer algorithm that can learn how to play 49 different arcade...
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Physics in Finance: Trading at the Speed of Light
Financial traders are in a race to make transactions ever faster.
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Star Buzzed Solar System During Human Prehistory
A recently discovered stellar neighbour of the Sun penetrated the extreme fringes of the Solar System—the closest encounter ever documented—at around the time that...
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European Languages Linked to Migration from the East
A mysterious group of humans from the east stormed western Europe 4,500 years ago—bringing with them technologies such as the wheel, as well as a language that...
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Autonomous Vehicles: No Drivers Required
This summer, people will cruise through the streets of Greenwich, U.K., in electric shuttles with no one's hands on the steering wheel—or any steering wheel at...
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Attempts to Predict Terrorist Attacks Hit Limits
From France to Nigeria, the world is reeling from a wave of deadly terrorist attacks.
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Mathematical Time Law Governs Crowd Flow
Walking in crowds means predicting the future.
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Gravity Map Uncovers Sea-Floor Surprises
s though someone had pulled a plug in the oceans and drained them away, a sea-floor map has exposed thousands of never-before-seen underwater mountains and ridges...
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Large Hadron Collider: The Big Reboot
Mike Lamont grabs the last croissant from a table and eats it as he walks through the control centre at CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics just...
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'smart Genes' Prove Elusive
Scientists looking for the genes underlying intelligence are in for a slog.
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Plate Tectonics Found on Europa
If you have got an idea for how to study Europa, then NASA wants to hear from you.
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Earth's New Address: 'solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea'
The supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way is 100 times bigger in volume and mass than previously thought, a team of astronomers says.
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Neanderthals: Bone Technique Redrafts Prehistory
Neanderthals and humans lived together in Europe for thousands of years, concludes a timeline based on radiocarbon dates from 40 key sites across Europe.
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