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A Decade Later, Genetic Map Yields Few New Cures

Ten years after President Bill Clinton announced that the first draft of the human genome was complete, medicine has yet to see any large part of the promised benefits...

New System Developed for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease
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New System Developed for Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

University of Grenada researchers have developed techniques that enable the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease by analyzing computer images. 

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AI That Picks Stocks Better Than the Pros

A computer science professor uses textual analysis of articles from Yahoo Finance to beat the market.

Invisibility Cloaks and How to ­se Them
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Invisibility Cloaks and How to ­se Them

The "invisibility cloaks" being made in labs today can hide objects when viewed from a wide range of directions and in visible light--both considered implausible...

Free, Open Virtual Laboratory For Infectious Diseases
From ICT Results

Free, Open Virtual Laboratory For Infectious Diseases

Doctors around the world will soon have a powerful new tool at their disposal in the fight against  infectious diseases: a virtual laboratory that will help them...

Ocean Currents Likely to Carry Oil Along Atlantic Coast
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Ocean Currents Likely to Carry Oil Along Atlantic Coast

A detailed computer modeling study released today indicates that oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico might soon extend along thousands of miles of...

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­sing Neural Networks to Classify Music

University of Hong Kong students trained a convolutional neural network built for image recognition to classify music.

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New Automated Tool 'debugs' Nuclear Weapon Simulations

Purdue University researchers, working with high-performance computing experts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, have created an automated program to "debug"...

Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card
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Cellphone in New Role: Loyalty Card

Loyalty cards--those little paper cards that promise a free sandwich or coffee after 10 purchases, but instead get lost or forgotten--are going mobile.

Found in Translation: A Global Village
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Found in Translation: A Global Village

European scientists have developed groundbreaking technology to enable machine translation using statistical analysis. Now linguistic diversity can be found in...

Spinoffs Reveal Earth Benefits of Nasa Technologies
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Spinoffs Reveal Earth Benefits of Nasa Technologies

Congressional staffers in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 20 were wondering why a robot was roaming the halls. Those who followed the robot were led to...

Mine Your Business
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Mine Your Business

Researchers are developing new techniques to gauge employee productivity from information flow.

Straightening Out Heavy Tails
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Straightening Out Heavy Tails

A better understanding of heavy-tailed probability distributions can improve activities from Internet commerce to the design of server farms.

The Automotive Internet, From Vision to Reality
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The Automotive Internet, From Vision to Reality

The European Union-funded CVIS project aims to deploy an advanced communications infrastructure that can facilitate new ways to drastically upgrade the safety,...

The Doctor Is Out, but New Patient Monitoring and Robotics Technology Is In
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The Doctor Is Out, but New Patient Monitoring and Robotics Technology Is In

A new generation of medical devices using wireless communications, sophisticated software and data center-driven "cloud" computing promises to deliver health care...

Researchers Turn to Supercomputing to Find Malaria's Soft Spot
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Researchers Turn to Supercomputing to Find Malaria's Soft Spot

Intellectual Ventures builds computer simulations to better understand how malaria spreads and how it responds to eradication efforts.

Researchers Build Mathematical Models For Cancer Treatment
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Researchers Build Mathematical Models For Cancer Treatment

South Dakota State University mathematicians are helping doctors of the Mayo Clinic build mathematical models to fine-tune an innovative strategy to treat cancer...

3-D Model of Blood Flow By Supercomputer Predicts Heart Attacks
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3-D Model of Blood Flow By Supercomputer Predicts Heart Attacks

The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne has used the Cadmos supercomputer to develop software that can create an accurate model of an individual's cardiovascular...

Synthetic Genome Reboots Cell
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Synthetic Genome Reboots Cell

In the culmination of a project spanning 15 years, scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have engineered the first cell controlled by a synthetic genome.

Hp Researchers Say Manure Could Help Power Data Centers
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Hp Researchers Say Manure Could Help Power Data Centers

Hewlett-Packard researchers have proposed a biogas recovery system that converts livestock waste into methane, which can be used as fuel to generate electricity...
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