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Could Human and Computer Viruses Merge, Threatening Both Realms?
Information security experts believe the blurring of the boundaries between computer and biological viruses is not too far-fetched—and could...
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The Snails of War and Other Robotic Experiments
The electric snail is here. There’s an electric cockroach too. Both are early experimental forays in a new line...
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The Rise of the ‘Narciss-Ome’
The future of personalized genomic medicine can be glimpsed in a paper that reports the integration of lead author...
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Can High-Power Ultrasound Protect Produce From Pathogens?
A litany of food scares--and rules for organic produce--have pushed the industry to seek new solutions for food safety.
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Scientists Send Encoded Message Through Rock Via Neutrino Beam
Humankind is constantly inventing new ways to stay in touch. But in some situations it’s difficult to keep the...
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Cause and Effect: Judea Pearl Wins Turing Prize
Humans have always made inferences about causes and effects, sometimes based on scanty information. Many machines do now, too,...
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New Debris-Tracking ‘Space Fence’ Passes Key Test
A prototype “space fence” designed to track Earth’s burgeoning orbital debris population passed a key test recently, locking onto...
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Brain-Machine Interfaces in Fact and Fiction
Use your brain to control the world. That’s the promise of the brain-machine interface, a system that directly translates...
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Hopes For Medical Advances Rise As Gene Sequencing Cost Falls
In Silicon Valley, the line between computing and biology has begun to blur in a way that could have...
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Scientists Closing in on ‘God Particle’
More scientists are getting closer in the search for the “God particle” of physics that would help explain the...