Telescopic contact lenses could magnify human eyesight (2015)

Prototype allows 3x zoom | Continue reading


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Scientists tweak DNA in viable human embryos

Novel use of CRISPR base editor error free | Continue reading


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This bright purple ribbon–named STEVE–is an entirely new celestial phenomenon

Once thought to be an aurora, Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement is caused by a “fundamentally different” mechanism | Continue reading


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Mysterious masses of seaweed assault Caribbean islands

Scientists scramble to explain unusual bloom of Sargassum | Continue reading


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Why does AI stink at certain video games?

New technique reveals what algorithms are “thinking” | Continue reading


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One in five genetics papers contains errors thanks to Microsoft Excel

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Researcher at the center of fraud remains an enigma to those who exposed him

After years of detective work, it's still unclear why a Japanese doctor faked dozens of clinical trials | Continue reading


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AI practicing through the world’s top video game players

In Dota 2 matchup, OpenAI Five seeks to improve long-term planning amid uncertainty | Continue reading


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It’s safe to return to some parts of Fukushima, study suggests

Credit the rain, not expensive decontamination work, for drop in radiation levels | Continue reading


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Being watched by a cranky robot might help you focus

New study is the first to explore how robot moods affect human concentration | Continue reading


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New MPI scandal: World's top empathy researcher accused of mistreating employees

Max Planck neuroscientist Tania Singer created an atmosphere of fear, former and current lab members allege | Continue reading


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These half-billion-year-old creatures were animals–but unlike any known today

Study concludes that so-called Ediacaran organisms were a long-lost group of animals | Continue reading


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Why criminals can't hide behind Bitcoin

Even with cryptocurrency, investigators can follow the money | Continue reading


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America’s first dogs lived with people for millennia. Then they vanished

America’s first dogs lived with people for thousands of years. Then they vanished | Continue reading


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Island living can shrink humans

On Flores in Indonesia, island life led to the evolution of short stature in living people, as well as the vanished hobbit | Continue reading


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Docile foxes may hold some of the genetic keys to domestication

New analysis of tame and aggressive fox genomes sheds light on domesticity | Continue reading


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Lip-reading artificial intelligence could help the deaf–or spies

A new algorithm silences its competition | Continue reading


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Lip-reading artificial intelligence could help the deaf–or spies

A new algorithm silences its competition | Continue reading


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Plan to replicate 50 high-impact cancer papers shrinks to just 18

After 5 years, reproducibility project nears finish line | Continue reading


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Scientists endorse billion-dollar collider to look inside protons and neutrons

Machine would smash electrons into protons or heavier ions | Continue reading


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Clinical trial will use reprogrammed adult stem cells to treat Parkinson’s

Japanese team plans to treat seven patients and evaluate them for 2 years | Continue reading


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Why we might fail at terraforming Mars

Insufficient carbon dioxide could prevent us from turning the Red Planet into a second Earth | Continue reading


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Science insurgents plot a climate model driven by artificial intelligence

Fueled by tech-philanthropy cash, the Earth Machine seeks to clear up the future of global warming | Continue reading


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Artificial intelligence has learned to probe the minds of other computers

Algorithms achieve a machine theory of mind | Continue reading


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Star’s black hole encounter puts Einstein’s theory of gravity to the test

Astronomers detect “gravitational redshift” for star moving at 3% the speed of light | Continue reading


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Online portal of thousands of clinical trials could aid disease research

Vivli aims to ease sharing of anonymized clinical studies | Continue reading


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A new study argues that the Kármán line should be set at 80 kilometres

Satellite records suggest a new, lower boundary for the separation between Earth and space | Continue reading


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Could this tiny spider be helping the Arctic stay cool?

The wolf spider may be indirectly keeping greenhouse gases in check | Continue reading


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A turtle–or a rifle? Hackers easily fool AIs into seeing the wrong thing

Adversarial attacks highlight lack of security in machine learning algorithms | Continue reading


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Most worker ants are slackers

Doing nothing appears to be an important job for many ants | Continue reading


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In a ‘tour de force,’ researchers image an entire fly brain in minute detail

Electron microscopy offers synapse-level view of the largest whole brain to date | Continue reading


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On a remote island, a doctor has revived a 60-year quest to eradicate a disease

A cheap one-dose antibiotic treatment might wipe yaws, a forgotten disease, off the face of the planet | Continue reading


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Watch this origami fish grabber nab a deep-sea squid

New robotic claw can scoop up delicate sea creatures without harm | Continue reading


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Chinese scientist wonders how he ended up on the U.S. visa blacklist

Rao Yi, invited for a National Science Foundation workshop in Washington, D.C., next week, has been denied visas since 2016 | Continue reading


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Why humans lost their bone

Study traces evolutionary history of the baculum | Continue reading


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Trump’s pick to lead energy technology program puzzles observers

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy candidate comes from finance sector, not a technical field | Continue reading


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A human has been injected with gene-editing tools to cure his disabling disease

What’s new and not so new about clinical trial using DNA scissors to treat a rare inherited disorder | Continue reading


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‘Frightening’ drug-resistant strain of typhoid spreads in Pakistan

Usual drugs don’t defeat highly resistant strain, leaving only expensive options | Continue reading


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FDA tries to take the reins on regulating cultured meat

Meeting on safety issues stokes dispute over the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s role | Continue reading


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Ammonia–a renewable fuel made from sun, air, and water–could power the globe

With copious solar and wind power, Australia aims to displace Haber-Bosch, a dirty, 100-year-old recipe for making ammonia | Continue reading


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Supermassive black hole is a cosmic ray source

Neutrino-detecting IceCube teams up with other instruments to study distant galaxy's “blazar” | Continue reading


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Hidden conflicts? Pharma payments to FDA advisers

Science investigation of journal disclosures and pharmaceutical funding records shows potential influence on physician gatekeepers | Continue reading


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A fence built to keep out wild dogs has altered the Australian landscape

Sand dunes are taller and vegetation is denser in areas without dingoes | Continue reading


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Plan to amend biopiracy rules would ‘smother research,’ biologists warn

Push to include genetic data in the Nagoya Protocol alarms European scientists | Continue reading


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Yelling, cursing less likely in operating rooms when female surgeons are present

Research was inspired by work on power dynamics in chimpanzees | Continue reading


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Why are countries creating public random number generators?

Beacons could secure online transactions, ensure the fairness of lotteries, and aid clinical trials | Continue reading


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Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

Archaeologists uncover the remains of a giant rack of skulls beneath downtown Mexico City | Continue reading


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Can science-based video games help kids with autism?

An expanding arcade of video games takes aim at easing autism traits, from poor visual attention to problems with motor skills, but the evidence of the games’ effectiveness remains limited | Continue reading


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