Monday, April 30, 2018

Quantum Recap for April 2018

Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize, says South Korean President Moon Jae-in

Prosthetic arm With Strong Sensory Feedback Developed by Researchers

Miracle cures or modern quackery? Stem cell clinics multiply

Did Einstein really say that?

Budget earmarks $500m to mitigate Great Barrier Reef climate change

Scientists hail European ban on bee-harming pesticides

Mars quakes set to reveal tantalizing clues to planet's early years

Physicists in Earth’s remotest corners race to reproduce ‘cosmic dawn’ signal

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Is it just me that current approach to AI will soon hit another wall?

Spectacular Galaxy Megamergers From The Dawn Of The Universe Discovered

Cracks in the universe: the search for cosmic strings

Canada Shows The World Radioactive Physical Evidence Of A Real UFO

New Male Contraceptive Slows Sperm Without Hormonal Changes Or Side Effects

Another Week and Another Huge Diamond Is Found in Botswana

A Physicist Has Calculated The Best Place to Put Your Router

Top 25+ Caffeine Health Benefits

The latest scoop on the health benefits of coffee

Essential mathematical GIFs that will make mathematics finally make sense

New Brain PET Scanner Shows Promise for Earlier and Less Expensive Diagnosis of Parkinson’s

Liberty And Parallel Deep State Structures

Scientists Peer Across the Universe and Find an Ancient Galactic Collision

Mosquito Hawk? Skeeter Eater? Giant Mosquito? No, No, and No

CRISPR/Cas9 Silences Gene Associated with High Cholesterol Levels Through Epigenetic Regulation

World's Largest Spam Botnet Finds a New Way to Avoid Detection... For Now

Huge haul of ‘depression genes’ shows it’s a complex condition

Intelligent AI: why London is the global capital of machine learning

Revealing the Quantum Nature of the Simplest Chemical Reaction

You Are Here: Scientists Unveil Precise Map Of More Than A Billion Stars

A Nobel Prize for Trump and Kim Is No Joke

Tiny Lab-Grown 'Brains' Raise Big Ethical Questions

Portrait of a Neuroscience Powerhouse

NASA released rare footage of the SR-71 — the fastest plane to ever exist

Rooted in physics

Helix no more. Researchers find a new DNA shape

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Converging positive temperature equilibrium states in many-body bosonic quantum systems

Quantum entanglement demonstrated at a level visible to the naked eye

MIT Just Created Living Plants That Glow Like A Lamp, And Could Grow Glowing Trees To Replace Streetlights

Here's What Happens To Alcoholics’ Brains When They Quit Drinking

Scientists Discover How to Harness the Power of Quantum Spookiness by Entangling Clouds of Atoms

There’s life after death, according to a new theory of quantum physics

Scientists Have Observed Epigenetic Memories Being Passed Down For 14 Generations

Insilico’s CEO to deliver presentation on “Artificial Intelligence for Aging Research”

Advanced microscope shows cells at work in incredible 3D detail

Tech Optimists See a Golden Future - Let’s Talk About How We’ll Get There

Want to remember your dreams? Try taking vitamin B6

Physiological basis for sex-specific differences in longevity

Carlo Rovelli on the meaning of time

Should humanity establish colonies on Mars?

Contrary to reports, the Basic Income Experiment in Finland will continue until the end of 2018

Doctors should be banned from performing genital reshaping surgery on intersex infants

AI may be used to sift through Trump attorney Michael Cohen’s documents

A pioneer in predictive policing is starting a troubling new project

DeepCode cleans your code with the power of AI

A celebrity philosopher explains the populist insurgency

2020 presidential candidate wants to give everyone $1,000 a month

A photo celebration of scientists at work

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox observed in many-particle system for the first time

Meet the 50 top-funded startups and tech companies in India

Scientists May Have Found The Root Cause Of Autism

A worldwide conservation effort aims to sequence the genomes of 1.5 million organisms

Mathematical Model Reveals the Patterns of How Innovations Arise

Serious quantum computers are finally here. What are we going to do with them?

Rice University AI Bayou Uses Deep Learning to Write Code

Friday, April 27, 2018

The Menopause-Alzheimer’s Connection

Is ‘friendly fire’ in the brain provoking Alzheimer’s disease?

Famed cancer biologist allegedly sexually harassed women for decades

Flu virus finally sequenced in its native form

Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean

Clear signs of global warming will hit poorer countries first

Chinese physician released after 3 months in jail for criticizing a traditional medicine

South Korea’s most-destructive quake probably triggered by geothermal plant

Incredibly detailed embryo maps chart each cell’s developmental fate

Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body

There's a Link Between Cannabis And Psychosis, And We Can't Ignore It

This Could Be The Real Reason North Korea Halted Nuclear Testing And It’s Terrifying

Making sense of many universes

This man surpasses Tesla by inventing an electric car that never needs charging

New cross-cultural analysis suggests that g or “general intelligence” is a human universal

BMW's self-driving cars get their lasers

North and South Agree to End Korean War in Historic Accord

Robots could outnumber HUMANS in just 15 years and will feel ‘genuine emotions’ by 2028

Kurt Gödel and the mechanization of mathematics

Korean leaders plan an end to war and 'complete denuclearization'

New A.I. application can write its own code

Path to building an entire organism from single cell is revealed

How the Golden State Killer's DNA Nabbed Him

Icy Mars Crater Shines in European Probe's 1st Photo from New Orbit

No plans to expand Finland basic income trial

I rode in a self-driving car on the streets of one of China’s most congested cities

YouTube Basically Admits Algorithms Aren't Such Good Babysitters After All

Chinese AI is half as good as U.S. capability, report says

This startup hopes to keep barf bags out of self-driving cars

China Fund Raises $500 Million to Snap Up Cheaper AI Startups

Augmented Reality In Healthcare Will Be Revolutionary

Swiss Scientists Perform Massive Test of 80-Year-Old, 'Spooky' Quantum Paradox

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Coordination of robust single cell rhythms in the Arabidopsis circadian clock via spatial waves of gene expression

Challenge anti-Semitism

Can the world kick its fossil-fuel addiction fast enough?

The ethics of experimenting with human brain tissue

Giving at-risk children pre-emptive antibiotics reduces deaths

Singapore bets big on synthetic biology

Universe's first moments mimicked with ultracool atoms

Billion-star map of Milky Way set to transform astronomy

Children of youngest and oldest mothers at higher risk of developmental vulnerabilities

Ultrahigh-pressure laser experiments enlightens cores of super-Earth exoplanets

Labelling alcoholic drinks as lower in strength could encourage people to drink more, study

Obesity inhibits key cancer defense mechanism, study

Noninvasive brain tumor biopsy on the horizon

Nurses are important, yet they struggle within the health care system, study

Researchers Create Hydrogen Fuel From Sunlight

Noninvasive brain tumor biopsy on the horizon

Facebook Shuts the Gate after the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process

On Hans Asperger, the Nazis, and Autism: A Conversation Across Neurologies

Is ‘friendly fire’ in the brain provoking Alzheimer’s disease?

Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean

Rent increase hits Europe’s drug regulator before Brexit move

US government considers charging for popular Earth-observing data

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

3D Printing Marketplaces Like “Shapeways” Won’t Last

Gaia generates richest star map of our Galaxy and beyond

Implantable islet cells come with their own oxygen supply

Study offers promising new drug therapy for premature aging disease

New way found to make plastic semiconductors

Facebook Is Preparing To Build Its Own AI Chips

Interplay Between the Gut-Brain Axis, Obesity and Cognitive Function

Circuit mechanisms for the maintenance and manipulation of information in working memory

This Startup Is Training AI to Gobble Up the News and Rewrite It Free of Bias

Scientists plan huge European AI hub to compete with US

How to Make Things Float With Ultrasound

America Just Can’t Match China’s Exploding Supercomputing Power

Nurturing Genius

In Search of God's Mathematical Perfect Proofs

Antagonism in olfactory receptor neurons and its implications for the perception of odor mixtures

How technology and artificial intelligence can improve regulation

CIA plans to replace spies with AI

Following a couple from diagnosis to the final stages of Alzheimer's

The Key to Everything

A group of people with an amphibious life have evolved traits to match

In the Fate of the Delta Smelt, Warnings of Conservation Gone Wrong

Mars probe poised to solve red planet’s methane mystery

Scientists’ early grant success fuels further funding

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

The CIA Will use AI Spies in Future Espionage Missions

This Startup Is Training AI to Gobble Up the News and Rewrite It Free of Bias

Google bestätigt Update am Such- und Ranking-Algorithmus

Atoms may hum a tune from grand cosmic symphony

IBM’s New Computer Is the Size of a Grain of Salt and Costs Less Than 10 Cents

17 Little-Known Facts About Max Planck

Nuclear clock could be one tick closer

Exact analytical solutions of the Schrödinger equation for a two dimensional purely sextic double-well potential

Meet the Founder of Impossible Foods, Whose Meat-Free Burgers Could Transform the Way We Eat

Paired with a Good Algorithm, a Smartphone Camera Might Detect Heart Disease

Calorie restriction is the most reasonable anti-ageing intervention: a meta-analysis of survival curves

35 Innovators Under 35

The Bugs in Your Gut Could Make You Weak in the Knees

Emotional Chatting Machine Assesses Your Emotion and Copies It

The Best Ways to Increase IQ

Spitalskeime: Fünfmal so viele Tote wie im Straßenverkehr

Is Science Hitting a Wall?, Part 1

Atlanta projected to spend at least $2.6 million on ransomware recovery

A worldwide conservation effort aims to sequence the genomes of 1.5 million organisms

Let’s destroy Bitcoin

Biomechanical evaluation of exoskeleton use on loading of the lumbar spine

MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’

More information, faster removals, more people - an update on what we’re doing to enforce YouTube’s Community Guidelines

Sexist Job Ads Show Discrimination Rife at China Tech Giants

The world needs blockchains that blend idealism with pragmatism

The tricky art (and emerging science) of valuing crypto-assets

How to fix one of Bitcoin’s biggest problems

Former regulator under Obama says more than 1,000 ICOs are not following the law

AI is discovering new alloys faster than humans ever could

Five questions about the "Westworld" robots from an AI writer

A giant indoor farm in China is breeding 6 billion cockroaches a year. Here's why

SAG-AFTRA “Fighting Back” Against Dangers Posed By Face-Swapping Technology

Electronic pills of the future

Enlightenment rationality is not enough: we need a new Romanticism

Fetal exposure to moderate/high caffeine levels linked to excess childhood weight gain

Grasshopper: Neue Google-App lehrt Programmieren

Dr Steve Vickers: personal computing pioneer

International scientists have found autism's cause. What will Americans do?

How Fast Is AI Progressing? Stanford’s New Report Card for Artificial Intelligence

BREAKING: Scientists Have Confirmed a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells

Stress-related hormone cortisol lowers significantly after just 45 minutes of art creation

Monday, April 23, 2018

Are There Optical Communication Channels in Our Brains?

A Mysterious New Form of DNA Was Just Discovered in Human Cells

Does Math Make You Smarter?

Bombers and Pterosaurs Were Both Before Their Time

The Menopause-Alzheimer’s Connection

A lab co-op helps young faculty members to thrive

Bloomberg gives $4.5 million to help U.S. keep Paris climate accord commitment

Flu virus finally sequenced in its native form

Clear signs of global warming will hit poorer countries first

Dim lighting may influence you to choose pleasurable products over functional ones

Studying dwarf galaxies to get the big picture

Trees with grassy areas soften summer heat

Fish consumption could prevent Parkinson’s disease

Hacking ‘drug trafficking’ network could make diabetes treatments more effective

New study sheds light on treating liver cancer

Here's How We Know the Big Bang Happened

Identifying sense of place that corresponds destination uniqueness

New theory shows how strain makes for better catalysts

Saturday, April 21, 2018

Talking sense on climate change, the biology of behaviour and a prehistoric shark with a twist: New in paperback

The illusion of time

The trouble with the Nobel prize

How to use your graduate school training to create a successful business without any investors

Space pioneer

YouTube your science

Booze-busting nanopills to help the liver

Dive-bombing hummingbirds add a twist to impress mates

Grassland plants show surprising appetite for carbon dioxide

Cutting-edge microscope spies on living cells inside the body

Alibaba is developing its own AI chips, too

China's largest smartphone maker is working on an A.I. that can read human emotions

Beware! Medical AI systems are easy targets for fraud and error

McKinsey’s latest AI research predicts it could create trillions worth of value ... someday

CDC Says to Avoid All Romaine Lettuce Amid E. Coli Outbreak

This Is Your Brain on Drugs (Really)

Friday, April 20, 2018

High-tech meditation kit to make meditation measurable

Lagoon Nebula Dazzles in Hubble Telescope's 28th-Birthday Photos

What Do Blind People 'See' When They Take LSD?

A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1 Million, Even at a Nonprofit

Flexo-photovoltaic effect

How Tesla and Waymo are tackling a major problem for self-driving cars: Data

Palantir Knows Everything About You

Japanese companies see big things in small-scale industrial robots

Fork this: What an unprecedented court battle says about the future of cryptocurrency

Venture Capitalists Seek ‘Safe Harbor’ for Virtual Currencies

Can this man help Uber recover from the Travis Kalanick era?

UK drives into e-vehicle fast lane with 11% sales rise

Here’s how hackers could cause chaos in this year’s US midterm elections

Scientists discovered the initial clues irritable bowel syndrome

Researchers Discover Evidence of So-Called ‘Negative Selection’

Machine-learning system processes sounds like humans do

Entire music album to be stored on DNA

Scientists identified key factor in development of Parkinson’s disease

China’s children are its secret weapon in the global AI arms race

Robots Continue Attempting to Master Ikea Furniture Assembly

The Quest to Teach AI to Write Pop Songs

Processing sequences using convolutional neural networks

Artificial intelligence can scour code to find accidentally public passwords

Thursday, April 19, 2018

Asperger an NS-Verbrechen beteiligt

HIF-2α is essential for carotid body development and function

Free energy simulations reveal molecular mechanism for functional switch of a DNA helicase

Computer-guided design of optimal microbial consortia for immune system modulation

Artificial Intelligence - The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet

Which Is Scarier: Space or the Ocean? Experts Finally Settle the Score

How to blow up a star

Great Barrier Reef saw huge losses from 2016 heatwave

‘Warm transplants’ save livers and lives

Robots Continue Attempting to Master Ikea Furniture Assembly

Alphabet’s Eric Schmidt says Silicon Valley will need ‘AI principles’ before working with US military

Electric Scooters Are Giving U.S. Cities Uber Déjà Vu

With this tool, AI could identify new malware as readily as it recognizes cats

Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Creates Tech Startup Incubator

California agency probing Tesla on occupational safety

Sitting with the cyber-sleuths who track cryptocurrency criminals

Facebook Is Forming a Team to Design Its Own Chips

Artificial Intelligence to Expedite the Process of Discovering Metallic Glass

Google's new tool answers your questions by reading thousands of books

Mathematical Beauty Activates Same Brain Region as Great Art or Music

Weird Neutrinos Can't Quite Explain Matter's Huge Riddle Yet

Scientists Find DNA Clues That Show How Humans Are Evolving Right Now

Ultra-Accurate Clocks Lead Search for New Laws of Physics

ScienceAlert Deal: Learn How to Build Your Own Electronics With Raspberry Pi

Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos

Link Between Gene Variation and Language Discovered

With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies

Amateur mathematician cracks decades-old math problem

One machine to rule them all: A ‘Master Algorithm’ may emerge sooner than you think

Google's New AI Head is so smart he doesn't need AI

How To Spot A Deepfake Like The Barack Obama - Jordan Peele Video

A new way to automatically build road maps from aerial images

Meet the electric/autonomous vehicle ETF

Gang way! Compsci geeks coming through! AI engine can finger fakes on social networks

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

You Can Learn About AI and Deep Learning with This Extensive eBook Bundle

A graphene roll-out

Finding lost siblings of the Sun

Scientists discovered battery’s hidden layer

Deep Italian cave offers clues for how to detect life on Mars

Scientists identified “smell” given off by malaria-infected children

Little fold-up tactile joystick brings haptics to portable devices

Keep predators at bay with a low-spam diet

Science must rise up to support people like me

The illusion of time

Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

African scientists call for more control of their continent’s genomic data

EU’s top court says logging in Poland’s ancient forest was illegal

How San Francisco’s next big quake could play out

Computational Microscope Brings Atomic and Subatomic World to Light

Scientists discovered battery’s hidden layer

NYC Mice Found to Carry Disease-Causing Bacteria That are Antibiotic-Resistant

SpaceX to Launch NASA's Exoplanet-Hunting Spacecraft Today: How to Watch Live

How Would We Know If Intelligent Life Existed on Earth Before Humans?

Style Is an Algorithm

There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Russia’s Telegram ban is a big, convoluted mess

IRS Extends Tax Deadline Until Wednesday After Its E-Payment System Melts Down on Tax Day

We built the internet to be insecure

The EU may order tech firms to hand over terror suspects’ data inside 6 hours

Tesla Climbs on Musk's Measures for More Model 3, Plus Profit

Far more than 87m Facebook users had data compromised, MPs told

Facebook says users must accept targeted ads even under new EU law

Facebook seeks facial recognition consent in EU and Canada

Investigators found a major clue to what may have caused Southwest jet's engine failure

Techwear Market and Adaptive Clothing Are the Future of Clothes

SpaceX Will Build Its Next-Gen Mars Rocket in Los Angeles

Humanity’s Remarkable Economic Progress Revealed in One Chart

Lab 'Accident' Becomes Mutant Enzyme That Devours Plastic

A printable, flexible, organic solar cell

What’s the Value of AI Events and Consulting?

Will Doctors Fear Being Replaced by AI in the Hospital Settling?

US army boffins use AI to spot faces in the dark

Microsoft has given up 'significant sales' over concerns that the customer will use AI for evil, says a top scientist

Alibaba is developing its own driverless cars

U.K. Facial Recognition Startup May Help Brexit’s Irish Border Problem

The Lebowski Theorem of machine superintelligence

Alice In Putin’s Wonderland: How Russia’s AI Assistant Compares To Siri And Alexa

Alexa Is a Revelation for the Blind

UK lawmakers want to bring good old British decorum to the AI industry

Google’s latest AI experiments let you talk to books and test word association skills

The genetic landscape of a physical interaction

Aether is developing a from-CT scan organ 3D printing AI system

Technologies Shaping the Future of Pharma

Bionic woman skis, bikes and helps others thrive after paralysis

Policy-makers Should Watch Science Fiction - The Medical Futurist

Non-Invasive Skin Patch Sucks Glucose Through Skin, Measures Blood Sugar Levels

The Future of Sports Medicine

If Senators Don’t Understand Facebook, How Will They Make Sense of Digital Health?

Tuesday, April 17, 2018

New Quantum Physics Level Unlocked: Controllable Qubits

How a Football Field-Size Asteroid Caught Us by Surprise

Yale's beloved happiness class is now on the internet for free

Regulate artificial intelligence to avert cyber arms race

Medicine’s secret ingredient - it’s in the timing

War and peace and summer camp

Reversing Earth’s Spin Moves Deserts, Reshapes Ocean Currents

In encouraging sign, Ebola vaccine appears to provide long-lasting protection

Rare human outbreak of monkey malaria detected in Malaysia

Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastics Discovered by Accident

New Study Will Bring Gene-Editing Technology Closer to Medical Reality

Scientists succeed in cultivating cartilage from stem cells

Teenager Finds King Bluetooth's Lost Treasures, Including a Thor's Hammer

Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Congressional Hearing Spurs Memepocalypse

Astronaut Says It 'Smells Great' Inside the International Space Station (Video)

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Innovation

The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete

What It's Like to Live in America Without Broadband Internet

Google will help preserve endangered historical sites in virtual reality

Microsoft has designed an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip. Repeat, an Arm Linux IoT cloud chip

OLPC's $100 Laptop was going to change the world - Then It All Went Wrong

Amazon has shelved a plan to sell drugs to hospitals, and insiders say there are two reasons why

Tesla CEO Elon Musk offers rare look inside Model 3 factory

Alibaba is developing its own driverless cars

Thousands of Android apps potentially violate child protection law

Forget the US - Facebook is about to have its hands full in Europe

Facebook admits it does track non-users, for their own good

Facebook facial recognition faces class-action suit

Immune Cells We Thought Were 'Useless' Are Actually a Weapon Against Infections Like HIV

Man Arrested In Crowd Of 50,000 People Using Creepy, But Cutting Edge, Technology

Scientists Discover "Semi-Infinite" Treasure Trove Of Critical Elements - But There's A Problem

David Attenborough: It’s time we humans came to our senses

The Neuroscience of Genius, Creativity, and Improvisation, with Heather Berlin

People Struggle to Pass This Simple "Gorilla Test" And It Could Explain Why We Still Haven't Found Aliens

For the first time, researchers place an electron in a dual state - neither freed nor bound

The Necessity of Postmodernism in the Post-Truth Age

Mark Carney warns robots taking jobs could lead to rise of Marxism

Scientists Accidentally Create Mutant Enzyme That Eats Plastic Bottles

Nearly One-Third Of Americans Believe Facebook Has A "Negative Impact On Society"

Researchers Neutralize A Gene In Human Brain Cells Associated With Alzheimer's

Elon Musk admits humans are sometimes superior to robots, in a tweet about Tesla delays

This New Treatment Could Heal Tooth Cavities Without Any Fillings

Physicists Just Broke a Quantum Record, Taking Entanglement to a Spooky New Level

We think we're the first advanced earthlings - but how do we really know?

Epstein-Barr virus linked to seven serious diseases

Zuck to Congress: I welcome regulation - if it's the right regulation

Wormholes Could Cast Weird Shadows That Could Be Seen by Telescopes

Monday, April 16, 2018

Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?

How to curb production of chemical weapons

Attacks in UK and Syria highlight growing need for chemical-forensics expertise

East Asia braces for surge in deadly tick-borne virus

Dive-bombing hummingbirds add a twist to impress mates

Tesla battery degradation at less than 10% after over 160,000 miles, according to latest data

Do you want to direct a research institute? Germany’s Max Planck Society has hundreds of top jobs to fill

Europeans are arguing over whether robots should have rights

Why AutoML Is Set To Become The Future Of Artificial Intelligence

Book Review: “Losing the Nobel Prize” by Brian Keating

Die indische Regierung hat eine nationale Politik für seltene Krankheiten entwickelt

Japan Just Found a Huge Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit That Can Supply The World For Centuries

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Russia prepares for nuclear war with US

If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, Check Out Entangled Time

Chimps Seen Sucking Brains from Monkeys' Heads

Venus Visits Night Sky This Month: How to See It

Eight Signs of a Hypersensitive Person (and Why It's Not the Same as a Highly Sensitive Person)

Countering the stress of Mitochondria

What is ‘Disruptive Diagnostics’ and How is it Changing Health Care?

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Facebook is using AI to predict users’ future behavior and selling that data to advertisers

Robots have been taking our jobs for 50 years, so why are we worried?

'Is Curing Patients a Sustainable Business Model?' Goldman Sachs Analysts Ask

This Medieval Italian Man Replaced His Amputated Hand With a Weapon

Entwickler: Facebook kann WhatsApp-Chats einsehen – trotz Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung

Robot Cities: Three Urban Prototypes for Future Living

An ex-Google engineer is scraping YouTube to pop our filter bubbles

Facial recognition tech catches fugitive in huge crowd at Jacky Cheung Cantopop concert in China

China’s new autonomous-vehicle rules let any of its cities test robo-cars

Watch artificial intelligence create a 3D model of a person—from just a few seconds of video

An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Google Analytics

Shaking Up Guinness Drinkers: Why a Martini Glass May Be Best for the Brew

Friday, April 13, 2018

Quantum Infrastructure: How Close are we to Quantum Devices?

How gravitational waves could solve some of the Universe’s deepest mysteries

Cutting-edge cancer drug hobbled by diagnostic test confusion

How I scraped data from Google Scholar

Sweet potato migrated to Polynesia thousands of years before people did

The March for Science is back — and here's what to expect

Too Much Sitting May Shrink the Part of Your Brain Tied to Memory

DNA methylation plays key role in stem cell differentiation

Pet cloning is bringing human cloning a little bit closer

This new lidar sensor could equip every autonomous car in the world by the end of 2018

Tesla violated crash investigation agreement, NTSB says

Google is Pursuing the Pentagon’s Giant Cloud Contract Quietly, Fearing An Employee Revolt

Pentagon cloud plan favors Amazon, rivals say

The quantum internet is already being built

New satellite to spot planet-warming industrial methane leaks

America’s cryptocurrency tax policy is confusing everyone

‘Cool caps’ are helping cancer patients keep their hair through chemo — for a high price

Will You Eat CRISPR Produce?

See Straight Through Walls by Augmenting Your Eyeballs With Drones

High-energy X-ray technique offers 3D images of intact biological cells

Quantum Correlations Reverse Thermodynamic Arrow of Time

Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells

Using open source designs to create more specialized chips

Sculpting Nature's Masterpiece: The Big Brain

Deep Learning: A Superhuman Way to Look at Cells

Towards reconstructing the quantum effective action of gravity

PowerHammer lets hackers steal data from air-gapped computers through power lines

Quantum mechanics could solve cryptography's random number problem

This Memory Prosthesis Boosts Recall in Humans by Roughly 40 Percent

Even one night of bad sleep causes dangerous changes in your brain, a new study found

FDA approves AI-powered diagnostic that doesn’t need a doctor’s help

When superconductivity disappears in a quantum tube

Barriers to Scientific Research Are Holding Back Innovation

A combined analysis of genetically correlated traits identifies 187 loci and a role for neurogenesis and myelination in intelligence

Three problems with Facebook’s plan to kill hate speech using AI

This AI thinks like a dog

This steering wheel uses robotics to help drivers, not get rid of them

Twenty-four EU countries sign artificial intelligence pact in bid to compete with US & China

FDA approves AI-powered diagnostic that doesn’t need a doctor’s help

Thursday, April 12, 2018

How gravitational waves might help fundamental cosmology

Ocean circulation is changing, and we need to know why

Tree Rings Tell a Tale of Wartime Privations

US environmental group wins millions to develop methane-monitoring satellite

Air-pollution trackers seek to fill Africa’s data gap

Cutting salt intake in the US could save money and lives

Viral rescue

China’s Built a Road So Smart It Will Be Able to Charge Your Car

Shhh ... Alexa might be listening

UK launched cyber-attack on Islamic State

Command and control: A fight for the future of government hacking

'Day zero' water crises: Spain, Morocco, India and Iraq at risk as reservoirs shrink

This Random Number Generator Could Be the Most Random Ever

Reddit CEO says racism is permitted on the platform, and users are up in arms

Inside the Jordan refugee camp that runs on blockchain

How AR Stops IKEA Fights Plus a Rundown of Every IKEA app

What If the Ocean's Climate-Controlling 'Conveyor Belt' Came to a Halt?

Speeding up electrons like a roller-coaster ride

'Superflares' May Make It Hard for Life to Thrive on Earth's Nearest Exoplanet

Observation of Entangled States of a Fully Controlled 20-Qubit System

Swamp microbe has pollution-munching superpower

New Target for China’s Censors: Content Driven by Artificial Intelligence

AI companies spot a business opportunity in space

Mark Zuckerberg just gave a timeline for AI to take over detecting internet hate speech

Is our Consciousness a Quantum System?

Oceans' Mysterious Magnetic Field Is Mapped in Stunning Detail from Space

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Sleepless nights show ties to Alzheimer's risk

Zuckerberg’s Personal Data Also Leaked In Cambridge Analytica Scandal

PCOS link to ADHD and autism spectrum disorder, study

Researchers Neutralize apoE4 Gene That Causes Alzheimer’s

Gene Editing for Good

How gravitational waves could solve some of the Universe’s deepest mysteries

War savages ancient sites in Yemen and Iraq, destroying archaeological record

How I scraped data from Google Scholar

Science’s vast gender pay gap revealed in UK wage data

Novel tool to predict patient survival rate of lung cancer patients

FTC Tells Companies Their ‘Warranty Void if Removed’ Stickers Are Total Bullshit

Opossums: Unsung Heroes in the Fight Against Ticks and Lyme Disease

If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it

Six Bitcoin And Blockchain Startups You Have To Know in Austria

Forget Cars, Mitsubishi Hitachi Sees Autonomous Power Plants

Sony’s new robot dog Aibo barks, does tricks and charms animal lovers

The Never-Ending Self-Driving Car Project

The US military desperately wants to weaponize AI

The First 'Killer Robot' Was Around Back in 1979

Children shouldn't learn to code. Ultimately, machines will be better

TAL Education uses artificial intelligence to improve online tutoring as it eyes new markets

California may soon allow passengers in driverless cars

Could artificial intelligence get depressed and have hallucinations?

The world’s most valuable AI startup is ... yep, Chinese

Click This Link to See If Your Facebook Data Was Shared With Cambridge Analytica

New Foam Material Could Make Tanks Virtually Invincible

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

The search for mysterious dark matter underdogs steps up

No, that galaxy without dark matter has not ruled out modified gravity

Thousands of Google employees call for company to cancel Pentagon work

Doing the Nano-Shimmy

Mathematicians devise new model to study endovascular aneurysm sealing

‘Do You Trust This Computer’ Is a Documentary That Taught Me Nothing About AI

Machine learning could help search for gravitational waves

Can Humans Conceive In Space? NASA Sent Sperm To The ISS To Find Out

Elon Musk says humans could end up ruled by an immortal AI dictator

Human finger bone points to an early exodus out of Africa

Tutorial - foundations of machine learning and data science for developers

A simplified vocal tract model explores the production of sibilant fricatives

Should research funding be allocated at random?

Japan's economic miracle

Scientists detect 'fingerprint' of first light ever in the universe

Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link Between Two Geometric Worlds

A New AI That Detects “Deception” May Bring an End to Lying as We Know It

Harvard Scientists think they’ve Pinpointed the Physical Source of Consciousness

Futurist Ben Hammersley über die Megatrends, die Städte und Menschen beeinflussen

Multiple countries ban WIFI and cell phones around schools, young children and fetuses

Google’s File on You Is 10 Times Bigger Than Facebook’s - Here’s How to View It

MIT and newly formed company launch novel approach to fusion power

What Happens If You Get Injected with Embalming Fluid?

Mitsubishi Tests AI Engineer for Thermal Power Plants

SpaceX Not to Blame for Zuma Spy-Satellite Launch Failure: Report

Newly discovered drugs could help tackle treatment-resistant cancers

Fluoride Officially Classified As A Neurotoxin In World’s Top Medical Journals

New numerical model to predict the deformation subjected to earthquake loading

How Close are we to Quantum Infrastructure? An Introduction

Monday, April 9, 2018

People must retain control of autonomous vehicles

UK survey reveals widespread sexual misconduct by academic staff

Global negotiations set to limit greenhouse-gas pollution from ships

Abundant Neurogenesis Found in Adult Humans’ Hippocampi

New Type of Superconductivity Phenomenon Discovered by Researchers

Scientists create microparticles that could help save honey bees

Zuckerberg: Facebook will apply EU data privacy standards globally

Scientists Find That Everything Is Energy And Reality Isn't What We Think It Is

The Results Are Out In A Controversial Trial Using Young Blood To Treat Dementia

Soros, Rothschild, and Big Institutional Investors are Entering Bitcoin Market

Why Your Cyberbiosecurity Needs Some Updating

Could Isaac Asimov's Planet Where Nightfall Almost Never Comes Really Exist?

This Mysterious Marijuana Syndrome Is Relieved by Hot Showers

Breast cancer therapy: All clear for the heart

Studie: Roboter bedrohen Jobs in Deutschland stärker als in anderen Industrienationen

Bacteria can pass on memory to descendants, UCLA-led team discovers

Physicists Just Discovered an Entirely New Type of Superconductivity

Make A Bee Waterer And Help Hydrate Our Pollinators

Here's How Flowers Know When It's Time to Bloom

Scientists Have Discovered a New Stem Cell That Could Heal Brain Damage

Photonic communication comes to computer chips

DNA clues to our inner neanderthal

Massive Astrophysical Objects Governed by Subatomic Equation

Sunday, April 8, 2018

Cancer Immunotherapy Drug Simultaneously Targets Two Proteins that Block Immune Response

23 Science-Backed Health Benefits Of Marijuana

Caloric restriction increases lifespan but affects brain integrity in grey mouse lemur primates

Prevention and treatment of the common cold: making sense of the evidence

Graph2Seq: Graph to Sequence Learning with Attention-based Neural Networks

Sleeping in stages could be good for your health

These Are The First Things The James Webb Space Telescope Will Look At

If you want to age well you should focus on your friendships

This is why economists are increasingly studying sports

These futuristic buildings are at one with nature

Soccer and Machine Learning: Two hot topics for 2018

The Yelping of the American Doctor

Eleven books on the future of humanity that everyone should read

These discoveries saved billions of lives

Memory-boosting brain prosthesis shows impressive results in human trials

Building three-dimensional human brain organoids

Paleontologists Discover New Species of Megaraptor, And It Was Pretty Badass

LSD ‘Microdosing’ Is Trending In Silicon Valley - But Can It Actually Make You More Creative?

Elon Musk Just Issued a Nightmarish Warning About What Will Really Happen if AI Takes Over

Interactive Air Quality Map Lets You See Exactly How Polluted Your City Is

These are the world's best young universities

Wounds That Occur During The Day Heal 60 Percent Faster Than Those That Happen At Night

The Science and Translation of Lactate Shuttle Theory

Scientists Found A Grass That Sparkles And Tastes Like Salt And Vinegar

South Korean women will soon outlive us all. What's their secret?

Ten Social Media Networks to Use Instead of Facebook

A Third of Young Millennials Are Confused About This Incontrovertible Fact

Why Left-Handers Are Less Likely To Believe In God But More likely To Believe In The Paranormal

These are the best countries and cities for attracting and developing talent

Three or four cups of coffee a day might be good for your health

Ray Kurzweil - What Is the Future of Capitalism?

Could high IQ be responsible for psychiatric disorders?

A new era of precision for antimatter research

India will take over from China to drive the third great wave of Asian growth - Deloitte

Is Science Hitting a Wall?

There's Evidence Humans Didn't Actually See Blue Until Modern Times

Saturday, April 7, 2018

Interactions: Conversation with Sabine Hossenfelder

Science Finally Explains How Cannabis Kills Cancer Cells And It’s Pretty Amazing

Puffin beaks are fluorescent and we had no idea

Facebook liest mit: Gespräche im Messenger sind nicht privat

How CRISPR works, explained in two minutes

Is Humanity Unusual In The Cosmos?

Why prime numbers still fascinate mathematicians, 2,300 years later

Spatio-temporal dynamics of spontaneous ultra-weak photon emission (autoluminescence) from human hands

Why AI isn’t going to solve Facebook’s fake news problem

A Startup Media Site Says AI Can Take Bias Out of News

OpenAI challenges you to beat 1990s classic Sonic the Hedgehog using machine learning

Comet.ml wants to do for machine learning what GitHub did for code

When Will Alexa Know Everything?

Scientists Find Very Young Cells in Even Very Old Brains

Thousands of Black Holes Discovered at Heart of The Milky Way

Friday, April 6, 2018

How researchers are ensuring that their work has an impact

Push for science in Indian classrooms

Brain-stimulation trials get personal to lift depression

Beijing launches pioneering brain-science centre

Plan to dismantle Puerto Rico's statistics agency gets green light

This Is (Probably) the Only Way Dark Matter Interacts with Ordinary Matter

Scientists develop transparent patch to detect dangerous food threats

Trump threatens China with new $100 billion tariff plan

Chinese state media slams latest U.S. tariff call as 'ridiculous' attempt at intimidation

Facebook retracted Zuckerberg’s messages from recipients’ inboxes

Google turns to users to improve its AI chops outside the US

Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment Report 2018

Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Self-Powered Image Sensor Could Watch You Forever

300 genes found at the root of cancers could spur more personalized treatments

Is the World Ready for Synthetic People?

Scientists harvest 1st vegetables in Antarctic greenhouse

Big data against cyberattackers

These are the world's most expensive cities

Aiming to fill skill gaps in AI, Microsoft makes training courses available to the public

Believe It or Not, Science Still Can't Explain Gravity

The Y chromosome is disappearing. What does it mean for men?

The countries where people are working beyond 65

Stop autonomous weapons! — from killingry to livingry (as Bucky suggested)

Human Hippocampal Neurogenesis Persists throughout Aging

How to Foster Diversity in Science through Storytelling

Zuckerberg bestätigt: Facebook liest im Messenger mit

Code of Ethics for Researchers

Nine Ways You Can Use Your Devices for Advanced Scientific Research

Aging people grow just as many new brain cells as young people, new study finds

New tool sheds light on solar potential of buildings

Roboter schaffen mehr Jobs, als sie vernichten

Kremlin Calls Facebook’s Removal of Troll Farm ‘Censorship’

How Genes Shape Behavior

Why we have the ethics of self-driving cars all wrong

Pioneering greener and cheaper technique for biofuel production

Bats Identified as Source of Pig-Killing Coronavirus in China

We can train AI to identify good and evil, and then use it to teach us morality

Teenagers Are Snorting Condoms in a Viral 'Challenge', And The Consequences Can Be Deadly

Breakthrough made in atomically thin magnets

Stem cell-based retinal implant tested for common cause of vision loss

Machine Learning Yearning

Revolutionary brain-mapping technique provides new blueprint for cortical connections

Structure and Distribution of an Unrecognized Interstitium in Human Tissues

Our study suggests the elusive ‘neutrino’ could make up a significant part of dark matter

Can Macron relaunch Artificial Intelligence in France?

Drug delivery gel can heal without the drugs

The time it takes to learn a new language depends on what you want to do with it

There's a Detectable Human-Made Barrier Surrounding Earth

Evidence that the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is rapidly accumulating plastic

In AI, Russia Is Hustling to Catch Up

MIT Backs Away From Startup That Aims to Preserve Your Brain and Memories After You Die

Simple Urine Test Could Measure How Much Our Body Has Aged

Tuning Insect Odorant Receptors

Pasta Just Became The Latest Weight Loss Cure, But We Have Bad News For You

How artificial intelligence and data add value to businesses

China has a new plan to create an army of AI researchers

The digital athletes of the future: Earning $1.6 million behind a keyboard

LSD Brings Your Brain to the Edge of Chaos

Building Image Classification Models Based on Pre-Trained Neural Networks

Changes in housekeeping functions drive stem cell differentiation

Flexible Brain-Machine Interface

A neural network that keeps seeing art where we see mundane objects

Google Chrome scannt Dateien auf Windows-PCs

Scientists brings photonic communication to computer chips

The Pentagon Is Planning a Three-Front ‘Long War’ Against China and Russia

Virgin Hyperloop One shows off shiny new passenger pod for Saudi Arabia

Zipline's delivery drone system redesign boosts capabilities

New NanoZymes use light to kill bacteria

This Explains Everything: 192 Thinkers on the Most Elegant Theory of How the World Works

'Sleeping' stem cells could aid brain repair

Altering silkworm genes to cause addition of useful protein into silk production

New camera inspired by butterfly eyes improves image-guided cancer surgery

Doctors Are Becoming DNA Detectives to Diagnose Super-Rare Diseases

Can we imitate organisms’ abilities to decode water patterns for new technologies?

Drug Maker Will Soon Hold Patent On THC, CBD As Cancer Cures

Old brains can still grow cells like young ones, study finds

Study reveals a way to make prostate cancer cells run out of energy and die

Samantha’s suffering: why sex machines should have rights too

The demise of the nation state

‘I Don’t Plan on Returning to Bitcoin’ Says Early Developer Mike Hearn

Older adults grow just as many new brain cells as young people: study

Particle Physicists begin to invent reasons to build next larger Particle Collider

Snow Monkeys Actually De-Stress When They Take Hot Baths, Says Study

This is the relationship between money and happiness

MIT Researchers Have Created a Bizarre Headset That Lets You Communicate Without Speaking

Cold Water Vs. Warm Water: One of Them Is Damaging To Your Health

Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Enhance Real-Time Police Surveillance

Facebook Just Made a Shocking Admission, and We're All Too Exhausted to Notice

The most dangerous philosopher in the West?

Teaching third-graders to think like philosophers

Two More Studies Have Linked Legalized Marijuana To A Decrease In Opioid Use

Vascular aging reversed in mice

New math bridges holography and twistor theory

APNewsBreak: US suspects cellphone spying devices in DC

I Microdosed With LSD For A Month And This Is What It Did To Me

Leben wir in einer Simulation?

Astronauts could 3D print tools from their own processed faeces

World-first e-waste microfactory launched at UNSW

This Volcano Erupted For 5 Years Straight, And The Photos Are Mesmerising

Doctor Warns Women Not To Do The "Cucumber Cleanse" In Brilliant Viral Post

Your Brain Could Still Be Growing Even in Adult Years, Says New Study

Nine Major Studies Reveal DARE Program Actually Makes Drug Problem WORSE

What is good science?

Neanderthals cared for each other and survived into old age - new research

Cancer Genome Atlas studies reveal new insights, set stage for future research and treatment development

Die besten Biotech-Aktien 2018

75 Breakthroughs by America's National Laboratories

AI Experts Are Boycotting a Top University Over Research on Killer Robots

Just 66 Percent Of Young Adults In America Accept That Earth Is Round, According To New Survey

Center Of The Milky Way Has Thousands Of Black Holes, Study Shows

Leading Scientist Warns There's An Apocalypse Coming, And It's Not The One You Expect

Comment on gravitational-wave echoes from neutron-star binary coalescences

The High-Definition, Artificially Intelligent, All-Seeing Future of Big Data Policing

Chinese self-driving truck start-up to roll out unmanned port logistics services in second half of 2018

A Chinese hospital is betting big on artificial intelligence to treat patients

‘Cow Fitbits’ and artificial intelligence are coming to the dairy farm

Microsoft touts breakthrough in making chatbots more conversational

The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | Pranav Mistry

Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data

I Want to Preserve My Brain So My Mind Can Be Uploaded to a Computer in the Future

DARPA-funded prosthetic memory system successful in humans, study finds

Computer system transcribes words users “speak silently”

ScienceAlert Deal: These Two Apps Can Help You Learn to Read Faster

Jim Mellon | Gallery Suite | Master Investor Show 2018

A Second 'Big Bang' Could End Our Universe in an Instant, Thanks to The Higgs Boson

"Another nail in the coffin for learning styles"

The Future is Now for Self-Driving Car Subscriptions

Thursday, April 5, 2018

Recycling Chaos In U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'

What if string theory has no de Sitter vacua?

Learn Arduino With These 10 Extensive eBooks

Device that Translates your Thoughts in to Words will be in Smartphones soon

A Complete Theory of Everything (will be subjective)

Facebook admits public data of its 2.2 billion users has been compromised

Forty New Scientific Papers Say Global Warming Does Not Exist

A robust and tunable mitotic oscillator in artificial cells

Integrating images from multiple microscopy screens reveals diverse patterns of protein subcellular localization change

Stochastic tuning of gene expression enables cellular adaptation in the absence of pre-existing regulatory circuitry

Shared rhythmic subcortical GABAergic input to the entorhinal cortex and presubiculum

Fast and accurate edge orientation processing during object manipulation

MPDZ promotes DLL4-induced Notch signaling during angiogenesis

Ticks rising

Decolonise science – time to end another imperial era

How to Think about "Implicit Bias"

Mississippi River flooding worse now than any time in past 500 years

NASA’s next exoplanet hunter will seek worlds close to home

Huge trove of unknown viruses found in fish, frogs and reptiles

New method allows scientists to watch brain cells interacting in real time

Experimental drug might reduce fat in blood, but a NASH cure? Not so fast

MIT severs ties to company promoting fatal brain uploading

Researchers at Purdue, Stanford devise novel ultrafast laser beam steering for autonomous cars

Am Ende der Natürlichkeit

Die Arbeit von Energetikern hat keine wissenschaftliche Grundlage

New Bionic Arm Blurs Line Between Self and Machine for Wearers

‘Game Changer’: Study Finds 100-year-old Drug Reverses Autism Symptoms in Kids

UCLA scientists merge statistics, biology to produce important new gene computational tool

Facebook says Cambridge Analytica may have had data on 87 million people

There's Actually No Such Thing as Different 'Learning Styles', According to Science

China military tells Russia 'We've come to support you' against U.S.

Mind-reading headset lets you Google just with your thoughts

Scientists Discover Biophotons In The Brain That Could Hint Our Consciousness is Directly Linked to Light

This 70-Hour Computer Science Bundle Will Teach You the Fundamentals of Programming

Brain-Uploading Company Has No Immediate Plans to Upload Brains

AI Engineers must open their designs to Democratic Control

Artificial Intelligence Could Soon Enhance Real-Time Police Surveillance

‘Do You Trust This Computer?’ Trailer: Documentary Exploring Perils Of Artificial Intelligence Sets Switch-On Date

Big organizations may like killer robots, but workers and researchers sure don’t

Goldman Sachs made a big hire from Amazon to lead its artificial-intelligence efforts

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

The Most Precise Measurement of Antimatter Yet Deepens the Mystery of Why We Exist

A Chink in Bacteria's Armor

New Brain Maps With Unmatched Detail May Change Neuroscience

'Extreme' Changes Underway in Some of Antarctica’s Biggest Glaciers

The biotech scorecard for the 2nd quarter: 12 make-or-break industry events to watch

Study sheds light on what happens underground when CO2 is injected into basalt

Emmanuel Macron talks to Wired about France's AI Strategy

Nature: the truth

Squeaky clean mice could be ruining research

The hidden crisis on college campuses: Many students don’t have enough to eat

EU copyright reforms draw fire from scientists

Brain-stimulation trials get personal to lift depression

Cancer researchers push to relax rules for clinical trials

When Computers Decide: Recommendations on Machine-Learned Automated Decision Making

Synthetic Cannabinoids Causing Citizen and Military U.S. Casualties

Self-healing metal oxides could protect against corrosion

Tiny, Lab-Grown Minibrains Sprout Blood Vessels

Mitochondria Bound to Lipid Droplets Have Unique Bioenergetics, Composition, and Dynamics

Humans Used to Sleep in Two Shifts, And Maybe We Should Do It Again

Russia Debuts Its First Postal Drone, Which Immediately Crashes Into a Wall

Particle Physicists begin to invent reasons to build next larger Particle Collider

NASA's newest X-Plane could revive Supersonic Flight for the Masses

Twelve Signs That A Thyroid May Not Be Working As It Should

Fundamentals of Robotics

Researchers devise novel ultrafast laser beam steering for autonomous cars that is less complex, uses less power

Newfound 'organ' had been missed by standard method for visualizing anatomy

Trusting Artificial Intelligence

The dwarf galaxy NGC1052-DF2

Infographic: Tumor-Associated Macrophages and Cancer

Sam Harris & Steve Jurvetson - The Future of Artificial Intelligence

Quitting Facebook Does Something Quite Strange To You, According To A New Study

Study Suggests Alien Life Could Exist Within The Skies Of Venus

Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And We Finally Know How That's Possible

Quantum Correlations Reverse Thermodynamic Arrow of Time

World's languages traced back to single African mother tongue

Math can help uncover cancer's secrets

A Really Common Medication Has Been Linked to Doubled Risk of Stomach Cancer

Philosophical Implications of New Thought-Imaging Technology

Why the Cambridge Analytica scandal could be much more serious than you think

Book Review: “Farewell to Reality” by Jim Baggott

Water Behaves Differently From All Other Liquids, And We Finally Know Why

Babies Who Get More Cuddles Seem to Have Their Genetics Changed For Years Afterwards

'Legal' Synthetic Cannabis Has Killed 2 People And Left Others Bleeding From Their Eyes

This Video About The Scale of Black Holes Will Crush Your Poor, Tiny Brain

You can now donate to charity by asking Amazon’s Alexa to send money

Rise of the smartish machines

Not Everything Needs Copyright: Lawyers Flip Out That Photos Taken By AI May Be Public Domain

Dungeons and Dragons, not chess and Go: why AI needs roleplay

Aiming to fill skill gaps in AI, Microsoft makes training courses available to the public

Military documents reveal how the US Army plans to deploy AI in future wars

Waymo Isn’t Going to Slow Down Now

Method for identification of condition-associated public antigen receptor sequences

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Noodle on this: Machine learning that can identify ramen by shop

Your own devices will give the next Cambridge Analytica far more power to influence your vote

Why getting back to the moon is so damn hard

This Is What Robots Think Nudes Are

Stable Neo-Hookean Flesh Simulation

How Not to Order Water from a Robot Waiter

Facebook.gov

The Case for a Zuck-Free Facebook

How to regulate Facebook

Is Spotify really worth $30bn?

Only 14 percent of the world has to worry about robots taking their jobs (... yay?)

Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs From 2020, Replacing Intel

How Applied Artificial Intelligence is Changing Society, Enterprise, and People

What Industries Will Adopt Voice-Related AI Applications First?

Is Artificial Intelligence for Small Business? Factors to Consider for Technology Adoption

Testing high-tech cameras where it counts: aimed at carpool-lane cheaters

Swansong of Hans Rosling, data visionary

How researchers are ensuring that their work has an impact

NIH moves to punish researchers who violate confidentiality in proposal reviews

A Victory for Dark Matter in a Galaxy Without Any

The scant science behind Cambridge Analytica’s controversial marketing techniques

Apple schmeißt Intel raus: Macs sollen ab 2020 eigene Chips bekommen

Genetic test may improve post-stent treatment, reports

Rare Cosmic Alignment Reveals Most Distant Star Ever Seen

CRISPR may not cause hundreds of rogue mutations after all

Saks, Lord & Taylor breach: Data stolen on 5 million cards

Goldman Sachs, Google Women March Ahead With Gender Bias Suits

At Uber, a New C.E.O. Shifts Gears

Tesla says Autopilot was engaged during fatal Model X crash

With paper and phones, Atlanta struggles to recover from cyber attack

China Unveils Plan to Lure Big Tech Stock Listings Back Home

Estonia to give genetic testing and advice to 100,000 residents

It's weirdly hard to steal Mark Zuckerberg's trash

Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next

Toward a More Peaceful (and High-Tech) Coexistence with Sharks

Eliminating space junk could take step toward reality with station cargo launch

Chinese space station plunges into the ocean. No one hurt, no one there

DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one

Would Standing on the First Butterfly Really Change the History of Evolution?

This 3D Printed Electric Car Will Enter Production This Year

Can We Recycle CO2 Emissions to Make Carbon-Neutral Fuel?

California Welcomes Zero Unmanned Self-Driving Cars After Only One Company Applies for Permit

Machine Behavior Needs to Be an Academic Discipline

Tesla Says Autopilot Was On Before Fatal Model X Crash, But That Driver Didn’t Abide Warnings

For a meaningful Artificial Intelligence

France, Germany under fire for failing to back ‘killer robots’ ban

How a Machine That Can Make Anything Would Change Everything

China Is Engineering Genius Babies

A New Way to Grow Tumors in 3-D

Big Pharma Co. Has License Suspended As Vaccine Sterilizes 500,000 Girls

Neuroscientists Strongly Recommend That You Visit The Beach Regularly

DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one

Heart defects in infant may predict heart problems in birth mother later in life, study

Monday, April 2, 2018

The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

Farewell, Tiangong-1: Chinese Space Station Meets Fiery Doom Over South Pacific

Why Did Sterile Salt Water Become The IV Fluid Of Choice?

A new way to dispose of corposes - with chemistry

Scientists Say They Have Developed A Memory-Restoring Prosthetic For The Human Brain

Perineuronal Nets: A Mechanism to Control Brain Plasticity

When Bots Attack

Here’s the reason we’d never halt a geoengineering project midway through

New HP Z8 is “World’s Most Powerful Workstation for Machine Learning Development”

CRISPR ‘gone wild’ has made stocks swoon, but studies show how to limit off-target editing

An algorithm wrote a new Harry Potter chapter

How technology could help to trace the exact origins of your cup of tea

Faced with failing antibiotics, scientists are using killer viruses to fight superbugs

Proposal for Chimeric Gene Therapy

The Wired Guide to Memes

Climate change could raise food insecurity risk

China wants to make the chips that will add AI to any gadget

Every study we could find on what automation will do to jobs, in one chart

Our brains sometimes create 'false memories'

Unpacking the AI-Productivity Paradox

Kinesin - A Critical Transport Protein

Algorithms are making American inequality worse

Your true self: How your personality changes throughout life

Intro to Data Science - Part 3: Data Analysis

This is what happens when you stop speaking your native language

Enough With the Trolley Problem

Some People Are Their Own Identical Twins, And The Science Behind That Is Fascinating

Bag of Recurrence Patterns Representation for Time-Series Classification

NLP - Building a Question Answering model

Awarding grants by throwing dice

In laboratory, scientist turns off chemo pain

"Sun-shield" could help protect Great Barrier Reef from bleaching

DARPA wants new ideas for autonomous drone swarms

Apple’s EHR: Why health records on your iPhone is only the beginning

NASA Rocket Launches Supersonic Mars Parachute in Key Test

Dr. Amish Patel: The Universe is a Simulation and I Have the Proof

Inside the Chinese lab that plans to rewire the world with AI

We now have the first clear evidence cell phone radiation can cause cancer in rats

Knitting machines power up with computer-generated patterns for 3D shapes

Hopes are high for Amazon's entry into health care—as long as they don't 'pull a Facebook'

Return to Titan: Why this icy world is our best bet to find life

President of France Emmanuel Macron Talks About Nation's New AI Strategy

Non-Tech Businesses Are Beginning To Use AI at Scale

Uber settled with the family of its autonomous-car crash victim

All the places Tiangong-1 won't land (and where it still might)

No, Ripple Isn’t the Next Bitcoin

Virtual reality surgery lets trainee doctors practise operations

Ten Must Apps for the Programmers if they want to be professional

The ethics issue: Should we edit our children’s genomes?

Seven steps to master Machine Learning with python

Hackers Could Blow Up Factories Using Smartphone Apps

Some of tech’s biggest firms hope to save money with open-source chip designs

CRISPR could enable quick, reliable medical tests

Lighting Up The Brain with SPECT

China’s citizens do care about their data privacy, actually

GM worms make a super-silk completely unknown in nature

Robot takes cues from spider that can walk and roll

SpaceX employees are instructed to hire people 'better than themselves'

Google built a tiny Street View car to map out one of the world's largest model cities, and the results are incredible

Fever-Detecting Pacifier Wins IEEE Maker Project Contest

Why adults need fairy stories

Sandisk Jammed 1TB into a Slim Thumbdrive

Europe risks being left behind as a tech power

A moveable feast: Antibiotics give C. diff a nutrient-rich environment, no competition

Dietary supplement shows promise for reversing cardiovascular aging

'The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind' Returns From Madness

How Two Brothers Turned Seven Lines of Code Into a $9.2 Billion Startup

Amazon’s cashier-less Seattle grocery store is opening to the public

Sticky yet slick material pulls water from foggy or humid air

This Enthusiast From Japan Makes Insane Wristwatches

Elon Musk's SpaceX just got permission to launch a 'constellation' of 4,425 satellites and create a new broadband service

Elon Musk's Neuralink Sought to Open an Animal Testing Facility in San Francisco

Sunday, April 1, 2018

We took a scientific look at whether weed or alcohol is worse for you - and there appears to be a winner

Google's AI Has Learned to Become "Highly Aggressive" in Stressful Situations

'Out of control' Chinese space lab to meet fiery end on Monday

Temperature heals lithium dendrites

How 3D printing is transforming healthcare

The Year Climate Change Began to Spin Out of Control

The society of the future looks nothing like you might imagine

Scientists Have Invented A Fourth Type Of Chocolate

Want to crowdfund your science? New study hints at who is successful

Transhumanism is Being Guided by Reason and the Word “Why”

The genetic difference between men and women could be greater than we thought

A Dangerous Antibiotic-Resistant Gene Has Spread The World. We Now Know Where It Started

This Entire Island May Have to Be Raised Up to Counter Rising Sea

Why Intelligent Optimism Is Crucial to Human Progress

Denosing Lung CT Scans using Neural Networks with Interactive Code — Part 4, Convolutional ResNet [Manual Back Prop with Tensorflow]

The malicious uses of AI: Why it's urgent to prepare now

Two Ways to Implement LSTM Network using Python - with TensorFlow and Keras

Topic Modeling with Gensim (Python)

Emmanuel Macron talks to Wired about France's AI Strategy

Houston aspires to become the ‘third coast’ of biotech. Can it pull it off?

Jordan Peterson, the obscure Canadian psychologist turned right-wing celebrity, explained

Six bits of advice that Bill Gates has given students over the years

A single high school in India has produced the CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe, and Mastercard

This is how your relationships are affecting your sleep

Why you might not be in control of your own decisions

How to Read and Interpret End-Tidal Capnography Waveforms

Is the Interstitium Really a New Organ?

Why Pancreatic Cancer Is on the Rise

Funny people are also more intelligent, according to new research

People are downloading their Facebook data and posting it to Twitter, and the results will terrify you

Beams are back in the LHC

Not sleeping? You might be part of a genetic elite

Insulator or superconductor? Physicists find graphene is both

Effects of caffeine, sleep loss, and stress on cognitive performance and mood during U.S. Navy SEAL training

A Technique To Control Your Dreams Has Been Verified For The First Time

How your next meal could help fight depression, stress

E-Cigarettes Found To Have 10 times More Cancer Causing Ingredients Than Regular Cigarettes

Astronomers Admit: We Were Wrong - 100 Billion Habitable Earth-Like Planets In Our Galaxy Alone

Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have double the risk of liver disease

These Tech Insiders Are Shielding Their Children From The Technology They Work With

AI can invent new ways to create complex molecules

Anne Churchland, CSHL: Assessing large scale cortical networks during decision-making

Why self-driving cars must become the ultimate defensive drivers

China hopes to build the chips that will control millions of driverless cars

Consuming Energy Drinks Every Day Can Cause Hepatitis

Why passwords are a terrible method of authentication

These Are The Most Disturbing Psychological Experiments In Human History

The World Health Organization is preparing for ‘Disease X’

Billionaire LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman says his masters in philosophy has helped him more than an MBA

Dimethyl fumarate targets GAPDH and aerobic glycolysis to modulate immunity

Here's Red Hat’s open secret on how to make $3B selling free stuff

Antibiotic Use Jumps By 65 Percent In 15 Years, Despite Fears Of Drug Resistance

Adobe-Summit in Las Vegas: „Kunden kaufen Erlebnisse, nicht Produkte“

Tech workers are fleeing the United States to work in Canada

MIT unleashes a hypnotic robot fish to help save the oceans

AI-driven unemployment in Hong Kong can be offset by a tax on profits generated by robots

Singularities Explained | Infinite Series

Josh Tenenbaum, MIT: Building machines that learn and think like people

Top Science Experiments That Could Have Ended The World

Scientists Grow Full-Sized, Beating Human Hearts From Stem Cells

Poor grades tied to class times that don't match our biological clocks

These $2 million floating homes are designed to withstand Category 4 hurricanes

Microsoft is launching a huge reorganization to focus on AI and the cloud

Internet to TLS 1.3: Where have you been all my life

The Wired Brain: How not to talk about an AI-powered future

Some Humans Have Real "Superpowers" - Here Are The Lamest Ones That Have Been Confirmed To Exist

Deep Learning Book Notes: Numerical Computation Part 1

A neuroscientist explains why reality may just be a hallucination

Interview With Mitochondrial Dysfunction Expert Prof. Thomas Schwarz

Why the big bang was not the beginning

Structured Deep Learning

Timothy Leary's eight-circuit model of consciousness

'Nature' Explores Why So Many Postgrads Have Bad Mental Health

H. pylori: tackling the germ behind stomach ulcers and cancer

'It's just chaos': Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller warns that an 'economic crisis' is brewing

Why robots could replace teachers as soon as 2027

Facebook can still track you even if you delete your account — here's how to stop it

Eight Kinds Of Pain That Are Directly Connected To Emotional States

Blockchain will make AI smarter by feeding it better data

Vitamin D could be much more important to your health than you think

Open Source RISC V Processor Gets Support From Google, Samsung, Qualcomm, and Tesla

Seven algorithms and data structures every programmer must know

Microsoft inches closer to commercially-viable quantum computing

Scientists find different cell types contain the same enzyme ratios

How to grow four tons of food a year in a metal box without sunlight

Newly Trialed "Miracle" Treatment Could Change The Lives Of Those With MS

China's bus-size space station is about 44 hours away from crashing to Earth

New Studies Link Cell Phone Radiation with Cancer

FCC Approves SpaceX Constellation, Denies Waiver for Easier Deployment Deadline

Exploring the Frontiers of Microbiome and Drug Development

Cat-like 'hearing' with device tens of trillions times smaller than human eardrum

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