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For millennia, humanity's one-and-only reliable way to keep time was based on the Sun. Over the course of a year, the Sun, at any location on... Read More
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Japan's space agency (JAXA) believes it has successfully landed two robotic explorers on the surface of an asteroid, making history."We don't... Read More
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Until recently, the central tenets of Darwin's theory of evolution, from how heredity works to the gradual variation in species, had been... Read More
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A UK team of astronomers report the first detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light, located in the centre... Read More
Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the... Read More
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Last week in National Harbor, Maryland, DARPA celebrated its 60th anniversary by showcasing its latest breakthroughs and emerging research... Read More
Until now, the neuroscience programs at DARPA, the mad science wing of the Department of Defense, have focused on technologies for... Read More
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Machine-learning algorithms are helping to unravel the quantum behaviour of a type of superconductor that has baffled physicists for decades.Researchers used artificial intelligence to spot hidden order in images of a bizarre state in high-temperature superconductors. Read More
The CRISPR patent dispute between the University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute is finally over. As almost everyone following the case predicted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Monday the U.S. patent office's decision that there was “no interference-in-fact†between UC Berkeley's patent application and more than a dozen Broad patents. Read More
