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Facebook launches digital assistant 'M' in US
8 hours ago
Facebook on Thursday launched its digital assistant named "M" for US users of its Messenger application, ramping up the social network's efforts in artificial intelligence.
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Scientists expand ability of stem cells to regrow any tissue type
8 hours ago
When scientists talk about laboratory stem cells being totipotent or pluripotent, they mean that the cells have the potential, like an embryo, to develop into any type of tissue in the body. What totipotent stem cells can ...
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Researchers make major breakthrough in smart printed electronics
11 hours ago
Researchers in AMBER, the Science Foundation Ireland-funded materials science research centre hosted in Trinity College Dublin, have fabricated printed transistors consisting entirely of 2-dimensional nanomaterials for the ...
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Coming to a lab bench near you: Femtosecond X-ray spectroscopy
11 hours ago
The ephemeral electron movements in a transient state of a reaction important in biochemical and optoelectronic processes have been captured and, for the first time, directly characterized using ultrafast X-ray spectroscopy ...
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Biologists discover timesharing strategy in bacteria
11 hours ago
Timesharing, researchers have found, isn't only for vacation properties.
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Study finds ancient Earth's fingerprints in young volcanic rocks
11 hours ago
Earth's mantle is made of solid rock that nonetheless circulates slowly over millions of years. Some geologists assume that this slow circulation would have wiped away any geochemical traces of Earth's early history long ...
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Novel group of giant viruses discovered
11 hours ago
Viruses have a ubiquitous presence in the world. Their population is estimated to be 1031, 10 times greater than the nonillion (1030) of microbes on the planet—a figure that surpasses the number of stars in the Milky Way. ...
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Crystalline material could replace silicon to double efficiency of solar cells
11 hours ago
A new material has been shown to have the capability to double the efficiency of solar cells by researchers at Purdue University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
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Hubble takes close-up portrait of Jupiter
11 hours ago
During April 2017 Jupiter is in opposition: it is at its closest to Earth and the hemisphere facing Earth is fully illuminated by the Sun. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope used this special configuration to capture an ...
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Ceres' temporary atmosphere linked to solar activity
11 hours ago
Scientists have long thought that Ceres may have a very weak, transient atmosphere, but mysteries lingered about its origin and why it's not always present. Now, researchers suggest that this temporary atmosphere appears ...