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Ancestral background can be determined by fingerprints
01/10/2015 - 16:24
Anthropologists have looked at fingerprints for years, because they are interested in human variation. But this research has looked at... →
Robot-bricklaying working about 20 times faster than a human
27/09/2015 - 14:34
The boom auto-corrects itself 1,000 times per second to prevent interference from vibrations or sway. The concept is similar to the... →
Tree of Life for More Than Two Million Species
22/09/2015 - 17:02
The initial draft is based on 484 smaller trees from previously published studies. “Many participants on the project contributed hundreds... →
Test shows how old your body really is
14/09/2015 - 13:55
Prof Jamie Timmons, from King's College London, told the BBC News website: "There's a healthy ageing signature that's common to all our... →
Solar windows can power buildings
09/09/2015 - 13:46
An additional benefit? As the PV strips absorb light striking a building's window, they reduce the "solar heat gain coefficient"; in other... →
Artificial Intelligence System for Crowdsourcing Interactive Fiction
04/09/2015 - 18:57
Interestingly, even when asked to write simple stories, the AI came up with unexpected results. "When we first tried the date at the movie... →
NASA starts an experiment to mimic living on Mars
31/08/2015 - 11:08
A German and French scientist with four Americans comprising an architect, a pilot, a soil scientist and a journalist makes up the team... →
Black holes are a passage to another universe
26/08/2015 - 17:44
Hawking’s proposal is an attempt to answer a problem that has tormented physicists about what happens to things when they go beyond the... →
First human brain grown in lab
22/08/2015 - 13:15
The brain, which is about the size of a pencil eraser, is engineered from adult human skin cells and is the most complete human brain model... →
Artificial intelligence system with a sense of humor
14/08/2015 - 15:16
The idea for the project arose at a different convention about a year ago. Dafna Shahaf, a researcher at Microsoft, attended a speech by... →
12 impossible ideas that Israelis turned into reality
10/08/2015 - 13:17
1. Iron Dome The Israeli defense establishment thought Brig. Gen. Daniel Gold had lost his mind in 2005 when he broached the idea for the... →
Israel: boom of corporate cybersecurity spending
03/08/2015 - 13:59
Data Security Elbit’s new cyber unit, called Cyberbit, is trying to carve out a niche in corporate data security, a market that will... →

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