Scientists Rename Human Genes to Stop Microsoft Excel from Misreading Them As Dates
Scientists Rename Human Genes to Stop Microsoft Excel from Misreading Them As Dates
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The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Is Back in America
The US Department of Energy and IBM unveiled Summit, America’s latest supercomputer, which is expected to bring the title of the world’s most powerful computer back to America from China.
Science’s Pirate Queen: Plundering the Academic Publishing Establishment
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How the Sugar Industry Tried to Hide the Health Effects of Its Product 50 Years Ago
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Facebook Rejects Female Engineers’ Code More Often
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AI Can Spot Skin Cancer as Well as a Trained Doctor
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Watch the first trailer for HBO’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
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The Resistance Will Be Tweeted
Rejecting Trump’s science gag order, anonymous NPS Twitter accounts are still going.
Watch Albert Einstein jumpkick Isaac Newton in Science Kombat
A tribute to an old video game and to the greatest scientists in history.
Apple launches CareKit to let people develop their own health apps
Apple announced today the launch of CareKit, a new open source software platform that allows people to develop their own health care apps.
DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future
DeepMind’s stunning victories over Go legend Lee Se-dol have stoked excitement over artificial intelligence’s potential more than any event in recent memory.
Scientists can draw very different meanings from the same data, study shows
Giving the same information to multiple scientific teams can lead to very different conclusions, a report published today in Nature shows.
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