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U.S. Government Limits Exports Of AI Software

The measure covers software that could be used by sensors, drones, and satellites to automate the process of identifying targets, a boon for industry, which feared a much broader crackdown on exports of AI hardware and software.

Brain Imaging Breakthrough Predicts Alzheimer's Decline In Early Stages

Utilizing a recently developed brain imaging technique new research suggests that measuring accumulated levels of a protein called tau may predict future neurodegeneration associated with Alzihemer’s disease.

Flue Gases Extract Methane From Permafrost While Reducing Emissions

University in Edinburgh are looking at a way of extracting methane from Arctic permafrost in a manner that reduces carbon dioxide emissions.

Protein Infusion Could Reduce Heart Failure Risk After Heart Attack

Heart disease is the biggest killer in the Western world. A part of the problem is that even if one survives a heart attack, damage to the heart muscle results in the formation of thick scar tissue that can increase the chance of heart failure.

Novel Dementia Vaccine On Track For Human Trials Within Two Years

The researchers suggest this "dementia vaccine" is now ready for human trials, and if successful could become the “breakthrough of the next decade.”

Review Of Intermittent Fasting Research Suggests Broad Health Benefits

A new analysis of current intermittent fasting research suggests the dietary strategy could soon be incorporated as standard medical health and diet advice.

10 Technology Trends That Will Impact Our Lives In 2020

2020, when the world will see transformational changes in how technology impacts our lives. Here’s a look at the top technology trends that will influence us.

Finding Over 100 Million Exoplanets By 2050

The cumulative number of exoplanets that have been discovered has been following power law scaling for the past 25 years and if this continued to 2050 then we would find about 100 million exoplanets.

Battery-free Biosensor Is The Smallest One Yet

Designed to continuously monitor various bodily processes, externally-powered biosensors are not only smaller than their battery-packing counterparts, but they also don't have to be surgically retrieved for battery-changes.

Japanese Satellite Sets Low Altitude Record

The TSUBAME mission was designed to test the feasibility of placing satellites in super-low altitudes between 200 and 300 km (120 and 190 mi), where they can capture high-resolution images.

Google Brain’s AI Achieves State-of-the-art Text Summarization Performance

state-of-the-art results in 12 summarization tasks spanning news, science, stories, instructions, emails, patents, and legislative bills, and that it shows “surprising” performance on low-resource summarization, surpassing previous top results on six data sets with only 1,000 examples.

New Oral Migraine Prevention Drug Approved By FDA

Continuing the wave of cutting-edge new migraine drugs reaching the American market, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now approved the first oral calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) antagonist for acute migraine treatment.