The European Union on Wednesday unveiled national targets for cutting greenhouse gases by 2030, placing the burden on richer northern countries to help meet the bloc's UN goal.
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Indonesian officials have banned the playing of "Pokemon Go" from the presidential palace.
Software
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Macy's is testing a mobile tool using artificial intelligence that lets shoppers get answers customized to the store they're in—like where a particular brand is located or what's in stock—that they would normally ask ...
Business
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Stories about racist Twitter accounts and crashing self-driving cars can make us think that artificial intelligence (AI) is a work in progress. But while these headline-grabbing mistakes reveal the frontiers of AI, versions ...
Computer Sciences
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Scientists from MIPT and their colleagues have developed a compact and powerful ceramic-based laser with applications in minimally traumatic and inexpensive laser surgical scalpels, and also for cutting and engraving composite ...
Optics & Photonics
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Despite being the largest known fish in the sea, little is known about the world's population of whale sharks. Scientists at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, are conducting ongoing ...
Ecology
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Expansion of mandatory schooling laws by U.S. states in the late 1800s and early 1900s did not increase levels of intergenerational mobility, according to a new study by a University of Kansas researcher.
Social Sciences
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Janus was a Roman god with two distinct faces. Thousands of years later, he inspired material scientists working on asymmetrical microscopic spheres—with both a magnetic and a non-magnetic half—called Janus particles. ...
General Physics
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In both higher organisms and bacteria, DNA must be segregated when cells divide, ensuring that the requisite share of duplicated DNA goes into each new cell. While previous studies indicated that bacteria and higher organisms ...
Cell & Microbiology
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An inexpensive, versatile and personalized system for recognizing and correcting mispronounced words could improve language learning. The A*STAR-devised system gradually picks up the most common speech mistakes made by an ...
Software
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