Research and experimental development is formal work undertaken systematically to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humanity, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories. A research project may also be an expansion on past work in the field.
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This startup wants to clear cities of cigarette butts using crows (yes, the bird)
Sometimes you run into an idea that seems so ridiculous, you simply have to know more about it – even if it’s just to ...
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Medicine's blockchainification is imminent, say researchers
Analyzing 40 PubMed journals for blockchains revealed a continued and growing interest from the healthcare research and medical ...
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Scientists created an artificial neural network out of DNA
Caltech researchers created a functioning artificial neural network out of DNA. It can read patterns based on handwritten ...
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White House earmarks over $1B for quantum technology research
Recent bipartisan efforts from the US House of Representatives and Senate have led to the formation of a subcommittee to ...
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4 cryptocurrency trends to watch out for
“It’s the next big revolution, just like the internet was.” “No… it’s a bubble!” Love it or hate it, ...
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Review of top 50 ICOs shows most promise things they will never deliver
The paper concludes that the ICO market is being held together by trust placed in coders not well versed in consumer protections ...
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Study links frequent gadget use to increased ADHD symptoms in teens
It's no secret that the number of hours teens spend on electronic devices has some impact on their well-being. What scientists ...
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You can’t achieve long term profits without knowing how your employees feel
Does your company get a good return on all the time and money it invests in leadership development? Despite the millions ...
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Sorry thieves, you can no longer hack iris-scanners using corpse eyes
Researchers in Poland have created a machine learning algorithim that can tell the difference between dead and alive irises. ...
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I got a hoax academic paper about how UK politicians wipe their bums published
Gary Lewis, Royal Holloway I had what seemed like rather a good idea a few weeks back. Building on some prominent findings ...
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This UX researcher reveals how to spot a liar
I pay people to talk to me. As a researcher, I typically study a particular product or a particular industry, so I need to ...
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Here's how Afrika tweets during elections
The latest "How Africa Tweets 2018" report by Portland, an international strategic communications agency, has revealed that ...
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These satellite images show how much damage climate change has caused
Ian Whittaker, Nottingham Trent University The average rainfall for the first two weeks of July in England was 6mm, while ...
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What online activists need to know about going viral
Inspiring stories of social activism, such as the Civil Rights movement and the fight against climate change, abound in history. ...
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AI may soon save a ton of cute (and ugly) animals from drug testing
As cold-blooded and inhuman as it may sound, animal tests are an integral part of modern-day drug and chemical compounds ...
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Telegram Passport is already drawing fire for not being secure enough
The first piece of blockchain tech from Telegram was shown off last week, but experts are claiming that its just waiting ...
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Getting oxygen puffed in your face to focus is complete bullshit
Especially when doing so will set you back $700.
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Fitbit’s lousy period feature proves the need for more women in tech
Fitbit's recently released female health feature faces backlash over limited period tracking and this could be because there's ...
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Women founders get less funding than men but make double the revenue
According to a recent study from BCG, female founders of start up companys receive less funding but make double the revenue ...
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Blockchain bug hunters feature prominently at this year's Pwnie Awards
Three researchers are up for Pwnie Awards this year after exposing critical bugs in popular blockchain projects IOTA and ...
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Watch this 15-year-old hacker play DOOM on John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ crypto-wallet
John McAfee’s ‘unhackable’ cryptocurrency wallet has been cracked to run the iconic game DOOM, courtesy of a teenage ...
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Online dating study shows everyone seeks partners 'out of their league'
A recently published study sought answers to a seemingly unquantifiable question: What does dating "out of your league" really ...
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John McAfee’s 'unhackable' cryptocurrency wallet has been hacked (again)
A team of security researchers has a solid claim to $10,000, after meeting the three requirements of Bitfi's second bug bounty ...
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Analyst: Renewable energy will be 'effectively free' by 2030
Analysts at Swiss investment bank UBS believe that by 2030, we could all be living without much of a carbon footprint -- ...
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Browser mining is generating over $250K worth of cryptocurrency every month
Academic research has discovered that embedded cryptocurrecy miner CoinHive is generating $250K worth of Monero every month. ...
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Telling the truth about defects in technology should never, ever, ever be illegal
Congress has never made a law saying, "Corporations should get to decide who gets to publish truthful information about defects ...
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North Korean hackers are targeting cryptocurrency traders with fake software
Kaspersky Labs has discovered a North Korean hacking crew is targeting cryptocurrency traders by trojanizing exchange software. ...
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Study: Air pollution responsible for 'huge' drop in intelligence
Air pollution could be a leading cause in a societal reduction in intelligence levels, according to new research. A study ...
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Google's definitely biased, but not in the way Trump thinks
In two tweets early Tuesday morning, President Trump reignited the debate about censorship on America's most popular tech ...
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This underwater death machine has one mission: Destroy the starfish
Australia's Great Barrier Reef is dying. Decades of human intervention have left the UNESCO World Heritage site reeling from ...
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5 reasons why all teams need to work remotely
I assume you know enough about remote work teams - the challenges, systems, tools, and more. But luckily that doesn’t apply ...
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Why Silicon Valley is no longer the place to be for your startup
By this point, everyone knows the legends and stories surrounding Silicon Valley. The origins of the biggest and most famous ...
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A geneticist and social scientist debate if we should edit the genomes of human embryos
Felicity Boardman: The birth of a child with genetic disease is generally an unexpected event. The parents of these children ...
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ASMR videos could be a new digital therapy for mental health
Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos could help mental health issues. Videos include soft-whispering and relaxing ...
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Penis bone puzzle solved by invasive 3D scanning
Penis bones found in some animals have evolved in different shapes and sizes, from the ice-cream scoop form to the long thin ...
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How we can turn plastic waste into green energy
Using “cold plasma pyrolysis”, plastic waste could be turned into green energy. It can convert waste plastics into hydrogen, ...
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Social media is being weaponized at a terrifying rate
Believe it or not, there are several ways in which social media can be used to sabotage, disenfranchise or misinform others. ...
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No black scientist has ever won a Nobel Prize — that’s bad for science and society
In over 100 years, a black scientist has never become a Nobel Prize winner. Black people in Western countries are also less ...
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How star-gazing helped scientists solve a centuries-old mystery
This discovery represents the first ever detection of a collision between a white and a brown dwarf and it could be used ...
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This study wants to help you spot 'fake news'
The study is based on a subtle psychological mechanism called the “confidence heuristic." It helps us make decisions and ...
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A woman won a Nobel Prize, but science is still sexist
The most recent Nobel Prize winner, Donna Strickland, is the third women to become a Nobel laureates. This has raised questions ...
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Philips will challenge tech giants to bring blockchain to healthcare
Data breaches are among the most damaging security incidents, and they happen everywhere. What makes the healthcare industry ...
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50% of American WhatsApp users don't know it's owned by Facebook
Research from the search engine DuckDuckGo has revealed 50 percent of American WhatsApp users don't realize Facebook owns ...
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Violent videos put journalists at increased risk of post-traumatic stress
Journalism work relies on potentially harmful user-generated content, the risks of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ...
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Spooky data visualization reveals most haunted cities in the US
It’s that time of year when humans as well as their pets dress up in Halloween costumes and discussions around trick-or-treating, ...
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Amazon’s sexist hiring algorithm could still be better than a human
Amazon has decided to shut down its experimental artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting tool after discovering it discriminated ...
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Why your app idea is just 'meh' and won't succeed
You heard me correctly, I said “meh.” I’m not talking about the "meh" used to ironically describe something beautiful/awe-inspiring; ...
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Report: People are going to have a lot of sex in self-driving cars
It's clear that driverless cars will revolutionize the way we get from Point A to Point B. Perhaps less obvious is how it'll ...
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7 EU countries accuse Google of violating GDPR by tracking users
Consumer groups in the Netherlands, Poland, Czechia, Greece, Slovenia, Sweden, and Norway have asked regulators to look into ...
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Swiss hotel chain offers a 'social media sitter' to handle your Instagram while you relax
Ibis, A popular European hotel chain, just introduced the world to the "social media sitter." It's the answer to a problem ...
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This trippy '80s video effect might help explain consciousness
Explaining consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. Recent neuroscientific discoveries suggest ...
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US government building tools to deanonymize anonymous cryptocurrencies
If you thought you were safe using privacy coins like Zcash and Monero, think again, the US government is developing forensic ...
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AI is incredibly smart, but it will never match human creativity
One could be forgiven for thinking that machines are creative. Numerous artificial intelligence projects appear to demonstrate ...
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This AI can predict Telegram pump-and-dump schemes with 80% accuracy
Spotting a pump-and-dump is tough work, but academics from Imperial College London have devised used machine learning, to ...
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Report: Anonymity could be the answer to feeling happier online
Social media usage has been proven to have negative effects on our mental health but a recent study has revealed that the ...
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Researchers found a psychological link between conspiracy theories and creationism
According to studies and researchers, teleological thinking also links to beliefs in conspiracy theories and creationism. ...
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These are the 10 coolest Kickstarter campaigns of 2018
Kickstarter is always a mixed bag. On the one hand, there are some of the most innovative products on Earth, all in one place. ...
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Here’s what your phone can learn from the sound of your voice
It can determine everything from who you are and where you come from, your current location, your gender and age, and what ...
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Here's why NASA is sending worms to space
We are hoping the worms can help us uncover more about muscle loss in astronauts during spaceflight since they can lose up ...
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'Loot boxes' in video games could be giving kids a gambling problem
The number of children with gambling problems has “quadrupled to more than 50,000 in just two years,” according to recent ...
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DNA-based diet and exercise plans offer little more than self-fulfilling prophecy, study
Stanford University, over the course of a year, recruited 223 participants in a fascinating study at the intersection of ...
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Why using human ‘super recognizers’ to identify criminals can be bad
People often say that they never forget a face, but for some people, this claim might actually be true. So-called super recognizers ...
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Fear of ‘chemicals’ is stunting our scientific progress
During casual conversations with Uber drivers and new acquaintances on flights across the country, it sometimes comes up ...
