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Machines That Learn Are Invading, and Utterly Transforming, Our Lives

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Machine learning is an algorithm-based approach to artificial intelligence that's quietly realizing the old dream of "thinking machines." Whether you know it or not, machine learning is already influencing the way we live our lives—it touches on many aspects of daily life, from the economy, to medicine, health care, autonomous tech, scientific research, and even internet-based shopping.
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We Are Entering a Renaissance in Hypersonic Flight

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Since the flight of the X-15 in 1967, hypersonic research in the United States has stagnated. The revival of NASA's dormant X-Planes program, and renewed interest by the US military and other entities—to say nothing of a brewing "aerospace race" by the world's leading powers—promises that the coming decades will see a renaissance of hypersonic research and development.
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Biotech Breakthrough: Engineers Made a New Material That Can Be Programmed

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Researchers have created a 3D bulk material from silk fibroin that can be programmed to activate specific tasks when exposed to conditions like temperature or infrared light. The material could be used to create everything from hormone-emitting orthopedics to surgical pins that change color when they near their mechanical limits.
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