This illustration made available by NASA shows the Kepler space telescope, the planet-hunting spacecraft that launched in 2009.
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A team led by an undergraduate student at the University of Texas, Austin has found two new planets by using artificial intelligence to sift through data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope.
"The optimist in me says in three years we can train this tool to read mammograms as well as an average radiologist," says Connie Lehman, chief of breast imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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President Trump at the signing ceremony for the First Step Act in December. While some prisoners are benefiting from reduced sentences, implementation of other aspects of the law has been hit with delays.
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This illustration made available by NASA shows the Kepler space telescope, the planet-hunting spacecraft that launched in 2009.
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Arthur Brooks, seen speaking at Georgetown University in 2015, has a new book called Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt.
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The coronavirus epidemic has forced the Census Bureau to postpone its field operations, but the bureau is still collecting information from households responding on their own.
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