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Our unprecedented ability to collect, store and analyse data is opening up new frontiers in science and the humanities.

Noises off: the machine that rubs out noise

02 Oct 2013

Future hearing aids could be adjusted by the wearer to remove background noise using new technology that could also be used to clean up and search...

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Our ambiguous world of words

30 May 2013

Ambiguity in language poses the greatest challenge when it comes to training a computer to understand the written word. Now, new research aims to...

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Ernest Tubb Record Shop sign

Come here often?

04 Aug 2011

A new way of predicting which people may become friends on social networks - based on the type of places they visit - has been formulated by...

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Android

Paranoid Android? Get connected to a new study…

17 Jun 2011

More than 1,000 people around the world have signed up to take part in the biggest ever public study of Android phone usage.

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Cards

Cancer: what's on the cards?

04 Jan 2010

Scientists at Strangeways Research Laboratory are leading the search for the ‘genetic cards’ that determine an individual’s risk of cancer.

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Data mining

Data mining the complex cancer landscape

04 Jan 2010

Computational biology is helping scientists to navigate through the data deluge generated from the analysis of cancer genomes.

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