Latest Simulation Designed For 911 Networks
The latest test, simulation, and monitoring systems for 911, E-911, and NG-911 networks, systems, and protocols has been announced by GL Communications.
Dark energy camera sights new dwarf planet in Solar System
Scientists in Michigan have found a new dwarf planet in our solar system. It's about 330 miles across and some 8.5 billion miles from the sun. It takes 1,100 years to complete one orbit.
But one of the most interesting things about the…
Soybeans the answer to world hunger?
A way to dramatically increase the yield and quality of soybeans has been developed by Washington State University biologist Mechthild Tegeder. Her greenhouse-grown soybean plants fix twice as much nitrogen from the atmosphere as their…
Gathering global data as a force for climate change
PhD student Lily Bui works with communities around the world to gather data from the bottom up.
Lily Bui’s path to her PhD program in urban studies and planning at MIT has been a meandering one, yet along the way she has followed her…
I can see clearly now the rain has gone
I can see all obstacles in my way...
Water-shedding coating for car windshields wins $10k grand prize at annual prototyping contest.
The winning team at this year’s MADMEC competition, PolyClean, aims to keep the roads safer with…
Why your smartphone is overheating
MIT engineers say cellphones, laptops, and other electronic devices may face a higher risk of overheating, as a result of interactions between electrons and heat-carrying particles called phonons, as in the coming years, more transistors…
Photon and qubit interaction strength opens doors
An interaction between light and matter 10 times larger than previously seen has been recorded by researchers at the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC). The strength of the interaction between photons and a qubit…
Air-actuated soft robots behave like human muscles
An EPFL team is developing soft, flexible and reconfigurable robots. Air-actuated, they behave like human muscles and may be used in physical rehabilitation. They are made of low-cost materials and could easily be produced on a large…
The Big Apple or the Big Bobbing Apple?
New York City can expect 9ft. floods, as intense as that produced by 2012's Superstorm Sandy, at least three times more frequently over the next century - and possibly as much as 17 times more frequently, according to a paper published…
Stronger silk produced by feeding silkworms graphene
A team of researchers at Tsinghua University in China has found that adding graphene or carbon nanotubes to the food eaten by silkworms causes them to produce silk that is stronger than normal. In their paper published in Nanoletters, the…