Automotive
Automated vehicles don't have human operators to communicate their driving intentions to pedestrians at intersections. My team's research on pedestrians' perceptions of safety shows their trust of traffic lights tends to ...
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Engineering
Walk in a room, the light goes on. Most people are familiar with the motion sensors that detect activity and then turn on the lights.
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Hi Tech & Innovation
As policymakers and business leaders grapple with how to restart the economy and bring employees back to work in the shadow of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, a new white paper by MIT Professor Alex "Sandy" Pentland suggests ...
Apr 21, 2020
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Computer Sciences
Skoltech researchers have presented a new biological image processing method that accurately picks out specific biological objects in complex images. Their results will be presented as an oral talk at the high-profile computer ...
Apr 21, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
NASA's long-term, global view of Earth from space includes data on sunlight, wind, temperature and precipitation, all key elements in understanding how our planet works. That same, information is also being put to very practical ...
Apr 21, 2020
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Other
The smartphones carried in so many pockets and purses could play a key role in keeping COVID-19 under control as the nation cautiously reopens the economy.
Apr 21, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
Few people can fault the government's zeal in staring down the coronavirus and steering a path for Australia to emerge on the other side ready to do business again.
Apr 21, 2020
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Security
Patents and related intellectual property rights can present formidable barriers to procuring medicines, vaccines, diagnostic tests and medical devices.
Apr 21, 2020
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Engineering
UCLA engineers have developed a faster, simpler 3-D-printing technique to build electronics, trimming their manufacturing time from hours down to a few minutes. The method can be used to print electronics into complex shapes ...
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Robotics
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have recently created PATRICK, an untethered soft robot that artificially replicates the structure and behavior of the brittle star, a marine invertebrate closely related to starfish. ...
