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Bitcoin surges to all-time high in crypto's 'validating moment'
Bitcoin rallied to a record, topping $66,000 for the first time as optimism surged for greater mainstream acceptance in the wake of the successful launch of the inaugural exchange-traded fund for U.S. investors.
Oct 21, 2021
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NASA transfers air traffic management tool updates to FAA
As part of an effort aimed at making aviation more sustainable, NASA has transferred findings from an air traffic management project to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for nationwide implementation, the two agencies ...
Sep 29, 2021
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Promoting sustainability of transport in cities calls for a mindset change
Promoting sustainable mobility is one of the biggest challenges for cities in the 21st century. The now published Transport in Human Scale Cities focuses on this challenge. The book is available for free download here.
Sep 29, 2021
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Feds aim to reduce lines of planes waiting to take off
Federal officials plan to roll out software at 27 large U.S. airports that they hope will eliminate long lines of planes waiting to take off while also slightly reducing fuel consumption.
Sep 28, 2021
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Ride-hailing services may not always increase traffic congestion, study finds
Ride-hailing services, like Uber and Lyft, are lauded by some for their ability to decrease traffic congestion. Yet, others claim that ride-hailing services increase traffic congestion. A recent study by researchers at Penn ...
Sep 27, 2021
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Japan's love affair with the fax machine: A strange relic of technological fantasies
With Japan riding the crest of its postwar economic miracle, Sony chairman Akio Morita and Japan's Minister of Transport Shintarō Ishihara unleashed a manifesto. The document, published in 1989, contained a prophecy that ...
Sep 27, 2021
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Team develops model to understand how a city's design creates congestion
City planners predict that as more people move into urban areas, traffic jams will get worse. That's why sustainability expert Neil Debbage, an assistant professor in the UTSA College of Liberal and Fine Arts' Department ...
Sep 22, 2021
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White paper charts R&D path to give electric aviation industry wings
U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, DOE's Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center and other experts aim to make electric aviation ...
Sep 21, 2021
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Addressing the issue of using hacked data in research efforts
A pair of health and ethics scientists, one with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the other ETH Zurich, has published a Perspective piece in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence, discussing the ethics of researchers ...
Sep 17, 2021 report
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Online bets on NFL games seen surging as season begins
A company that most of the legal U.S. sports betting industry uses to verify that its customers are where they say they are reported on Monday a record number of transactions over the first weekend of the NFL season.
Sep 13, 2021
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Detecting forged video evidence
Video evidence is commonly used to prove what happened during an event. However, with the emergence and rapid development of CGI (computer-generated images), deep fakes, and video manipulation, there is a pressing need for ...
Sep 08, 2021
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9/11's legacy of drone warfare has changed how we view the military
In October 2001, nearly one month after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, a US Air Force pilot made history as the first person to conduct a lethal strike with a modern drone—the Predator.
Sep 07, 2021
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As flood alerts lit up phones, did 'warning fatigue' set in?
Cellphones across New York and New Jersey pulsed with urgent warnings of catastrophic flooding as the fury of Hurricane Ida's remnants, carrying torrential rains, approached upper New Jersey and New York City on Wednesday.
Sep 04, 2021
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