Engineering
The simplicity and elegance of origami, an ancient Japanese art form, has motivated researchers to explore its application in the world of materials.
Jul 27, 2020
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Consumer & Gadgets
There you are wrist deep into a quart of Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey, digging ever deeper. You can't deny it. Your necklace is recording the ice-cream binge, which it will later dispatch to a coach or dietician.
Jul 8, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
If the world is using more and more data, then it must be using more and more energy, right? Not so, says a comprehensive new analysis.
Feb 27, 2020
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Robotics
For self-driving vehicles to become an everyday reality, they need to safely and flawlessly navigate one another without crashing or causing unnecessary traffic jams.
Feb 24, 2020
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Engineering
Memory-hungry, power-sapping big data might finally have met its match.
Feb 10, 2020
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Computer Sciences
A research team led by Northwestern Engineering's Luis Amaral has developed an algorithmic approach for data analysis that automatically recognizes uninformative words—known as stop words—in a large collection of text. ...
Dec 2, 2019
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Engineering
Imagine holding hands with a loved one on the other side of the world. Or feeling a pat on the back from a teammate in the online game "Fortnite."
Nov 20, 2019
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Engineering
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new, futuristic 3D printer that is so big and so fast it can print an object the size of an adult human in just a couple of hours.
Oct 17, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Data scientists have developed an early-warning model that can successfully predict how lethal a terror organization will become in the future based on only its first 10 attacks.
Oct 7, 2019
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Engineering
An interdisciplinary Northwestern University team has developed a pair of soft, flexible wireless sensors that replace the tangle of wire-based sensors that currently monitor babies in hospitals' neonatal intensive care units ...
Feb 28, 2019
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