Computer Sciences

An evaluation of mouse dynamics for intrusion detection

Researchers at Sapientia University in Romania and Université de Lyon have recently carried out a performance evaluation of unrestricted mouse usage for impostor detection. Their findings, pre-published on arXiv, suggest ...

Engineering

Drag can lift birds to new heights, researchers find

Future aerial design may owe a nod of thanks to five parrotlets flapping around in an instrumented flight chamber at Stanford University. They revealed that counter to conventional understanding of how animals and planes ...

Robotics

Bio-in­spired ro­bot­ics: Learn­ing from drag­on­flies

It is a high-speed movement: within fractions of a second the mouthparts of the dragonfly larvae spring forwards to seize its prey. For decades, researchers had assumed that this action must have been driven primarily by ...

Engineering

Sailing cargo ships can benefit from new aerodynamic tech

To hit international climate targets, the carbon emissions from shipping must be reduced by more than 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels. As much as 99% of global shipping is currently dependent on fossil fuels. Even though ...

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