Robotics
Nightmare material or truly man's best friend? A team of researchers equipped a dog-like quadruped robot with a mechanized arm that takes air samples from potentially treacherous situations, such as an abandoned building ...
Jun 10, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
College hoops fans might want to think again before pinning their hopes of a perfect March Madness bracket on artificial intelligence.
Mar 18, 2024
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Engineering
A solid understanding of soil mechanics and behavior is one of the fundamental pillars of geotechnical engineering. The stability and resilience of many modern geotechnical structures, including building foundations, dams, ...
Feb 28, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
In an ironic twist, a treasure trove of critical minerals is dumped out with water considered too polluted and expensive to clean.
Jan 24, 2024
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Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst civil and environmental engineers have determined the factors that may help identify the schools and daycare centers at greatest risk for elevated lead levels in drinking water. The most ...
Nov 30, 2023
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Engineering
Rolling bearings are installed wherever something is in rotation. The wide range of applications extends from large wind turbines to small electric toothbrushes. These bearings, which consist of steel components, must be ...
Oct 4, 2023
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Computer Sciences
The world witnessed a monumental face-off between human intelligence and artificial intelligence in March 2016. The computer program AlphaGo honed its skills from a substantial database and emerged victorious against a human ...
Jul 10, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Massive sequence view (MSV) is a classic timeline-based dynamic network visualization approach. However, it is vulnerable to visual clutter caused by overlapping edges, thereby leading to unexpected misunderstanding of time-varying ...
Apr 25, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Twelve years after the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan is preparing to release a massive amount of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea.
Mar 10, 2023
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Computer Sciences
The sheer volume of 'Big Data' produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a new computational framework ...
Feb 23, 2023
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