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Energy & Green Tech Mar 21, 2019

Quick charging system for E-bikes

The e-bike market is booming. Thanks to electric support, cyclists can choose their routes more freely, elderly people can stay mobile, and commuters reach their workplace stress-free. This makes many people use bicycles ...

Computer Sciences Jan 29, 2019

IBM Research releases 'Diversity in Faces' dataset to advance study of fairness in facial recognition systems

Have you ever been treated unfairly? How did it make you feel? Probably not too good. Most people generally agree that a fairer world is a better world, and our AI researchers couldn't agree more. That's why we are harnessing ...

General Physics Dec 17, 2018

Pedestrians keep a 75 cm comfort zone to prevent collisions

Pedestrians are constantly avoiding collisions with oncoming people. Meters in advance they unconsciously change their walkway to pass each other. Physicists at Eindhoven University of Technology in collaboration with American ...

Paleontology & Fossils Dec 12, 2018

Fossils key to fulfilling Darwin's 160-year-old prediction

A new study by researchers at the University of Salford has shown that fossils are likely to be key to fulfilling a prediction made by Charles Darwin more than 160 years ago.

Computer Sciences Nov 15, 2018

Five nanosecond decision-making: New chip design to make speedy calculations for researchers

Computer scientists develop algorithms that control everything from unmanned aerial vehicles to desktop computers to the cellphones in our pockets. But it can be complicated to match the code they develop to hardware systems ...

Mathematics Sep 13, 2018

Mathematicians propose first continuous self-organised criticality model

An international group of researchers (the first author is Nikita Kalinin, Higher School of Economics—Saint-Petersburg, the last author is Ernesto Lupercio, CINVESTAV, Mexico) has presented the first continuous model describing ...

Other Jul 11, 2018

Pitch of baby cries found to be predictor of vocal pitch at age five

A combined team of researchers from the University of Lyon/Saint-Etienne in France and the University of Sussex in the U.K. has found that the pitch of a baby's cries can be an indicator of voice pitch at age five. In their ...

Computer Sciences Jun 29, 2018

Unlocking the promise of approximate computing for on-chip AI acceleration

Recent advances in deep learning and exponential growth in the use of machine learning across application domains have made AI acceleration critically important. IBM Research has been building a pipeline of AI hardware accelerators ...

Environment Apr 20, 2018

Policy driver of soil organic carbon accumulation in Chinese croplands identified

China's croplands have experienced drastic changes in management practices related to fertilization, tillage and residue treatment since the 1980s. The impact of these changes on soil organic carbon (SOC) has drawn major ...

Social Sciences Mar 23, 2018

Research examines whether media can promote parent/child conversation about difficult topics

A new study of more than 5,000 teens, young adults and parents in four regions of the world found that watching the series 13 Reasons Why prompted teen and parent conversations about bullying, suicide and mental health.

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