Friends and colleagues were aware, at some level, that Nick Roy, a researcher in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), had been using his sabbatical to take on some sort of robotics-related ...
Engineering
Sep 12, 2014
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Multilayer-coated mirrors, if used as focusing optics in the soft gamma-ray photon energy range, can enable and advance a range of scientific and technological applications that would benefit from the large improvements in ...
Optics & Photonics
Sep 12, 2014
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Hadza hunter-gatherers of northern Tanzania have developed a deep and mutually beneficial relationship with the Greater Honeyguide bird, which, as its name indicates, leads people to sources of wild honey. Yale anthropologist ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 12, 2014
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(Phys.org) —An international team of researchers has concluded that the Larsen-B Ice Shelf collapsed in 2002 because of warmer surface air temperatures, not instability from below, as some have suggested. In their paper ...
Astronomers have focused the three most powerful optical telescopes in the world on a single point in the sky to test one of Nature's fundamental laws.
Astronomy
Sep 12, 2014
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A first-ever standard "operating system" for drones, developed by a startup with MIT roots, could soon help manufacturers easily design and customize unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for multiple applications.
Engineering
Sep 12, 2014
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A new online resource, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge in collaboration with other organisations based in Cambridge, helps those in both the public and private sector see how changes to an ecosystem ...
Environment
Sep 12, 2014
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When moving through a conductive material in an electric field, electrons tend to follow the path of least resistance—which runs in the direction of that field.
Nanophysics
Sep 12, 2014
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The willingness of religious congregations to welcome homosexuals as members—and place them in leadership positions—is on the rise, according to a new Duke University study.
Social Sciences
Sep 12, 2014
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Were you a little chilly last winter? So were Alex Huang and Jason Yakimovich. And they did something about it.
Engineering
Sep 12, 2014
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