02/06/2014

Experiment enters next stage at new Idaho hot cell

To the average eye, the experimental specimens don't look like much: silver-colored squares about the size of a domino. But the samples represent several big milestones for Idaho National Laboratory, the Department of Energy ...

Collisions with robots without risk of injury

Teamwork between humans and robots will be the motto of the future. But robots may not injure humans at all. When does contact cause an injury, though? Researchers are exploring this for the first time in a study.

Levitation just part of the power of pushy light

Most of the time we take light for granted. It arrives with the sunrise everyday and we turn it on with a flick of a switch every night. It appears to be ephemeral and benign to us humans but there is more to light than meets ...

Multidimensional image processing and analysis in R

Many researchers believe that an esoteric, open-source programming language for statistical analysis—called R—could pave the way for open science. Today, thousands of international scientists are participating in the ...

Identifying and understanding the needs of news consumers

From firewalls to metered access, news organisations have invented many ways to make readers pay for their content online. But the vital question of which readers are more willing to pay than others has been largely neglected ...

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