Future cars and trucks will be tested in a virtual environment long before the first vehicle prototype is built. UMIT Research Lab at Umeå University plays a key part when the vehicle manufacturers Scania and Volvo Cars ...
Engineering
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Before Sentinel-2A is packed up and shipped to French Guiana for its launch targeted on 12 June, media representatives and specialists got one last look at the second satellite for Europe's Copernicus programme.
Space Exploration
Feb 25, 2015
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ESA's IXV spaceplane, launched on a Vega rocket on 11 February, is now on its way to Europe for detailed study in Italy.
Space Exploration
Feb 25, 2015
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Stockholm is one of the world's most sunlight-deprived capitals for almost half of the year. But now, the city's premier technical university, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, is home to one of the world's few solar laboratories.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 25, 2015
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Designing or exploring new materials is all about controlling their properties. In a new study, Cornell scientists offer insight on how different "knobs" can change material properties in ways that were previously unexplored ...
General Physics
Feb 25, 2015
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New research into central Australia's ancient lakes has found evidence that climate change contributed to the extinction of the continent's megafauna.
Ecology
Feb 25, 2015
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When Kalyan Veeramachaneni joined the Any Scale Learning For All (ALFA) group at MIT's CSAIL as a postdoc in 2010, he worked on large-scale machine-learning platforms that enable the construction of models from huge data ...
Computer Sciences
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Oil and gas operations in the United States produce about 21 billion barrels of wastewater per year. The saltiness of the water and the organic contaminants it contains have traditionally made treatment difficult and expensive.
Environment
Feb 25, 2015
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Researchers at the University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory are evaluating new methods to reduce the spread of rabies in wildlife populations.
Ecology
Feb 25, 2015
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Components of human endothelial cells stained for identification. In red is the 'actin' protein that allows the cells to move, adhere, divide and react to stimuli. In blue are the cell nuclei containing DNA.
Cell & Microbiology
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