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Economics & Business Feb 16, 2023

New UC San Diego model predicts housing prices to fall as much as 18% this year

A new model of forecasting home prices based on consumer demand predicts that prices for housing will decrease by 5% nationally and 12% in San Diego County by the end of this year. The model, which highlights online search ...

Economics & Business Feb 9, 2023

Technology and digital strategies could bring more tourists back to Indonesia

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world and has been devastating for human life. Global tourism collapsed as tourist arrivals decreased by 71% in 2021.

Bio & Medicine Feb 2, 2023

New sensor enables 'smart diapers,' range of other health monitors

Waaahhh! While babies have a natural mechanism for alerting their parents that they need a diaper change, a new sensor developed by researchers at Penn State could help workers in daycares, hospitals and other settings provide ...

Biotechnology Jan 24, 2023

New DNA biosensor could unlock powerful, low-cost clinical diagnostics

DNA can signal the presence of or predisposition to a slew of diseases, including cancer. The ability to flag down these clues, known as biomarkers, allows medical professionals to make critical early diagnoses and provide ...

Environment Jan 18, 2023

Technology and sustainable development: A hamlet in rural South Africa shows how one can power the other

It's hard to imagine that the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and the fourth industrial revolution can be part of the same conversation.

Biotechnology Jan 16, 2023

To predict environmental changes, researchers create a new generation of wireless sensor networks

The "internet of things," a growing web of interconnected devices—constituting everything from smart bulbs to warehouse robots—is posited as a central pillar of the "fourth industrial revolution" because of how drastically ...

Bio & Medicine Jan 6, 2023

New nanowire sensors are the next step in the Internet of Things

A new miniscule nitrogen dioxide sensor could help protect the environment from vehicle pollutants that cause lung disease and acid rain.

Social Sciences Dec 27, 2022

Rethinking the big spring clean chuck-out frenzy: How keeping old things can 'spark joy' in its own way

Driving home recently, I encountered a familiar sight: four dining chairs on the kerb waiting for some sucker to rescue them. Loading them into the car (sucker!) I wondered: how long were these chairs in shed limbo-land before ...

Optics & Photonics Dec 22, 2022

Meta-optics: The disruptive technology you didn't see coming

Robots and autonomous cars will have eyes that see much more than the human eye is capable of, a review of the growing field of meta-optics has found.

Optics & Photonics Dec 15, 2022

Researchers develop all-optical approach to pumping chip-based nanolasers

Researchers have developed a new all-optical method for driving multiple highly dense nanolaser arrays. The approach could enable chip-based optical communication links that process and move data faster than today's electronic-based ...

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