Tech makes it easier to search wilderness for missing people
Yesenia D'Alessandro loaded a GPS tracking app on her cellphone and trudged into a remote Hawaii forest, joining more than 100 other volunteers looking for a missing hiker.
Yesenia D'Alessandro loaded a GPS tracking app on her cellphone and trudged into a remote Hawaii forest, joining more than 100 other volunteers looking for a missing hiker.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jun 24, 2019
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Spectacular fireworks, a large crowd, and music with a driving beat—on the first weekend in May the Rhine in Flames event will set the large parks along the Rhine in Bonn topsy-turvy. In 2019, a team of researchers from ...
Security
Jun 4, 2019
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The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), managed by Universities Space Research Association (USRA), has compiled and made available an atlas of the Moon's south pole. Given NASA's recent direction to implement Space Policy ...
Space Exploration
May 17, 2019
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There is a way around the notoriously sluggish internet in West Virginia. You just need a car and some time.
Telecom
Apr 15, 2019
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Navigation software destined for the ExoMars 2020 mission to the Red Planet has passed a rover-based driving test at ESA's 'Mars Yard'.
Space Exploration
Jan 21, 2019
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A free digital tool allows users to identify drainage patterns from deluges and identify highly vulnerable areas. The tool has been developed by a University of Copenhagen geographer with a flooded basement tale of his own.
Environment
Nov 27, 2018
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A powerful new map by the University of Cincinnati illustrates one motivating force behind migrant caravans leaving Guatemala and Honduras to reach the United States.
Environment
Nov 19, 2018
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A catalogue that provides an overview of over 2,200 planetary maps produced worldwide between 1600 and 2018 has been presented today at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018 in Berlin. The catalogue has been ...
Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2018
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Maps are an important part of our everyday lives.
Social Sciences
Aug 10, 2018
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Google showcased its plans for the next several months as it kicked off its annual developers' conference Tuesday. Many of the new features center on the use of artificial intelligence to help save time.
Consumer & Gadgets
May 8, 2018
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