The modern city, says Jie Liu, can be considered a web of networks that should run like a healthy, well-tuned circulatory system.
Computer Sciences
May 19, 2017
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a soft gripping system that uses differential air pressure and a gecko-inspired adhesive for exceptional bonding to ...
Robotics
May 18, 2017
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The way we design our cities needs a serious rethink. After thousands of years of progress in urban development, we plateaued some 60 years ago. Cities are not safer, healthier, more efficient, or more equitable. They are ...
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2017
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Most website visits these days entail a database query—to look up airline flights, for example, or to find the fastest driving route between two addresses.
Computer Sciences
Mar 23, 2017
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Researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have created an atomic force microscope on a chip, dramatically shrinking the size—and, hopefully, the price tag—of a high-tech device commonly used to characterize material ...
Nanophysics
Feb 15, 2017
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The European Union activated its Galileo satellite navigation system in December 2016. The EU is dedicated to setting this system apart from other navigation systems such as GPS—the U.S. counterpart of Galileo. Researchers ...
Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2017
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One way to handle big data is to shrink it. If you can identify a small subset of your data set that preserves its salient mathematical relationships, you may be able to perform useful analyses on it that would be prohibitively ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 15, 2016
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Roughly 1,400 satellites surround the word today, with 500 of those launched by the United States. While they all have various duties and capabilities, it is of utmost importance to correctly and efficiently identify the ...
Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2016
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In a 2013 study conducted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), researchers estimated one third of all food produced for human consumption in the world is lost or wasted. Although waste occurs in ...
Economics & Business
Oct 11, 2016
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Preparing for the take off of faster production, Lockheed Martin and the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University are investigating the use of advanced industrial engineering tools and procedures ...
Engineering
Sep 19, 2016
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