Researchers have been looking for ways to decompose sound into its basic ingredients for more than 200 years. In the 1820s, French scientist Joseph Fourier proposed that any signal, including sounds, can be built using a ...
General Physics
Jul 13, 2023
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Solar sailing seems like a simple concept—instead of being pushed along by the wind, as in a typical sailing ship, a spacecraft can use highly reflective said to be pushed along simply by sunlight. But as with almost all ...
Space Exploration
Nov 4, 2022
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Selecting a landing site for a rover headed to Mars is a lengthy process that normally involves large committees of scientists and engineers. These committees typically spend several years weighing a mission's science objectives ...
Space Exploration
Sep 26, 2018
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Agriculture uses 70 percent of the water in the world, and this appears to be an upward trend regarding water needs. As the demand in other industry sectors is also increasing, and the effects of climate change exacerbate ...
Environment
Jul 24, 2018
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Certain marine species will fare much worse than others as they become more vulnerable to the effects of climate change, a new UBC study has found.
Ecology
Sep 26, 2017
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The buzzword in drone research is autonomous—having the unmanned aerial vehicle do most or all of its own flying.
Engineering
Feb 23, 2017
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Web browsers might soon use fuzzy logic to spot redirection spam and save users from being scammed, phished or opening malicious sites unwittingly, according to researchers in India writing in the International Journal of ...
Security
Jun 16, 2016
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Amid all the dire warnings that machines run by artificial intelligence (AI) will one day take over from humans we need to think more about how we program them in the first place.
Computer Sciences
Mar 10, 2015
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How did fuzzy logic help a group of researchers in Tunisia and Algeria create an ideal photovoltaic system that obeys the supply-and-demand principle and its delicate balance?
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 24, 2015
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A new approach to evaluating a person's risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, high blood pressure, or heart failure is reported this month in the International Journal of Data Mining, Modelling and Management. The technique ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 15, 2010
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