A new research center based at the University of Glasgow is setting out to develop the ‘cognitive’ cities of the future which will revolutionize urban life. The Centre for Integrated Sensing and Communication Enabling Cognitive…
Sicilian snow
[caption id="attachment_11559" align="alignnone" width="700"] Sicilian snow[/caption] Part of the Italian island of Sicily is pictured in this false-colour image from the Sentinel-2A satellite. This image was captured on 8 January during a period of unusual…
CryoSat reveals lake outbursts beneath Antarctic ice
A novel way of using ESA’s CryoSat mission has revealed how lakes beneath Thwaites Glacier drained into the Amundsen Sea – potentially the largest such outflow ever reported in this region of West Antarctica. This…
Beyond eating: Indirectly, deer change the landscape
[caption id="attachment_11545" align="alignnone" width="775"] Forest understory differences inside and outside of a fence designed to exclude deer at UW–Madison’s Kemp Research Station in Vilas County. The forest on the left is outside the exclosure and…
Record-Breaking Material that Contracts When Heated
Researchers based at Nagoya University discover ceramic material that contracts on heating by more than twice the previous record-holding material. [caption id="attachment_11542" align="alignnone" width="960"] A layered ruthenate Ca2RuO4-y ceramic body contracts on heating, or exhibits…