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…
PolyU develops Novel Intelligent Transportation System for Personalized…
Researchers from Hong Kong have developed a novel intelligent transportation system, utilizing integrated algorithm for real-time journey time estimation. The Department of Civil and Environment Engineering of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed…
Robot arm simulates close approach of ESA’s asteroid…
[caption id="attachment_6946" align="alignright" width="305"] Camera by model asteroid[/caption] The final approach to an asteroid has been practised for ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission using a real spacecraft camera mounted on a robot arm. The 2020…
A new way to deliver microRNAs for cancer…
[caption id="attachment_6942" align="alignnone" width="639"] MIT researchers developed this hydrogel embedded with triple helix microRNA particles and used it to treat cancer in mice.Image: João Conde, Nuria Oliva, and Natalie Artzi[/caption] Twenty years ago, scientists discovered…
Alternative stellar lifestyle: common, curious, solved at last
[caption id="attachment_6939" align="alignnone" width="604"] Birth of a blue straggler star. Credit: NASA/ESA, A. Feild (STScI)[/caption] MADISON - Starting around 1950, a series of advances formed a clear and accepted picture of how individual stars are…