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…
Heat wave hit heat Island hardest
[caption id="attachment_6239" align="alignnone" width="613"] Formation of a heat wave. Credit: U. S. National Weather Service[/caption] MADISON - Extreme summers like that of 2012 - which saw record temperatures in cities across the U.S. - may…
How Rosetta’s commet got it’s shape
[caption id="attachment_6233" align="alignnone" width="625"] Layers on the comet’s surface[/caption] Two comets collided at low speed in the early Solar System to give rise to the distinctive ‘rubber duck’ shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, say Rosetta scientists.…
A natural light switch
MIT scientists identify and map the protein behind a light-sensing mechanism. [caption id="attachment_6229" align="alignnone" width="639"] Color-corrected photograph of bacteria "spelling" B12, when the vitamin-B12-dependent photoreceptor protein, CarH, senses light.Image: Carmen Polanco and Montserrat Elías-Arnanz/University of…
Engineering Education in France
Learning through French education system We have always been concerned about the activities happening within this whole world. Our mind is habitually in quest for learning and gaining more and more in adventurous way. Three…