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…
Zebrafish Reveal Drugs That May Improve Bone Marrow…
[caption id="attachment_5358" align="alignright" width="300"] Source: Shutterstock[/caption] Using large-scale zebrafish drug-screening models, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have identified a potent group of chemicals that helps bone marrow transplants engraft or…
Malaysia’s ‘black panthers’ finally reveal their leopard’s spots
By modifying the infrared flash on automatic camera traps and forcing them into ‘night mode’ a team of wildlife experts has revealed the black leopard’s spots. [caption id="attachment_5355" align="alignright" width="272"] Copyright : © Rimba Research…
Object recognition for robots
Robots’ maps of their environments can make existing object-recognition algorithms more accurate. [caption id="attachment_5352" align="alignnone" width="639"] The proposed SLAM-aware object recognition system is able to localize and recognize several objects in the scene, aggregating detection…
NASA’s New Horizons Team Finds Haze, Flowing Ice…
[caption id="attachment_5348" align="alignnone" width="985"] Backlit by the sun, Pluto’s atmosphere rings its silhouette like a luminous halo in this image taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft around midnight EDT on JulyCredits: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI[/caption] Flowing ice and…