ESA's Planetary Defence team The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of ten asteroids – and one comet – after people and places linked to the European Space Agency’s (ESA) efforts to protect…
Towable sensor free-falls to measure vertical slices of…
Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- The motion of the ocean is often thought of in horizontal terms, for instance in the powerful currents that sweep around the planet, or the waves that ride…
New model quantifies the impact of quarantine measures…
A machine learning algorithm developed by MIT researchers combines data from Covid-19’s spread with a neural network to assess the impact of quarantine measures and predict when infections will slow down in each country. CAMBRIDGE,…
UW–Madison engineer works with local health leaders to…
By Renee Meiller Madison- A University of Wisconsin–Madison industrial engineer has led the development of models that are among the tools aiding health officials in Dane County and south-central Wisconsin as they prepare for and respond…
Atypical path leads student to truman scholarship, one…
MADISON - There was a time when UW-Madison junior Tina Marshalek hesitated to tell people she was a non-traditional transfer student. Or that she had been homeschooled from kindergarten through 12th grade. She didn't want…