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…
A new structure design to achieve a dual-function…
Thermal infrared camouflage aims to reduce the detectability of a target using thermal imaging devices. Given the typically high thermal emissivity in everyday environments, the thermal emissivity of the background environment must be considered. The…
Crossing the Uncanny Valley: Breakthrough in technology for…
Snapshots of a realized sleepy mood expression on a child android robot. PHOTO: Researchers Osaka, Japan – Even if an android's appearance is so realistic that it could be mistaken for a human in a…
Glacial cooling reduces tropical Pacific upper ocean zonal…
Proxy-model comparison of glacial-interglacial upper ocean temperature changes in the tropical Pacific, with the locations of proxy sites (filled circles) and the areas used for computing regional means from model simulations (black box). A research…
Shiitake-derived functional food shows suppression of liver fibrosis…
How AHCC might inhibit activation of hepatic stellate cells: AHCC seems to work on two pathways that lead to the suppression of liver fibrosis. Chronic liver damage can lead to hepatitis, which causes fibrosis of…