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…
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Dragonfly Mission
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the Dragonfly mission, a rotorcraft lander mission under NASA’s New Frontiers Program, designed to explore Saturn’s moon Titan. The mission will sample materials and determine surface…
ALMA Reveals How Planets Can Form Under Harsh…
An international team of astronomers reveals a high-resolution look at protoplanetary disks in extreme environments. New observations from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) suggest that planet formation can occur even in harsh stellar environments…
Vienna’s Smart Traffic Lights Are Now Getting Even…
A pedestrian traffic light in Vienna. IMAGE: TU Graz With higher computing power and adapted AI training, the system developed at TU Graz can control several pedestrian crossings simultaneously and recognizes people with limited mobility…
New tool makes quick health, environmental monitoring possible
Raman Lab/UW–Madison MADISON — University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemists have developed a new, efficient method that may give first responders, environmental monitoring groups, or even you, the ability to quickly detect harmful and health-relevant substances in…