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JV wins $800 million light rail project
The base scope includes design and construction for the first nine-mile segment, including freight track relocation, installation of the light rail track system, new light rail stations and improvements at 40 grade crossings.
This utility is installing thousands of electric vehicle chargers
The utility's new program will build chargers for local businesses and public agencies looking to transition to electric transportation. The program will be implemented over five years.
New science-education subscription service for kids
The monthly service, MEL Kids, visually translates difficult-to-understand science concepts through hands-on experiments, an accompanying illustrated comic book and a lesson delivered via augmented reality app.
Check out this interactive periodic table, courtesy of Idaho National Labs
Publication comes 150 years after Russian chemistry professor Dmitri Mendeleev and German chemist Julius Lothar Meyer independently published their periodic tables in 1869 and 1870.
Study: Workers prefer robots take their jobs, rather than other people
The team found that people compare themselves to machines less than they compare themselves to other humans
Researchers develop new thin-film material for color-changing road signs
A collaboration between researchers from Fudan University in China and the University at Buffalo in New York has resulted in the development of a new thin-film material that reflects light in such a way that would call attention to important traffic signs at night.
Researchers attempting to create AI-driven companions for the elderly
Scientists from the University of Alberta, Canada, are attempting to develop chatbots capable of expressing and responding to emotions during conversations with the ultimate goal of one day developing artificial intelligence (AI) companions for the elderly.
Study: Wearable sensors could prevent stillborn births
Using the same commercial, orientation-detection sensors as those in smartphones, the device records heartbeat vibrations emitting from the mother’s abdomen.
Wearable pet devices threaten family privacy
Designed to track a dog’s location, health data and activity, among other details, the research team warns that the data is also being used to create owner profiles.
In conversation: A framework for addressing technology's ethical challenges
Our communities and the world face unprecedented challenges in scaling technologies in an ethical and beneficial way. As one observer noted half a century ago, “technological progress requires ethical progress or we risk the destruction of society.”
VW engineering scandal tarnished other German automakers
The scandal tarnished other German auto manufacturers through their association with Volkswagen, consistent with the notion of a collective reputation.
Zygo's newest ZeGage non-contact, 3D optical profilers
The company said that the two new models, ZeGage Pro and ZeGage Pro HR, offer up to two times the improvement in data points, a 50% larger maximum field of view and increased measurement speed with simplified setup when compared to previous generations.
Computer-aided software automatically generates knitting patterns, creates garments
The software users input their chosen designs, color and dimensions and those instructions are sent by computer to a knitting machine, which produces the article.
Control roundworm? Clean water may be key, research says
The study examined the effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions on rates of intestinal worm and Giardia infections in Kenya.
In conversation: A framework for assessing new technology
Technology thought leader Massoud Amin, DSc, discusses how our current era of technology is similar to, and different from, previous eras, and if advancements like AI and robotics change the basic human/machine relationship.
Researchers develop algorithm for predicting thunderstorm severity
Machine learning taught a computer model how to categorize storms based on data from associated power outages.
Watch: A moonlit tribute to an Apollo pioneer
The tribute was created by positioning more than 107,000 mirrors at the Ivanpah Solar Facility in the Mojave Desert to reflect the light of the moon.
Inadequate risk assessments led to fatal train wreck
The NTSB faulted the Federal Railroad Administration for failing to implement "effective regulation" to mitigate the risk of misaligned switch accidents.
Researchers develop modular robots capable of reconfiguring themselves in 17 different ways
Researchers from the ModLab at the University of Pennsylvania have developed robots that are capable of reconfiguring themselves into other shapes.
Watch: Innovations enable broad deployment of carbon black sensors
With more than 100 custom-built sensors installed across West Oakland for 100 days, a team created what they said is the largest black carbon monitoring network to be deployed in a single city.