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Air Pollution Varies Street by Street, Not City by City
Working in conjunction to measure air pollution changes occurring from street to street in the same city, the Environmental Defense Fund, Google Earth Outreach and researchers from the University of Texas at Austin have equipped a Google Street View car with environmental monitoring tools from Aclima.
Dutch Startup Looks to Heat Homes With Servers
Dutch startup Nerdalize is continuing work on a project to use excess heat from data servers to heat residential homes.
Key Airline Industry Members Meet to Discuss Laptop Ban
As members of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) gather in Cancun, Mexico, for their annual meeting this week, there is one topic dominating their agenda: the U.S. and British laptop ban.
Device To Detect Sleep Apnea Being Tested
A new wearable, adhesive patch may soon be available to detect all levels of sleep apnea, pending U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.
Flying Metal Detectors
Scientists have unveiled a new device capable of detecting buried and submerged mines from a safe distance.
Predicting Lifespan with Artificial Intelligence
Using artificial intelligence to predict when a person will die based on medical images of patients’ internal organs is closer to development thanks to research from the University of Adelaide.
Beware Your Software
If you think that you are immune to workplace injuries because you sit in front of a computer, think again. Researchers have found that a poorly designed software package can produce hand and wrist problems.
Next Steps for IoT Factory Optimization
Hitachi will implement two new industrial field work-optimization cores for its IoT platform, Lumada.
Are Road Signs Distracting?
Concerned with a trend in multiple road signs being grouped together along Australian freeways, researchers explored whether or not the collection of signs are distracting drivers.
New Technology Keeps Elderly Safe at Home
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE in Kaiserslautern, Germany, with the goal of giving the elderly a sense of security in their own homes without invading their privacy, have developed a new technology concept that can offer both assistance in the case of a fall without invasive cameras and is also a communication tool offering access to nursing consultants.
Using Heat to Predict Species Most Threatened by Climate Change
To predict the degree of suffering of a species from the effects of climate change, research from Monash University examines the role of heat resistance (thermal history).
Some Regions are Getting Hotter, Some Colder
Some parts of the planet are becoming cooler and other parts are becoming warmer thanks to an increase in localized greening, according to evidence unearthed by a research team with the Directorate for Sustainable Resources in Italy and Ghent University in Belgium.
Biosensers Using the Body's Own Cells
The idea of implanting a device housing live cells into the body to act as a biosensenor able to detect changes and threats in the body is both technically difficult to achieve and very attractive to the scientific community.
Combatting Forgery with Paper Fingerprints
Researchers were able to identify a unique ‘texture’ fingerprint by analyzing translucent patterns by shining a light through paper.
Based on Bitcoin: A New System for Online Security
MIT researchers have devised a new system to defend against online identity theft, using the security machinery of Bitcoin.
Visualization Program Protects Statistical Significance
In the modern age, it’s easy for users to explore large data sets for correlations. Unfortunately, the ability to ask unending questions of the same data series increases the chance for false discoveries.
Trimble Targets Ag Growth with Müller-Elektronik Buy
Trimble says that it plans to buy privately held Müller-Elektronik, a German company specializing in implement control and precision farming.
Protecting Autonomous Vehicles from Cyberattack
As vehicles become more and more autonomous — internet-enabled, self-driving — their vulnerability to cyberattacks becomes greater and greater. As a result, Texas A&M University researchers have created an intelligent transportation system prototype to prevent collisions and to help thwart autonomous vehicle hacking attempts.
Drone Provides Tornado Damage Assessment in Oklahoma
Small unmanned aerial systems provided real-time support for disaster response efforts after the May 16 event.
What’s Standing Between You and Your Results?
Engineers in every corner of the world are tasked with a straightforward yet incredibly complex challenge: solving the unsolvable. As if that weren’t enough, they’re also expected to solve the unsolvable faster and with fewer resources than ever before.