HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Liquid Refrigerant Could Save Water
The system cools like a refrigerator without the expense and energy needs of a compressor.
Hardware Used to Accelerate Core-to-Core Communication
Many computer functions require multiple processors, or cores, to work together in a coordinated way.
Machine That Could Predict Human Behavior
Scientists could use Turing Learning to discover the rules governing natural or artificial systems, especially where behavior cannot be easily characterized using similarity metrics.
Targeted Road Maintenance Could Reduce Vehicle Emissions
Maintaining just 1.5% of the roadway network could lead to a reduction of 10% in vehicle-related greenhouse gas emissions.
Torrential Downpours Predicted with Greater Accuracy
Researchers produced a high-resolution, three-dimensional distribution map of rain every 30 seconds which is 120 times faster than the hourly updated systems used by weather prediction centers today.
Volcano Masked Pace of Sea Level Rise
Climate model runs designed to remove the effect of a 1991 eruption revealed an accelerating rate of sea level rise, says NCAR.
How to Turn Music Into Colors With a Wi-Fi Bridge
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film, written and directed by Steven Spielberg. As part of the movie’s theme scientists enable a computer, using light and sound patterns together, to have a musical conversation with alien guests from a UFO visiting out planet.
IoT Could Cause Energy Use to Spiral
Autonomous streaming of data by billions of sensors removes the existing potential constraints to the growth in internet energy consumption.
A Better Way to Predict Turbulence
Turbulence can be detected in a more precise way using data already being broadcast by the transponders installed in most modern commercial airplanes.
"Cubesat" Network to Study Earth’s Thermosphere
The satellites will carry out measurements of the region between 200 km and 380 km above Earth.
Artificial Intelligence Developed to Help First Responders
As an event is monitored, software learns and starts to make predictions about what resources will be needed next.
Technology Displays Traffic Light Change Clock
Audi says the feature represents its first step in vehicle-to-infrastructure integration.
Oil and Gas Production Add to Ozone Woes, Study Says
Chemical vapors from oil and gas production add around 3 ppb a day of locally produced ozone in Colorado, and potentially more on high-ozone days.
Electric Grid Vulnerabilities in Southeast U.S. Are Modeled
Electricity-demand increases caused by temperature rises are likely to have the greatest impact over the next 35 years in areas serving small populations.
DARPA Taps Hackers to Develop Machine-speed Cyber Defense
Hackers were challenged to find and patch software bugs and vulnerabilities in a matter of minutes.
Smart Cameras Developed to Assist Autonomous Driving
Using sensors, the system can estimate how long the driver will need before resuming full control of the vehicle following a period of autonomous driving.
Tougher Standards for Cybersecurity Supply Chains
The reliability standard could address software integrity and authenticity; vendor remote access; information system planning; and vendor risk management and procurement controls.
Computer Analysis Maps Hidden Freshwater Runoff
The study identified 12% of the continental U.S. coastline where hidden drainage systems make the ocean most susceptible to freshwater contamination.
Model IDs Likeliest Locations of MH370 Wreckage
Results indicate that the most probable locations to discover additional washed-up debris are Tanzania and Mozambique.
Cyber-Physical Systems Research Aims for Safer Construction-Site Temporary Structures
While CPS has already been implemented in the manufacturing, transportation and healthcare industries, its benefits to the construction industry are still being explored.