Science

July 25, 2019

NASA selects Carnegie Mellon to develop lunar pit exploration technology

New funding will advance technology for eventual moon missionCredit: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH--NASA has approved a $2 million research initiative...

Frontera named 5th fastest supercomputer in the world

TACC's leadership-class system tops all academic supercomputers, achieves 23.5 PetaFLOPS on Top500 benchmarkCredit: Jorge Salazar, TACC The Frontera supercomputer at...

Dan M. Frangopol awarded 2019 George W. Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal

American Society of Civil Engineers honor recognizes impact of Lehigh University professor's pioneering work in integrating structural health monitoring in...

Your circle of friends, not your Fitbit, is more predictive of your health

Credit: Photo by Barbara Johnston/University of Notre Dame. Wearable fitness trackers have made it all too easy for us to...

A single gut enterotype linked to both inflammatory bowel disease and depression

In 2012, Professor Jeroen Raes (VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology) launched the Flemish Gut Flora Project. Sequencing fecal samples of...

New time-banking system utilizes blockchain tech to measure one’s value to society

Credit: Koji Lum BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- Citizens from the island of Aneityum in the Republic of Vanuatu are working with...

What it takes for green businesses to advertise online

National survey analyses adoption of online marketing strategies The green industry in the United States is comprised of production and...

NASA finds Tropical Cyclone’s Vayu getting stretched

Credit: NASA JPL/Heidar Thrastarson When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the Northern Indian Ocean, it captured an infrared image that...

Beyond Queen’s stomp-stomp-clap: Concerts and computer science converge in new research

Credit: Amy Loeffler The iconic "stomp-stomp-clap" of Queen's "We Will Rock You" was born out of the challenge that rock...

How do engineers form subjective opinions from objective data?

Credit: Virginia Tech Think of any engineered system or product on the market. The decision for that system or product...

NASA finds tropical cyclone Vayu off India’s Gujarat coast

Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) NASA's Terra satellite showed Tropical Cyclone Vayu still lingering...

USC study finds e-cigarette cartoon ads may increase likelihood of vaping

Research suggests that exposure to cartoon-based advertisements for e-cigarettes is related to greater potential for young adults to use the...

Novel communications architecture for future ultra-high speed wireless networks

SEARCHLIGHT project radically rethinks wireless architectures for highly scalable ultra-dense millimeter-wave networksCredit: IMDEA Networks The radio frequency spectrum, the basis...

UTIA developing ability-to-pay framework for Tennessee communities