Gamification motivates consumers to reduce power consumption peaks
In collaboration with the international CITYOPT project, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed an energy planning tool for experts and an application for...
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DOOMED is new online learning approach to robotics modeling
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, February 21, 2017--Robotics researchers have developed a novel adaptive control approach based on online learning that allows...
Origin of spooky meteor noises reappraised by Sandia researchers
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- When a meteor is about to conk your neighborhood and gives fair warning by emitting sizzling, rustling and hissing sounds as it...
Unlocking crop diversity by manipulating plant sex
Credit: Dr Ian Henderson Plant geneticists at the University of Cambridge have found that different wild varieties of thale cress (Arabidopsis) show different levels of...
Winners and losers: Climate change will shift vegetation
Projected global warming will likely decrease the extent of temperate drylands by a third over the remainder of the 21st century coupled with an increase...
Cutting-edge cameras reveal the secret life of dolphins
Loading video... Credit: The University of Sydney A world-first study testing new underwater cameras on wild dolphins has given researchers the best view yet into...
Prestigious international environmental prize awarded to Mexican scientist-statesman
(ReAgency) In the past, Mexico's rainforests suffered extensive logging and were in grave danger.But Mexican ecologist Professor José Sarukhán was able to convince the then-President...
Experiments call origin of Earth’s iron into question
Credit: Designed by Laura Martin/The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences. Images 1 and 2 from NASA/JPL-Caltech, Image 3 from X-Science, Earth...
Waste silicon sawdust recycled into anode for lithium-ion battery
Credit: Hirotomo Nishihara Researchers have created a high performance anode material for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) using waste silicon (Si) sawdust. It is energy-consuming and expensive...
Understanding ‘glass relaxation’ and why it’s important for next-generation displays
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 21, 2017 -- Next-generation displays will feature increased resolution and performance, but getting there will require a shift to smaller individual pixel...
Legal marijuana sales creating escalating damage to the environment
Marijuana sales have created an economic boom in U.S. states that have fully or partially relaxed their cannabis laws, but is the increased cultivation and...
Protein once thought exclusive to neurons helps some cancers grow, spread, defy death
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Feb. 20, 2017 - How we think and fall in love are controlled by lightning-fast electrochemical signals across synapses, the...
GMU researchers helping intelligence analysts make smart decisions
Credit: Marcia Staimer/George Mason University Researchers at George Mason University are developing a tool combining intelligent computer software and high-level crowdsourcing that will allow inte..
Scientists release final report, recommendations from the 2016 US National Ocean Exploration Forum
Credit: Schmidt Ocean Institute Ocean explorers need to think "beyond the ships" and plan ahead to an age of SuBastian and the Roboats -- a...
Dream of energy-collecting windows is one step closer to reality
Researchers at the University of Minnesota and University of Milano-Bicocca are bringing the dream of windows that can efficiently collect solar energy one step closer...
