Shoe scanner technology on the horizon
New technologies licensed to scan people, with their shoes on, at security checkpointsCredit: Photo by Andrea Starr | Pacific Northwest ...
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Professor Amro M. Farid receives 2021 Fulbright Scholar Award to Australia
Credit: Robert Gill/Dartmouth Amro M. Farid, associate professor of engineering at Dartmouth and research affiliate in the department of mechanical ...
Quantifying the level of pollution in marinas
Credit: Universidad de Sevilla An interdisciplinary group of Spanish scientists, bringing together biologists and chemists from the Universities of Seville, ...
Astronauts’ mental health risks tested in the Antarctic
No bounce back for declines in positive emotionCredit: University of Houston Astronauts who spend extended time in space face stressors ...
SMART breakthrough to enhance travel behavior research with artificial neural networks
Credit: Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Singapore, 19 April, 2021 - Researchers at the Future Urban Mobility (FM) ...
Discount on charging electric cars helps to solve traffic jams
Credit: C. Cenedese Charging electric cars can put a strain on the electricity grid. And commuting to work by car ...
How to build a city that prioritizes public health
Credit: David Rojas/Colorado State University Most people by now have memorized the public health guidelines meant to help minimize transmission ...
Road salts and other human sources are threatening world’s freshwater supplies
UMD-led study warns cascading effects of salts require coordinated management and regulation to avoid contaminating natural resourcesCredit: Sujay Kaushal When ...
Mobiliscope: hour-by-hour population and social mixing in French and Canadian city regions
Credit: Mobiliscope Mobiliscope uses travel survey data to visually present how the social composition of a city or neighbourhood evolves ...
UTA team working to predict lifespan of Texas roads
How much life is left in Texas roadways? A UTA project aims to find out.Credit: UT Arlington A University of ...
SMART study finds ridesharing intensifies urban road congestion
The study conducted across the United States revealed the intensity of road congestion increased by almost 1% while the duration ...
UTEP helps optimize COVID-19 vaccination clinics in the U.S.
Credit: J.R. Hernandez / UTEP Communications EL PASO, Texas - Sreenath Chalil Madathil, Ph.D., assistant professor in industrial manufacturing and ...
No evidence that people alter daily travel after having symptoms that could be COVID-19
New George Mason University College of Health and Human Services study is one of first individual-level studies to track movements ...
Safety concerns determine level of public support for driverless vehicles, finds NTU study
Findings have implications for improving adoption rate of driverless vehiclesCredit: NTU Singapore When it comes to the use of driverless ...