Planning algorithms evaluate probability of success, suggest low-risk alternatives. Imagine that you could tell your phone that you want to drive from your house in Boston to a hotel in upst... Read more
“What disturbs me on the other side is I don’t understand what the decision for you or against you when I write it is going to do to all kinds of other technologies” Chaita... Read more
Wetlands are responsible for fifteen to forty per cent of the global methane flux into the atmosphere. Researchers from ETH Zurich and the University of Tubingen describe a process that supp... Read more
Software that can recognize patterns in data is commonly used by scientists and economics. Now, researchers in the US have applied similar algorithms to help them more accurately diagnose br... Read more
We’ve seen more than a few startups cook up their own impressive 3D scanners — there’s Makerbot and its Digitizer, and dark horse Occipital with its mobile Structure sensor just to name a fe... Read more
San Francisco (where else?) has launched a new plan to deal with disasters using collaborative consumption. Will they actually be able to make a difference? After superstorm Sandy ravaged th... Read more
Looking for a real estate agent who loves dogs? You’ll find 314 results for “dog lover” on Corcoran’s redesigned Web site. Want to know how locals rate the suburb you’re considering moving t... Read more
Each built a working gun that included a part made in plastic with a 3-D printer A man in Wisconsin viewed it as a technical challenge. Another, in New Hampshire, was looking to save... Read more
The people who run U.S. Steel have not had much reason to celebrate in a long time. Once the icon of American manufacturing, the company became shorthand for the country’s industrial decline... Read more
Solar photovoltaic technology can significantly reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and our dependence on the grid WE don’t think much about pitch pine poles until storms like Hurricane Sand... Read more
Multidrug-resistant organisms are showing up in top-flight hospitals I hope you never have this experience: a loved one is hospitalized. Her doctors tell you her infection is resistant to an... Read more
The serial philanthropist’s project is helping people raise tons of money for their causes, while keeping the attitude light and funny. In October, and before an audience of 800 Chicago Idea... Read more
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Stony Brook University have developed a new patent-pending electromagnetic energy harvester Much of the abundant mechanical energy around us is irregular and oscillatory and can be somewhat... Read more
She hopes the metric will become a commonly used, standard tool in the field A new validated and reliable measure of how well an adult amputee is able to perform everyday tasks with a prosth... Read more
Betaville is like SimCity, if SimCity actually simulated a real city. We recently had the opportunity to play the new version of SimCity, a city-building game series that has been popular fo... Read more
