At the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland, man-made magnetic fields—roughly 200,000 times stronger than the Earth’s—accelerate particles into one another at nearly the speed of light. Experiments by this world-renowned particle accelerator have provided critical data supporting the Standard Model, a theory describing how particles in our universe behave and interact. But physicists are […]
Image: University of California, San Diego Snakes in a Brain: Shape-memory alloy microelectrodes would be programmed to bend their way around the brain’s blood vessels. Getting neurons to communicate with electronics has always been hard—hard on the neurons, that is. Arrays of rigid metal electrodes implanted in the brain pierce blood vessels and dislodge support […]
Magna Housing has chosen a comprehensive housing technology system from Aareon UK (www.aareon.co.uk). The new solution comprises the Aareon QL housing management system, Aareon 1st Touch mobile workforce technology and a new customer portal.Magna Housing, which has around 10,000 homes across Dorset and Somerset, plans to go live with the first phase of the QL […]
Subsea connectivity specialist Hydro Group is to offer manned submersible electrical penetrators type-approved for use at a working depth of up to 650 MSW (metre sea water). The penetrators, used on diving bell and deck decompression chamber (DDC) systems, recently passed Lloyd’s Register testing in line with industry-standard Rules and Regulations for the Construction and […]
A $17 billion federal facility for treating and immobilizing radioactive waste has hit a slew of construction milestones in recent months. The Hanford Vit Plant, in Washington state, is now on track to begin “glassifying” low-activity nuclear waste as soon as 2022, a year ahead of a court-mandated deadline, officials say. Still, an air of uncertainty surrounds the project. The […]
Tech Insider Webinar: Flash DSC (Differential Scanning Calorimetry) Revolutionizes Rapid-Scanning DSC Wed, 16 Jan 2019 – 10:00 ET / 7:00 PT / 15:00 GMT (Now available on demand) Duration: 60 min. Flash DSC is a novel technique, a quantum leap in DSC technology that opens up new frontiers. The new Flash DSC 2 revolutionizes rapid-scanning […]
The National Academy of Sciences is presenting its 2019 Public Welfare Medal to agricultural scientist, policymaker, and visionary leader Agnes Kalibata “for her work to drive Africa’s agricultural transformation through modern science and effective policy, helping to lift more than a million Rwandans out of poverty and scaling impacts for millions more African farmers.” The […]
Research conducted by biological forensic scientists at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and the University of South Florida (USF) has uncovered “serious problems” in a recently released forensic software application available online called DXAGE, which is supposed to predict the age at death of skeletal remains based on bone mineral density. The study, published in the Journal of […]
The National Academies established the Climate Communications Initiative (CCI) last year to enable their extensive work on climate science, impacts, and response options to inform decision-makers and the public more effectively. A new strategic plan, which will guide the CCI’s efforts going forward, has been developed by an external advisory committee, in cooperation with an […]
A movie montage for modern artificial intelligence might show a computer playing millions of games of chess or Go against itself to learn how to win. Now, researchers are exploring how the reinforcement learning technique that helped DeepMind’s AlphaZero conquer chess and Go could tackle an even more complex task—training a robotic knee to help amputees walk smoothly.