The eight Latin American nations that are home to the Amazon Basin have pledged support for a new global fund that will seek to channel finance for rainforest conservation, in…
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 174 — Gifts From Orbit
Gifts From Orbit – With Lynn Harper – YouTube Watch On On Episode 174 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik are joined by Lynn Harper…
Robots can now learn to use tools—just by watching us
Credit: UIUC HCA LAB Despite decades of progress, most robots are still programmed for specific, repetitive tasks. They struggle with the unexpected and can’t adapt to new situations without painstaking…
New immunotherapy approved in England for people with severe birch pollen allergies
Credit: Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Around 25% of hay fever sufferers in the UK are allergic to birch tree pollen. This means that for a good chunk of the population,…
Trump, Intel announce deal giving US a 10% stake in chipmaker
US chipmaker Intel has agreed to give the United States a 10-percent equity stake in the firm. Chipmaker Intel has agreed to give the US government a 10% stake in…
Researchers develop privacy-focused speech recognition for children
The Lonestar6 (left) supercomputer and Corral data management and storage systems (right) at the Texas Advanced Computing Center are resources available through allocations awarded by the UT System Research Cyberinfrastructure…
Physics-inspired computer architecture solves complex optimization problems
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial optimization problems. These are common in real-world applications…
Pairing food waste and nanocatalysts to reduce carbon emissions in aviation
Illustration of the experimental setup. Credit: The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana – Champaign For researchers from The Grainger College of Engineering at the University…
The rise of effortless exercise
Credit: cottonbro studio from Pexels It can look almost too easy: athletes gliding along on a bike, runners shuffling at a pace slower than most people’s warm-up, or someone strolling…
