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Making smart city infrastructure watertight in Vietnam
Hạ Long Bay, Thành phố Hạ Long, Quảng Ninh, Vietnam. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Research in the International Journal of Critical Infrastructures offers guidance on securing water critical infrastructures and…
Hurricane Maria offered an opportunity to make Puerto Rico’s electric grid more resilient: It hasn’t happened
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain After Hurricane Maria razed the electrical grid in Puerto Rico nearly six years ago, there was a lot of talk about making the energy system more…
New smartphone vulnerability could allow hackers to track user location
Hackers may use machine learning to exploit a text-messaging vulnerability, according to new research led by Northeastern Ph.D. student Evangelos Bitsikas. Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University A newly discovered vulnerability in…
A divide and conquer approach to leads-to model checking for large-scale systems
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Model checking is one of the most successful computer science achievements in the last few decades. This is why Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Emerson, and…
Adoption of ‘Industry 4.0’ systems can lead to sustainability across organizations
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Adaptive “smart” technologies and integrated production systems driven by digital transformation are helping to accelerate more sustainable products and industries, Flinders University experts say. Adoption of…
Hollow carbon co-doped anatase titanium dioxide spheres hold promise for high-performance metal ion batteries
(a, b) Scanning electron microscopy, (c, d) transmission electron microscopy, (e, f) high resolution transmission electron microscopy and (g-i) energy-dispersive system mapping images of HS-TiO2. Credit: Li Zhaoqian By changing…
Examining how atomic nuclei vibrate with a greater degree of precision
Schematic of an MHI (HD+): It comprises a hydrogen (p) and a deuteron nucleus (d) that can rotate around and vibrate against each other. In addition, there is an electron…
Playful behavior in rats is controlled by a specific area of their brains
Rats are extremely playful creatures. They love playing chase, and they literally jump for joy when tickled. Central to this playfulness, a new study finds, are cells in a specific…
Bures and Sjöqvist metrics over thermal state manifolds for spin qubits and superconducting flux qubits
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Dr. Carlo Cafaro, SUNY Poly faculty in the Department of Mathematics and Physics, has collaborated with Dr. Paul M. Alsing, Principal Research Physicist at the Air…
