Summary: A new study confirms that football wide receivers wearing jersey numbers between 10 and 19 are perceived as slimmer than those wearing 80-89, even with identical body sizes. This…
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Building megaprojects on time and under-budget
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A Perspective sheds light on why megaprojects take so long and cost so much—and what can be done to prevent the problem. Why did Boston’s “Big…
Memory in Touch: Fingertips Recall Past Forces
Summary: Researchers have explored how a fingertip’s mechanical memory of prior forces influences tactile neuron activity. The study unveils the importance of fingertip viscoelasticity, where deformations last longer than the…
Scientists develop an energy-efficient wireless power and information transfer system
The SWIPT-NOMA-DAS framework is five times more efficient than SWIPT-NOMA without DAS and performs 10% better than SWIPT-OMA-DAS, a significant boost for the IoT communications technology. Credit: Associate Professor Dong-Wook…
Active label distribution learning via kernel maximum mean discrepancy
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Label distribution learning (LDL) is a new learning paradigm to deal with label ambiguity. Compared with traditional supervised learning scenarios, annotation with label distribution is more…
Adolescent BMI Link: Rising Weights, Rising Depression Risks
Summary: New research identifies a strong correlation between higher BMI in children aged 12-16 and increased risks of depression symptoms. The association weakens for the age bracket 16-21, suggesting an…
Musk threatens to sue anti-defamation group for falling revenue
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Elon Musk, the owner of social media platform X, formerly Twitter, said the site is considering suing the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over accusations of anti-Semitism, which…
Researchers are on a quest to make hydrogen from solar rays and heat
Spain hosts the largest test center in Europe for concentrated solar technologies. Credit: © PLATAFORMA SOLAR DE ALMERÍA / CIEMAT As Europe turns increasingly to clean sources of energy, EU…
Scales and self-checkouts to identify weighted goods faster
PseudoAugment principal scheme. Credit: Sergey Nesteruk and coauthors A research team from Skoltech and other institutions have pioneered a new fast way to distinguish weighted goods at a supermarket. Unlike…
