Computer-generated unfolding animation of sealed letter DB-1538. In our paper we describe how “virtual unfolding” was used to read the contents of sealed letterpackets from…
View More “Virtual Unfolding” – Scientists Read 300-Year-Old Sealed Historic Letter Without Opening ItAuthor: lutra
Retinal Implants Equipped With 10,500 Electrodes to Give Artificial Vision to the Blind
Retinal implants can give artificial vision to the blind. Credit: Alain Herzog / 2021 EPFL Being able to make blind people see again sounds like…
View More Retinal Implants Equipped With 10,500 Electrodes to Give Artificial Vision to the BlindThe Chrome browser leans in with more personal profiles
Credit: Google Space: It is a final frontier for astronauts and astronomers to search and explore other worlds, but for many of us, it is…
View More The Chrome browser leans in with more personal profilesMicrosoft’s new Power Fx offers developers an open source, low-code programming language
Credit: Microsoft During its 2021 Ignite conference, Microsoft announced the launch of Power Fx, a low-code and completely open source programming language. As the foundation…
View More Microsoft’s new Power Fx offers developers an open source, low-code programming languageVirtual reality helps people stay fit and well through lockdown
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain People who use virtual reality headsets as a way of passing the time during lockdown are exercising more vigorously and feeling…
View More Virtual reality helps people stay fit and well through lockdownEngineering the Boundary Interface Between 2D and 3D Materials
These images of “islands” of gold atoms deposited on a layer of two-dimensional molybdenum sulfide were produced by two different modes, using a new scanning…
View More Engineering the Boundary Interface Between 2D and 3D MaterialsInsect-Inspired Flying Robots: Researchers Introduce a New Generation of Tiny, Agile Drones
Insects’ remarkable acrobatic traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard…
View More Insect-Inspired Flying Robots: Researchers Introduce a New Generation of Tiny, Agile DronesNASA to Begin High-Voltage Testing on X-57 Maxwell All-Electric Aircraft
This artist’s concept of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane’s specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. NASA Aeronautics researchers will use the Maxwell…
View More NASA to Begin High-Voltage Testing on X-57 Maxwell All-Electric AircraftUsing Underwater Telecommunication Cables to Detect Earthquakes
Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique could…
View More Using Underwater Telecommunication Cables to Detect EarthquakesResearchers Develop Speedier Network Analysis to Boost Recommendation Algorithms and Internet Search
MIT researchers developed software to more efficiently run graph applications on a range of computing hardware, including both CPUs and GPUs.Credit: Istockphoto images edited by…
View More Researchers Develop Speedier Network Analysis to Boost Recommendation Algorithms and Internet Search