A butterfly’s wing is covered in hundreds of thousands of tiny scales like miniature shingles on a paper-thin roof. A single scale is as small as a speck of dust yet surprisingly complex, with a corrugated surface of…
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Research Group to Host CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge
06/21/2024 Mallory Lindahl
A research group at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute will soon host the CMU Vision-Language-Autonomy Challenge, bringing researchers together at the intersection of computer…
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CMU Class Builds Satellite Bound for Earth’s Orbit
06/18/2024 Marylee Williams
It’s spring on the Carnegie Mellon University campus, and students divided into teams focused on communications, guidance navigation and control (GNC), and vision have their heads together…
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Takeo Kanade to Receive Frontiers of Knowledge Award
06/18/2024 Mallory Lindahl
SCS Founders University Professor Takeo Kanade will receive the BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) Foundation’s Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information…
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CMU Researchers Develop Collision-Free, High-Speed Robots
06/13/2024 Mallory Lindahl
Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute have introduced a learning-based control framework called Agile But Safe (ABS). The framework– developed and programmed by Tairan He,
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The “Hot Hand” Is Not a Myth
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In a recent interview for the web series Hot Ones, where guests answer tough…
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When the Light Particle Saw the Light – Space & Physics | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Vortices are a common physical phenomenon. You find them in the structure of galaxies, tornadoes and hurricanes, as well as in a cup of tea, or water as it drains from the bathtub. Normally, vortices are formed when very fast-flowing air, water…
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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2024-25 | MIT News
MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 13th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.
The full 2025 edition of the rankings…
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Infant burials found under prehistoric “dragon stone”
A study, published in the journal Science Direct, has revealed the discovery of two infant burials beneath a prehistoric “dragon stone” in Armenia.
“Dragon stones”, also known as vishapakar, are basalt monoliths found in the Armenian…
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Female burial found among 23 warrior monks of the Order of Calatrava in Guadalajara
A study led by archaeologists from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and the Max Planck Institute has found a female burial among the remains of 23 warrior monks of the Order of Calatrava in Guadalajara.
The Order of Calatrava was one of the…
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