Like rolling into a gas station during a road trip, whale sharks use oil and gas rigs as a pit stop during their migrations of thousands of kilometers across the oceans. The human-made structures attract marine life — including…
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Researchers Discover Unusual Accumulation of Cosmogenic Beryllium in Pacific Ocean
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, TUD Dresden University of Technology and the Australian National University, has discovered an ‘unexpected’ accumulation of beryllium-10 — a rare radionuclide produced…
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RI Ph.D. Receives NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
02/10/2025 Mallory Lindahl
Tairan He, second-year Ph.D. student at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute has been awarded the 2025-2026 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship. He will receive the prestigious fellowship…
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Why Do Some Ice Cubes Have Spikes When Taken Out Of The Freezer? » ScienceABC
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Ice cubes in a tray expand as they freeze from the surface, so the water inside is squeezed out, which is how spikes form on ice cubes.
Do the humble ice cubes in your freezer have…
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Engineering joy | MIT News
When the late professor emeritus Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng ’71, PhD ’73 was a student at MIT, most of his classes involved paper-and-pencil exercises with predetermined solutions. Flowers had an affinity for…
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Quantum theory and thermodynamics: Maxwell’s demon?
In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the Slovak Academy of Sciences have unveiled new insights into the interplay between quantum theory and thermodynamics. The team demonstrated that while quantum theory…
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Validation technique could help scientists make more accurate forecasts | MIT News
Should you grab your umbrella before you walk out the door? Checking the weather forecast beforehand will only be helpful if that forecast is accurate.
Spatial prediction problems, like weather forecasting or air pollution…
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Evidence of ancient cultural cannibalism practices uncovered in Poland
An international team led by IPHES-CERCA and CSIC, has uncovered evidence of cultural cannibalism among Magdalenian communities in Maszycka Cave, Poland.
Maszycka Cave is located 20 km’s north of Karakow in the Pradnik valley, where previous…
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CMU Robot Works Inside E-Waste Recycling Facility
An SCS researcher is using robotics to speed up e-waste recycling for flat-screen displays.
A researcher from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science is using robotics to improve e-waste recycling.
E-waste is one of the…
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Study of Apollo mission rocks points to the moon’s formation
Throughout recorded history, the moon’s origins have captivated humanity, with ancient cultures and civilisations viewing it as a deity or a celestial creation of the gods.
Modern science proposes that the Moon formed from a colossal collision…
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