02/13/2025 Mallory Lindahl
An aerial rescue vehicle developed by a team of students and faculty advisors at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute AirLab will advance to the next stage of the GoAERO…
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Seeding the Passion – Environment | Weizmann Wonder Wander
When PhD student Gal Raviv thought of creating a sanctuary garden at the Weizmann Institute of Science, what she had in mind was saving endangered plants. But after the October 7 attack on Israel, the recently established garden became for her a…
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Engineers enable a drone to determine its position in the dark and indoors | MIT News
In the future, autonomous drones could be used to shuttle inventory between large warehouses. A drone might fly into a semi-dark structure the size of several football fields, zipping along hundreds of identical aisles…
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A Rapidly Warming Earth May Breach the Paris Agreement Within the Decade
Learn about two studies that anticipate a fast-approaching breach of the Paris Agreement, as temperatures on Earth begin to trend toward 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels.
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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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