The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement to be established in the Americas.
It was founded on the northeast bank of the James River, southwest of present-day Williamsburg, serving as the…
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Child sacrifice and close relative mating found among Paquimé elites
A DNA analysis of a sacrificial child burial at the Mexican site of Paquimé has revealed evidence of close relative mating among elites.
Paquimé, also known as Casas Grandes, is one of the largest and most complex Mogollon culture sites in the…
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Smart Sensing: CMU Researchers Develop Robotic Platform to Boost Corn Crop Health
08/09/2024 Mallory Lindahl
The robot arm autonomously identifies an optimal stalk and follows a motion sequence to position the stalk inside the gripper.
Corn is one of the most essential ingredients in global industry…
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CMU, Pitt Researchers Compete in Three-Year, $7M DARPA Triage Challenge
08/06/2024 Marylee Williams
Every second matters to emergency medical teams as they approach a mass casualty event and identify who needs immediate treatment. Breakthroughs in medical triage using robotics, artificial…
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“Screaming Woman” mummy likely died in agony
In the mid-1930s, archaeologists excavating in Deir El-Bahari near Luxor made a remarkable discovery: a mummy whose facial expression appeared to be screaming.
Dubbed the “Screaming Woman”, the mummy was found in one of the burial chambers…
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Henny Admoni Releases New Children’s Book
08/01/2024 Mallory Lindahl
From the hallways of hospitals to the farthest reaches of outer space, robots are transforming the way we interact with our world. In her new book “Robots,” Henny Admoni, associate…
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Testing spooky action at a distance
Researchers at MIT recently signed a four-year collaboration agreement with the Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme (NQCP) at Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), focused on accelerating quantum computing…
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Watch Out IKEA: CMU Researchers Eye Knitted Furniture
07/30/2024 Byron Spice
Yuichi Hirose has a dream — a dream that someday everyone will have access to a machine capable of knitting furniture.
This machine wouldn’t just knit the furniture’s exterior fabric, but…
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The Elegant Math of Machine Learning
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1 Machines Can Learn!
A few years ago, I decided I needed to learn…
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