The need for firefighting drones is great, said Josh Wilkins, a second-generation firefighter who retired after 27 years with California’s San Bernardino County Fire Department and is collaborating with the CMU group.
“Typically,…
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Seven from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2024 | MIT News
Seven MIT faculty members are among the 250 leaders from academia, the arts, industry, public policy, and research elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 24.
One of the…
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Archaeologists use revolutionary GPR robot to explore Viking Age site
Archaeologist from NIKU are using a revolutionary new GPR robot to explore a Viking Age site in Norway’s Sandefjord municipality.
The robot has been developed as part of a collaboration between AutoAgri, Guideline Geo/MÅLÅ, and NIKU, and uses…
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Study demonstrates efficacy of MIT-led Brave Behind Bars program | MIT News
Several years ago, a team of scientists from MIT and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell designed and deployed a first-of-its-kind web programming course for incarcerated individuals across multiple correctional…
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Kshitij Goel Wins 2024 Alan J. Perlis Graduate Student Teaching Award
04/23/2024
Kshitij Goel, a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute, was awarded the 2024 Alan J. Perlis Graduate Teaching Award by Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science…
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Moon may have influenced Stonehenge construction
A study by a team of archaeoastronomers are investigating the possible connection of the moon in influencing the Stonehenge builders.
According to a press statement by the Royal Astronomical Society, academics from Oxford, Leicester and…
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Microbe X-32 – Is the Plasticene Era coming to an end?
Breaking, a new venture in collaboration with Harvard and the Wyss Institute, is claiming that a new discovery, Microbe X-32, can naturally break down polyolefins, polyesters, and polyamides in just 22 months.
Based on a 2022 study, approximately…
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The Alaca Höyük meteoric dagger
The Alaca Höyük meteoric dagger is an iron forged dagger with extraterrestrial origins.
During the Bronze Age, iron was more valued than gold (evidenced in the Kültepe tablets of 1950 BC), and very few ancient cultures had the smelting…
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Mars: News & Features – NASA Science
NASA JPL Unveils Rover Operations Center for Moon, Mars Missions
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The center…
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ROBOTS: Your Guide to the World of Robotics
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In April 2024, Boston Dynamics unveiled a new generation of its Atlas humanoid robot. While the original Atlas, announced in 2013, and the model that followed in 2016, known as HD Atlas, or hydraulic Atlas, were powered by hydraulic…
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