Cats. Dust mites. Mold. Trees.
For people with allergies, even a brief whiff of the airborne allergens these organisms produce can lead to swollen eyes, itchy skin and impaired breathing.
Such allergens can persist indoors for months after the…
Category: Engineering
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Bajcsy Earns DARPA Young Faculty Award
09/22/2025 Mallory Lindahl
Andrea Bajcsy, an assistant professor at the Robotics Institute in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, has earned a DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) for her work to…
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Call for AAAI educational AI videos
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is calling for submissions to a competition for educational AI videos for general audiences. These videos must be two to…Continue Reading
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New cooling breakthrough nearly doubles efficiency
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have developed a new, easily manufacturable solid-state thermoelectric refrigeration technology with nano-engineered materials that is twice as efficient as…
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Self-supervised learning for soccer ball detection and beyond: interview with winners of the RoboCup 2025 best paper award
Presentation of the best paper award at the RoboCup 2025 symposium.
An important aspect of autonomous soccer-playing robots concerns accurate detection of the ball. This is the focus of work by…
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What does the future hold for generative AI? | MIT News
When OpenAI introduced ChatGPT to the world in 2022, it brought generative artificial intelligence into the mainstream and started a snowball effect that led to its rapid integration into industry, scientific research,…
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Scientists build micromotors smaller than a human hair
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have made light-powered gears on a micrometer scale. This paves the way for the smallest on-chip motors in history, which can fit inside a strand of hair.
Gears are everywhere – from clocks and cars to…
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RCA VideoDisc’s Legacy: Scanning Capacitance Microscope
I love a good comeback story of technological innovation, struggle, failure, and redemption. The invention of the scanning capacitance microscope has all of that.
In 1981, RCA filed a patent for the SCM on behalf of company researcher James R….
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Vapor Chamber Tech Keeps iPhone 17 Pro Cool
On 9 September, Apple introduced its newest lineup, including the iPhone 17 series. Much of the attention went to a new ultrathin model and a bright orange color option (a shade not dissimilar to that of the IEEE Spectrum logo). The new
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