The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has developed an ultrasonic sensor technology that applies a waveguide to detect defects in all directions without directly attaching sensors to the inspection target. By enabling…
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Ultrasonic sensor eliminates inspection blind spots in extreme environments
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Scientists rebuild shattered face of 3.67-million-year-old ‘Little Foot’
The most complete known Australopithecus fossil, dubbed “Little Foot,” now has a face, albeit a virtual one.
Little Foot emerged in South Africa in the 1990s, though it took paleoanthropologist Ron Clarke and colleagues nearly two decades…
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OpenAI GPT-5.4 launches with native computer-use and 1M tokens
OpenAI on Thursday introduced GPT-5.4, its newest foundation model designed for professional and technical work.
The company says the model combines stronger reasoning, coding ability, and workflow automation into a single system built for…
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Scientists turn to 200,000 Milky Way stars to track the Universe’s age
Astronomers in Italy and Germany have turned to some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way to estimate the true age of the Universe, and finally address the long-standing mystery known as the Hubble tension.
Researchers from the University of…
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New $250M W.Va. Gas Pipeline Set to Begin Construction
West Virginia local distribution company Hope Gas has announced plans for a new natural gas pipeline project in Mason County, which borders the Ohio River northwest of Charleston. Projected to cost $250 million, the privately funded project aims…
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Plug-and-Play GMSL Camera Adapters Turn NVIDIA Jetson Orin Dev Kits into Rugged Multi-Camera Vision Platforms
Designed to accelerate multi-camera autonomy trials for unmanned vehicles, delivery robots, and off-highway machines
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Radar technology estimates location, orientation, radius of underground pipes
Purdue University engineers have developed a patent-pending method to decrease hazardous strikes to underground utility pipes during construction projects. This could lower related financial losses, service disruptions, injuries and fatalities.
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Engineers issue hot take on cold-steel: Finding hidden damage requires radar, AI
A University of Houston engineer has developed a method to detect possible damage in concealed cold-formed steel construction framing materials hidden behind walls, without having to tear the walls open. The new technology uses ground-penetrating…
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‘Dry’ batteries use waste heat to slash cooling electricity use by 86%
Researchers at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering have developed a model using zeolite-based thermal batteries that can reduce the electricity used for data center cooling by 86%.
This system uses waste heat from industrial facilities to…
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MassRobotics Resident Startups Collectively Raise $2 Billion in Venture Funding
Massachusetts Robotics Industry Continues to Grow, Lead in Investment and Innovation
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