Icy weather is blamed for multibillion dollar losses every year in the United States, including delays and damage related to air travel, infrastructure and power generation and transmission facilities. Now …read more Source:: Science
Day: January 15, 2019
‘Outdated’ management plan increases risks to Alaska’s large carnivores
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•Alaskan wildlife management that prioritizes reducing bear and wolf populations so hunters can kill more moose, caribou and deer is both backward and lacks scientific monitoring. …read more Source:: Science
Engineers 3D print smart objects with ’embodied logic’
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•Using stimuli-responsive materials and geometric principles, engineers have designed structures that have ’embodied logic.’ Through their physical and chemical makeup alone, they are able to determine which of multiple possible …read more Source:: Science
11,500-year-old animal bones in Jordan suggest early dogs helped humans hunt
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•11,500 years ago in what is now northeast Jordan, people began to live alongside dogs and may also have used them for hunting, a new study shows. The archaeologists suggest …read more Source:: Science
Light up logic: Engineers perform computational logic with light
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•For the first time, researchers performed logic operations — the basis of computation — with a chemical device using electric fields and ultraviolet light. The device and the pioneering methods …read more Source:: Science