Who invented radio? Your answer probably depends on where you’re from. On 7 May 1945, the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow was packed with scientists and officials of the Soviet Communist Party to celebrate the first demonstration of radio 50 years prior, by Aleksandr S. Popov. It was an opportunity to honor
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For José Avalos’ research team, the intricate, small-scale work of bioengineering could hold the key to solving global challenges in renewable energy and sustainable manufacturing. “Our minds are in biotechnology, but our hearts are in helping to improve the health of the planet,” said Avalos, an assistant professor of chemical and
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The rapid development and deployment of thermoplastic composite pipe is growing to counter the inherent drawbacks of steel: corrosion, fatigue, and weight. The global annual expenditure to mitigate corrosion is in the range of $2.5 trillion, roughly equal to 3.4% of the world’s GDP, according to NACE International. The corrosion problem
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Jet fighters can’t carry a huge tank of fuel because it would slow them down. Instead they have recourse to air-to-air refueling, using massive tanker planes as their gas stations. What if electric cars could do the same thing, while zooming down the highway? One car with charge to spare could get in front of another
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Residents on a small island off the coast of Belize have begun harvesting fresh drinking water from the air after shipments from the mainland were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The residents of Caye Caulker Island, 20 miles off the coast of Belize City, are using 23 solar-powered hydropanels from
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As more artificial intelligence applications move to smartphones, deep learning models are getting smaller to allow apps to run faster and save battery power. Now, MIT researchers have a new and better way to compress models. It’s so simple that they unveiled it in a tweet last month: Train the model, prune its
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Shares of Zoom dropped as much as 7 percent Wednesday after Google announced that it will soon make its Meet video-conferencing service for businesses free for all users. Google’s move is a direct shot at Zoom, which has seen its user base soar 20-fold to more than 200 million during the
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Captivating images of planet-forming discs around young stars have been captured by astronomers - and they could hold clues to the origins of Earth-like worlds. An international team of astronomers used the Europe Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope in Chile to take 15 images of the inner rims of planetary discs. In
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Companies that choose to reject the digitalisation process as part of their daily or business continuity plans will not be able to fulfill consumers’ expectations and be forced out of business Recently, there was a witty response to a multiple-choice question that went viral on social media. Like a tsunami, the
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We have ample evidence that nation-state adversaries are targeting Energy and other critical infrastructure sectors. Those networks are essential to operations and therefore valuable to attackers, and we can expect to see more attacks as a form of economic warfare to advance geopolitical agendas. Nation-state adversaries have already crossed the
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