Calculate your neighborhood"s "cognability"
Does your neighborhood help protect your cognitive health as you age?.....»»
An artificial star for testing the optical performance of startrackers
Like mariners of old, spacecraft steer by the stars—using combinations of telescopes, cameras and computers called startrackers to recognize stellar constellations to calculate their own position in space......»»
Across the Northern Hemisphere, now"s the time to catch a new comet before it vanishes for 400 years
A newly discovered comet is swinging through our cosmic neighborhood for the first time in more than 400 years......»»
Debunking another myth surrounding low-income housing tax credits
A new study from Georgia Tech's School of Public Policy debunks a common belief about the impact of affordable housing on neighborhood property values. The researchers, led by Assistant Professor Brian Y. An, found that developments funded by the Low.....»»
Children"s early learning belongs in neighborhood schools, says researcher
The beginning of each school year brings an opportunity to reflect, for children, families and also for policymakers. Some important lessons pertain to effective ways provinces and territories can expand children's and families' access to early learn.....»»
Scientists use new method to calculate the annual probability of a mass shooting
With mass shootings happening randomly every year in the United States, it may seem that there is no way to predict where the next horrific event is most likely to occur. In a new study published by the journal Risk Analysis, scientists at Iowa State.....»»
New study finds far more hurricane-related deaths in US, especially among poor and vulnerable
Hurricanes in the U.S. the last few decades killed thousands more people than meteorologists traditionally calculate and a disproportionate number of those victims are poor, vulnerable and minorities, according to a new epidemiological study......»»
Hubble images our ghostly neighborhood galaxy NGC 6684
A program called Every Known Nearby Galaxy is using Hubble to observe every galaxy located within 10 megaparsecs of Earth that has not yet been imaged......»»
Forescout Risk and Exposure Management offers quantitative approach to risk prioritization
Forescout unveiled Risk and Exposure Management, its cloud-native product designed to collate all data sources associated with an enterprise’s connected assets and calculate a unique multifactor risk score for each asset, offering a more intuitive.....»»
Natural hazard vulnerability shows disproportionate risk across the US: New data analysis
A fifth of neighborhood blocks in the continental United States most vulnerable to natural disaster account for a quarter of the lower 48 states' risk, according to a detailed assessment of vulnerability......»»
Better climate modeling and data can help Baltimore weather a hotter, stormier future
If you were to stand at the intersection of Maryland Avenue and West 24th Street in Baltimore's Old Goucher neighborhood and travel back in time 10 years, you would probably be shocked at the transformation. Back then, pavement blanketed the neighbor.....»»
X-ray 3D imaging-based microunderstanding of granular mixtures: When soft spheres make porous media stiffer
Porous media such as concrete represent a spherical packing of different components. The mechanical properties of such mixtures are difficult to calculate due to their discretized nature. A team led by Prof. Holger Steeb (University of Stuttgart) and.....»»
Grab Was Already the Uber of Southeast Asia. Now the ‘Super-App’ Wants to Deliver Financial Equality, Too
Grab was once known as the Uber of Southeast Asia. Now it's a super-app that helps the financially underserved The lunchtime rush is just bubbling at Kedai Kopi hawker center in Singapore’s Clementi neighborhood when Anthony Tan str.....»»
Study: Low-traffic neighborhoods in London borough cut daily driving among residents by 1.3 km
Residents in the London Borough of Lambeth started driving less once their area became a low traffic neighborhood (LTN) relative to those living in surrounding areas, according to a new study......»»
Using social media cherry blossom images and AI to track climate patterns
New research by Monash University experts has tracked Japanese hanami (flower viewing) via social media images, producing an unprecedented map of cherry blossoms across Japan to document their annual bloom and calculate its peak in major cities......»»
Human crowds are best modeled by a "visual neighborhood"
Human crowd dynamics are best predicted by a visual neighborhood model, based on the visual fields of each person in the crowd. Birds flock, fish school, and human crowds, too, move in a collective motion pattern. Understanding human crowd behavior c.....»»
Ford wins reversal of $105 million trade secrets U.S. court award
A federal judge said that while Versata Software offered sufficient evidence of a contract breach, it did not offer evidence to let jurors calculate damages accurately......»»
UK public among most trusting of their neighbors internationally and increasingly comfortable living next to outsiders
The UK now has some of the highest levels of neighborhood trust internationally, while Britons have also become much more comfortable with having neighbors who belong to historically marginalized groups, such as gay people, those of a different race,.....»»
Information Theory Finds the Best Wordle Starting Words
Information theory can help people mathematically calculate the best starting guess for the popular online game.....»»
Massive West Nile Virus outbreak in Arizona shattered records, killed 101
The cause is unclear, but climate change and the pandemic likely played roles. Enlarge / Eddie Robles drives a Maricopa County Vector Control fogging truck through a neighborhood August 4, 2004, in Tempe, Arizona. Areas known to.....»»
NASA satellite"s elusive green lasers spotted at work
The green light streaking across the cloudy sky was something that Daichi Fujii had never seen before. The museum curator's motion-detecting cameras were set up near Japan's Mount Fuji to capture meteors, allowing him to calculate their position, bri.....»»