COVID-19 Pandemic Spawns “Infodemic” in Scientific Literature
New policies, technologies could help make sense of flood of information. The science community has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with such a flurry of…
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New System Combines Smartphone Videos to Create 4D Visualizations – “The World Is Our Studio”
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have demonstrated that they can combine iPhone videos shot “in the wild” by separate cameras to create 4D visualizations that…
Self-Isolation May Increase Your Susceptibility to COVID-19 – Here’s Why
Previous research points to the effect of social stressors on developing upper respiratory infections, holding clues to COVID-19 risk. Months of self-isolation and social distancing…
Carnegie Mellon Tool Automatically Turns Math Into Beautiful and Instructive Illustrations
Some people look at an equation and see a bunch of numbers and symbols; others see beauty. Thanks to a new tool created at Carnegie…
Media Corruption? Car Safety Recalls Reported Less When Manufacturers Advertise More
Is the reporting of media outlets biased in favor of firms that advertise with them? A new study looked at the relationship between advertising by…
Carbon Intensity of Power Sector Down in 2019 As Renewables Saw Considerable Growth
Engineers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Scott Institute for Energy Innovation have compiled carbon emissions for the U.S. electric power sector for the second quarter (Q2)…
New System Uses Smartphone Video to Accurately Locate Shooters
New analytical tool could aid human rights, public safety workers. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a system that can accurately locate a shooter…
Trash Talk Hurts Performance, Even When It Comes From a Robot
Discouraging words from machines impair human game play. Trash talking has a long and colorful history of flustering game opponents, and now researchers at Carnegie…
Star Ejected by Supermassive Black Hole at Heart of Milky Way at Over 3.5 Million MPH [Video]
Runaway Star Ejected From the Galactic Heart of Darkness Astronomers have spotted an ultrafast star, traveling at a blistering 6 million km/h (~3.7 million m/h),…
Girls and Boys Have Similar Brains, Produce Equal Math Ability
New research at Carnegie Mellon University indicates that there is no gender disparity in how children learn and perform math skills. In 1992, Teen Talk…
Artificial Intelligence Imitates Engineers to Construct Effective New Designs Using Visual Cues
AI Learns to Design Using Visual Cues As Humans Do Trained AI agents can adopt human design strategies to solve problems, according to findings published…
New Shape-Morphing, Self-Healing, Intelligent Material Developed for Soft Robotics
Advances in the fields of soft robotics, wearable technologies, and human/machine interfaces require a new class of stretchable materials that can change shape adaptively while…
Gamma-ray Emission from the Newly Discovered Dwarf Galaxy May Point to Dark Matter
Researchers at Brown, Carnegie Mellon, and Cambridge have detected gamma ray emissions from dwarf galaxy Reticulum 2. This detection may be the signal of dark…
Brain Representations of Social Thoughts Accurately Predict Autism Diagnosis
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed brain-reading techniques that use neural representations of social thoughts to predict autism diagnoses with 97 percent accuracy, establishing…
New Acoustic Device Separates Tumor Cells from Blood Cells
A team of engineers has developed a new acoustic device that separates tumor cells from blood cells, helping doctors predict whether a tumor is going…
Astrophysicists Devise Precise Method for Calculating the Mass of Galaxies
An international group of researchers has demonstrated a more accurate method for measuring the mass of galaxies, revealing that the Milky Way has only about…
Length of Telomeres Predicts Susceptibility to the Common Cold
Researchers have identified a biological marker that predicts susceptibility to the common cold, finding that participants with shorter telomeres were more likely to become infected…