Backpedaling on Bike Ownership
Bicycling has been shown to improve health and reduce the carbon footprint—which makes the results of a recent Whiting School study…
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Tech Tools: Drop It Like It’s Hot
We’ve all seen movies where an asteroid collision is avoided because it was demolished in space. But could that actually…
New Thinking in Antibiotic Resistance
The theory of evolution states that living organisms evolve to be fitter for survival. Conventional wisdom is that organisms become…
Making Surgery Smarter and Safer
For years, Google has been hard at work on a smart car that promises to eliminate human error through technology,…
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“The number 4 million is hard to get your head around. That’s a lot of people whose data has been…
Spray Paint to Soak Up the Sun
Imagine a clear solar paint that you could spray onto windows to capture the elusive energy of the sun. Or…
Better Than Intuition
To design a stronger building or lighter, more aerodynamic aircraft wings, engineers typically rely on trial and error. They start…
New Tools for Tapping Data
Vladimir Braverman likens the algorithms that he and his team are inventing to deal with massive amounts of streaming data…
Rare Variants in the Crosshairs
Ever since the first draft of the human genome was published nearly 15 years ago, researchers have been working hard…