Science

Smarter Task-Transfers Use Mobile Cameras

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Google’s Deep Shot, developed with MIT, transfers tasks from the desktop to a smartphone, or vice versa, by merely pointing the...

Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon

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Dramatic plumes (cloudy, white areas), both large and small, spray water ice out from many...

Getting Ready for the Next Big Solar Storm

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Modern power grids are vulnerable to solar storms.

Japan Retakes Supercomputing Lead

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The K Computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science is the world’s most powerful...

Smarter Security Screening Hands-Free

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Post-doctoral researcher Thierry Dubroca at the University of Florida measures the spectra of TNT to demonstrate the...

Smarter Sensor Nets Monitor Any Environment

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Paolo Dionisi Vici (left), associate research scientist in the Department of Scientific Research at The Metropolitan...

Building a Smarter City

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At the new Rio Operations Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the incident commander's view...

Smarter Cloud on-a-Chip Goes Green

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Intel's Cloud 2015 Vision aims to help businesses implement cloud computing solutions that are federated,...