Army awards grants to eight universities to tackle modernization challenges

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The U.S. Army awarded grants to eight academic teams from diverse scientific fields to develop disruptive solutions to some of the most promising challenges important to Army modernization. The teams will study topics including adversarial…

Army awards grants to eight universities to tackle modernization challenges

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The U.S. Army awarded grants to eight academic teams from diverse scientific fields to develop disruptive solutions to some of the most promising challenges important to Army modernization. The teams will study topics including adversarial…

Exceptional catapulting jump mechanism in a tiny beetle could be applied in robotic limbs

The fascinating and highly efficient jumping mechanism in flea beetles is described in a new research article in the open-access journal Zookeys . Despite having been known since 1929, the explosive jump – which is also the reason behind the…

Exceptional catapulting jump mechanism in a tiny beetle could be applied in robotic limbs

The fascinating and highly efficient jumping mechanism in flea beetles is described in a new research article in the open-access journal Zookeys . Despite having been known since 1929, the explosive jump – which is also the reason behind the…

Soft robot fingers gently grasp deep-sea jellyfish

Marine biologists have adopted “soft robotic linguine fingers” as tools to conduct their undersea research. In a study appearing February 24 in the journal Current Biology , scientists found that jellyfish held by ultra-soft robotic fingers expressed significantly fewer stress-related…

Researchers adapt cognitive assessment for people with intellectual disability

WHAT: The NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery–an assessment of cognitive functioning for adults and children participating in neuroscience research–can be adapted to people with intellectual disabilities by modifying some test components and making accommodations for the test-takers’ disabilities, according to researchers…

Want to catch a photon? Start by silencing the sun

Quantum breakthrough uses light’s quirky properties to boost 3D imaging, paving the way for enhanced performance in self-driving cars, medical imaging and deep-space communications

Soft robot fingers gently grasp deep-sea jellyfish

Marine biologists have adopted “soft robotic linguine fingers” as tools to conduct their undersea research. In a study appearing February 24 in the journal Current Biology , scientists found that jellyfish held by ultra-soft robotic fingers expressed significantly fewer stress-related…

Researchers adapt cognitive assessment for people with intellectual disability

WHAT: The NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery–an assessment of cognitive functioning for adults and children participating in neuroscience research–can be adapted to people with intellectual disabilities by modifying some test components and making accommodations for the test-takers’ disabilities, according to researchers…

Want to catch a photon? Start by silencing the sun

Quantum breakthrough uses light’s quirky properties to boost 3D imaging, paving the way for enhanced performance in self-driving cars, medical imaging and deep-space communications

Isabelle Guyon, Bernhard Schölkopf and Vladimir Vapnik win the BBVA Frontiers Award in ICT

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communications Technology has gone in this 12th edition to Isabelle Guyon, Bernhard Schölkopf and Vladimir Vapnik, for their “fundamental contributions to machine learning”

Montana State engineering researcher wins NSF CAREER award

BOZEMAN — In the engineer’s world, vibration is usually a bad thing. It means that something is loose, out of balance or unexpectedly catching the wind, that energy is being wasted or a part is being damaged. Engineers usually try…

Montana State engineering researcher wins NSF CAREER award

BOZEMAN — In the engineer’s world, vibration is usually a bad thing. It means that something is loose, out of balance or unexpectedly catching the wind, that energy is being wasted or a part is being damaged. Engineers usually try…

Cyber researchers at Ben-Gurion University fool autonomous vehicle systems with phantom images

BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL…February 18, 2020 – Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have found that they can cause the autopilot on an autonomous vehicle to erroneously apply its brakes in response to “phantom” images projected…

How language proficiency correlates with cognitive skills

An international team of researchers carried out an experiment at HSE University demonstrating that knowledge of several languages can improve the performance of the human brain. In their study, they registered a correlation between participants’ cognitive control and their proficiency…

Army researchers develop efficient distributed deep learning

ADELPHI, Md. (Feb. 18, 2020) — A new algorithm is enabling deep learning that is more collaborative and communication-efficient than traditional methods. Army researchers developed algorithms that facilitate distributed, decentralized and collaborative learning capabilities among devices, avoiding the need to…