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A jigsaw puzzle of climate change in the Arctic

Jun 30, 2021

The first research project in the Nordic countries to have been funded by the Synergy Programme; specifically oriented towards large, difficult and complex research questions. "In the past, the extremely...

Intelligent carpet gives insight into human poses

Jun 30, 2021

The carpet itself, which is low-cost and scalable, was made of commercial, pressure-sensitive film and conductive thread, with over 9,000 sensors spanning 36-by-2 feet. Each of the sensors on the...

FAQs on agreement to sell edX to 2U, Inc. and fund nonprofit to reimagine digital learning

Jun 30, 2021

Unlike edX, MITx Online will not aggregate content generated by other institutions; it will serve as a home for MOOCs from MITx only. Even before the pandemic, online learning was...

L.A. County urges everyone to wear masks in public indoor places as delta variant spreads

Jun 30, 2021

Health officials in Los Angeles County now strongly recommend that people wear masks indoors in public places — regardless of their vaccination status — to prevent the spread of the...

A jigsaw puzzle of climatic changes in the Arctic

Jun 30, 2021

The first research project in the Nordic countries to have been funded by the Synergy Programme; specifically oriented towards large, difficult and complex research questions. Photo: Ice2IceIce2ice was like a...

Pacific Northwest bakes under once-in-a-millennium heat dome

Jun 29, 2021

The heat wave baking the U.S. Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, Canada, is of an intensity never recorded by modern humans. These are all-time heat records for select cities prior...

Will there be a fall 2021 resurgence of COVID-19 in the U.S.?

Jun 29, 2021

Last fall and winter saw a surge in COVID-19 cases in the U.S. after numbers dropped in the summer. The COVID-19 Forecast Hub, another multimodeling effort, realizes that and limits...

Key mutations in Alpha variant enable SARS-CoV-2 to overcome evolutionary weak points

Jun 29, 2021

SARS-CoV-2 is a coronavirus, so named because spike proteins on its surface give it the appearance of a crown (‘corona’). Towards the end of 2020, Cambridge scientists observed SARS-CoV-2 mutating...

Green Challenge drives ambition for social sustainability

Jun 29, 2021

These examples were just some of the innovative projects that competed in DTU’s Green Challenge 2021 that had a particular focus on social sustainability this year. The student projects were...

Robots for comfort and counsel

Jun 29, 2021

Alexis Block hugs "Huggiebot". Dividing her time between Stuttgart and Zurich, she is continuing to develop and improve her hugging robot, or HuggieBot. “Our work is based on our six...