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How your luggage could help you from getting lost

05/17/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Carnegie Mellon University researchers say a smart suitcase that warns blind users of impending collisions and a wayfinding smartphone app can help people with visual disabilities safely and independently navigate airport terminals. Called BBeep, the suitcase sounds alarms when users are headed for ...

Snake robots mimic the real thing (Image 2)

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Carnegie Mellon University researchers who develop snake-like robots have analyzed the motions of sidewinder rattlesnakes and showed how their complex motion can be described in terms of vertical and horizontal body waves. [See related image

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Snake robots mimic the real thing (Image 1)

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Carnegie Mellon University researchers who develop snake-like robots have analyzed the motions of sidewinder rattlesnakes and showed how their complex motion can be described in terms of vertical and horizontal body waves. [See related image

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Climate change caused warming for thousands of years (Image 2)

05/17/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Victoria Fortiz (right), a former PennState University graduate student in geosciences, and a U.S. Geological Survey employee wash a fossil core sample from a site in Maryland. Researchers studying the cores found a rapid rise in temperature on ancient Earth triggered a climate response that may ...

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NSF grant gives UVM's supercomputer a warp-speed upgrade

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Research by University of Vermont psychiatry professor Hugh Garavan uses brain scans like the ones pictured here to determine the impact of drugs and alcohol on brain development in youth. The National Science Foundation-funded upgrade to the Vermont Advanced Computing Core will greatly facilitate ...

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Climate change caused warming for thousands of years (Image 1)

05/17/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Fossiliferous core from site in Maryland. Researchers studying the cores found a rapid rise in temperature on ancient Earth triggered a climate response that may have prolonged warming for many thousands of years. [See related image Here.] Read ...

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Removing radioactive waste from water: 5 not-so-easy steps

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Chemists at the University of Iowa, led by Tori Forbes, are using National Science Foundation funding to investigate how to remove radioactive substances from water. Forbes' team creates and tests various chemical compounds to find candidates that can isolate and capture radioactive elements, such ...

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Climate change could devastate painted turtles (Image 5)

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Painted turtle eggs are prepared for incubation in the lab. Researchers are investigating how climate change may affect painted turtles. [Image 5 of 7 related images. See Image 6.] More about this image Nicole Valenzuela, a professor of ...

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Climate change could devastate painted turtles (Image 7)

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

A painted turtle hatchling. Researchers are investigating how climate change may affect painted turtles. [Image 7 of 7 related images. Back to Image 1.] More about this image Nicole Valenzuela, a professor of ecology, evolution and ...

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Climate change could devastate painted turtles (Image 1)

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

A painted turtle hatchling. Researchers are investigating how changing climate will affect painted turtles. [Image 1 of 7 related images. See Image 2.] More about this image Nicole Valenzuela, a professor of ecology, evolution and ...

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Climate change could devastate painted turtles (Image 2)

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

A female adult painted turtle. Researchers are investigating how climate change may affect painted turtles. [Image 2 of 7 related images. See Image 3.] More about this image Nicole Valenzuela, a professor of ecology, evolution and ...

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Climate change could devastate painted turtles (Image 4)

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Adult female painted turtles bask in the sun. Researchers are investigating how climate change may affect painted turtles. [Image 4 of 7 related images. See Image 5.] More about this imageNicole Valenzuela, a professor of ecology, ...

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Climate change could devastate painted turtles (Image 3)

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

A female adult painted turtle hiding in the clover. Researchers are investigating how climate change may affect painted turtles. [Image 3 of 7 related images. See Image 4.] More about this imageNicole Valenzuela, a professor of ...

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Climate change could devastate painted turtles (Image 6)

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Researchers label painted turtle eggs to monitor them until hatching. Researchers are investigating how climate change may affect painted turtles. [Image 6 of 7 related images. See Image 7.] More about this image Nicole Valenzuela, a ...

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Tracking supercell thunderstorms across the Great Plains (Image 3)

05/15/2019 01:00 AM EDT

A drone named TTwistor3 approaches a supercell thunderstorm in southern South Dakota during the Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells study. [Image 3 of 4 related images. See Image 4.] More about this image Atmospheric ...

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Tracking supercell thunderstorms across the Great Plains (Image 4)

05/15/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Scientists stage drones and other instruments for project deployment during the Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells study. [Image 4 of 4 related images. Back to Image 1.] More about this image Atmospheric scientists at ...

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Tracking supercell thunderstorms across the Great Plains (Image 2)

05/15/2019 01:00 AM EDT

Researchers prepare to launch a drone as part of the Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells study. [Image 2 of 4 related images. See Image 3.] More about this image Atmospheric scientists at the University of ...

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Artist's conception of information falling into a black hole

05/16/2019 01:00 AM EDT

An artist's conception of information falling into a black hole. Researchers have implemented an experimental test for quantum scrambling, a chaotic shuffling of the information stored among a collection of quantum particles. The experiment was originally inspired by the physics of black holes. ...

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Tracking supercell thunderstorms across the Great Plains (Image 1)

05/15/2019 01:00 AM EDT

A severe thunderstorm looms overhead as researchers with the Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells study load instrumentation onto a "tracker" vehicle prior to launching a drone. [Image 1 of 4 related images. See Image 2.] More ...

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