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A data-cleaning tool for building better prediction models

Sep 06, 2016 (SPX)

Big data sets are full of dirty data, and these outliers, typos and missing values can produce distorted models that lead to wrong conclusions and bad decisions...

3D skulls from Henry VIII's doomed warship placed online

Sep 05, 2016 (AFP)

British archaeologists on Monday published detailed 3D models of skulls and artefacts found on board English king Henry VIII's warship as part of a digital expe...

Mega tech fair IFA dives head-first into virtual reality

Sep 04, 2016 (AFP)

Always wanted to know what it would be like to watch a TV talkshow in the studio? Or zoom in on a particular player in a Bundesliga game rather than see a wides...

New plastic clothing material could keep people cool

Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)

American researchers have created a low-cost textile made of a plastic base that could cool the body when woven into clothing. The engineers suggested in the US...

London lab recreates horrors of war with 3D technology

Sep 02, 2016 (AFP)

Starvation, torture and rape: the grim daily realities of prisoners inside Syria's Saidnaya military prison have been recreated in harrowing 3D detail by a Lond...

Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite hit by space particle

Sep 02, 2016 (ESA)

ESA engineers have discovered that a solar panel on the Copernicus Sentinel-1A satellite was hit by a millimetre-size particle in orbit on 23 August. Thanks to ...

Shrinking the inside of an explosion

Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)

Testing explosions is epic science. The most detailed studies of explosive charges have been conducted at national laboratories using a gun as big as a room to ...

Northrop Grumman gets $375 million G/ATOR radar contract

Sep 01, 2016 (UPI)

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $375 million U.S. Navy contract for procurement of the Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar, or G/ATOR, system. The four-year, fix...

New optical material offers unprecedented control of light and thermal radiation

Sep 01, 2016 (SPX)

A team led by Nanfang Yu, assistant professor of applied physics at Columbia Engineering, has discovered a new phase-transition optical material and demonstrate...

Berlin's IFA fair dons virtual reality headsets

Aug 31, 2016 (AFP)

Virtual and augmented reality gadgets are expected to hog the limelight at Berlin's mega consumer electronics show IFA this week, as Pokemon Go gave a tantalisi...

Super cement's secret

Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)

Simple cements are everywhere in construction, but researchers want to create novel construction materials to build smarter infrastructure. The cement known as ...

Gold from old phones is real prospect thanks to chemical advance

Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)

Vast quantities of gold could be salvaged from old mobile phones using a simple chemical method, a study shows. Current methods for extracting gold from old gad...

New method developed for producing some metals

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

The MIT researchers were trying to develop a new battery, but it didn't work out that way. Instead, thanks to an unexpected finding in their lab tests, what the...

Why an uncanny crystal change could laser design

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

Laser applications may benefit from crystal research by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and China's Shandong University....

3-D-printed structures 'remember' their shapes

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

Engineers from MIT and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) are using light to print three-dimensional structures that "remember" their original...

Physicists find peculiarities in a material with a giant magnetocaloric effect

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) is manifested in cooling or heating of the magnetic material (a material having magnetic properties) in an external magnetic fie...

FSU chemistry professor explores outer regions of periodic table

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

A little known - and difficult to obtain - element on the fringes of the periodic table is broadening our fundamental understanding of chemistry. In the latest ...

UNIST to engineer next-generation smart separator membranes

Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)

A team of Korean researchers, affiliated with UNIST is receiving the media spotlight as they have proposed a green material strategy for the development of smar...

Streamlining accelerated computing for industry

Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)

Scientists and engineers striving to create the next machine-age marvel - whether it be a more aerodynamic rocket, a faster race car, or a higher-efficiency jet...

New 10-foot dish will connnect ASU researchers directly with satellites

Aug 26, 2016 (SPX)

We can hear them now... A new ground tracking station featuring a 10-foot diameter dish at Arizona State University's Tempe campus will allow researchers to com...