Turning Plastic Grocery Bags into Sustainable Fuel
WASHINGTON, November 3, 2021 — More than 300 million tons of plastic waste are produced annually, which causes serious environmental issues because of plastic’s life cycle and […]
Ventilation Matters: Engineering Airflow to Avoid Spreading COVID-19
WASHINGTON, November 2, 2021 — As we approach two full years of the COVID-19 pandemic, we now know it spreads primarily through airborne transmission. The virus rides […]
Metal-Halide Perovskite Semiconductors Can Compete with Silicon Counterparts for Solar Cells, LEDs
WASHINGTON, October 26, 2021 — Climate change and its consequences are becoming increasingly obvious, and solar cells that convert the sun’s energy into electricity will play a […]
Using Overpasses as Shelter From Tornado?
WASHINGTON, October 26, 2021 — Meteorologists and emergency workers continue to contest the popular thinking that waiting out a tornado under an overpass is safe. According to […]
Teaching Robots to Think Like Us
WASHINGTON, D.C., October 26, 2021 — Can intelligence be taught to robots? Advances in physical reservoir computing, a technology that makes sense of brain signals, could contribute […]
Modeling Improvements Promise Increased Accuracy for Epidemic Forecasting
WASHINGTON, October 26, 2021 — Accurate forecasting of epidemic scenarios is critical to implementing effective public health intervention policies. While much progress has been made in predicting […]
To Better Understand Speech, Focus on Who Is Talking
WASHINGTON, October 26, 2021 — Seeing a person’s face as we are talking to them greatly improves our ability to understand their speech. While previous studies indicate […]
Targeted Interventions To Contain Pandemics, Minimize Societal Disruption
WASHINGTON, October 19, 2021 — The COVID-19 pandemic has led to more than 218 million infections and over 4.5 million deaths as of Sept. 3, 2021. Nonpharmaceutical […]
Amount of Information in Visible Universe Quantified
WASHINGTON, October 19, 2021 — Researchers have long suspected a connection between information and the physical universe, with various paradoxes and thought experiments used to explore how […]