https://www.alwaysresearching.com Tue, 29 May 2018 21:02:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cropped-logo-32x32.jpg https://www.alwaysresearching.com 32 32 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/technology/engineering/20180529/an-elastic-fiber-filled-with-electrodes-set-to-revolutionize-smart-clothes/ Tue, 29 May 2018 21:02:25 +0000 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/?p=16604 It’s a whole new way of thinking about sensors. The tiny fibers developed at EPFL are made of elastomer and can incorporate materials like electrodes and nanocomposite polymers. The fibers can detect even the slightest pressure and strain and can withstand deformation of close to 500% before recovering their initial shape.]]> https://www.alwaysresearching.com/natural-sciences/ecology/20180529/hurricanes-stronger-slower-wetter-in-the-future/ Tue, 29 May 2018 17:01:23 +0000 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/?p=16410 Scientists have developed a detailed analysis of how 22 recent hurricanes would be different if they formed under the conditions predicted for the late 21st century. While each storm’s transformation would be unique, on balance, the hurricanes would become a little stronger, a little slower-moving, and a lot wetter. In one example, Hurricane Ike — which killed more than 100 people and devastated parts of the U.]]> https://www.alwaysresearching.com/technology/informatics/20180528/the-future-of-eye-diseases-with-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.alwaysresearching.com/technology/informatics/20180528/the-future-of-eye-diseases-with-artificial-intelligence/#respond Mon, 28 May 2018 09:56:40 +0000 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/?p=16635 Over the last several years, the prevalence of diabetes in adults in the UK has risen sharply, from 1.4 million in 1996 to more than 3.5 million currently.]]> https://www.alwaysresearching.com/technology/informatics/20180528/the-future-of-eye-diseases-with-artificial-intelligence/feed/ 0 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/natural-sciences/astronomy/20180523/a-laser-from-a-space-ant/ Wed, 23 May 2018 17:01:55 +0000 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/?p=16288 An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of the “spectacular” Ant Nebula. The extremely rare phenomenon is connected to the death of a star and was discovered in observations made by European Space Agency’s (ESA) Herschel space observatory. When low- to middleweight stars like our Sun approach the end of their lives they eventually become dense, white dwarf stars.]]> https://www.alwaysresearching.com/exact-sciences/physics/20180522/could-a-multiverse-be-hospitable-to-life/ Tue, 22 May 2018 21:01:41 +0000 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/?p=16103 A Multiverse – where our Universe is only one of many – might not be as inhospitable to life as previously thought, according to new research. Questions about whether other universes might exist as part of a larger Multiverse, and if they could harbour life, are burning issues in modern cosmology. Now new research led by Durham University, UK, and Australia’s University of Sydney, Western Sydney University and the University of Western Australia, has shown that life could potentially be common throughout the Multiverse, if it exists.]]> https://www.alwaysresearching.com/technology/engineering/20180522/the-first-wireless-flying-robotic-insect-takes-off/ Tue, 22 May 2018 17:01:52 +0000 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/?p=16232 Insect-sized flying robots could help with time-consuming tasks like surveying crop growth on large farms or sniffing out gas leaks. These robots soar by fluttering tiny wings because they are too small to use propellers, like those seen on their larger drone cousins. Small size is advantageous:]]> https://www.alwaysresearching.com/natural-sciences/ecology/20180516/hippo-waste-causes-fish-kills-in-africas-mara-river/ Wed, 16 May 2018 21:01:51 +0000 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/?p=16246 (Millbrook, NY) Ecologists have long known that agricultural and sewage pollution can cause low oxygen conditions and fish kills in rivers. A study published today in Nature Communications reports that hippo waste can have a similar effect in Africa’s Mara River, which passes through the world renowned Maasai Mara National Reserve of Kenya, home to more than 4,000 hippos. Co-author Emma Rosi, a Freshwater Ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, explains, “Together, the Mara’s resident hippos add about 8,500 kg – or 9.]]> https://www.alwaysresearching.com/technology/engineering/20180514/500-year-old-leaning-tower-of-pisa-mystery-unveiled-by-engineers/ Mon, 14 May 2018 21:02:44 +0000 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/?p=16011 Why has the Leaning Tower of Pisa survived the strong earthquakes that have hit the region since the middle ages? This is a long-standing question a research group of 16 engineers has investigated, including a leading expert in earthquake engineering and soil-structure interaction from the University of Bristol. Professor George Mylonakis, from Bristol’s Department of Civil Engineering, was invited to join a 16-member research team, led by Professor Camillo Nuti at Roma Tre University, to explore this Leaning Tower of Pisa mystery that has puzzled engineers for many years.]]> https://www.alwaysresearching.com/technology/informatics/20180510/new-software-hypertools-transforms-complex-data-into-visualizable-shapes/ Thu, 10 May 2018 17:01:41 +0000 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/?p=15946 HANOVER, N.H. – May 7, 2018 – Every dataset in the observable universe has a fundamental geometry or shape to it, but that structure can be highly complicated.]]> https://www.alwaysresearching.com/technology/engineering/20180509/can-this-invasive-exotic-pest-make-better-materials-for-industry-and-medicine/ Wed, 09 May 2018 21:02:16 +0000 https://www.alwaysresearching.com/?p=15882  IMAGE: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have combined derivatives of two surplus materials–wood pulp and dried-up pieces of an invasive exotic pest–to form a new composite material that is flexible, sustainable, nontoxic and UV light-reflective. The material, described in a new paper (link is external) published in Advanced Functional Materials, could soon be used in a wide variety of applications, including food packaging, biomedical devices, building construction and the design of cars, trucks and boats.]]>