Security services interested in automatically spotting people who may be security risks are also interested in systems that listen out for footsteps. It should be possible to estimate someone’s speed, footwear and perhaps build from the sound of their steps.But detecting footsteps is harder than you may think. Any airborne sounds of footsteps are quickly [...]
Fatigue occurs when muscles become weaker with repeated or intense exercise, or as a result of an illness.
Researchers have long thought that fatigue is caused by a build-up of lactic acid in the muscles, but in the past decade, a number of teams have shown that this process does not cause fatigue (and may in [...]
Oil sands are naturally occurring mixtures of clay, sand, water and extremely viscous bitumen. Such deposits in Canada alone are thought to contain 173.7 billion barrels of oil, a source of oil second in size only to Saudi Arabia.
The extreme viscosity of oil sands, though, makes them very expensive to mine, and difficult to process [...]
Quad bikes are expensive machines that are designed to cope with a wide range of terrains, and are known in some parts of the world as all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). But they do not always cope with snow as well as some users would like.
For all those people, Michael Nanowski and Umed Panu at Lakehead University, [...]
Quad bikes are expensive machines that are designed to cope with a wide range of terrains, and are known in some parts of the world as all-terrain vehicles (ATVs). But they do not always cope with snow as well as some users would like.
For all those people, Michael Nanowski and Umed Panu at Lakehead University, [...]
After more than two years and many posts, the environment blog is moving home. We’re merging with Short Sharp Science, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology and ideas.
You can view that new, super-blog here, and see only the environment posts at this link.
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After more than two years and many posts, the environment blog is moving home. We’re merging with Short Sharp Science, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology and ideas.
You can view that new, super-blog here, and see only the environment posts at this link.
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After more than two years and 1127 posts, the technology blog is moving home. We’re merging with Short Sharp Science, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology and ideas.
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After more than two years and 1127 posts, the technology blog is moving home. We’re merging with Short Sharp Science, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology and ideas.
You can view that new, super-blog here, and see only the technology posts at this link.
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After more than two years and 362 posts, the space blog is moving home. We’re merging with Short Sharp Science, a blog for everything New Scientist covers in the world of science, technology and ideas.
You can view that new, super-blog here, and see only the space posts at this link.
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