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Blog - Mathematicians Develop Stress Test For Global Economy

If China suffers a recession, how badly will the rest of the world be hit? Mathematicians have used network theory to calculate the answer One of the rapidly growing applications of network science is the simulation of change in the real world. Ecologists, for example, are acutely interested in food webs and how the extinction of one species can have dramatic consequences for others....

Blog - Greening the Fleet

ALTe Powertrain Technologies sets its sights on heavier green vehicles than the family sedan. That consumers are increasingly adopting hybrids and electric vehicles is surely to be commended. Each time someone hangs up the key to a Humvee and picks up the key to a Prius, the world breathes a little easier. But you don't know the definition of "gas guzzler" until you've driven a Mack...


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The Struggle to Spread the Minority Report Interface

Economics and user expectations are bigger hurdles than the technology. In the 2002 film Minority Report, Tom Cruise's cop of the future made use of a mind-blowing computer interface—a holographic wall of images and data floating before him, which Cruise manipulated by donning special gloves and making sweeping gestures to call up, move, zoom, combine, and discard far more information...


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Blog - Like Europa, Titan May Have A Giant Subsurface Ocean

Titan's orbit and rate of rotation indicate that a huge ocean may lie beneath its icy surface In the seven years Cassini has spent orbiting Saturn, the spacecraft has sent back mountains of data that has changed our view of the ringed planet and its moons. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has been a particular focus of attention because of its dense, complex atmosphere, its weather and its...


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