Tech: Deep reinforcement learning makes basketball video games look more realistic — (Report)
Basketball players need lots of practice before they master the dribble, and it turns out that's true for computer-animated players as well. By...
Tech: New microgravity research finds that microparticles in complex plasma behave in nonuniform ways...
Four hundred kilometers above Earth, researchers examined waves in complex plasma under microgravity conditions and found that the microparticles behaved in nonuniform ways...
Tech: Engineers develop technology to pull specific contaminants from drinking and wastewater, pipelines —...
Rice University scientists are developing technology to remove contaminants from water -- but only as many as necessary.
The Rice lab of engineer Qilin...
Tech: Organic makeup of ancient meteorites sheds light on early Solar System — ...
The origin of organic matter found in meteorites that formed during the birth of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago may provide...
Tech: Electrodes for all-solid-state batteries — (Report)
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have addressed one of the major disadvantages of all-solid-state batteries by developing batteries with a low resistance...
Tech: A system to synthesize realistic sounds for computer animation — (Report)
Advances in computer-generated imagery have brought vivid, realistic animations to life, but the sounds associated with what we see simulated on screen, such...
Tech: Concepts for new switchable plasmonic nanodevices — (Report)
Plasmonic waveguides open the possibility to develop dramatically miniaturized optical devices and provide a promising route towards the next-generation of integrated...
Tech: Radio waves reveal person’s presence in a room, even beyond the sensor’s line...
Relief may be on the horizon for anyone who has ever jumped around a room like a jack-in-the-box to get motion-sensing lights to...
Tech: NASA’s Planet-hunting TESS catches a comet before starting science — (Report)
Before NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started science operations on July 25, 2018, the planet hunter sent back a stunning sequence of...
Tech: Scientists test material that shows promise for flexible electronics — (Report)
Rice University researchers have found that fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene.
Graphene is a one-atom-thick sheet of...
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Hey ISIS, You Suck: Local Muslims Post Anti-ISIS Billboard
A new billboard on Manchester Road in Missouri reads, "HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK!!! From: #ActualMuslims."
A group of Muslim-Americans have put up a blunt billboard...
