Distributed fiber-optic sensors are widely used to monitor temperature and strain in infrastructure, but their spatial resolution has long been limited. In a new study, researchers from Shibaura ...

The date palm has been a “Tree of Life” in the Middle East, providing shade, shelter, and sustenance. But every year, after the harvest, the region faces a massive, dusty problem: a huge amount of ...

Prediction markets are a newly popular source of information about investments, including cryptocurrencies. The quality of the data from prediction markets tends to be mediocre. And prediction ...

Steve Murrow scales trees for a living, but the Pitman arborist also uses his skills for an unusual side mission: rescuing cats stuck in high places. In the last four years, Murrow says he has pulled ...

When periodical cicadas surface after years underground, they don’t grope blindly for trees. They head for the shadows, researchers report March 20 in the American Naturalist. A detailed analysis of ...

The moon may soon get a high-tech seismic sensing system — and it could be as simple as rolling out cables across the lunar surface. Two recent studies suggest that fiber-optic cables laid directly on ...

Aleksandra began her adventure with games with… adventure games. As a child, she played the same titles over and over again, which were available on CDs included with magazines sold at newsstands.

Another two Cal Poly fraternities lost their conditional use permits on Wednesday, due to repeat noise and unruly gathering citations. The conditional use permits for fraternities Lambda Chi Alpha and ...

Worn Again Technologies has launched a pilot facility in Winterthur, Switzerland, designed to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of its textile-to-fiber recycling process for ...

A professional climber from Toms River, New Jersey, captured the moment he saved a cat stranded in a tall tree on Sunday, March 1. Footage from Steven Murrow shows him scaling the tree to rescue the ...

On Capitol Hill, calls are growing for lawmakers to regulate online betting platforms known as “prediction markets” amid allegations of insider trading that includes profiteering from U.S. military ...