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Helping robots handle uncertainty
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- Written by Larry Hardesty
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Decentralized partially observable Markov decision processes are a way to model autonomous robots’ behavior in circumstances where neither their communication with each other nor their judgments about the outside world are perfect.
Bringing biochemistry to life with color
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- Written by Julia Sklar
Cambridge, Massachusetts - From a young age, Daniel Zhang, an MIT senior majoring in biology and chemistry, viewed the world around him as a dazzling array of molecules. Zhang asked all of the normal childhood questions - such as, “Why is the sky blue?” - but with two chemists for parents, his answers always came in the most literal, scientific form.
A new tool measures the distance between phonon collisions
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- Written by Jennifer Chu
Cambridge, Massachusetts - Today’s computer chips pack billions of tiny transistors onto a plate of silicon within the width of a fingernail. Each transistor, just tens of nanometers wide, acts as a switch that, in concert with others, carries out a computer’s computations. As dense forests of transistors signal back and forth, they give off heat - which can fry the electronics, if a chip gets too hot.
Study finds that initial cell size determines growth before splitting, contradicting earlier studies
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- Written by Ken Kingery
Durham, North Carolina - There aren’t any giants or midgets when it comes to the cells in your body, and now Duke University scientists think they know why.
Stricter limits for ozone pollution would boost need for science, measurements
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- Written by Katy Human
Boulder, Colorado - A tougher federal standard for ozone pollution, under consideration to improve public health, would ramp up the importance of scientific measurements and models, according to a new commentary published in the June 5 edition of Science by researchers at NOAA and its cooperative institute at the University of Colorado Boulder.
US Pacific Fleet Marks 73rd Anniversary of the Battle of Midway
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- Written by Tamara Vaughn
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii - The U.S. Pacific Fleet staff commemorated the 73rd anniversary of the Battle of Midway with a ceremony at its Pearl Harbor headquarters June 5.
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