Abu Dhabi: Researchers in Abu Dhabi have unravelled a more than 40-year-old scientific mystery about why a body of unfrozen ocean has appeared within a thick body of ice during Antarctica’s winter.
Known as a polynya event, this creation of the water bodies within ocean ice has occurred twice in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica once in 1973 and again in 2017. Scientists at Khalifa University’s Environmental and Geophysical Sciences (ENGEOS) lab have discovered that synoptic-scale atmospheric rivers (AR) emerging from the tropics and spreading poleward into the Antarctic Ice Sheet are actually initiating this phenomenon. Anomalous increase in surface temperature was induced by the atmospheric rivers over the ice pack, which caused melting and thinning of the ice, further leading to the opening of what is known as the ‘Polynya’ event.
How the World s First Printed Beverage Was Born
Smart Cups founder Chris Kanik talks about the journey that lead to his breakthrough.
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Chris Kanik, CEO and founder of Smart Cups, the world s first printed beverage, took his earliest chemistry class at age 10. At 14, he d joined a research team at Rutgers University, and by 16, he was fully enrolled in college courses. After a few twists in turns, including returning to finish out his high school studies and conceptualizing the core of a NASA-funded Rutgers project, Kanik ultimately launched Smart Cups, a product that has caught the attention and support of folks as wide ranging as Mike Tyson and film producer Rob Hickman.
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HOBOKEN, N.J. When Hurricane Sandy hit the New York area in 2012, it brought flood levels that hadn’t been seen in decades. “Super storms” like Sandy occur very rarely nowadays, but researchers from Stevens Institute of Technology, focusing on Jamaica Bay, New York, predict severe flooding and intense hurricanes are going to become more and more common over the next few decades.
Study authors say their projections should motivate decision makers and local municipalities to put more resources and energy to use right now to create additional coastal flood defenses. On a larger scale, researchers believe their findings should be a grave warning to the entire east coast of the U.S. on what the future may hold due to climate change.
How do our moods affect their trust of autonomous products, such as smart speakers? It’s a complicated relationship, according to new research.
While a certain level of trust is needed for autonomous cars and smart technologies to reach their full potential, these technologies are not infallible hence why we’re supposed to keep our hands on the wheel of self-driving cars and follow traffic laws, even if they contradict our map app instructions.
Recognizing the significance of trust in devices and the dangers when there is too much of it Erin MacDonald, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University, researches whether products can be designed to encourage more appropriate levels of trust among users.