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CAPE VINCENT — The acting president of the Stone Building Appreciation Society of Northern N… The stone houses of Jefferson County that dot the landscape like sentinels honoring our early settlers could be taking a solid step in recognition and preservation. Among the 20 recommendations made by the state Board of Historic Preservation earlier this year for state and national registers of historic places, one is for “Stone Buildings of Jefferson County.” Specifically, a “Stone Houses of Jefferson County Multiple Property Documentation Form” would serve as a framework...

 E-Mail IMAGE: This figure shows the experimental demonstration of 2D and 3D holographic projection. The left photograph is focused on the mouse toy (in yellow box) closer to the camera, and the... view more  Credit: Courtesy of Liang Shi, Wojciech Matusik, et al Despite years of hype, virtual reality headsets have yet to topple TV or computer screens as the go-to devices for video viewing. One reason: VR can make users feel sick. Nausea and eye strain can result because VR creates an illusion of 3D viewing although the user is in fact staring at a fixed-distance 2D display. The sol...

 E-Mail IMAGE: This figure shows a network visualization of Twitter users appearing in the research. Color encodes community and nodes are sized by their degree of connectedness. view more  Credit: Image courtesy of Crystal Lee, Graham Jones, Arvind Satyanarayan Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, charts and graphs have helped communicate information about infection rates, deaths, and vaccinations. In some cases, such visualizations can encourage behaviors that reduce virus transmission, like wearing a mask. Indeed, the pandemic has been hailed as the breakthrough moment for d...

Researchers Create Tiny, Cicada-Like Drones to Invade Small Spaces Share beescity university of hong kongdaniel ackermandroneinsect reproductionkevin yufeng chenMusicsiyi xutechnology internetzhijian ren Screenshot: Kevin Yufeng Chen To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. When we think of drones, we imagine massive, quadrotor machines that buzz around like manic seagulls. But what if ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Insects' remarkable acrobatic traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. view more  Credit: Courtesy of Kevin Yufeng Chen If you've ever swatted a mosquito away from your face, only to have it return again (and again and again), you know that insects can be remarkably acrobatic and resilient in flight. Those traits help them navigate the aerial world, with all of its wind gusts, obstacles, and general uncertainty. Such traits are also hard to build into flying robots, but MIT Assistant Professor Kevin Yu...