Roboticists reverse engineer zebrafish navigation to investigate sensorimotor processing

Using simulations, robots, and live fish, scientists at EPFL and Duke University have replicated the neural circuitry that ...
Hackaday

High Performance Motor Control With FOC From The Ground Up

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control ...
IEEE

High-Efficiency Viscoacoustic Least-Squares Reverse Time Migration With Q-Compensated Gradient Using Nearly Constant Q Model

Abstract: The attenuation characteristics of subsurface media cause amplitude attenuation and phase dispersion in seismic waves. Ignoring these effects in conventional least-squares reverse time ...
CBS News

Can retirees use a reverse mortgage to buy a home?

For many older Americans, retirement isn't about staying put in their homes. It's a time for making a meaningful change instead. Some retirees want to downsize their home into a more manageable space, ...
New York Post

Alzheimer’s breakthrough? Scientists use nanotech to reverse disease in mice

Scientists have discovered what could be a breakthrough in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. Over 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, which slowly erodes memory, cognitive skills and ...
Defense Daily Network

Anduril, RTX Static Fire Rocket Motor Using Highly Loaded Grain For Air-To-Air Missile

Anduril Industries and RTX's [RTX] Raytheon have completed static test fires of a solid rocket motor (SRM) featuring Highly Loaded Grain (HLG) propellant for air-to-air weapon systems. The HLG ...
eLife

Stall force measurement of the kinesin-3 motor KIF1A using a programmable DNA origami nanospring

This manuscript describes a novel method for determining the mechanical parameters of the kinesin, KIF1A, that uses fluorescence microscopy and does not require an optical tweezer apparatus. The ...
Yahoo

Officials propose innovative 'reverse vending machines' that pay residents when in use: 'It's a lot of money left on the table'

Brianne Nadeau, a member of the Council of the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., proposed legislation to tackle plastic pollution in a way that puts money in locals' pockets, WJLA reported. It ...
IEEE

Analysis of Local Layout Effects in Field-Effect Transistors Using Neural Networks

Abstract: We describe a method for the creation of a compact model for local layout effects (LLEs) using pixelated images of the layers of physical layouts as input features. We incorporate these ...