Wireless for wildlife – how technology could help reduce deforestation

Electronics Weekly: “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Thanks to the emergence of innovative wireless conservation…

Computer Scientists Break Traveling Salesperson Record

Quanta Magazine: When Nathan Klein started graduate school two years ago, his advisers proposed a modest plan: to work together on one of the most famous, long-standing problems in theoretical computer science. Even if they didn’t manage to solve it, they…

Krakatoa is still active, and we are not ready for the tsunamis another eruption would generate

The Conversation: The August 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was one of the deadliest volcanic explosions in modern history. The volcano, found in the middle of the Sunda Strait in between…

Electrode could enable electric cars that charge in minutes

C&EN: Every year, electric vehicles’ driving range grows. But the hours it takes to recharge their batteries slows them down. Researchers now report a battery electrode based on 2D black phosphorus that they say could be used to make batteries…