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Scientists have found a way to equip everyday objects like smartphones and laptops with a bat-like sense of their surroundings.At the heart of the technique is a sophisticated machine-learning algorithm which uses reflected echoes to…

Developing sustainable, low-carbon fuels and industrial products is one of society’s greatest challenges. For the past 14 years, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), based at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been…

Zweibel is among 120 new members — and one of 59 women, the largest group ever — elected to the academy, one of the highest honors that can be conferred on an American scientist. Fettiplace, originally from the United Kingdom, is one of…

What is the role of communication in the societies of Ibero-America? How is public opinion in Ibero-America formed? To what extent do languages underpin identity? These will be some of the questions explored in the new interdisciplinary…

The new report published today (Friday 30th April 2021) by the CBI and KPMG and entitled Greener Miles: Delivering on a net-zero vision for commuting – has proposed a series of recommendations designed to cut travel emissions ahead of the…

One of the most striking phenomena in astrophysics is the presence of magnetic fields. Like the Earth, stars and stellar remnants such as white dwarfs have one. It is known that the magnetic fields of white dwarfs can be a million times…

A publication in Science Advances sheds new light on where and how much plastic flows into the oceans via rivers. With the help of new measurements and modeling, the study shows that 1,000 rivers shed almost 80% of plastic emissions. This…

Tokyo Tech and other members of the Super Smart Society (SSS) Promotion Consortium held the 3rd SSS Promotion Forum on March 8, 2021 to introduce the latest technological trends that will contribute to the realization of a super smart…

Eighteen students completed one of Tokyo Tech's leading graduate school programs in academic year 2020. These students, 14 of whom were present at a downscaled graduation ceremony held at Hisao & Hiroko Taki Plaza on Ookayama Campus,…

DIG, sponsored by the Data management creation Laboratory of the Keio Research Institute at SFC and held since 2014, is a data business contest for high school, technical college, and university students. It aims to develop data science…