Science Focus

Your reality really could be a simulation, say experts. Here’s why

To simulate the Earth, he suggests that it would be necessary to convert the entire stellar mass of a globular cluster into ...
Machine Design

Beyond Rigid Bodies: Mastering the Kinematic Mapping of Non-Rigid Materials

Shirts are full of curves—collars, cuffs, sleeves—but sewing machines operate in straight lines. Engineers opted to replace ...

Driver Goes Viral for ‘Beating the Matrix’ With a Controversial Roundabout Traffic Hack

There is nothing more universally frustrating than sitting motionless in a massive line of traffic while the adjacent lane ...
IEEE

An Image Fusion Algorithm Utilizing Coupled Non-Negative Matrix Factorization in Conjunction with a Total Variation Approach

Fusion of multispectral images (MSIs) with hyper-spectral images (HSIs) has become a core and efficient technique for acquiring high spatial resolution hyperspectral images (HR-HSIs) with its ...