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Will Robots Take Over at the Seams? - IEEE Transmitter A new robot that can sew clothing is sparking concern about the future for the human role in clothes manufacturing. The robot, called

Get Clean in a Preheated Smart Shower - IEEE Transmitter Your daily shower is about to get an upgrade, thanks to a smart home product that promises to pre-warm the water in shower before you even get out of bed. Moen, the company known for faucets and showerheads, has made its foray into the IoT with an app and digital shower control panel that gives the…

Fusing Multiple Neuroimaging Modalities to Assess Group Differences in Perception–Action Coupling - IEEE Xplore Document In the last few decades, noninvasive neuroimaging has revealed macroscale brain dynamics that underlie perception, cognition, and action. Advances in nonin

Saturn is easily identifiable by its large planetary rings, which are composed of mostly ice particles with small amounts of rocky debris and dust. These rings average approximately 20 meters (65 feet) in thickness and extend from 6,630 km (4,119 miles) to 120,700 km (74,999 miles) outward from Saturn’s equator. The rings are so large, that If you were to drive at 120 kmh (75 mph), it would take you 258 days to drive around one of Saturn’s rings.

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This week we’re recognizing electrical engineer, Edith Clarke. Clarke’s expertise in power systems was influential in the design of dams in the American West. She paved the way for women in engineering, achieving many milestones along the way. Clarke became the first woman fellow of the AIEE (later becoming the IEEE), first woman to present a technical paper to the AIEE, first woman to earn an electrical engineering graduate degree from MIT and was the first woman to teach in the engineering department of the University of Texas-Austin. While working for General Electric, Clarke filed a patent for a graphical calculator that was used for solving electric power transmission line computations.

A star supported by neutron degeneracy pressure is known as a neutron star, which may be seen as a pulsar if its magnetic field is favorably aligned with its spin axis. Since neutron stars are born in a core-collapse supernova explosion, they rotate extremely rapidly as a consequence of the conservation of angular momentum. They can rotate up to 60 times per second when born. If they are part of a binary system, their rotation rate can increase to over 600 times per second. This means a neutron star could rotate more than 1,200 times in the time it takes the Ferrari LaFerrari to go from zero to 100 kmh (60 mph).