Digital Government
How NIH’s Research-Driving, Centralized Hub for COVID-19 Patient Data is Evolving
Scientists are drawing insights via an enclave of patient records from 7.6 million individuals.
Emerging Tech
Air Force Looks to Kaiju for Advanced Anti-Aircraft Countermeasures
Project Kaiju—expected in January—will include nine efforts named after famous giant monsters.
Emerging Tech
Army Researchers Turn to DOD Supercomputers to Digitally Twin Gas Turbine Engine
It could lead to “disruptive new engine designs,” an engineer involved said.
Ideas
Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot Raises Serious Concerns – but Probably Not the Ones You Think
The Tesla Bot comes with a whole portfolio of risks that are hard to quantify and easy to overlook and yet inevitably end up tripping up innovators.
Artificial Intelligence
Lawmakers Push Agencies to Establish U.S.-Israel Artificial Intelligence Center
Congress would put forth millions to fund the newly proposed collaboration.
Emerging Tech
Scientists Are Using New Satellite Tech to Find Glow-in-the-Dark Milky Seas of Maritime Lore
For centuries, sailors have told tales of huge swaths of ocean glowing on dark nights.
Ideas
These 3 Energy Storage Technologies Can Help Solve the Challenge of Moving to 100% Renewable Electricity
Energy storage can make facilities like solar farms more profitable by letting them store power for cloudy days.
Artificial Intelligence
Critical Update: When Seeing No Longer Means Believing, What’s a Government to Do?
Agencies and lawmakers are moving to combat deepfakes and other synthetic media used as powerful tools in disinformation campaigns.
Emerging Tech
Rescue Robots Get a Speed Upgrade for Rough Terrain
A new planning algorithm helps robots figure out how to balance with hands and feet.
Digital Government
IG: State Office of the Science and Tech Adviser Needs Stable Leadership and a Formal Strategy
The 10-year-old office has done good work, the inspector general found, but suffers from staff turnover and a lack of strategic vision.
Ideas
Lesson from a Robot Swarm: Change Group Behavior by Talking One-on-One Rather than Getting on a Soapbox
Persuading people one-on-one might be the best route to getting them to recognize better alternatives.
Emerging Tech
California Lawmakers Call for NOAA-Led Research Testbeds to Study and Stop Wildfires
The legislation would commit $15 million to such a pursuit in fiscal 2022.
Emerging Tech
Fish Fins Are Teaching Us the Secret to Flexible Robots and New Shape-Changing Materials
Materials based on a segmented structure could be used in underwater propulsion and improve the agility and speed of fish-inspired submarines.
Ideas
An AI Expert Explains Why It’s Hard to Give Computers Something You Take for Granted: Common Sense
Common sense includes an intuitive understanding of basic physics – something computers lack.
Emerging Tech
Oak Ridge-Made Software Platform Digitally Twins All U.S. Buildings
Those involved aim to help improve nationwide decision-making about energy efficiency.
Ideas
Female Scientists Set Back by the Pandemic May Never Make Up Lost Time
The reason is the inequitable structure of rewards in science.
Podcasts
Critical Update: How Federal Agencies Can Help Avert Quantum Catastrophe
The White House is working on plans to roll out new cryptographic systems that will require epic levels of funding from Congress and coordination, both within the government and in partnership with industry.
Digital Government
National Labs Move to Support Researchers Seeking Name Changes on Past Work
As part of broader inclusivity campaigns, the labs aim to relieve some burdens faced by transgender authors or others whose names have changed over their professions.
Artificial Intelligence
NSF Adds 11 New AI Research Institutes to Its Collaborative, Nationwide Network
Top thinkers across multiple sectors are set to jointly engage with the evolving technology.
Emerging Tech
Algorithm Could Improve How Self-Driving Cars Take on Narrow Streets
This kind of exchange requires drivers—human or machine—to make decisions based on largely unwritten rules of the road, researchers said.
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