EDITORIAL The 26 Nov 2024 was the UN World Sustainable Transport Day, which was officially decided last year after a Resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly on 16 May 2023. For those who have been dealing with
Intelligent and Sustainable Transport since the early 1990s like myself, it is a great... |
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The Best Cities for Entrepreneurs to Live in 2024 Freedom to travel is one of the many perks of becoming an entrepreneur, but have you ever wondered if there is a place that truly feels like home for your business?
If so, you’ll know that deciding on a city to settle in is more than just beautiful landscapes and sunny weather. Mapping the ionosphere with millions of phones The ionosphere is a layer of weakly ionized plasma bathed in Earth’s geomagnetic field extending about 50–1,500 kilometres above Earth. The ionospheric total electron
content varies in response to Earth’s space environment, interfering with Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS) signals, resulting in one of the largest sources of error for position, navigation and timing services.
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Wireless Signals That Predict Flash Floods An expert in signal processing and cellular communication, Messer-Yaron came up with the idea of using existing wireless communication signals to collect weather data, as communication networks are
spread across the globe. In 2006 she and her research team developed algorithms that process and analyze data collected by communication networks to monitor rainfall. Could Engineering the Ocean Help Stop Climate Change? Changing the ocean’s chemical and biological makeup could force it to pull vast amounts of planet-warming carbon from the atmosphere. But is that a
line we want to cross? Every oceanographer I know who is studying the controversial idea of coaxing the ocean to absorb extra carbon dioxide from the atmosphere remembers the moment they decided to start this contentious work. |
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