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Forget X-ray vision. With T-rays, you can read a book through its cover.
Imagine an antique book with fragile pages and a delicate cover. Museums and collectors need to balance the desire to...

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#TBT: NASA’s 2001 technology
As we celebrate MATLAB Central’s 15th anniversary, many of the blog authors are taking a nostalgic stroll down memory lane....

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This algorithm is key to space travel, GPS, VR and more, and it is over 50 years old
Earlier this week, MIT Technology Review published an article “How an Inventor You’ve Probably Never Heard of Shaped the...

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Bringing Pokémon Go one step closer to Dynamic Augmented Reality
This technique lets us capture the physical behavior of objects, which gives us a way to play with them in virtual space....

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Using wavelet transforms and machine learning to predict droughts
Earlier this month, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its report State of the Climate in...

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Data Visualization in the Opening Ceremony of the Rio 2016 Olympics
The colours represent time. Purple for early years, through blue, green to yellow for most recent years. The colour scale...

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Drones that can help fight wildfires
The analysis of video information from standard drones can provide a methodology to monitor remote areas for new fire...

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NASA used this camera to capture the Martian Morse code seen in photo
Earlier this month, Fox News reported, “Stunning NASA image shows ‘Morse code’ dunes on Mars.” New pictures from the...

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VEX Robotics World Championship on ESPN2. Watch Tonight!
The VEX Robotics championships will be broadcast on national TV for the first time ever. But that’s not the only first for...

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This AI-augmented microscope uses deep learning to take on cancer
UCLA researchers combined a new form of microscopy called photonic time-stretch imaging with deep learning. With this...

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As cheating goes high tech, so does the Tour de France to catch the cheaters
The Tour de France started this weekend. And sadly, as with many elite sports, bicycle racing is under the microscope for...

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Autism study tracking eye movement uses MATLAB to find possible cause of sensory overload
Autism is a global concern. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) states the current prevalence of autism is 1 in 68...

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Coffee and the 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon… Uh, I mean MATLAB.
When we launched this blog in February, we set out to show how MATLAB was tied to the top news stories and trends. We...

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Your car doesn’t have to be “smart” to be a privacy concern
Your smart car can tattle on you. It not only knows where you you have been, but also how fast you were driving and how...

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Using MATLAB to catch athletes who cheat
The difference between a gold and a silver medal in many Olympic races is only a fraction of a second. This pushes...

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What do drones and one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best-ever movies have in common?
What do quadcopter drones and one of Alfred Hitchcock’s best-ever movies have in common? Swarms! While swarming drones...

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100 years later, a faint chirp proves Einstein was right
The New Yorker wrote an article called Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found...

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Power your house for nine years with only 20 gallons of water and a laptop battery
Imagine being able to create almost unlimited energy from the Lithium in a single laptop battery and some water. Yes, the...

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How to fly a solar-powered plane when the sun doesn’t shine (and other Si2 design challenges)
Being first isn’t always easy, but it does give you flexibility in how you approach a task. For the engineers at Solar...

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How NASA’s microwave radar – designed for space – saved lives after earthquake
With recent earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador, we were reminded of life-saving NASA technology that helped locate survivors...

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Neuroscience and Machine Learning Restore Movement in Paralyzed Man’s Hand
Last week, the New York Times reported the first successful “limb reanimation” in a person with quadriplegia. Ian Burkhart,...

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The world’s first commercial jetpack… coming to a garage near you?
Ok, maybe not to your garage. But the first commercial jetpack is expected to be available later this year. New...

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MATLAB Used to Collect Solar Eclipse Data
The eclipse was imaged by teams of researchers sponsored by the National Solar Observatory (NSO) headquartered in Tucson,...

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MLB Opening Day: MATLAB, Data and Baseball!
It’s that time of year again. Baseball season gets underway this weekend. Ever since the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning...

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Atlas Robot marches out the door, possibly to search for new owner
Many surmised that Atlas stormed out after becoming fed up with the repeated bullying. As it turns out, Atlas may have left...

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March Madness or March Mathness to pick the winning bracket
By now you’ve completed your NCAA March Madness brackets. Did you know the odds of picking the perfect bracket are 1-in-9.2...

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Tight parking spot? Get out and let your smartphone park your car.
With the “remote parking pilot”, the driver controls the car with his or her smartphone via Bluetooth from outside of the...

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Thermal selfies coming to a smartphone near you
The ‘World’s first’ thermal camera smartphone was launched just ahead of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last week,...

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Science is Helping Fight the Zika Virus (and the “deadliest animal in the world”)
mosquitoes truly are the deadliest animal in the world. According to the Gates Foundation, sharks kill fewer than a dozen...

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This Just In!
This blog will focus on highlighting the role of MATLAB and Simulink in today’s most visible news stories, and the...

10 years ago