How USA TODAY mapped the potential consequences of a strike on US missile silos

Matt Korda, the associate director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, assisted USA ...

Ultimate procrastinator’s gift guide: 62 digital and subscription gifts you can buy instantly from your phone

It's too late to get a gift shipped and shopping in-store is a nightmare. Grab one of these thoughtful digital or ...
eLife

DendroTweaks, an interactive approach for unraveling dendritic dynamics

An interactive toolbox for standardizing, validating, simulating, reducing, and exploring detailed biophysical models that can be used to reveal how morpho-electric properties map to dendritic and ...
IEEE

Coordinative Operation for Grid-interactive Efficient Buildings Considering Thermal Dynamic

Abstract: Rapid urbanization has led to a surge in urban building loads, while the penetration of large amounts of renewable energy has increased the demand for grid operational flexibility. As an ...
InfoQ

Toad: A Unified CLI Tool for All Your LLMs That Promises Improved UX From Existing Ones

During his sabbatical, Will McGugan, maker of Rich and Textual( frameworks for making Textual User Interfaces (TUI)), put his UI skills to work to build Toad. The newly publicly released tool aims to ...
IEEE

BIM-LOD: The envelope interactive design and energy system dynamic scheduling considering carbon emissions throughout the smart building life cycle

Abstract: Nowdays, the interplay between building ontology and energy systems is progressively intensifying with the development of new energy technologies, creating new challenges in terms of ...
TechSpot

Machine learning just helped researchers create the biggest 3D map of buildings around the world

Connecting the dots: By applying machine learning techniques to satellite imagery, researchers have built an unprecedented database of man-made structures across the globe. The data could reshape ...
Staten Island Advance

Advocates want a new future for historic buildings that once put Staten Island on the map

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In St. George, just feet from the busy ramp that buses and cars take to drop passengers at the Staten Island Ferry, is a so-narrow-you-can-easily-miss-it turnoff, leading to a ...
Fast Company

This incredible map shows the world’s 2.75 billion buildings

From the latest skyscraper in a Chinese megalopolis to a six‑foot‑tall yurt in Inner Mongolia, researchers at the Technical University of Munich claim they have created a map of all buildings ...
Nature

Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world

Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world. The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for ...
ZME Science

Scientists just released a map of all 2.75 billion buildings on Earth, in 3D

From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have unveiled the ...