landscapes

Collecting all of the data to make maps like this is one thing, but even armed with thousands of images of the planet from above, there's still a lot of work to do to make a usable terrain model. The team started off with…

By Vivek Iyer To understand the future of the Marginal Cost of Funding Linked Rates (MCLR) in India, it is imperative to understand the objectives of the Monetary Policy of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The RBI Monetary policy has…

Centipede-inspired robot. Credit: Georgia Tech Centipedes are known for their wiggly walk. With tens to hundreds of legs, they can traverse…

For a functioning brain to develop from its embryonic beginnings, so much has to happen and go exactly right with exquisite precision, according to a just-so sequence in space and time. It's like starting with a brick that somehow…

Bicycles whirr by, students rush to class, staff and faculty are grabbing lunch or coffee on the go -- and sheep graze the grassy knolls among the traffic, bleating every now and then. The grazing is their job. The 25 wooly sheep who…

Reconstructed pointcloud of Montreal, QC, Canada. Credit: Valcartier Defence Research and Development Canada Concordia researchers have…

There’s a hilarious illustration from Paris in late 1839, mere months after an early type of photograph called a daguerreotype was announced to the world, that warned what this tiny picture portended. In Théodore Maurisset’s imagination,…

Research has shown for the first time that spending time in snowy surroundings can improve how you feel about your body. Previous studies have found that green spaces, such as parks and forests, and 'blue environments', such as being at the…

Curiosity is coming up on its 10th birthday on Mars, having landed on August 5, 2012. Its hardware is still going strong despite the harsh Martian environment, which includes low temperatures, sharp rocks, and dust storms.…

In 1799, the German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt set off on a trip through the Americas, cataloging all he could find: plants, minerals, capybaras, canals, etc. Humboldt proposed that the world was “one great living…