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Physicists at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau have successfully used lasers to guide lightning over a Swiss mountain. The lasers create a pathway of low density, ionized air that the lightning can follow.
Image: Clean Air Hub
The Clean Air Hub describes the new evidence on how bad wood burning stoves are at causing harmful small particle air pollution.
Image: Jiaqi Geng, Dong Huang, Fernando De la Torre
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a WiFi based human pose sensing system that can identify multiple people and their positions in a room using the phase and amplitude of the WiFi signal, filtered using machine learning models. The system can map the UV coordinates of body regions and is comparable to image based recognition systems.
Image: Scrolly Video
Scrolly Video is a javascript library that syncs the playback of a background video with the scrolling of the page.
Image: Unsplash, Les Argonautes
Stinging nettles have a bad rep as a villain of nature, when in actual fact, they have lots of great superpowers like being caterpillar & butterfly food, a sanctuary for ladybirds, a medicine to treat hypertension and diabetes, and can even be used as cloth fibre.
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
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