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From Star Wars to Science: Researchers are harvesting water from the air to address shortages

From Star Wars to Science: Researchers are harvesting water from the air to address shortages

Credit: public domain CC0 In “Star Wars”, Luke Skywalker grows up on the hot desert planet Tatooine. His family owns a moisture farm that uses devices called “vaporators” to extract drinking water from the air. But while vaporizers are the stuff of science fiction, the technology that powers them may be closer to reality. Researchers …

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From Star Wars to Science: Researchers are harvesting water from the air to address shortages

From Star Wars to Science: Researchers are harvesting water from the air to address shortages

Credit: public domain CC0 In “Star Wars”, Luke Skywalker grows up on the hot desert planet Tatooine. His family owns a moisture farm that uses devices called “vaporators” to extract drinking water from the air. But while vaporizers are the stuff of science fiction, the technology that powers them may be closer to reality. Researchers …

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Nokia and Inria extend their research partnership to address future challenges in networks and distributed computing

Nokia and Inria extend their research partnership to address future challenges in networks and distributed computing

Nokia and Inria announced the renewal of their common to research laboratory for the next four years. The new phase was launched at an event in Paris on 14 November in the presence of Thierry Klein, President, Nokia Bell Labs Solutions Research and Bruno sport, Inria CEO. Launched in 2008, the joint research laboratory brings …

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In Minneapolis, disparities in internet plan speeds may depend on address

In Minneapolis, disparities in internet plan speeds may depend on address

A home in the Audubon Park neighborhood of northeast Minneapolis, once demarcated by federal agencies, pays CenturyLink $50 a month for internet service with speeds of up to 80 Mbps. Not far away, in a neighborhood that hasn’t been delineated, that same $50 at CenturyLink buys high-speed fiber internet with speeds of up to 200Mpbs. …

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