Student progammers take on world finals
First-year and sophomore students from Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science will be competing against 87 other teams in the world finals of the...
Website sheds new light on traffic fatalities
This past week, Carnegie Mellon researchers unveiled an interactive website, Traffic STATS, that shows how the number of traffic fatalities in the U.S....
Robot will race in city
Move over, Sandstorm and H1ghlander, Carnegie Mellon’s robots that participated in a mock military mission through the Mojave Desert in 2005. There’s...
How Things Work: Man-Made Weather
Man-made snow Snow gun, snow cannon, snow maker: Call it what you want, just don’t call it artificial. Snow produced by these machines is still snow...
SciTech Briefs
Birth control pills given no standard This week, the Food and Drug Administration’s board of health advisers refused to impose a numerical standard on...