Ray of light: Pittsburgh named a Solar America City
In recognition of the city’s commitment to adopting solar energy at the local level, Pittsburgh has been named a Solar America City by the United States...
Summit to address online threats to security
Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab will be hosting the second annual Anti-Phishing Working Group e-crime Researchers’ Summit on Oct. 4–5, a meeting that...
Professor receives award
At the 2007 annual TechCon technology conference, professor Wojciech P. Maly of the electrical and computer engineering (ECE) department received the...
How Things Work: Auroras
isplay observed in the night sky. During an aurora, the sky lights up on its own in a multitude of colors, ranging from red to green to purple. Glowing...
Sci-Tech Briefs
Cosmic dust leads to inorganic life A team of Russian scientists, led by Vadim Tsytovich of Russia’s General Physics Institute in Moscow, claim that...