What does climate change sound like? In 2013, researchers at the University of Minnesota released a composition for cello called 'A Song Of Our Warming Planet,' which linked temperatures gathered over the past 133 years to musical notes. Instead of seeing a graph or imagining the outcomes of climate change, people could listen to it.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota today revealed a drone that can be controlled merely by thought, and that's not even the coolest thing about it. Published in the Journal of Neuro Engineering, the project has implications in everything from unmanned vehicles to paraplegic mobility.
A newly published study at the University of Minnesota suggests that Wikipedia is getting worse...as it gets better. Wikipedia's initial strength, it says, was due to the enormous breadth of contributors, millions strong. But as it got bigger, Wikipedia instituted systems to keep out vandalism and maintain structure.
There are five Microsoft Kinects set up all around the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development, but they're not for playing games (or any of the other stuff the Kinect can do with an Xbox). They're monitoring the students, looking for signs of unusual behaviour that might indicate a potential autism spectrum disorder.