Simulating Volcano Eruptions, One Blast at a Time
A voice carried across the treeless plateau: “Fire in the hole! The range is now active.” Two dozen people fell silent before a muffled blast sent a geyser-like shower of crushed gravel, limestone and...
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Researchers will conduct a rare – if not unprecedented – large-scale earthquake simulation to determine how vulnerable New York’s unreinforced masonry buildings (row houses) are to temblors. Designed...
View ArticleInjuries Related to Texting and Walking Increasing
Texting and walking is a known danger, but Dietrich Jehle, professor of emergency medicine at the University at Buffalo, says distracted walking results in more injuries per mile than distracted...
View ArticleTweets About the Weather Can Make Roads Safer During Storms
Go ahead, rant about the snow on Twitter. It can ease traffic on slippery, congested roads. That’s the crux of a University at Buffalo study which examined how weather-related tweets can be analyzed to...
View ArticleResearchers Creating Software to Clean up Big Data
Like a teenager’s bedroom, big data is often messy. Malfunctioning computers, data entry errors and other hard-to-spot problems can skew datasets and mislead people — everyone from data scientists to...
View ArticleSimulating Volcano Eruptions, One Blast at a Time
A voice carried across the treeless plateau: “Fire in the hole! The range is now active.” Two dozen people fell silent before a muffled blast sent a geyser-like shower of crushed gravel, limestone and...
View ArticleQuake Test: Can NYC’s Row Houses Handle an Earthquake?
Researchers will conduct a rare – if not unprecedented – large-scale earthquake simulation to determine how vulnerable New York’s unreinforced masonry buildings (row houses) are to temblors. Designed...
View ArticleInjuries Related to Texting and Walking Increasing
Texting and walking is a known danger, but Dietrich Jehle, professor of emergency medicine at the University at Buffalo, says distracted walking results in more injuries per mile than distracted...
View ArticleTweets About the Weather Can Make Roads Safer During Storms
Go ahead, rant about the snow on Twitter. It can ease traffic on slippery, congested roads. That’s the crux of a University at Buffalo study which examined how weather-related tweets can be analyzed to...
View ArticleResearchers Creating Software to Clean up Big Data
Like a teenager’s bedroom, big data is often messy. Malfunctioning computers, data entry errors and other hard-to-spot problems can skew datasets and mislead people — everyone from data scientists to...
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