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Des chercheurs d'Eurecom travaillent sur un algorithme de reconnaissance de l’iris de l'oeil pour smartphone, véritable terrain de jeu de la biométrie.

A l'heure de la restitution du hackathon Usages du livre, qui a eu lieu mardu 3 février, retour avec Antoine Garnier, chef de projet Digital publishing à la direction scientfiique de l’Institut Mines-Télécom, sur ce que peut apporter la recherche au secteur du digital publishing.

The Ruben's tube is a sealed tube with gas going in one end, a speaker at the other and a row of holes along the top for the flames. The movement of the sound waves alters the pressures of gas along the tube, changing the flame heights. Or something like that.

NASA is studying how fire behaves in space, performing hundreds of experiments aboard the International Space Station. The goal is to improve spaceships' fire-suppression systems, and perhaps bring some practical benefits down to Earth.

The classic ‘tear drop’ shape of a flame is due to gravity, in space a candle has a spherical burny bit.

With a wave of the hand, scientists can now extinguish small fires, and someday firefighters may be able to too—no spells required.

WonderLab takes the coldest time of the year to fire up the imagination about the art-science connection. This year, the ignition concept went literal.

Ash and roughly thirty-story-tall lava fountains shoot from a half-mile-long (0.8-kilometer-long) rupture in the icy cap of southern Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull (pronounced AY-uh-full-ay-ho-kul) volcano early Sunday.

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