NRC has established a new research centre in London, Ontario that will provide novel tools to help boost the productivity of Canadian construction companies. Called the NRC Centre for Computer-assisted Construction Technologies.
NRC is playing a vital role in upgrading the world's biggest radio telescope, the Very Large Array (VLA) at the U.S. National Radio Astronomy Observatory near Socorro, New Mexico.
What if a computer exclusively used the quantum properties of electrons rather than their classical properties? These computers would transcend today's microprocessors by following completely different quantum physics rules to solve problems.
Today, building sensors can be used to detect a wide variety of environmental conditions such as carbon dioxide, temperature, light levels, noise levels and occupancy rates. Such data could then be collated centrally where "some intelligence is applied" to decide whether it's necessary to change operational settings.
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This image shows newborn galaxy NGC 628 – dubbed the Perfect Spiral Galaxy – in the constellation Pisces. The remarkable "first light" image was captured with an instrument called the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph.
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