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Using Animals To Build An Early Warning System For Natural Disasters

RADOLFZELL — Biologist Martin Wikelski put sensors on goats living on Italy’s Mount Etna and watched what happened. He found that if you watched their movements, you could predict when there would be volcanic eruptions. So now he wants to do satellite research on how animals roam and escape on a world scale. What happened […]

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Future Geopolitics

The Technology Of Finding Smuggler Tunnels

From Gaza to the U.S.-Mexican border, the latest innovations in detecting illicit tunnels that transport people and goods below the radar.

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Future Smarter Cities

How Sensors Promise To Change Our Lives, From Smoother Traffic To Smarter Garbage

TOULOUSE — After a year of work and five million euros in investments, Sigfox, a start-up from Labège, near Toulouse, southern France, has just finished deploying a new communications network — an Internet of Things — in 95% of the cities in France. Sensors spread out across cities and their suburbs will be able to […]

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