From rickshaw to railroad, a scholar navigates Japan’s history of transportation

In her forthcoming book, and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Kate McDonald illuminates the key role of people in the evolution of transport.

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Wifi can read through walls

A new method developed by Yasamin Mostofi’s lab enables high-quality imaging of still objects with WiFi and, for the first time, imaging, or reading, the English alphabet through walls — also with WiFi.

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Experimental physicist David Weld to investigate the role of feedback and measurement in quantum systems

With a $1.25 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Weld will tackle the unsolved puzzle — famously illustrated by Erwin Schrödinger’s thought experiment — that dwells in the coupling of quantum and classical systems.

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