EV radiator grilles are pointless, but they don’t have to be

Mar29
by on March 29, 2022 at 3:52 pm
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Electric vehicles don’t really need radiator grilles. They’re there because we’re used to seeing them on the front of gas guzzlers, as EVs don’t need an external air flow to cool down a stinky engine. For this reason, automakers such Tesla, Kia, and Hyundai have removed them from their EVs’ design, keeping a small grille space beneath the bumper instead. Notice the lack of a radiator grille on the Kia Niro EV. Image: Kia Others, like BMW, have kept loyal to radiator grilles as part of their brand identity. For instance, BMW has kept the brand’s distinctive “kidney grilles” on…

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Research: The Great Resignation has not improved the career paths of workers

Mar28
by on March 28, 2022 at 3:59 pm
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The great resignation is a buzzphrase that first appeared in May 2021, and has struck fear into the hearts of employers ever since. Coined in the US, the term refers to the unprecedented rise in the number of workers resigning from their jobs following the pandemic. There has since been a huge amount of research trying to work out why this has happened. Are workers quitting work entirely, as the pandemic makes us reevaluate our priorities? Or are they quitting to pursue their dreams in a different career? We’ve been looking at to what extent this great resignation narrative holds…

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What’s the best way to parallel park your car? Engineers did the math

Mar27
by on March 27, 2022 at 4:13 pm
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You’re driving slowly along a street, looking for a place to park. You come across a long stretch of parallel parking. But to your frustration, the spaces left by other people’s parking efforts are not quite long enough for you to fit. The search continues. Drawn from our own frustrating experiences with parking, we decided to answer the question once and for all – what’s the best way to parallel park your car? Our research has found a simple answer. You should always park at one end of a parking space, leaving as big a space as possible at the…

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Want to know when the pandemic will be over? Computer science may have the answer

Mar26
by on March 26, 2022 at 4:46 pm
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In early 2022, nearly two years after Covid was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, experts are mulling a big question: when is a pandemic “over”? So, what’s the answer? What criteria should be used to determine the “end” of Covid’s pandemic phase? These are deceptively simple questions and there are no easy answers. I am a computer scientist who investigates the development of ontologies. In computing, ontologies are a means to formally structure knowledge of a subject domain, with its entities, relations, and constraints, so that a computer can process it in various applications and help humans…

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