An international study led by the University de Navarra, with the participation of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), has discovered that people exhibit a slight but consistent tendency to move toward the left when walking. The research, carried out in collaboration with researchers from Waseda University and the University of Tokyo (Japan), as well as Shanghai University (China), and published in Nature Communications, shows that this individual inclination influences how crowds spontaneously organize themselves and could help improve models used to manage pedestrian flows in crowded spaces.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, today announced that Allen Liu is the recipient of the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation “Learning Theoretic Foundations for Understanding Quantum Systems,” toward a PhD earned at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Liu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science at New York University.

Old Dominion University launches a new National Security Institute (ODU-NSI) designed to accelerate research and technology solutions for some of the most pressing challenges facing the United States today. The new institute brings together the University's strengths in artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation, autonomous systems, communications and sensing, maritime and port operations, and advanced technologies into a coordinated, mission-focused effort.

A new U-M study, featured in Nature Genetics, details a technique to infer cell-cell communication using spatial transcriptomics, a map that shows where genes are expressed in the body’s tissue.