The real crisis in southern Africa is not an elephant overpopulation crisis. It’s a human land use, inequality and governance crisis that we keep disguising as a numbers game.

Abstract: This letter presents a nonlinear disturbance observer-parameterized control barrier function (DOp-CBF) designed for a robust safety control system under external disturbances. This framework ...

Have you ever had a facepalm moment when you're troubleshooting a problem, and suddenly a cause or solution you'd overlooked becomes obvious? You sheepishly realize you'd wasted time going down the ...

The cruise control setting in a manual-transmission car operates in a similar manner to that of an automatic — that is, the system locks the throttle into place to maintain a set speed. However, there ...

Hiding and hunting for rubber ducks around cruise ships has become an extremely popular cruise activity, especially on Carnival ships. Although not a cruise line-organized onboard activity, Carnival ...

Basic cruise control has been around for ages, but these days, a lot of new cars come with adaptive cruise control, which adjusts your driving speed to hopefully keep you a safe distance from the cars ...

A broken cruise ship cabin door creates significant challenges for passengers and crew. This video highlights the issues faced onboard and the impact it has on the cruise experience.

Barcelona’s cruise-ship port is to close two of its terminals, as part of efforts to fight the city’s overtourism problem. The closure, which will bring the number of operational terminals down to to ...

Tomatoes are one of the most rewarding—and sometimes most frustrating—plants to grow in the garden. Just as the fruit begins to ripen, gardeners often face problems like cracked skins, blackened ...

Few people have ever heard of Ralph Teetor. That’s about to change. Teetor is the mechanical engineer who — despite losing his vision as a child — created the technology we now know as cruise control, ...