Researchers at the Rochester Institute of Technology studying the concentration of plastics in the Great Lakes estimate that some 10,000 metric tons of the stuff enters the lakes every year from the U.S. and Canada. The RIT School of Mathematical Sciences decided to track how those plastic items flow through the lakes and where […]
A National Science Foundation grant of more than $437,000 will go to the Rochester Institute of Technology to continue groundbreaking research into gravitational waves. A team of six researchers at RIT were among those who first detected gravity waves in February, providing new confirmation to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It was a major breakthrough in […]
Rochester Institute of Technology graduates beat teams from Belgium and Azerbaijan yesterday in a U.S. State Department competition looking for ways to challenge terrorist groups online. The Islamic State group has been particularly effective in using social media to spread its message and radicalize young Muslims. The State Department challenged teams of researchers to counter […]