Imagine “astronauts working in a lunar habitat with Internet of Things devices.” In response to such simple prompt, within seconds generative AI rendered the image above, which enamored this issue's guest editors its fanciful, seemingly humorous depiction what appears be pair space-suited engineers engaged something like hackathon while sitting dust coffee cups nearby. Beyond being fun way kick...

1536-1268/02/$17.00 © 2002 IEEE T oday, mobile devices and gadgets come with more than just a cool and cutting-edge design; they come equipped with small brains and a common language, making them smarter and more powerful than ever before. Perhaps they’re a little too smart—after all, they can adapt and morph into each other and become many-in-one super devices. Mobile phones with PDA capabilit...

[1] Atmospheric fronts are important for the day-to-day variability of weather in the midlatitudes, particularly during winter when extratropical storm-tracks are at their maximum intensity. Fronts are often associated with heavy rain, and strongly affect the local space-time distribution of rainfall. A recently developed objective front identification method that distinguishes between cold, wa...

Skull shape convergence is pervasive among vertebrates. Although this is frequently inferred to indicate similar functional underpinnings, neither the specific structure-function linkages nor the selective environments in which the supposed functional adaptations arose are commonly identified and tested. We demonstrate that nonfeeding factors relating to sexual maturity and precipitation-relate...