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Robotics
A flexible, rod-driven soft robot for biomedical applications
Soft robots that can complete tasks with high efficiency, accuracy and precision could have numerous valuable applications. For instance, they could be introduced in medical settings, helping doctors to carry out complex ...
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Engineering
Tweaking turbine angles squeezes more power out of wind farms
A new control algorithm for wind farms that alters how individual turbines are oriented into the wind promises to boost farms' overall efficiency and energy output by optimizing how they deal with their turbulent wake.
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Marrying models with experiments to build more efficient solar cells
In a single day, enough sunlight strikes Earth to power the world for an entire year—that is, if we can find a way to capture that energy cheaply and efficiently. While the cost of solar energy has decreased dramatically, ...
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Energy & Green Tech
How artificial intelligence could lower nuclear energy costs
Nuclear power plants provide large amounts of electricity without releasing planet-warming pollution. But the expense of running these plants has made it difficult for them to stay open. If nuclear is to play a role in the ...
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Engineering
Researchers use multicomponent alloys to make strong and ductile soft magnetic materials
Soft magnetic materials (SMMs) applied in electric engines transform energy from sustainable resources into electricity. Conventional SMMs, which are currently used in industry, are prone to damage under severe mechanical ...
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Computer Sciences
Busting anti-queer bias in text prediction
Modern text prediction is far from perfect—take, for instance, when a search query suggests something completely different from your intention. But the trouble doesn't end at inaccuracy. Text prediction can also be extremely ...
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Engineering
Concrete using recycled tire rubber promises boost for circular economy
Engineers have discovered a way to replace 100% of conventional aggregates in concrete—such as gravel and crushed rock—with rubber from discarded tires that meets building codes, promising a boost for the circular economy.
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Energy & Green Tech
Cheaper, changing and crucial: the rise of solar power
Generating power from sunlight bouncing off the ground, working at night, even helping to grow strawberries: solar panel technology is evolving fast as costs plummet for a key segment of the world's energy transition.
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Robotics
A new explainable AI paradigm that could enhance human-robot collaboration
Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have become increasingly advanced over the past few decades, attaining remarkable results in many real-world tasks. Nonetheless, most existing AI systems do not share their analyses and ...
Aug 10, 2022 feature
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Business
Local renewable energy employment can fully replace US coal jobs nationwide
Across the United States, local wind and solar jobs can fully replace the coal-plant jobs that will be lost as the nation's power-generation system moves away from fossil fuels in the coming decades, according to a new University ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers discover innovative approach to make novel lithium-ion battery materials
Researchers at Boise State University have developed a new approach to making novel lithium-ion battery materials. Starting from an amorphous (i.e., a material lacking long-range order) niobium oxide, the team discovered ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Engineering
AI may come to the rescue of future firefighters
In firefighting, the worst flames are the ones you don't see coming. Amid the chaos of a burning building, it is difficult to notice the signs of impending flashover—a deadly fire phenomenon wherein nearly all combustible ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Engineering
Prediction of human movement during disasters could allow for more effective emergency response
The COVID-19 pandemic, bigger and more frequent wildfires, devastating floods, and powerful storms have become unfortunate facts of life. With each disaster, people depend on the emergency response of governments, nonprofit ...
Aug 10, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Can WhatsApp messages be secure and encrypted—but traceable at same time?
Cryptographers love an enigma, a problem to solve—and this one has it all. Indestructible codes, secret notes, encryption and decryption.
Aug 10, 2022
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