Energy & Green Tech
In recent years, the question of what to do with our household waste has become more pressing. In 2018, China stopped accepting many types of recyclable plastic waste from Australia. Four years later, Australia's main soft ...
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Consumer & Gadgets
If you've seen an esports competition, chances are that there was a big stage with about 10 gaming PCs, each with a young person behind it wearing a look of intense concentration. They may have been competing for upward of ...
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Engineering
Summer 2024's record heat is creating problems for transportation infrastructure, from roads to rails.
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Machine learning & AI
Few industries remain untouched by the potential for transformation through artificial intelligence (AI)—or at least the hype.
Aug 6, 2024
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Robotics
In nature, many organisms, such as octopuses with their flexible tentacles or elephants with their trunks, exhibit remarkable dexterity. Inspired by these natural structures, researchers aim to develop highly flexible continuum ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
As the most abundant energy source on earth, solar energy is a promising alternative in the pivot toward clean energy. However, current commercial solar cells are only 20% efficient in converting light into usable energy.
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Business
Google's defeat in an antitrust suit filed by the Justice Department has cast a shadow over partner Apple Inc., which generates roughly $20 billion a year in payments from the internet search giant.
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Energy & Green Tech
Matt Riggs' family has been farming in Urbana since 1874. But, his parents had to work second jobs to cushion themselves from the volatile corn and soybean markets that dominate Illinois' agricultural sector.
Aug 6, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Holding the increase in the average global temperature to less than 2ºC above pre-industrial levels and limiting this increase to 1.5ºC is the challenge that 190 countries signed in the Paris Agreement for the year 2050. ...
Aug 6, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a rapidly growing global problem, and it's expected to worsen with the production of new kinds of flexible electronics for robotics, wearable devices, health monitors, and other new applications, ...
Aug 6, 2024
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