Engineering
The amount of waste generated by the construction sector underscores an urgent need for embracing circularity—a sustainable model that aims to minimize waste and maximize material efficiency through recovery and reuse—in ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Engineering
The most effective way to prove a new idea is to start small, test, learn, and test again. A team of researchers developing an atmospheric probe at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, are taking ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Robotics
The field of robotics is highly interdisciplinary, encompassing disciplines such as mechanical and electrical engineering, materials science, computer science, neuroscience and biology. The robotics community in itself is ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Research has long shown that humans are susceptible to "social identity bias"—favoring their group, whether that be a political party, a religion, or an ethnicity, and disparaging "outgroups." A new study by a team of scientists ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Second-language speakers who come to Austria with a good knowledge of German usually find it difficult to understand the local dialects. Similarly, speech recognition systems often fail to decode regionally accented word ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Hardware
Optical fibers carry voice and data at high speeds across long distances, and IBM Research scientists are bringing this speed and capacity somewhere they haven't previously gone: inside data centers and onto circuit boards, ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Incinerating solid waste is an important waste management strategy that greatly reduces the amount of non-recyclable solid waste and generates energy at the same time. However, burning waste produces carbon dioxide that contributes ...
Dec 12, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Bioenergy—the renewable energy derived from plant and animal waste products—is largely ignored in South Africa. Solar energy, wind power, and green hydrogen attract most investment in renewable energy.
Dec 12, 2024
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Hardware
Huawei Technologies Co.'s latest flagship smartphone is powered by a chip little different from the one that set off alarm bells in Washington a year ago, signaling a slowdown in the Chinese company's tech advances.
Dec 12, 2024
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Business
Amazon.com Inc. is asking online shoppers to provide information about product testimonials they've posted on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram, suggesting the e-commerce giant is more aggressively targeting paid reviews that ...
Dec 12, 2024
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