Engineering
Every day, there are more than 45,000 flights carrying 2.9 million airline passengers in the United States alone. While supporting this endeavor, aircraft are subjected to a variety of operational conditions from environmental ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
Domestic energy prices more than doubled during 2022 compared with the year before. This meant that the number of UK households in fuel poverty who could not afford to heat their homes to a safe level rose from 4.5 million ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Robotics
Robotic prosthetic ankles that are controlled by nerve impulses allow amputees to move more "naturally," improving their stability, according to a new study from North Carolina State University and the University of North ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Engineering
Our skin plays a key role in perceiving temperature and the surroundings. For instance, we perceive the chill of the outdoors when our cheeks blush with cold, and we sense the onset of spring when our skin warms up gradually.
Oct 18, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
The use of e-scooters has increased significantly in recent years, but so has the number of accidents involving this relatively new form of transport. At the same time, knowledge about injury mechanisms in this area was still ...
Oct 18, 2023
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Engineering
Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are widely used in high-end equipment manufacturing, and model-free predictive control (MFPC) is applied to essentially enhance robustness.
Oct 18, 2023
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Security
The ability of chatbots to infer private details about users from otherwise innocuous texts is a cause for concern, say Swiss university researchers at ETH Zurich.
Energy & Green Tech
Australia's renewable energy transition is well underway, but an impending shift in the reliability of solar due to climate change could impact generation capacity and the management of the electricity grid.
Oct 18, 2023
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Business
US government lawyers rested their case on Tuesday in the landmark antitrust trial against Google after five weeks of testimony that saw some of big tech's most senior executives take the stand.
Oct 18, 2023
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Consumer & Gadgets
If you've ever used a dating app, you've probably experienced the disappointment of meeting someone who doesn't look quite like their photos. You may have even been a victim of catfishing, where someone creates a fake identity ...
Oct 18, 2023
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