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Weighing 600 million buildings to help construct a more efficient future

A new study helps show how builders and city planners can minimize the materials needed to accommodate the planet's future population.

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Cool, power, move: A printable textile that does it all

A new printable textile combines passive cooling with biomechanical energy harvesting to enable motion-controlled, adaptive thermal management. Led by researchers in The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of ...

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New anaerobic reactor co-digests biomanufacturing waste and wastewater for energy recovery

Researchers at AIST, in collaboration with researchers at the National Institute of Technology, Kagoshima College, have developed the Anaerobic Baffled Continuous Stirring (ABCS) reactor, a device capable of simultaneously ...

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Ultrablack wool offers a sustainable route to low-cost water purification

Scientists project that by 2050, nearly half the global urban population will not have enough potable water—a 50% increase since 2016. New and sustainable methods for desalination are needed, and Cornell researchers have ...

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Lithium-6 buildup may fingerprint lithium-ion battery degradation

The service life of lithium-ion batteries is limited by complex aging processes, the causes of which are often difficult to distinguish from one another. Researchers at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing ...

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Refrigerated ammonia research aims to safeguard society

As refrigerated ammonia gains attention as a cleaner fuel for heavy-duty applications, such as marine vessels, scientists are working to understand how it behaves in water and how to respond quickly to spills to protect people ...

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New flow sensor can measure hydrogen in pipes of any size

Until now, it has been almost impossible to measure the energy density of hydrogen precisely, but a new sensor can register every single molecule. This could lay the foundation for correct accounting in the hydrogen economy.

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Supercooled water enables 3D printing of ice

Physicists from the University of Amsterdam have developed a method to print three-dimensional structures in ice. The researchers show how small pillars can be printed at an angle, making it possible to print arbitrary profiles ...

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Metal foam front rails could make cars safer in collisions

A new study finds that composite metal foam (CMF) could significantly improve automobile safety during frontal collisions. Using computational models to run detailed simulations, researchers found that incorporating CMF into ...

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How probabilistic analysis can help improve nuclear safety

In nuclear power plants, primary coolant piping systems are designed to maintain the structural integrity of the nuclear reactor under normal operating conditions. A pipe rupture that can result in a loss-of-coolant accident ...

Robotics

New underwater robot could make ocean missions more reliable

A new, patent-pending underwater robot developed at Purdue University's College of Engineering could improve ocean research, underwater infrastructure inspection and search-and-rescue efforts by adapting to mission needs ...

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Erasable semiconductor is programmed with light

Researchers at Princeton Engineering have created a semiconductor with unique properties: It is just a few molecules thick and can repeatedly change its properties in response to light. This is a step toward building more ...