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Holograms on the horizon? Company seeks to make futuristic technology mainstream
Remember R2D2 beaming a hologram of Princess Leia pleading for help from Obi-Wan-Kenobi in the first Star Wars movie back in 1977?
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Energy & Green Tech
First electric autonomous cargo ship launched in Norway
Zero emissions and, soon, zero crew: the world's first fully electric autonomous cargo vessel was unveiled in Norway, a small but promising step toward reducing the maritime industry's climate footprint.
Nov 19, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A new method using nanowires can make solar panels much more efficient and much cheaper
A research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has developed a method for making an ultra-high material efficient solar cell using semiconductor nanowires. If this is placed on top of a traditional ...
Nov 05, 2021
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Engineering
Composite metal foam on its way to influencing market
When mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Afsaneh Rabiei began developing composite metal foam, she looked to transform the transportation and military industries. Twenty years later, her product has the potential ...
Nov 04, 2021
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Hi Tech & Innovation
New Mazda cars will stop if driver suffers health problem
Cars already know how to park themselves, warn drowsy drivers, steer back into the right lanes and propose map routes to destinations. The cars Mazda has in the works for next year in Japan know when drivers have a stroke ...
Nov 04, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Using ocean plastic waste to power ocean cleanup ships
A team of researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Harvard University believes that the plastic amassing in floating islands in the oceans could be used to power the ships ...
Nov 02, 2021 report
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Hi Tech & Innovation
New technology gives smart cars 'X-ray' vision, detecting hidden pedestrians, cyclists
Australian researchers have developed disruptive technology allowing autonomous vehicles to track running pedestrians hidden behind buildings, and cyclists obscured by larger cars, trucks, and buses.
Nov 01, 2021
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Virtual reality can combat isolation with awe and empathy, on Earth and in space
It takes seven months to get to Mars in an efficiently engineered spaceship, covering the distance of 480 million kilometers. On this journey, a crew would have to survive in a confined space with no opportunity to experience ...
Nov 01, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Model suggests a billion people could get safe drinking water from hypothetical harvesting device
A team of researchers from X–Alphabet's "moonshot factory," Google and the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, UNICEF, has developed a model that shows that a hypothetical ...
Oct 29, 2021 report
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers discover potential method to convert food waste into batteries
What do apple cores, spent grain, and walnut shells have in common? They could one day be used to power a data center.
Oct 29, 2021
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Software
New imaging system captures text from barely open books
Rochester textual scientist Gregory Heyworth led the development of a digitization method for books with fragile binding.
Oct 25, 2021
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Engineering
Innovative design of titanium alloy with supreme properties by 3D printing
A study led by scientists from City University of Hong Kong (CityU) has successfully developed a super-strong, highly ductile and super-light titanium-based alloy using additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing. ...
Oct 22, 2021
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